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Ko is taking part in VALLEY GIVES DAY, Tuesday, May 1.
sally howland2018-04-30T21:49:46-04:00Ko is taking part in VALLEY GIVES DAY, Tuesday, May 1.
KoFest costs have taken a leap this year. In response, several Ko Board Members and Ko-stars have put together a matching grant of $3500. Won’t you join our team of Ko-conspirators.
We can’t make this match without you!
Click here to visit our Valley Gives page.
Artistic Director, Sabrina Hamilton will be doing a marathon of Facebook Live events tomorrow telling Ko Festival war-stories, backstage dish and memorable moments. Join her every hour on the hour here starting from 10am-
FIRST PERSON: Crafting Your Story for Performance 2018
sally howland2018-04-05T15:22:38-04:00July 16 – 21, 2017
FIRST PERSON: Crafting Your Story for Performance
with GERARD STROPNICKY
Come with a story. (Or two. Or three.) Leave with a performance. (Or two. Or three.)
Come without a story, and by the end of Day One, you’ll discover more compelling material than you’d ever think possible. “After all,” says theatre artist Gerard Stropnicky, “people are simply wonderful walking story anthologies.”
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 all of the above?
Gerard Stropnicky has been working in story for twenty years. This award-winning director has helped create compelling work from interview, gathered story, letters to the editor, even advertisements, recipes and children’s games. He’s written, directed and acted in countless styles; he’s coached diverse thousands of performers, professional and not, young and old, from every walk of life, to bring their stories to vivid life.
We’ll play with monologue, and help each other create scenes. We’ll experiment with styles, colors and tones. We’ll make ourselves vulnerable to our stories, and to one another. The workshop will draw on the work of the late playwright and poet Jo Carson, Stropnicky’s long-time creative partner, as well as other practitioners of Story Work, and will culminate with a showing. This on-your-feet writers and performers story intensive is designed to release the enormous potential energy already alive in you and your story.
A repeat of last summer’s sold out workshop – alums welcome. PERFECT FOR PEOPLE INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING IN THE KoFEST SUMMER SLAM ON 7/21/18.
About GERARD STROPNICKY
Gerard Stropnicky’s exploration of story has taken him from the coal mines of Appalachia to war-torn northern Uganda, from south Georgia cotton fields to Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale frack pads. He’s worked with moonshiners, church choirs, recovering addicts, former child soldiers, rural teens, Mardi Gras Indian Queens in New Orleans, and more.
A multi-faceted theatre artist (director, writer and actor), he graduated from Northwestern, studied with Alvina Krause, and in 1978 co-founded Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble (BTE), where he worked for the next 34 years. These days he goes where he’s invited, applying community story to create original large-scale, site-specific performances in communities facing trauma, crisis, transition, or change. These transformative events, and the process that breathes life into them, offer communities both validation and challenge, bringing health, and changing lives.
For this work, as well as for his role in co-founding the national Network of Ensemble Theaters, Jerry was honored as a United States Artists Fellow in 2010. Stropnicky has acted in hundreds of roles and directed scores of productions, written and/or directed more than twenty “Theatre of Place” projects.
SOUND AND FURY: An Embodied Approach to Voice, Text & Sound Design for the Theatre
sally howland2018-05-23T22:12:11-04:002017
sally howland2018-03-30T14:28:03-04:00From Artistic Director, Sabrina Hamilton
“This year, I decided not to program the festival until after the election. After the results were in, I went on a listening tour of the Valley to find out what people wanted from us. The result — our upcoming 5-week season curated on the theme of “TACTICS FOR TRYING TIMES. So whether it’s living a life of activism and resistance, finding the humor in the situation, examining your footprint on the planet, or reclaiming civil discourse and debate – COME JOIN US!”
PERFORMANCES
THE SOCIETY OF CIVIL DISCOURSE
August 4 & 5 at 8pm; August 6 at 7pm (Note non-standard curtain time)
Created by TEAM SUNSHINE PERFORMANCE CORPORATION and THE PHILLY PIGEON/Jacob WintersteinAn interactive performance event that celebrates the pleasure of passionate debate and provides a safe and fun space to indulge in the practice of oratorical muscle-flexing. The event unfolds in three phases…
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DEATH OF A MAN July 28 & 29 at 8pm; July 30 at 4pm
Two years ago, NWPL set out on an expedition to understand their hometown’s relationship with rubber. Through the pillaging of natural rubber in the Amazon forests, and the working class citizens who broke their backs building tires – Akron, OH became the "Rubber City." Colombian actor, Jairo Cuesta performs a ritual of storytelling, a sacrifice to heal the city…
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KOFEST STORY SLAM Saturday, July 21 at 8pm – One Night Only!
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TENSE VAGINA: an actual diagnosis July 14 & 15 at 8pm; July 16 at 4pm
A solo show about motherhood — its beauty, challenges, isolation, and comic side revealing “all that is awesome and all that sucks when it comes to being a mother”…
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JIMMY & LORRAINE July 7 & 8 at 8pm; July 9 at 4pm
Performed by HARTBEAT ENSEMBLE Jimmy & Lorraine is a meditation on the American political climate of the late '50s and early '60s through the lens of two significant artists of the time, James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry...
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WORKSHOPS
TELLING TALES WITH CRANKIES
INES ZELLER BASS
Sandglass Theater
July 3-8, 2017
A crankie is an old storytelling art form that has recently become hot again. A long illustrated scroll is wound around two spools and set into a box with a viewing window. The scroll is…Read More
COMPASSIONATE CREATIVITY
with Kali Quinn
of the Center for Compassionate Creativity
July 10-15, 2017
What is the relationship between creativity, mindfulness, self-care, and bettering the world? How do you integrate love, work and play? Come jumpstart your creative process and…Read More
FIRST PERSON: Crafting Your Story for Performance
This workshop is sold out.
with Gerard Stropnicky, Co-Founder, Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble
July 17-22, 2017
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
JIMMY & LORRAINE July 7 & 8 at 8pm; July 9 at 4pm
sally howland2018-03-29T17:11:47-04:00July 7 & 8 at 8pm, July 9 at 4pm
by TALVIN WILKS
Performed by HARTBEAT ENSEMBLE
Jimmy & Lorraine is a meditation on the American political climate of the late ’50s and early ’60s through the lens of two significant artists of the time, James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry…
TENSE VAGINA: an actual diagnosis July 14 & 15 at 8pm; July 16 at 4pm
sally howland2018-03-29T17:11:48-04:00Friday & Saturday, July 14 & 15 at 8pm, Sunday, July 16 at 4pm
Sara Juli
Tense Vagina: an actual diagnosis is about motherhood- its beauty, challenges, isolation, comedy and influence on the human experience. This hour-long evening-length solo uses humor, movement, sounds, songs, text and audience participation to reveal “all that is awesome and all that sucks” when it comes to being a mother.
Tense Vagina focuses on the seldom-discussed and taboo aspects of motherhood, such as loss of bladder control, tears, monotony, loneliness and dildos. The narrative is anchored in sharing the physical therapy Sara received at The Pelvic Floor Rehab Center of New England as she sheds light and humor on her treatment of post-childbirth urinary incontinence.
Created and Performed by Sara Juli with an original set by Pamela Moulton, Costume by Carol Farrell and with original lighting designer, Justin Moriarty. The show runs 1 hour with no intermission and is not appropriate for children due to its strong language, subject matter and dildos.
KOFEST STORY SLAM Saturday, July 21 at 8pm – One Night Only!
sally howland2019-04-12T09:22:33-04:00KOFEST STORY SLAM
5 minute stories about
“Habitat (human)”