Past Events, A.P.E. @ Hawley Street
2018-19
Collective Ground
A.P.E.@33 Hawley presents Collective Ground, an exhibition of works by students in the Senior and Advanced Studio Arts program at Mount Holyoke College. Featuring artworks from artists Levi Taylor Booker, Lily Cook, Lauren Ferrara, Abigail Hill, Katie Kelso, Xiangwei Kong, Camila Le, Ricki Lovett, Abby Li, Cora Melcher, Kiwi Song, Samiha Tasnim, Deborah Uller, and Megan Walker, this exhibition brings together fourteen unique visions. These artists employ a vast range of mediums, from installation to photography, painting to performance, in order to explore who they are as makers. The diversity of approach amongst these artists reflect the deeply difficult and polarizing world that form the larger context for this exhibition. However, viewed together, these works begin to forge connections between issues of identity, vulnerability, and ultimately survival.
A.P.E.@33 Hawley presents Collective Ground, an exhibition of works by students in the Senior and Advanced Studio Arts program at Mount Holyoke College. Featuring artworks from artists Levi Taylor Booker, Lily Cook, Lauren Ferrara, Abigail Hill, Katie Kelso, Xiangwei Kong, Camila Le, Ricki Lovett, Abby Li, Cora Melcher, Kiwi Song, Samiha Tasnim, Deborah Uller, and Megan Walker, this exhibition brings together fourteen unique visions. These artists employ a vast range of mediums, from installation to photography, painting to performance, in order to explore who they are as makers. The diversity of approach amongst these artists reflect the deeply difficult and polarizing world that form the larger context for this exhibition. However, viewed together, these works begin to forge connections between issues of identity, vulnerability, and ultimately survival.
REAL LIVE THEATRE PRESENTS:
ATHENA by Gracie Gardner
Directed by Ellen Morbyrne
Starring Rachel Hall (Tilly in She Kills Monsters 2017 & 2018) and Syl Simmons (Natalie in When Last We Flew 2018)
Stage managed by Ezekiel Baskin
Two young fencers. One dedication to training. Endless opportunity for connection and collision.
“Wily and entertaining.” - Village Voice
“A deadly serious comedy about ambition, success, and owning your superiority. In its delicate ferocity, it shows a playwright who is full-throttle funny and wise beyond her years.” - The New York Times
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24-SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27 AT 7PM
MATINEE SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 AT 1PM AT
Info: https://reallivetheatre.net/now-playing
ATHENA by Gracie Gardner
Directed by Ellen Morbyrne
Starring Rachel Hall (Tilly in She Kills Monsters 2017 & 2018) and Syl Simmons (Natalie in When Last We Flew 2018)
Stage managed by Ezekiel Baskin
Two young fencers. One dedication to training. Endless opportunity for connection and collision.
“Wily and entertaining.” - Village Voice
“A deadly serious comedy about ambition, success, and owning your superiority. In its delicate ferocity, it shows a playwright who is full-throttle funny and wise beyond her years.” - The New York Times
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24-SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27 AT 7PM
MATINEE SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 AT 1PM AT
Info: https://reallivetheatre.net/now-playing
Serious Play Theatre Ensemble
WADING IN/Phase Two of Moving Water
SERIOUS PLAY will have OPEN REHEARSALS Oct 25 and 25 6-7pm for MOVING WATER THEATRE PROJECT/ Phase Two-Wading In
Interested attendees need to SIGN UP ahead by phoning SERIOUS PLAY at 413-588-7439 or emailing us at seriousplaytheatre@gmail.com.
*VERY LIMITED SPACE
More info coming soon
WADING IN/Phase Two of Moving Water
SERIOUS PLAY will have OPEN REHEARSALS Oct 25 and 25 6-7pm for MOVING WATER THEATRE PROJECT/ Phase Two-Wading In
Interested attendees need to SIGN UP ahead by phoning SERIOUS PLAY at 413-588-7439 or emailing us at seriousplaytheatre@gmail.com.
*VERY LIMITED SPACE
More info coming soon
A.P.E.@Hawley and SCDT
In collaboration with Historic Northampton, NCTV,
and the Smith College Department of Dance present:
Somatics Festival
Celebrating The Work of Janet Adler, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, and Nancy Stark Smith and the 45-year Heritage of Contact Quarterly
September 19-23, 2019
Full Schedule and Registration: www.scdtnoho.com
Andrea Olsen, Festival curator for A.P.E.@Hawley
With Lisa Thompson/A.P.E. & Jen Polins/SCDT
In collaboration with Historic Northampton, NCTV,
and the Smith College Department of Dance present:
Somatics Festival
Celebrating The Work of Janet Adler, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, and Nancy Stark Smith and the 45-year Heritage of Contact Quarterly
September 19-23, 2019
Full Schedule and Registration: www.scdtnoho.com
Andrea Olsen, Festival curator for A.P.E.@Hawley
With Lisa Thompson/A.P.E. & Jen Polins/SCDT
Visual Arts Exhibition as part of the Somatics Festival. One week only.
VECTORS
curated by Harriet Brickman
featuring the work of Nine Artists: Gordon Thorne, Herb Ferris, Kristina Madsen, Bill Arnold, Katherine Sanderson, Harriet Brickman, Philip Buller, Rosalyn Driscoll, Stephen Petegorsky
VECTORS
curated by Harriet Brickman
featuring the work of Nine Artists: Gordon Thorne, Herb Ferris, Kristina Madsen, Bill Arnold, Katherine Sanderson, Harriet Brickman, Philip Buller, Rosalyn Driscoll, Stephen Petegorsky
"EIGHT"
curated by Kevin Pomerleau
July 10 - August 28, 2019
"EIGHT" brings together the work of Madeline Chmielinski, Samson King, Jae Matthews (Dirt Gallogher), Beyon Wren Moor, Kevin Pomerleau, Valentina Sarfeh, Max Handelman-West, and Esther S White
Showcasing eight artists who inhabit or have once inhabited Western Massachusetts. Using painting, printmaking, photography, and stitching this work composes a thread of narratives based on lived and fantasy experiences. Connected by color, form and experimental processes, the audience is able to witness confrontations with illness, coping mechanisms, queerness, nature, and much more.
curated by Kevin Pomerleau
July 10 - August 28, 2019
"EIGHT" brings together the work of Madeline Chmielinski, Samson King, Jae Matthews (Dirt Gallogher), Beyon Wren Moor, Kevin Pomerleau, Valentina Sarfeh, Max Handelman-West, and Esther S White
Showcasing eight artists who inhabit or have once inhabited Western Massachusetts. Using painting, printmaking, photography, and stitching this work composes a thread of narratives based on lived and fantasy experiences. Connected by color, form and experimental processes, the audience is able to witness confrontations with illness, coping mechanisms, queerness, nature, and much more.
"What We See": 4-week project of theater works at 33 Hawley Street and SCDT
July 7 – August 4, 2019.
Each project will have a public showing at the end of their residency.
July 7-14: Serious Play Theatre Ensemble develops MOVING WATER, a collaboration with director Sheryl Stoodley, musician Jonny Rodgers, visual artist Roz Driscoll, playwright Eric Sanders, and designer Robin Doty.
July 7-14 (SCDT): Andrew Pester: Prelude to a Eulogy is an unearthing of queer ancestry through multidisciplinary archive, community storytelling, and performance ritual. The week-in-residence will be part improvisation and part composing, reading, and digesting.
July 14-21: Karinne Keithley will be working on Karl Andrisson Park, a short, speculative landscape operetta populated by fountains, battle planes, kaijus, bench-sitters, dancers, and other itinerancies. Over the week of her residency, she'll be building animations and video to accompany the singing, and will show the fruits of the week's work along with a new performance text on Saturday, July 20 at 7pm.
July 21-28: Occupied Territories, conceived and directed by Mollye Maxner, written by Nancy Bannon and Mollye Maxner. Created from research into the lives of Vietnam Combat Veterans and their families, Occupied Territories reveals painful and beautiful truths without comment, in all their rawness. Sponsors for this project include: VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System of the Veterans Health Administration, Central Hampshire Veterans’ Services, Massachusetts and Rhode Island Departments of the American Gold Star Mothers, Inc., Human Service Forum
July 28-Aug.4: Real Live Theatre develops a new script, Far Reaches, culminating in a public reading/sharing. Ellen Morbyrne , co-founder of RLT, has written a first draft of a play called Far Reaches, in the genre of Cli-Fi (Climate Science Fiction, a genre of fiction that deals with the impacts of climate change and global warming). This full-length, two-person piece is set in a world of endless oceans where people live exclusively on rafts.
July 7 – August 4, 2019.
Each project will have a public showing at the end of their residency.
July 7-14: Serious Play Theatre Ensemble develops MOVING WATER, a collaboration with director Sheryl Stoodley, musician Jonny Rodgers, visual artist Roz Driscoll, playwright Eric Sanders, and designer Robin Doty.
July 7-14 (SCDT): Andrew Pester: Prelude to a Eulogy is an unearthing of queer ancestry through multidisciplinary archive, community storytelling, and performance ritual. The week-in-residence will be part improvisation and part composing, reading, and digesting.
July 14-21: Karinne Keithley will be working on Karl Andrisson Park, a short, speculative landscape operetta populated by fountains, battle planes, kaijus, bench-sitters, dancers, and other itinerancies. Over the week of her residency, she'll be building animations and video to accompany the singing, and will show the fruits of the week's work along with a new performance text on Saturday, July 20 at 7pm.
July 21-28: Occupied Territories, conceived and directed by Mollye Maxner, written by Nancy Bannon and Mollye Maxner. Created from research into the lives of Vietnam Combat Veterans and their families, Occupied Territories reveals painful and beautiful truths without comment, in all their rawness. Sponsors for this project include: VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System of the Veterans Health Administration, Central Hampshire Veterans’ Services, Massachusetts and Rhode Island Departments of the American Gold Star Mothers, Inc., Human Service Forum
July 28-Aug.4: Real Live Theatre develops a new script, Far Reaches, culminating in a public reading/sharing. Ellen Morbyrne , co-founder of RLT, has written a first draft of a play called Far Reaches, in the genre of Cli-Fi (Climate Science Fiction, a genre of fiction that deals with the impacts of climate change and global warming). This full-length, two-person piece is set in a world of endless oceans where people live exclusively on rafts.
Serious Play Theatre Ensemble presents, our third production in our series-
CONVERSATIONS FOR OUR TIMES THROUGH THEATRE
THE WALL-a new one woman play, written & performed by Jessica Litwak
A close kin to the one we hear so much about, but this wall both real & metaphoric separates Jews from Arabs, Israelis and Palestinians. Litwak knows first-hand the perspective from both sides spinning a tale of hope and crushed dreams, faith and failure, and above all the unrelenting search for justice.
with post show discussion following each performance
When: June 21 & 22 7:30pm
Where: Flex Space APE@Hawley / Northampton Community Arts Trust
33 Hawley St, Northampton MA
Additional information: seriousplaytheatre@gmail.com or phone 413-588-7439
CONVERSATIONS FOR OUR TIMES THROUGH THEATRE
THE WALL-a new one woman play, written & performed by Jessica Litwak
A close kin to the one we hear so much about, but this wall both real & metaphoric separates Jews from Arabs, Israelis and Palestinians. Litwak knows first-hand the perspective from both sides spinning a tale of hope and crushed dreams, faith and failure, and above all the unrelenting search for justice.
with post show discussion following each performance
When: June 21 & 22 7:30pm
Where: Flex Space APE@Hawley / Northampton Community Arts Trust
33 Hawley St, Northampton MA
Additional information: seriousplaytheatre@gmail.com or phone 413-588-7439
PRACTICING PRESENCE FESTIVAL
MAY 24-26, 2019
THREE DAYS OF ADVENTUROUS MOVING AND MAKING.
CONNECTING CONTEMPLATIVE AND SOMATIC PRACTICES WITH
ARTICULATE DANCING IN NORTHAMPTON, MA.
WITH
PAUL MATTESON, PETER SCHMITZ, ANDREA OLSEN,
JENNIFER POLINS, SCOTTY HARDWIG, SHAYLA-VIE JENKINS
MORE INFO
MUSIC: Serious Play presents Jonny Rodgers and CINDERTALK
Friday and Saturday, April 26 and April 27 @ 8 PM
composer/ glass musician/ songwriter
Tickets at Brown Paper Tickets or at the door.
Jonny is collaborating with Serious Play as part of the new ensemble project MOVING WATER, presently in development. Please join Serious Play in welcoming Jonny Rodgers to our community and sharing his extraordinary music.
Jonny is a renowned glass musician, composer and performer. He has toured for years as an indie musician, writing songs that blend neoclassical, indie-folk and electronic music.
March- April -Serious Play MOVING WATER PROJECT- 3 EXPLORATORY SATURDAY WORKSHOPS with SP artistic director Sheryl Stoodley and visual artist Rosalyn Driscoll. Serious Play Eastworks Studio space- #233 (free parking)
More info contact: seriousplaytheatre@gmail.com
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