2022
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We’re moving! Citing Covid, for the 3rd year in a row, Amherst College Summer Programs has declined to host the Ko Festival of Performance. But we’ve found a new home. We’re moving down the road to Hampshire College!
In what will probably be our final summer season, we’ll be offering 2 productions (one indoor and one outdoors on the grounds of the Hampshire College Farm Center) plus a Story Slam. Performances will run from July 22 to August 31st. Save the dates!
More information coming soon on our summer shows
Sandglass Theater/Linda Parris-Bailey’s Flushing
Clear Creek Creative’s Ezell: Ballad of a Land Man
+ our KoFest Story Slam
PERFORMANCE EVENTS EARLIER THIS SEASON
CANARY IN A GOLD MINE • Now available on demand directly from ptco.org/canary
PITI THEATRE COMPANY
Written and performed by Jonathan Mirin
First seen ONLINE in 2022: Feb 11 & 12 at 7:30pm; Feb 13 at 3:00pm, and then on-demand through May 1, 2022
Captions Available in English and French.
With a partner sickened by electro-hypersensitivity (a.k.a. “microwave sickness”) Mirin has become part of a landmark suit against the FCC. During the pandemic he’s felt compelled to transform what could be an earnest public health lecture into a fun and compelling dive into the opposing forces of corporate profit vs. public safety. Created for the web, Mirin's eco-justice adventure is like theatre…but flatter!
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2022 WORKSHOP
for adults
FIRST PERSON: Crafting Your Story for Performance
with GERARD STROPNICKY,
Co-Founder, Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble
July 18-23, 2022
Why do some stories – some performances – spark your imagination, set fire to your soul, and leave you transformed, while others just sit there? Is it the content, or the telling? The framing, or the style? Can story be employed to bring laughter, or tears, or understanding, or lasting social change, or ...Read More
KEEP KO STRONG
FUNDERS
The Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
The Amherst and Pelham Cultural Councils, local agencies supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Ko Theater Works, Inc. is supported by the New England Foundation for the Arts through the New England Arts Resilience Fund, part of the United States Regional Arts Resilience Fund, an initiative of the U.S. Regional Arts Organizations and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with major funding from the federal CARES Act from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Also funded in part by the New England States Touring program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies.
Art Angels
The Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts
2022 MEDIA SPONSOR
KO Theater Works is proud to be a member of
THE NETWORK OF ENSEMBLE THEATRES:
Artists Creating Theatre. Artists Creating a Community. Artists Creating a Movement.
LET’S GET SOCIAL