Past Events, A.P.E. @ Hawley Street
2018-19
READING: Poetry and the Arts: A Poetry Reading
Group 18
Sunday, March 24: 5 pm.
Suggested donation $5-$10.
This first A.P.E.-sponsored poetry reading at 33 Hawley Street will be offered by a group of distinguished Valley poets who have been meeting weekly to respond to each other’s work for over twenty-five years. Readers include Doug Anderson, Bob Coles, Rosalyn Driscoll, Paul Jacobsen, Margaret Lloyd, Henry Lyman, Rich Michelson and Anne Woodhull.
Named affectionately (if not poetically) Group 18 for the number of the home where they first gathered, the group was founded in Northampton in 1986 by Linda Gregg and Jim Finnegan, with Jack Gilbert as one of its original and long-standing mentors..
The poets will read poems related to various forms of art and performance to honor the three art partners at Hawley Street (Available Potential Enterprises (APE), Northampton Center for the Arts (NCFA), and Northampton Community Television (NCTV). Refreshments will follow the reading.
THEATER: THE FEVER by Wallace Shawn,Obie Award for Best Play, 1991.
Friday and Saturday, March 22, 23 at 7 P.M.
Performed by Peter B. Schmitz, Directed by John Hellweg
The Fever, awarded an Obie for Best American Play in 1991, is being performed by Peter B. Schmitz, and directed by John Hellweg at the Northampton Community Arts Trust building at 33 Hawley St. on March 22nd and 23rd at 7pm.
Written between 1985 and 1990, The Fever reflects an intensive and personally transformative focus by Wallace Shawn on the United States’ relationship to Latin America. In the late 1980s he travelled to Nicaragua to witness the struggles and achievements of the Sandinista revolution. He travelled to Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador to speak to people who were affected by repressive regimes and by the anti-communist campaigns of the Reagan administration. “That all fed into my point of view becoming really different from the point of view of a lot of my friends.”
Friday and Saturday, March 22, 23 at 7 P.M.
Performed by Peter B. Schmitz, Directed by John Hellweg
The Fever, awarded an Obie for Best American Play in 1991, is being performed by Peter B. Schmitz, and directed by John Hellweg at the Northampton Community Arts Trust building at 33 Hawley St. on March 22nd and 23rd at 7pm.
Written between 1985 and 1990, The Fever reflects an intensive and personally transformative focus by Wallace Shawn on the United States’ relationship to Latin America. In the late 1980s he travelled to Nicaragua to witness the struggles and achievements of the Sandinista revolution. He travelled to Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador to speak to people who were affected by repressive regimes and by the anti-communist campaigns of the Reagan administration. “That all fed into my point of view becoming really different from the point of view of a lot of my friends.”
FILM & PUBLIC TALKS:
HISTORIC NORTHAMPTON HOSTS 3 EVENTS
Thursday, February 21, 2019 | 7 pm | Public Talk
The Search for Lickingwater and the Making of Northampton
A Public Talk and Book Signing by John Sinton
Friday, February 22, 2019 | 7 pm | Public Talk
Sleuthing & Serendipity: The “Discovered” Adventure of Two Intrepid Women Naturalists Who Helped Inspire Congress To Preserve The White Mountains.
Saturday, February 23, 2019 | Film Screening
6 pm: Reception, film, conservation and book signing | $25 at door
7 pm: Film, conversation and book signing | $15 at door
An Art that Nature Makes: The Photography of Rosamond Purcell
Reception, film screening and conversation with Rosamond Purcell
HISTORIC NORTHAMPTON HOSTS 3 EVENTS
Thursday, February 21, 2019 | 7 pm | Public Talk
The Search for Lickingwater and the Making of Northampton
A Public Talk and Book Signing by John Sinton
Friday, February 22, 2019 | 7 pm | Public Talk
Sleuthing & Serendipity: The “Discovered” Adventure of Two Intrepid Women Naturalists Who Helped Inspire Congress To Preserve The White Mountains.
Saturday, February 23, 2019 | Film Screening
6 pm: Reception, film, conservation and book signing | $25 at door
7 pm: Film, conversation and book signing | $15 at door
An Art that Nature Makes: The Photography of Rosamond Purcell
Reception, film screening and conversation with Rosamond Purcell
BODIES IN MOTION FESTIVAL
PERFORMANCES • WORKSHOPS • CLASSES
JANUARY 10 - FEBRUARY 3, 2019
A.P.E. @ HAWLEY, in collaboration with SCDT, is proud to be bringing back this historic January Movement Series. The Bodies In Motion Festival is modeled after A.P.E.'s 15 year movement series at Thornes Market, 3rd Floor. As a series of weekend workshops and performances this year's festival focuses on diverse approaches to dance as a performative art: Improvisation, contemporary performance, hip hop and Butoh, and new works for the festival finale. Taught by local, national, and internationally acclaimed performance artists, these workshops provide students with the unique opportunity to engage with highly regarded and innovative artists in the field of dance today. FULL SCHEDULE HERE
PERFORMANCES • WORKSHOPS • CLASSES
JANUARY 10 - FEBRUARY 3, 2019
A.P.E. @ HAWLEY, in collaboration with SCDT, is proud to be bringing back this historic January Movement Series. The Bodies In Motion Festival is modeled after A.P.E.'s 15 year movement series at Thornes Market, 3rd Floor. As a series of weekend workshops and performances this year's festival focuses on diverse approaches to dance as a performative art: Improvisation, contemporary performance, hip hop and Butoh, and new works for the festival finale. Taught by local, national, and internationally acclaimed performance artists, these workshops provide students with the unique opportunity to engage with highly regarded and innovative artists in the field of dance today. FULL SCHEDULE HERE
BODIES IN MOTION VISUAL ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE:
MICHAEL TILLYER. www.tillyervision.com/
JIL CRARY-ROSS / Body, Material (image left)
www.jilcraryross.com
STEPHEN PETEGORSKY https://spphoto.com/
MICHAEL TILLYER. www.tillyervision.com/
JIL CRARY-ROSS / Body, Material (image left)
www.jilcraryross.com
STEPHEN PETEGORSKY https://spphoto.com/
Monday, December 3 at 7 pm
LOCAL FILMMAKERS SHOWCASE
Local filmmakers will screen four short films on Monday, December 3, at 7pm, in the Flex Space of The Northampton Community Arts Trust building, 33 Hawley Street, Northampton, MA.
Jason Mazzotta’s GET ME LIONEL & FATHER WILLIE
Nicholas Verdi's GEMINI 555
Dylan Kaufman, Keanu Burke and Merle O’Neal’s LANDLORD
Image above: Get Me Lionel by Jason Mazzotta
LOCAL FILMMAKERS SHOWCASE
Local filmmakers will screen four short films on Monday, December 3, at 7pm, in the Flex Space of The Northampton Community Arts Trust building, 33 Hawley Street, Northampton, MA.
Jason Mazzotta’s GET ME LIONEL & FATHER WILLIE
Nicholas Verdi's GEMINI 555
Dylan Kaufman, Keanu Burke and Merle O’Neal’s LANDLORD
Image above: Get Me Lionel by Jason Mazzotta
Saturday, November 10 at 8:00 pm
The Storied Tellers'
an evening of informally presented performance works by
Mary Beth Brooker, Kathy Couch, Karinne Keithley Sayers, and Lailye Weidman.
Tickets -$5-10 donation at the door
The Storied Tellers'
an evening of informally presented performance works by
Mary Beth Brooker, Kathy Couch, Karinne Keithley Sayers, and Lailye Weidman.
Tickets -$5-10 donation at the door
THE ARTSALON’S RED DOT DASH
Benefit Exhibition at the new 33 Hawley Street, Northampton Community Arts Trust Building on Friday, November 9, 2018 at 6-9 pm.
Since 2009, The ArtSalon has introduced to the public some of the area’s most vibrant artists. These selected artists present their work in a Japanese style called PechaKucha (pronounced peh-chak-cha) for six minutes; twenty slides for twenty seconds each. The ArtSalon wants to provide an honorarium for these artists for their time and effort. To help fund this endeavor The ArtSalon is hosting its first annual RED DOT DASH.
The RED DOT DASH will offer an affordable and exciting way to add to a collection, support art makers (50% of a sale goes directly to the artist), and fund honorariums at the same time! Buyers have the opportunity to acquire original 10” x 10” sized works by established and emerging artists for ONLY $88 EACH. Each piece is exhibited ANONYMOUSLY and is offered on a FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED BASIS. The identity of the artist is revealed only after the work is purchased.
More information at: http://www.theartsalon.com/red-dot-dash/
Benefit Exhibition at the new 33 Hawley Street, Northampton Community Arts Trust Building on Friday, November 9, 2018 at 6-9 pm.
Since 2009, The ArtSalon has introduced to the public some of the area’s most vibrant artists. These selected artists present their work in a Japanese style called PechaKucha (pronounced peh-chak-cha) for six minutes; twenty slides for twenty seconds each. The ArtSalon wants to provide an honorarium for these artists for their time and effort. To help fund this endeavor The ArtSalon is hosting its first annual RED DOT DASH.
The RED DOT DASH will offer an affordable and exciting way to add to a collection, support art makers (50% of a sale goes directly to the artist), and fund honorariums at the same time! Buyers have the opportunity to acquire original 10” x 10” sized works by established and emerging artists for ONLY $88 EACH. Each piece is exhibited ANONYMOUSLY and is offered on a FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED BASIS. The identity of the artist is revealed only after the work is purchased.
More information at: http://www.theartsalon.com/red-dot-dash/
October
Serious Play Theatre Ensemble's RETURN FROM THE FRINGE
Two 50 minute shows each evening:
THE RED GUITAR with John Sheldon, & DO IT NOW: Manual Override with John,Tony Vacca & Paul Richmond
Both directed by Sheryl Stoodley (there will be one 10 minute intermission)
More information at seriousplaytheatre@gmail.com
September
PLAY BY PLAY 2018
The Northampton Playwrights Lab and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, in association with the Northampton Center for the Arts and A.P.E. Gallery Ltd. present: Third festival of readings of new plays performed by local professional actors with
INAUGURAL performances in the Arts Trust Building FlexSpace Theatre. Featuring new plays by playwrights Leanna James Blackwell, Stephanie Carlson, Meryl Cohn, Harley Erdman, Peter Kennedy, Talya Kingston, and Tanyss Rhea Martula
Historical Footnotes: Dancing Through Northampton’s History
Join us for a special collaboration between Historic Northampton and A.P.E.@ Hawley Street, linking contemporary dance works, site-specific films, music, and visual art with Northampton’s rich history. Ten area artists and their collaborators will offer a range of surprising ecological and cultural perspectives, all with ties to Northampton’s past.
Engaging the imagination in multiple forms, this event will celebrate the opening of the Flexible Performing Space at 33 Hawley Street, a project of the Northampton Community Arts Trust. This program is supported in part by a grant from the Northampton Arts Council.
Dance—Peter Schmitz, Deborah Goffe, Andrea Olsen, Jennifer Polins (Fri.), Lailye Weidman (Sat.) and dancers; Film—Wendy Woodson, Sasha Statman-Weil; Visual Art—Michael Tillyer, Elizabeth Stone, Kathy Couch, and Kristina Madsen; Music—Peter Jones; History—Laurie Sanders, Betty Sharpe, Kiki Smith and guests.
Bodystories Workshop with Caryn McHose and Andrea Olsen
June
"THIS"
Two evenings of work by 6 local creative artists will be shown in an informal setting at 33 Hawley St. in Northampton presented through the support of A.P.E. Performance works by Kathy Couch, Mary Beth Booker, Madison Palffy, Michelle Huber, and Lauren Horn will be presented in the upstairs studio at 8 p.m.
Alumni Reunion: Serious Play Alumni Reunion 2018
Contact: seriousplaytheatre@gmail.com
SHARING: Alumni Staged Reading/ 8pm of Caryl Churchill’s play, FARAWAY directed by Sheryl Stoodley with Dan Morbyrne, Robyn Sutton-Fernandez, & Linda Tardif- props designed by David Regan & sound, Robin Doty
MARCH
Big Dance Theater’s CAGE SHUFFLE starring Paul Lazar: Friday, March 9: 8 pm
No Theater at A.P.E. Window/ Google Gogol Project , Directed by Roy Faudree
(These events will take place at APE at 126 Main Street)
Photographs by Stephen Petegorksy, January - March, 2018
Lower Lobby
FEBRUARY
" On The Horizon"
Two evenings of work by 6 local creative artists will be shown in an informal setting at 33 Hawley St. in Northampton presented through the support of A.P.E. Performance works by Kathy Couch, Mary Beth Booker, Madison Palffy, Molly McBride, Elena Marione, and Lauren Horn will be presented in the upstairs studio at 8 p.m.
2017
DECEMBER
Painted Dreams is the title of the first radio soap opera, which began its run in 1930. The project mixes video installation & live performance to explore the ongoing parallel world of feminist serials.
With Stella Corso & music by Jon Ruseski
NOVEMBER
The Hatchery and The Funks: Works in Progress
High School Dance and Theatre Projects
The Hatchery (dance) is directed by Jen Polins/SCDT, and the Funks (comedy improvisation) is directed by Heidi Haas/NHS
OCTOBER
Living History Series: Arts in Northampton: Then, Now, and Going Forward
In a special, one-hour conversation at Historic Northampton, co-directors Elizabeth Sharpe and Laurie Sanders will speak with Gordie Thorne and Annie Woodhull, a husband-and-wife team who during their decades in Northampton have been instrumental in creating an atmosphere where the arts could thrive.
Historic Northampton, 46 Bridge Street, Northampton
Movers Moving In: Three evenings of Dancing/Making
Underscore +/- Arriving into the Arts Trust on Hawley Street
Nancy Stark Smith will be joined by a stellar group of Northampton-and-Massachusetts-based dancers for a 3-hour run of this structured improvisation, entitled Underscore +/- Arriving into the Arts Trust on Hawley Street.
Thursday evening, October 19, 6-9pm.
The Underscore +/- group has been meeting weekly in the Northampton area for over 7 years.
Dancing/Making
informal performance and reflection
October 20 & 21, 8pm, $10
Friday: Peter Schmitz, Chris Aiken and Angie Hauser, and Jen Polins
Saturday: Barbie Diewald, Doug LeCours, Katie Martin, and Andrea Olsen
33 Hawley Street, 3rd floor studio
Serious Play Theatre Ensemble's RETURN FROM THE FRINGE
Two 50 minute shows each evening:
THE RED GUITAR with John Sheldon, & DO IT NOW: Manual Override with John,Tony Vacca & Paul Richmond
Both directed by Sheryl Stoodley (there will be one 10 minute intermission)
More information at seriousplaytheatre@gmail.com
September
PLAY BY PLAY 2018
The Northampton Playwrights Lab and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, in association with the Northampton Center for the Arts and A.P.E. Gallery Ltd. present: Third festival of readings of new plays performed by local professional actors with
INAUGURAL performances in the Arts Trust Building FlexSpace Theatre. Featuring new plays by playwrights Leanna James Blackwell, Stephanie Carlson, Meryl Cohn, Harley Erdman, Peter Kennedy, Talya Kingston, and Tanyss Rhea Martula
Historical Footnotes: Dancing Through Northampton’s History
Join us for a special collaboration between Historic Northampton and A.P.E.@ Hawley Street, linking contemporary dance works, site-specific films, music, and visual art with Northampton’s rich history. Ten area artists and their collaborators will offer a range of surprising ecological and cultural perspectives, all with ties to Northampton’s past.
Engaging the imagination in multiple forms, this event will celebrate the opening of the Flexible Performing Space at 33 Hawley Street, a project of the Northampton Community Arts Trust. This program is supported in part by a grant from the Northampton Arts Council.
Dance—Peter Schmitz, Deborah Goffe, Andrea Olsen, Jennifer Polins (Fri.), Lailye Weidman (Sat.) and dancers; Film—Wendy Woodson, Sasha Statman-Weil; Visual Art—Michael Tillyer, Elizabeth Stone, Kathy Couch, and Kristina Madsen; Music—Peter Jones; History—Laurie Sanders, Betty Sharpe, Kiki Smith and guests.
Bodystories Workshop with Caryn McHose and Andrea Olsen
June
"THIS"
Two evenings of work by 6 local creative artists will be shown in an informal setting at 33 Hawley St. in Northampton presented through the support of A.P.E. Performance works by Kathy Couch, Mary Beth Booker, Madison Palffy, Michelle Huber, and Lauren Horn will be presented in the upstairs studio at 8 p.m.
Alumni Reunion: Serious Play Alumni Reunion 2018
Contact: seriousplaytheatre@gmail.com
SHARING: Alumni Staged Reading/ 8pm of Caryl Churchill’s play, FARAWAY directed by Sheryl Stoodley with Dan Morbyrne, Robyn Sutton-Fernandez, & Linda Tardif- props designed by David Regan & sound, Robin Doty
MARCH
Big Dance Theater’s CAGE SHUFFLE starring Paul Lazar: Friday, March 9: 8 pm
No Theater at A.P.E. Window/ Google Gogol Project , Directed by Roy Faudree
(These events will take place at APE at 126 Main Street)
Photographs by Stephen Petegorksy, January - March, 2018
Lower Lobby
FEBRUARY
" On The Horizon"
Two evenings of work by 6 local creative artists will be shown in an informal setting at 33 Hawley St. in Northampton presented through the support of A.P.E. Performance works by Kathy Couch, Mary Beth Booker, Madison Palffy, Molly McBride, Elena Marione, and Lauren Horn will be presented in the upstairs studio at 8 p.m.
2017
DECEMBER
Painted Dreams is the title of the first radio soap opera, which began its run in 1930. The project mixes video installation & live performance to explore the ongoing parallel world of feminist serials.
With Stella Corso & music by Jon Ruseski
NOVEMBER
The Hatchery and The Funks: Works in Progress
High School Dance and Theatre Projects
The Hatchery (dance) is directed by Jen Polins/SCDT, and the Funks (comedy improvisation) is directed by Heidi Haas/NHS
OCTOBER
Living History Series: Arts in Northampton: Then, Now, and Going Forward
In a special, one-hour conversation at Historic Northampton, co-directors Elizabeth Sharpe and Laurie Sanders will speak with Gordie Thorne and Annie Woodhull, a husband-and-wife team who during their decades in Northampton have been instrumental in creating an atmosphere where the arts could thrive.
Historic Northampton, 46 Bridge Street, Northampton
Movers Moving In: Three evenings of Dancing/Making
Underscore +/- Arriving into the Arts Trust on Hawley Street
Nancy Stark Smith will be joined by a stellar group of Northampton-and-Massachusetts-based dancers for a 3-hour run of this structured improvisation, entitled Underscore +/- Arriving into the Arts Trust on Hawley Street.
Thursday evening, October 19, 6-9pm.
The Underscore +/- group has been meeting weekly in the Northampton area for over 7 years.
Dancing/Making
informal performance and reflection
October 20 & 21, 8pm, $10
Friday: Peter Schmitz, Chris Aiken and Angie Hauser, and Jen Polins
Saturday: Barbie Diewald, Doug LeCours, Katie Martin, and Andrea Olsen
33 Hawley Street, 3rd floor studio