2023

In keeping with KoFest’s new focus on uplifting and amplifying, we were delighted to partner with PAULINE PRODUCTIONS to help present a weekend of first-person stories. Fans of KoFest Story Slams, or alums of Jerry Stropnicky’s “First Person: Crafting Your Story for Performance” workshops at Ko, were particularly delighted to have the opportunity to see an event that gave the storytellers a longer time slots for their compelling stories!
Woman storyteller in jeans and plaid shirt points to herself as she leans in to the attentive audience

FIRST PERSON FRESH – Women’s Solo Performance Festival

presented by PAULINE PRODUCTIONS, in association with KoFest

April 28, 29 & 30, 2023 Program A: Fri. at 7:30 p.m. & Sat, at 3 p.m.  Program B: Sat. at 7:30 p.m. & Sun. 3 p.m.

CITYSPACE - The Blue Room Old Town Hall, 43 Main St. Easthampton, MA

A weekend festival featuring seven women debuting new "first person" solo theatre pieces that run the gamut from comic to serious, and poetic to music-filled, with themes that include mental health, love, loss, family and showbiz. Program A features: Sue Tracy with "An ADHD Girl's Guide to...WHOA!," Alice Barrett with "Stories Gone Missing," Jarice Hanson with "Alp Me Make it thru the Night, and Beth Filson with "Telling the Story - Untelling the Diagnosis" Program B features: Vanessa Adel's "Holding Space,"Jo-Anne Hart's "Friendship: A Love Story," and Laura Wetzler's "Love, Death & Warthogs"

Directed by JEANNINE HAAS (Artistic Director/Pauline Productions) and SABRINA HAMILTON (Artistic Director/KoFest), with Liesel de Boor


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2023 WORKSHOPS

STAGE LIGHTING BASICS
December 10, 2023 10am-1pm

Fuller Arts Center at Springfield College.
A 1-day workshop on the basics of stage lighting – particularly geared for choreographers, directors and all those seeking an understanding of how to to collaborate with a lighting designer.  SOLD OUT. Email us to get on the waiting list.

TICKETING AT KO

Ko’s workshops and performances are offered at three different pricing levels: PATRON, STANDARD and DISCOUNT.

We are a proud participant of the Card to Culture program, a collaboration between Mass Cultural Council and the Department of Transitional Assistance, the Women, Infants & Children (WIC) Nutrition Program, and the Massachusetts Health Connector.

Though the program does not subsidize arts presenters, its goal is to broaden accessibility to cultural programming by advocating for lower ticket prices for people with EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare cards.

Most arts organizations require that you show your card at the door, but but we do not. Ko recognizes that not all people needing a discounted price are enrolled in these programs, and that one’s financial situation can change in a heartbeat. Therefore, we invite those in need to avail themselves of our DISCOUNT level tickets. And if you are able to help us provide this access to those in need, please consider purchasing your ticket at the PATRON level.

See the full list of participating organizations offering EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare discounts.

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LAND ACKNOLWEDGEMENT

We wish to acknowledge that Ko Festival headquarters and most of our live offerings come to you from the homeland of the Nipmuc and Pocumtuc tribal peoples. We acknowledge the painful history of genocide and forced removal from this territory, and we honor and respect the many diverse Indigenous peoples still connected to this land.

FUNDERS

The Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

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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.

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INTERNSHIPS

We are not currently offering any internships.