From Artistic Director, Sabrina Hamilton

It was a devastating process, but early in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it became clear that the responsible thing to do was to postpone the exciting “Eco-Justice” season we had curated, along with “ENSEMBLE: Seeding the Future,” a conference/mini-festival we were co-hosting with a group of Valley theater ensembles and the Network of Ensemble Theaters.

Instead we gathered digitally to continue our practice of presenting performance with  post-show discussion and offering artist training workshop. We  were also doing the work to necessary sustain Ko Theater Works and the Ko Festival of Performance, looking rigorously inward and outward to address issues of racial injustice, access and equity, and working hard our nurture and support our community of artists, both local and national

PERFORMANCES

Photograph of Deletta Gillespie, a middle-aged Black woman looking at the camera with a slight smile. She has shoulder-length dreads, and is wearing a necklace of grey and amber beads with above a bronze spiral. She is wearing a raspberry-colored shirt with gold bead edging around the scoop neck.

THE MAGIC CITY MASSACRE • Streaming online June 19, 2020 at 7:30 EST

selections of the play by DELETTA GILLESPIE Post-show discussion will follow and include DARYL DAVIS, noted for his work convincing ...
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2020 WORKSHOPS

WRITING FROM STILLNESS, SPEAKING FROM SILENCE: Contemplative Practice for Writers

WRITING FROM STILLNESS, SPEAKING FROM SILENCE: Contemplative Practice for Writers

with JUANITA ROCKWELL
FOR 2021, 2 NEW 2-DAY VERSIONS OF THIS ONLINE WORKSHOP WILL BE OFFERED MAY 15-16 & AND JULY 10-11, WITH AN ADVANCED TRAINING JULY 18-19.  More info coming soon.
The world is begging us to find new ways of being together, being in the world, being creative, being with ourselves. In this online workshop, you will learn contemplative practices of body, energy and mind, and how to integrate them with writing prompts structured to undo restrictive habits of writing and thinking. Together, these new habits can become a daily practice of access to the stillness and
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