THOSE LAZY DAYS OF SUMMER ARE HERE...
July 3, 2024
A Note from the Artistic Director
Hi friends - The Shattered Glass Project has some REEELLY BIG NEWS! After 5 years as a fiscally sponsored program at Shunpike (a fabulous incubator for emerging arts projects and organizations of all kinds), TSGP has been approved for our own 501(c)(3) nonprofit status by the IRS! We are a grown-up theatre company now! Or at least, we’re kind of like those adolescent crows you are probably seeing all around, bugging their parent crows for just one more piece of food (insert laughing/crying emoji here!!)
On that note - here’s your first chance to RSVP for TSGP’s 2024 Friendraiser, Through the Window (& Into the Cabin), featuring three performances of two short plays by those fun and wacky playwrights, Carolynne Wilcox and Miriam Tobin. They’ve been entertaining you with their adventures writing from a prompt for similar yet completely different plays performed in the same set of windows!
We’re thrilled to share that this evening of exciting site-specific theater will be directed by Aidyn Stevens, who just ‘graduated’ with the 2023-2024 Incubator/Mentor cohort! We also have 4 fabulous cast members, including Molly Hall, Leah Shannon, Tim Takechi and yours truly. More details below!
Incubator/Mentor Cohort Celebration
Photos from Cohort Graduation Party, 6/21/24 at the MLK Fame Center
It’s always fitting to celebrate the end of something triumphant with a party, and the graduation of the 2023-24 Incubator/Mentor Cohort of playwrights and directors seemed the perfect excuse to toast the culmination of their journey! With some light refreshments and finger food, the cohort as well as some invited friends did just that, and all present discussed their recent accomplishments (not only finishing the program, but production of the New Works Festival in May), their plans for the future, and even potential, upcoming collaborations (amongst cohort with each other as well as some of the party guests). It was a fine, beautiful night for a gathering!
Through the Window Journal
BY CAROLYNNE WILCOX
WELL. Quite a bit has transpired since the last posting about Through the Window in June…for one thing, we have dates, a director and a cast! Recent cohort directing grad Aidyn Stevens will take the helm as director, while starring in this four hander are Molly Hall, Tim Takechi, Rebecca O’Neil and Leah Shannon. Rehearsals are set to begin the last week of July, culminating in three performances August 23, 24 & 25, with a fundraising/friendraising event to follow each night.
A little more about the shows themselves: as you know, if you’ve been following along since the beginning of the year, these are two separate plays (by Miriam BC Tobin and me, respectively). The plays were written side by side, using the same four characters and the same jumpstart prompt (behold the ACTUAL PROMPT and the ACTUAL JAR it was selected from at random)
…a whole other play was even written that took place in the winter before we realized it would be produced in the summer and we didn’t want our actors to be hot in winter clothing! Using this prompt and those characters, two completely different plays were written (though the circumstances are a different, you can think of them as existing side by side in the multiverse) taking place in a cabin in the woods. While there are no footsteps (that we know of), there might be tentacles and other potentially destructive conceits that might’ve been inspired by the idea of those footsteps.
There will be more information about the plays, the production and the friend/fundraiser on social media in the weeks to come, and we sure hope you’ll join us for both the show, and the ensuing festivities!
Click HERE to reserve your spot.
Upcoming Opportunities
ABOLITION LEARNING CIRCLE
FROM SGP BOARD MEMBER EMILY STONE
Hi Shattered Glass Folks! I wanted to let you know, or maybe remind people who have already seen it, about a very cool opportunity for creatives happening next week on Monday and Tuesday! Given our commitment to equity and antiracism, as well as centering gender marginalized folks, I think this would be really fantastic for anyone in this group! I am a supporting member of Dunya Productions in Seattle, a MENAA+ led theatre company if you haven't already heard of Dunya. Next week, Dunya and Donkeysaddle Productions are putting together an amazing learning circle for artists and cultural organizers focused on abolition – dreaming about it, how to live it, how to incorporate it in our artistic practices! Tickets are on a sliding scale starting at $5. Read below for more info, I hope you can make it!
Dunya Productions is excited to invite your community to participate in an exciting opportunity!
What: Abolition Learning Circle
When: July 8 & 9, 6:30-9:00 pm
Where: Cherry Street Village, 720 25th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122
For: Artists (all disciplines), cultural organizers
Sponsored by: Donkeysaddle Projects, Dunya Productions, and the Underground Theater
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/abolition-learning-circle-july-8-9-2024-tickets-922954089527
State violence is ramping up globally and locally, and the U.S. continues to pour billions into genocide, corporate pockets, police, and prisons, rather than investing in meeting people’s needs. More than ever, we need new ways to care for and protect each other. We all deserve so much more. Abolition of the police and prison industrial complex is not just about dismantling systems that cause harm, it’s also about building something new that centers care for all our people.
Who can better visualize this new world than artists and cultural organizers?
That’s why Dunya is inviting and members of your community to join an Abolition Learning Circle in Seattle, on July 8 & 9.
We hope you’ll join us as we explore resources and learnings about abolition with Seattle-area artists/cultural organizers, and create community with others interested in exploring abolitionist demands and visions. We hope folks will be inspired to use this knowledge to create some dope, revolutionary art.
Space is limited! Please register now to reserve your spot!
(There is a suggested donation to participate in the two-evening workshop. Please choose whatever tier is comfortable for you. If the lowest donation tier presents a barrier to you, please email our Community Engagement Manager at taylor@donkeysaddle.org. Light snacks will be provided. In an effort to keep our communities safer from the ongoing COVID pandemic, masks will be required and provided. )
This Abolition Learning Circle is sponsored by Donkeysaddle Projects, Dunya Productions Seattle, and the Underground Theater.
Donkeysaddle Projects works towards building a liberated world free from state violence in all its manifestations. We provide entry points into this movement work and nurture deep and sustained engagement by integrating political education, organizing and advocacy, and art/storytelling projects.
Dunya Productions Seattle creates art and performance that inspires and impassions our audience to engage with the global struggle for social and political justice. We seek to amplify the voices of the Middle East, North African, and Arab (MENAA+) people as well as other marginalized communities.
The Underground Theater develops new works that release shame and nurture community.
About the facilitators:
Nada Elia is a scholar-activist, a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective, a faculty member at Western Washington University, and regularly teaches and writes about abolition, gender, activism, and transnational struggles.
Taylor Lamb is a writer, theatremaker, and communications professional, who uses art and storytelling to impact social change.
We hope you will join us on July 8 & 9 at the Cherry Street Village! And, please do pass this onto your communities of artists and cultural organizers!
MONOLOGUE CONTEST FOR LOCAL PLAYWRIGHTS
FROM ACT THEATRE
PLAYWRIGHTS!!! A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle is holding a monologue contest, with the help of SCRiB LAB and Rain City Projects as part of the 2024 New Works Northwest Festival. Why not submit something?
Submission Form: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx..