BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Bethany Arts Community - ECPv6.18.4//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://bethanyarts.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Bethany Arts Community REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190921T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190921T170000 DTSTAMP:20190916T183538Z CREATED:20190915T230500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190916T183538Z UID:10000456-1569081600-1569085200@bethanyarts.org SUMMARY:Shared Sentences DESCRIPTION:During her residency\, Emily Jo Weiner will immerse herself in her newest project\, SHARED SENTENCES\, which is a combination of first person storytelling\, spoken word\, movement and dialogue developed directly from stories by and interviews with a wide range of individuals\, each with an incarcerated loved one. Weiner is particularly excited to share her piece with a community that exists with a prison in its midst. At this sharing\, Weiner is joined by several of her collaborators and actors. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmily Jo Weiner\nCo-Founder and Artistic Director of Houses on the Moon \n\nSince its inception in 2001\, Emily has led the Houses of the Moon through the creation and development of several new works that explore our social climate and address the complex and sensitive issues of our time. Emily also served as the Director of Performance for Enact\, Inc. and has been facilitating creative workshops in NYC public schools for over 20 years\, specializing in programs with teenagers going through the criminal justice system. \nEmily grew up in Boston and fell in love with theater as a child through her association with Kippy Dewey and The Freelance Players. She went on to the UW/Madison theater program and then studied with Wynn Handman in NYC post graduation. She has performed on and off Broadway as well as having extensive regional experience. Some highlights include OTHELLO at the West End Theater\, COMING THROUGH at the American Place Theatre\, FINDING THE WORDS at the Lucille Lortel\, AN EPIDOG with Mabou Mines\, THE CRUCIBLE at Madison Repertory Theatre\, FEFU AND HER FRIENDS and THE THREEPENNY OPERA at Williamstown Theatre Festival. Most recently Emily guided the company through its production of DE NOVO at Next Door at NYTW and directed the world premiere of THE ASSIGNMENT at the new ART/New York Theatres. She is currently developing a new piece titled SHARED SENTENCES that explores the lives of family members and loved ones of the incarcerated. The League of Professional Theatre Women recently honored Emily with the Josephine Abady award for her work with Houses in the creation of multicultural works. \n  \n\n\n\n\nFollow\nFollow\n\n\n\n  \n \nBethany Arts Community’s residency programs are made possible by ArtsWestchester with support from Westchester County Government. URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/shared-sentences/ LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States CATEGORIES:Residencies,Theater Makers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bethanyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/FP-EJ-Weiner.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Arts Community":MAILTO:info@bethanyarts.org GEO:41.17225;-73.828321 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining NY 10562 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Somerstown Rd.:geo:-73.828321,41.17225 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190928T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190928T203000 DTSTAMP:20190924T103215Z CREATED:20190916T014310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190924T103215Z UID:10000461-1569697200-1569702600@bethanyarts.org SUMMARY:Artists in Residence: Suzi Takahashi & Kristin Marting (HERE Arts) – “THE STORY BOX” DESCRIPTION:Suzi Takahashi & Kristin Marting (HERE Arts) – “THE STORY BOX” \nTakahashi and Marting are developing The Story Box\, which uses a traditional form of Japanese storytelling called\, kamishibai\, to compare the lives a Japanese American today to girl living in a 1943 internment camp. They will share an excerpted reading of the work\, which ends with a group storytelling event then guide the audience through the group storytelling event. Participating audience members will select an image from which they will be invited to share a story about their own American experience with a small group of other audience members. They will follow the exploration with a talkback to ascertain audience reactions. In the way\, the audience will have an opportunity to play an important role in developing the work. \n  \n  \n \nBethany Arts Community’s residency programs are made possible by ArtsWestchester with support from Westchester County Government. URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/storybox/ LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States CATEGORIES:Residencies,Storytelling,Theater,Theater Makers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bethanyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/takahashi-and-marting-e1569320931233.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Arts Community":MAILTO:info@bethanyarts.org GEO:41.17225;-73.828321 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining NY 10562 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Somerstown Rd.:geo:-73.828321,41.17225 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201010T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201010T113000 DTSTAMP:20201105T201427Z CREATED:20200917T152340Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201105T201427Z UID:10000533-1602327600-1602329400@bethanyarts.org SUMMARY:Artist in Residence: Susan Polese – Play Reading "Secret Sundays" DESCRIPTION:Join us Oct 10th @ 11:00am via Facebook LIVE\nGo to Facebook LIVE\n\nPlaywright\, Susan Jennifer Polese\, presents a 20 minute excerpt stage reading of monologues from her play in development\, Secret Sundays. Susan will use her residency to continue to write the script. The public performance will feature local actor\, Michelle Concha Herko.\nAs a playwright inspired by different forms of writing\, visual arts\, dance\, music\, and social activism\, Susan plans to use her time at Bethany to develop a theatrical piece with music and video installations. \nAbout the Artist\nSusan Jennifer Polese is an American\, journalist\, editor and award-winning playwright whose work is seen regionally and at such venues as La Mama Experimental Theatre Club\, HERE Performing Arts Center\, The Midtown International Theatre Festival\, and Planet Connections Festivity in Manhattan\, NY. Trained in New York at The Wonderhorse Theatre\, Herbert Berghof Studio\, and Hunter College she has taught playwriting through Purchase College\, Axial Theatre Collaborative and is facilitating “Playwriting in Paradise” at Key West Fringe Theatre\, Key West Florida. Her work is fueled through social justice and is often performed as fundraisers/awareness enhancers for nonprofits. Susan is a member of The International Centre for Women Playwrights and Theatre Without Borders. She attended La Mama’s International Playwright Retreat in Umbria\, Italy and is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America. www.susanjenniferpolese.com   \n  \n \nBethany Arts Community’s residency programs are made possible by ArtsWestchester with support from Westchester County Government URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/air2020-susan-polese/ LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States CATEGORIES:2020 Residencies,Residencies,Theater,Theater Makers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bethanyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/bac-resident-artist-Susan-Polese.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Arts Community":MAILTO:info@bethanyarts.org GEO:41.17225;-73.828321 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining NY 10562 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Somerstown Rd.:geo:-73.828321,41.17225 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210513T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210513T200000 DTSTAMP:20210429T154837Z CREATED:20210405T105218Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210429T154837Z UID:10000641-1620932400-1620936000@bethanyarts.org SUMMARY:Artist in Residence: Public Talkback with inFlux (Christine Shaw\, Jacinta Yelland\, and Jacqueline Libby) DESCRIPTION:During this Talkback the ladies of inFlux will talk about their process of making devised work and the thematic content of The Choice\, the first iteration of the Motherhood Project\, a decade long series of performances that track the journey of three women as they face the choice to have children and the consequences of that decision.\n \n\nWhen: May 13\, 2021 07:00 PM\n\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nREGISTER\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \n\nBios\nChristine Octavia Shaw is a devised theater creator and performer dedicated to making work that asks her audiences impossible questions. Past and current provocations include: How do we wrap our heads around the immensity of natural disasters and our climate? (Sheet Metal Soup\, 2019); How do we reckon with the absurdity of death? (The Usual\, 2019); What does “surviving” sexual assault actually look like and how does a person heal? (The Aftermath\, 2021); and how do women navigate the complex choices around motherhood? (The Motherhood Project\, 2020-2030). Her work was in residence with Bethany Arts Community in 2020 and she is an inaugural artist-in-residence with the Yale University Schwarzman center for her work on The Wandering (premiering April 2021). Georgia-born and raised\, she attended Yale University where she studied theater and dance. Since then\, she has performed and created original works in Chicago (The Home for Wayward Artists)\, New York (The Araca Project)\, and Philadelphia. Now Philadelphia-based\, she recently received her MFA from the UArts/Pig Iron program in devised theater.   \nJacqueline Libby is a creator\, actor\, and theatre collaborator based in Philadelphia\, USA. Jacqueline’s work focuses on the intensity of human connection by zooming in on the subtleties and minute details of life and exploding them for the stage. Through intricately ordinary choreographies\, stripped back dialogue\, and opratic images\, Jacqueline’s work invites people to think about their life\, and the world around them in deep and personal ways (The Usual\, 2019. Bullseye\, 2019). Energized by all forms of theatre making\, Jacqueline has spent the last four years collaborating with many artists from across the United States and abroad. These artists include Yael Bratana and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Bury Your Weapons\, Not Our Bodies\, 2018)\, Sean Graney (A Ring Never Ends\, 2016)\, Thadd McQuade (Make Trouble Shakespeare\, 2016)\, and Colleen Sulivan (Much Ado About Nothing\, 2016). Jacqueline has studied under Maria Horne (Strasburg)\, Jo Strømgern (Dance)\, Nichole Canuso (Dance Theatre)\, Stephen McKinley Henderson (Method)\, Kate LoConti (Viewpoints)\, and Phylicia Rashad (Monologues). Jacqueline has completed a Master of Fine Arts in Devised Performance at the University of the Arts led by the Pig Iron Theatre Company (Dec 2019).  \nJacinta Yelland is an actor and theatre maker of Australian\, Asian and indigenous descent. She creates untamed and intricate physical theatre and living installations that draw inspiration from real-life stories that are under-represented in theatre. Jacinta has collaborated and performed with notable theatre companies across America and Australia including David Gordon\, Quintessence Theatre Group\, Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists\, Asian Arts Initiative\, Tribe of Fools\, Visual Expressions\, The Philadelphia Artists’ Collective\, RealTV\, Elbow Room\, Zen Zen Zo\, and Playwriting Australia. In 2020\, she was an Associate Artist with award-winning Almanac Dance Circus Theatre. She holds a Master of Fine Arts: Devised Performance from The University of the Arts/Pig Iron Theatre Company and a Bachelor of Creative Industries: Drama from Queensland University of Technology. She completed the Zen Zen Zo Company Internship and was supported by Arts Queensland to study at École Philippe Gaulier\, Paris. Jacinta is the recipient of Australia Council for the Arts’ Marten Bequest Scholarship\, Career Development Grant\, and Resilience Fund\, American Australian Association’s Dame Joan Sutherland Fund\, and Network of Ensemble Theaters’ Remote Connection Grant in 2020 and 2021. She has been an artist-in-residence at Brunåkra\, (Sweden)\, Les Rochers (France) and Bethany Arts Community (USA).  URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/air2021-influx/ LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States CATEGORIES:2021 Residencies,Residencies,Spring 2021 Residencies,Talk,Theater Makers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://bethanyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/influx.png ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Arts Community":MAILTO:info@bethanyarts.org GEO:41.17225;-73.828321 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining NY 10562 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Somerstown Rd.:geo:-73.828321,41.17225 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210526T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210526T194500 DTSTAMP:20210504T093739Z CREATED:20210405T022413Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210504T093739Z UID:10000640-1622055600-1622058300@bethanyarts.org SUMMARY:Artist in Residence: Reading of STEVE\, a one-man play in progress\, with writer Ian Eaton DESCRIPTION:Join us in person! Limited tickets available!\nDuring this public reading and work in progress discussion\, Ian will share excerpts from STEVE\, a story of an artistic\, young man growing up in the projects of Harlem\, as he transforms the work from a short story to a one-man play\, developed with Houses on the Moon Theater Company. .  \nREGISTER\nBio \nIan Eaton credits his enrichment in theater beginning at Harlem School of the Arts\, studying voice\, violin\, and acting as a youngster. He continued studying acting at LaGuardia High School (Fame High)\, and graduated with a BFA in Acting from City College. He has appeared on television\, credits include Law and Order\, and HBO’s Oz. Independent films\, such as Signs He Made at Home portraying outsider artist Royal Robertson\, and has had the privilege of performing national tours throughout the east coast. Theatrical roles include Charlie Parker in Flight at the Metropolitan Theatre\, Esteban in Day of the Kings at INTAR\, and performing Tara’s Crossing at The Lucille Lortel and Othello at The Clarion Theater. Has also spent 14 summers performing Shakespeare free of charge with Connecticut Free Shakespeare (CFS) most recently as Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew.  \nIan is a proud member of Only Make Believe\, a non-profit organization that creates and perform interactive theater for children in hospitals and care facilities.  URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/air2021-ian-eaton/ LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States CATEGORIES:2021 Residencies,Residencies,Spring 2021 Residencies,Theater Makers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bethanyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Ian-Eaton-Headshot-copy.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Arts Community":MAILTO:info@bethanyarts.org GEO:41.17225;-73.828321 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining NY 10562 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Somerstown Rd.:geo:-73.828321,41.17225 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210930T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210930T200000 DTSTAMP:20210915T113958Z CREATED:20210725T202420Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210915T113958Z UID:10000345-1633028400-1633032000@bethanyarts.org SUMMARY:Sleep That Knits Up: A Play Reading and Talkback with Artist in Residence Kate Abbruzzese DESCRIPTION:Kate Abbruzzese will share an excerpt from her full-length play\, “Sleep That Knits Up”\, an exploration of femininity and motherhood through the lens of Macbeth\, followed by a brief talk back. \nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\nThis event is being held in-person at Bethany Arts Community. For your safety\, and the safety of our artists and staff\, attendance is being limited and you will be required to wear a mask while at Bethany irrespective of vaccination status. Please read our Covid-19 Safety Statement before your visit. \nBio\nKate Abbruzzese studied drama\, psychology\, and a smattering of literature and poetry at Vassar College\, where she also participated in the selective Vassar Improv and Vassar Shakespeare Troupe. Her senior project\, playing Lady Macbeth in an all-female Macbeth at Vassar’s Powerhouse Theatre\, earned her the Molly Thatcher Kazan Memorial Prize. After her graduation\, she apprenticed at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival and subsequently spent four years acting regionally before gaining acceptance into NYU’s Graduate Acting Program\, where she received her MFA and the Olympia Dukakis and Ron Van Lieu Scholarships. While at NYU\, she wrote and directed her first play\, which was one of four selected to be performed for prospective students during audition weekend. \nKate has acted in 17 of Shakespeare’s works (favorite roles include Desdemona in Othello\, Julia in Two Gentlemen of Verona\, Perdita in The Winter’s Tale and the titular role in Hamlet)\, and written several of her own plays based off of Shakespeare’s characters: Before the Storm\, an exploration of Caliban and Miranda’s relationship prior to The Tempest\, Motley Fool\, an imagining of Rosalind and Orlando’s marriage after As You Like It\, and An Evening With the Macbeths\, a vignette examining the domestic side of Shakespeare’s most infamous couple. The latter two received a place in Red Bull Theatre Company’s Short Play Festival in 2016 and 2019\, respectively. \nAside from acting and writing\, Kate moonlights as an illustrator and cartoonist\, and recently completed the first issue of “The Zero Waste Comic” in partnership with the intrepid Kayla Miller. You can see more of her art on instagram at @theheartoonist or by visiting www.studiozayzay.com. \nArtist’s social media: \nInstagram: @theheartoonist\nFacebook: Kate Abbruzzese\nWebsite: studiozayzay.com \nResidencies and programs at Bethany Arts Community are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, Arts Westchester\, and numerous individual donors. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n         URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/sleep-that-knits-up/ LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States CATEGORIES:2021 Residencies,Fall 2021 Residencies,Play,Residencies,Storytelling,Talk,Theater,Theater Makers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bethanyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/artist_Kate-Abbruzzese.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Arts Community":MAILTO:info@bethanyarts.org GEO:41.17225;-73.828321 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining NY 10562 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Somerstown Rd.:geo:-73.828321,41.17225 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211209T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211209T210000 DTSTAMP:20211202T011440Z CREATED:20211108T180707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211202T011440Z UID:10000679-1639078200-1639083600@bethanyarts.org SUMMARY:Theater O Presents: Girl With The Golden Locks DESCRIPTION:TICKETS\nDecember 9\, 10\, 11 at 7:30pm \nEnter the world of fairy-tale espionage and intrigue\, where top-level spies take on the kingdom’s worst criminal masterminds.  Agent Gold is the girl with the golden locks and the top agent at the FBI\, that is\, the Fairytale Bureau of Intelligence.    Her partners are a pair of sisters– Rose Red\, who is known as Agent Red\, and. rookie agent Snow White.  With a little help from Agent Wolf\, who serves as her “mole\,” Agent Gold takes on the biggest mission of her life. \nShe must save the kingdom from public enemy number one\, the Three Bears\, who have recently acquired a C.O.W from a boy named Jack and plan to destroy the entire kingdom with it!  Facing dwarves\, witches\, porridge and magic beans\, giants and double-agents\, Agent Gold and her crack team will have their work cut out for them as they race to stay one step ahead of the bears to save the kingdom. \nFeaturing 2nd-Fifth Graders \nAnyone 12 and over must show proof of vaccination.  under 12 must show proof of vaccination or a negative test within 72 hours. URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/golden-locks/ LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States CATEGORIES:Kids Event,Theater,Theater Makers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://bethanyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/The-Girl-with-the-Golden-Locks-e1636394601445.png ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Arts Community":MAILTO:info@bethanyarts.org GEO:41.17225;-73.828321 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining NY 10562 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Somerstown Rd.:geo:-73.828321,41.17225 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211216T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211216T213000 DTSTAMP:20211213T135111Z CREATED:20211108T181118Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211213T135111Z UID:10000680-1639684800-1639690200@bethanyarts.org SUMMARY:Theater O Presents: One Stoplight Town by Tracy Wells DESCRIPTION:TICKETS\nDecember 16-18 at 8 PM \nOne Stoplight Town is a story about people from a town so small that you might drive through without taking a second look. But if you stopped for just a moment\, you might see a young boy and girl fall in love\, a cantankerous grocery store owner coping with change\, a son returning home while a daughter thinks about leaving\, and a handyman taking it all in while he fixes what is broken. These stories and more are filled with fun characters\, lots of humor\, plenty of heart and the theme that change comes for us all\, whether we are ready or not. \nFeaturing 6-8th Graders URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/stoplight/ LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States CATEGORIES:Kids Event,Theater,Theater Makers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://bethanyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/ONESTOPLIGHTTOWN-1-e1636395063438.png ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Arts Community":MAILTO:info@bethanyarts.org GEO:41.17225;-73.828321 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining NY 10562 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Somerstown Rd.:geo:-73.828321,41.17225 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220923T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220923T193000 DTSTAMP:20220804T201041Z CREATED:20220801T152827Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220804T201041Z UID:10000832-1663957800-1663961400@bethanyarts.org SUMMARY:HERE Arts Center and Bethany Arts Community Presents The Story Box DESCRIPTION:In an effort to make this program accessible to all\, we ask that you pay what you can per person for each ticket\nFriday\, September 23\, 2022 @ 6:30pm\nLocation: Bethany Arts Community\n40 Somerstown Rd\, Ossining\, NY\nin the Peace and Love Garden (outside gallery 1) \nWritten and performed by Suzi Takahashi and directed by Kristin Marting\, The Story Box explores the importance of safeguarding our civil rights through the lens of Japanese-American identity\, using traditional Japanese storytelling elements\, like kamishibai\, along with Takahashi’s own family history. Representing the relocation of Japanese Americans during WWII\, the audience will receive a suitcase and a tag\, inside of which is a wireless headset and a family photo album. Each unique family photo album documents an account of the problematic history of Asian people in the U.S.\, and more recently\, the rise in anti-Asian violence during the pandemic. Inspired by the events of writer/performer Suzi Takahashi’s own life and delivered through her own words performed live & transmitted via the headset\, The Story Box asks audience members to reflect together on the stories in each suitcase\, and they are invited to leave a story of their own behind for future audiences. \nWritten\, created\, and Performed by Suzi Takahashi\nDeveloped with and Directed by Kristin Marting\nComposed by Michaela Gomez\nProduction Manager Ayumu “Poe” Saegusa\nSet and Costume Design by Jian Jung\nSound Design by Drew Weinstein\nStage Manager Sarah Grant\nAssistant Director Elyse Durand \nThe Story Box is produced by HERE and has been developed with support from Alfred University\, Bethany Arts Community\, Bristol Valley Theatre and National Park of Women’s Rights. It is co-presented with Japan Society\, Bronx Academy of Art and Dance\, and NYC Economic Development Corporation and through partnerships with Asian American Arts Alliance\, Chocolate Factory\, Flushing Town Hall\, National Lighthouse Museum\, Snug Harbor Cultural Center\, Staten Island Arts\, and Target Margin Theater. Additional support provided by The Venturous Theatre Fund of theTides Foundation; and GREEN / ARTS LIVE NYC. GREEN / ARTS LIVE NYC is made possible with support from New York Community Trust and Con Edison’s Arts Al Fresco Series\, administered by City Parks Foundation in collaboration with the Horticultural Society of New York\, New Yorkers for Culture & Arts\, NYC Department of Transportation\, OpenCultureWORKS\, and Street Lab. \nAbout the artists:\nSuzi Takahashi (Writer/Performer)\nSuzi Takahashi is a biracial\, Japanese/American theater creator\, director\, actor\, and educator. She holds a BA in Theatre from Barnard College\, an MA in Performance Studies from NYU-Tisch\, and an MFA in Directing from Stony Brook Southampton. Suzi trained with the SITI Company. Suzi is part of the faculty at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting where she teaches Movement and directs. Recently\, she was named Director of the Stella Adler Studio’s AAPI Artist’s Initiative. Suzi also teaches Asian Theater at NYU-Tisch. Previously\, she has taught theater at: The Actor’s Studio\, Pace University (IPE\,) Swarthmore College\, The City College of New York\, and Hunter College. As an actor\, she has performed for artists like: Taylor Mac\, Richard Foreman\, Richard Schechner\, Kristin Marting\, and Phil Soltanoff. Suzi was a three-year member of the Williamstown Theater Festival’s “Non-Eq” company\, and has toured nationally and internationally. As a theater maker\, Suzi has collaboratively created fifteen original works. She was a two-time HARP Artist-in-Residence at HERE with the international women’s performance ensemble she co-founded\, Ex.Pgirl (2002-10.) Also\, she was an Emerging Artist Directing Fellow at the New York Theater Workshop. Suzi has won numerous grants for her original works\, which mostly explore Asian American women’s identity. She was the recipient of the 2009 Innovative Theater Award for Best Director. www.suzitakahashi.com \nKristin Marting (Director)\nKristin Marting (Director) is a director of hybrid work based in NYC. She has constructed 30 works for the stage (9 original hybrid works\, 7 opera-theatre and music-theatre works\, 9 adaptations of novels & short stories and 5 classic plays)\, most recently Looking at You with Kamala Sankaram and Rob Handel. Other recent projects include Silent Voices at BAM\, IDIOT with Robert Lyons; Bombay Rickey\, an opera cabaret also in Prototype; Trade Practices\, an immersive theatrical experience where the audience determines value. She also directed Sounding and Dead Tech (collaborative works adapted from Ibsen)\, both of which received prestigious MAP Fund awards. She was recently named a nytheatre.com Person of the Decade for outstanding contribution\, a Leader to Watch by Art Table and honored with a BAX10 Award. As Founding Artistic Director of HERE\, she cultivates artists and programs all events for two performance spaces for an annual audience of 30\,000. She co-created and co-curates HARP\, HERE’s Artist Residency Program. Kristin is also co-director of PROTOTYPE: opera theatre now\, an annual festival of contemporary opera-theatre and music theatre works\, which she co-founded with Beth Morrison and Kim Whitener. \nMichaela Gomez (Composer/Performer)\nMichaela Gomez (Composer/Performer) is a New York City based musician who has toured extensively with the band Hazmat Modine.  She has been featured on the albums Leave Your Sleep (Natalie Merchant\,) American Music for Gypsy Souls (Bill Barrett\,) and Bahamut (Hazmat Modine)\, as well as on the soundtrack for the Academy Award nominated documentary\, Pina.  Michaela is a graduate of The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and The New York Studio School where she studied visual art. Michaela was a student of music with Michael Longo. URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/story-box-09-23-2022/ LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States CATEGORIES:Story Box,Storytelling,Theater,Theater Makers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bethanyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/storybox_hero.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Arts Community":MAILTO:info@bethanyarts.org GEO:41.17225;-73.828321 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining NY 10562 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Somerstown Rd.:geo:-73.828321,41.17225 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220924T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220924T170000 DTSTAMP:20220804T201010Z CREATED:20220801T155024Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220804T201010Z UID:10000833-1664035200-1664038800@bethanyarts.org SUMMARY:HERE Arts Center and Bethany Arts Community Presents The Story Box DESCRIPTION:In an effort to make this program accessible to all\, we ask that you pay what you can per person for each ticket\nSaturday\, September 24\, 2022 @ 4:00pm\nLocation: Ossining Waterfront Park \nWritten and performed by Suzi Takahashi and directed by Kristin Marting\, The Story Box explores the importance of safeguarding our civil rights through the lens of Japanese-American identity\, using traditional Japanese storytelling elements\, like kamishibai\, along with Takahashi’s own family history. Representing the relocation of Japanese Americans during WWII\, the audience will receive a suitcase and a tag\, inside of which is a wireless headset and a family photo album. Each unique family photo album documents an account of the problematic history of Asian people in the U.S.\, and more recently\, the rise in anti-Asian violence during the pandemic. Inspired by the events of writer/performer Suzi Takahashi’s own life and delivered through her own words performed live & transmitted via the headset\, The Story Box asks audience members to reflect together on the stories in each suitcase\, and they are invited to leave a story of their own behind for future audiences. \nWritten\, created\, and Performed by Suzi Takahashi\nDeveloped with and Directed by Kristin Marting\nComposed by Michaela Gomez\nProduction Manager Ayumu “Poe” Saegusa\nSet and Costume Design by Jian Jung\nSound Design by Drew Weinstein\nStage Manager Sarah Grant\nAssistant Director Elyse Durand \nThe Story Box is produced by HERE and has been developed with support from Alfred University\, Bethany Arts Community\, Bristol Valley Theatre and National Park of Women’s Rights. It is co-presented with Japan Society\, Bronx Academy of Art and Dance\, and NYC Economic Development Corporation and through partnerships with Asian American Arts Alliance\, Chocolate Factory\, Flushing Town Hall\, National Lighthouse Museum\, Snug Harbor Cultural Center\, Staten Island Arts\, and Target Margin Theater. Additional support provided by The Venturous Theatre Fund of theTides Foundation; and GREEN / ARTS LIVE NYC. GREEN / ARTS LIVE NYC is made possible with support from New York Community Trust and Con Edison’s Arts Al Fresco Series\, administered by City Parks Foundation in collaboration with the Horticultural Society of New York\, New Yorkers for Culture & Arts\, NYC Department of Transportation\, OpenCultureWORKS\, and Street Lab. \n  \nAbout the artists:\nSuzi Takahashi (Writer/Performer)\nSuzi Takahashi is a biracial\, Japanese/American theater creator\, director\, actor\, and educator. She holds a BA in Theatre from Barnard College\, an MA in Performance Studies from NYU-Tisch\, and an MFA in Directing from Stony Brook Southampton. Suzi trained with the SITI Company. Suzi is part of the faculty at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting where she teaches Movement and directs. Recently\, she was named Director of the Stella Adler Studio’s AAPI Artist’s Initiative. Suzi also teaches Asian Theater at NYU-Tisch. Previously\, she has taught theater at: The Actor’s Studio\, Pace University (IPE\,) Swarthmore College\, The City College of New York\, and Hunter College. As an actor\, she has performed for artists like: Taylor Mac\, Richard Foreman\, Richard Schechner\, Kristin Marting\, and Phil Soltanoff. Suzi was a three-year member of the Williamstown Theater Festival’s “Non-Eq” company\, and has toured nationally and internationally. As a theater maker\, Suzi has collaboratively created fifteen original works. She was a two-time HARP Artist-in-Residence at HERE with the international women’s performance ensemble she co-founded\, Ex.Pgirl (2002-10.) Also\, she was an Emerging Artist Directing Fellow at the New York Theater Workshop. Suzi has won numerous grants for her original works\, which mostly explore Asian American women’s identity. She was the recipient of the 2009 Innovative Theater Award for Best Director. www.suzitakahashi.com \nKristin Marting (Director)\nKristin Marting (Director) is a director of hybrid work based in NYC. She has constructed 30 works for the stage (9 original hybrid works\, 7 opera-theatre and music-theatre works\, 9 adaptations of novels & short stories and 5 classic plays)\, most recently Looking at You with Kamala Sankaram and Rob Handel. Other recent projects include Silent Voices at BAM\, IDIOT with Robert Lyons; Bombay Rickey\, an opera cabaret also in Prototype; Trade Practices\, an immersive theatrical experience where the audience determines value. She also directed Sounding and Dead Tech (collaborative works adapted from Ibsen)\, both of which received prestigious MAP Fund awards. She was recently named a nytheatre.com Person of the Decade for outstanding contribution\, a Leader to Watch by Art Table and honored with a BAX10 Award. As Founding Artistic Director of HERE\, she cultivates artists and programs all events for two performance spaces for an annual audience of 30\,000. She co-created and co-curates HARP\, HERE’s Artist Residency Program. Kristin is also co-director of PROTOTYPE: opera theatre now\, an annual festival of contemporary opera-theatre and music theatre works\, which she co-founded with Beth Morrison and Kim Whitener. \nMichaela Gomez (Composer/Performer)\nMichaela Gomez (Composer/Performer) is a New York City based musician who has toured extensively with the band Hazmat Modine.  She has been featured on the albums Leave Your Sleep (Natalie Merchant\,) American Music for Gypsy Souls (Bill Barrett\,) and Bahamut (Hazmat Modine)\, as well as on the soundtrack for the Academy Award nominated documentary\, Pina.  Michaela is a graduate of The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and The New York Studio School where she studied visual art. Michaela was a student of music with Michael Longo. URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/story-box-09-24-2022-4pm/ LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States CATEGORIES:Story Box,Storytelling,Theater,Theater Makers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bethanyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/storybox_hero.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Arts Community":MAILTO:info@bethanyarts.org GEO:41.17225;-73.828321 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining NY 10562 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Somerstown Rd.:geo:-73.828321,41.17225 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221006T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221006T163000 DTSTAMP:20221003T124812Z CREATED:20220905T165805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221003T124812Z UID:10000889-1665068400-1665073800@bethanyarts.org SUMMARY:Artist in Residence: Sarah Krohn Play Reading and Talkback (MATURE) DESCRIPTION:Join Artist-in-Residence Sarah Krohn and reading volunteers as they read excerpts from Sarah’s recent work. Following the reading there will be time for feedback regarding the play and Q&A \nREGISTER\nResidency Plan:\nDuring her BAC residency\, Sarah Krohn will research and write TMI: A Play for Eight Actors and a High School Orchestra. Set in a contemporary high school\, TMI builds on the tradition of theatrical farce\, using stream-of-consciousness speech as the primary storytelling vehicle. The spaces in the play—physical\, digital\, psychological—are entirely constructed from language. The play considers how the immediacy and abundance of information in the digital era intersects with age-old human dilemmas.  \nBio:\nSarah Krohn is a New York City-based playwright and director who hails from the northwestern corner of Pennsylvania. For her first full-length play\, Escape Velocity\, she received a Tennessee Williams Scholarship at the 2021 Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Her directing credits include Veil’d by Monet Hurst-Mendoza (Women’s Project)\, Jenny Rachel Weiner’s Horse Girls (the cell)\, The Pits by Joshua Harmon (Williamstown Theater Festival)\, Letters to Guantanamo (New Georges/The Culture Project) and Victor Frange Presents Gas\, which she co-conceived with Dan O’Neil (Incubator Arts). She has directed and developed work with numerous institutions including New Dramatists\, Clubbed Thumb\, New Georges\, WP Theatre\, The Playwright’s Realm\, NYTW\, Soho Rep\, The Flea Theater\, Williamstown Theater Festival\, Dixon Place\, JACK\, Incubator Arts\, The Builders Association\, Boston Center for the Arts\, New Repertory Theater\, Yale\, Fordham\, Rutgers\, and Columbia University. She is a past Time Warner Foundation Fellow at the Women’s Project; a Sagal Fellow at Williamstown Theater Festival; an Audrey Resident at New Georges; and a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Director’s Lab and the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. From 2014 -18 she co-led the New Georges Jam writer/director group. She has an undergraduate degree from Columbia University in English and MFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon\, where she received the NYDAC / Henry Boettcher award.  \n  \nResidencies and programs at Bethany Arts Community are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor’s office and the New York State Legislature\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, Arts Westchester\, and numerous individual donors. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n         URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/sarah-krohn/ LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States CATEGORIES:2022 Residencies,Fall 2022 Residencies,Residencies,Theater Makers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bethanyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Sarah-Krohn-BAC.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Arts Community":MAILTO:info@bethanyarts.org GEO:41.17225;-73.828321 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining NY 10562 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Somerstown Rd.:geo:-73.828321,41.17225 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221015T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221015T153000 DTSTAMP:20220905T155119Z CREATED:20220905T155119Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220905T155119Z UID:10000872-1665842400-1665847800@bethanyarts.org SUMMARY:Artist in Residence: Emily Bate Wig Wag Workshop DESCRIPTION:Led by composer\, theater maker\, and choral music conductor Emily Bate\, this workshop offers participants new ways to engage with voice\, digging into the physical sensations produced by singing\, and exploring the sensations produced by singing as a group. Designed for every voice—from the seasoned choir member to enthusiastic shower singers and those who’ve been told they “can’t sing”—the Wig Wag Workshop explores the literal and figurative impacts of “resonance\,” seeking both palpable vibrations in our bodies\, and more information about the complex ways we relate to each other as singing bodies. No experience required for this workshop. Expect singing mad-libs\, vocal warm-ups\, free improvisation\, group discussion\, and experiential anatomy work.  \nREGISTER\nOpen to all ages 10 and up.  \nResidency Plan:\nI am making revisions to the script and score of my WIP show Wig Wag. Wig Wag is a hybrid music-theater piece\, performed by a cast of four in collaboration with the entire audience. In Wig Wag\, singing together transforms everyone present into one collective body\, as we explore the tensions and pleasures found in the thick tangle of our interdependence.  \nBio:\nEmily Bate is a singer\, composer and performer interested in the transformative potential of the human voice. Emily is the founder and conductor of Trust Your Moves a 65-member queer community chorus in West Philly. She is a 2021 Pew Fellow\, and her work has been supported by an Independence Foundation Fellowship\, two Leeway Art & Change Awards\, the MAP Fund\, and more. Recent collaborations include: John Jarboe’s Rose: You Are Who You Eat\, which premiered at the Guggenheim in 2022\, and work with Pig Iron Theatre Company\, Ragnar Kjartansson\, and Third Side Records\, on a collection of songs by Beverly Glenn-Copeland. \n\n\n\n\n\nResidencies and programs at Bethany Arts Community are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor’s office and the New York State Legislature\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, Arts Westchester\, and numerous individual donors. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n         URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/emily-bate/ LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States CATEGORIES:2022 Residencies,Fall 2022 Residencies,Music,Residencies,Theater Makers,Workshop,Workshops ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bethanyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Emily-Bate-BAC.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Arts Community":MAILTO:info@bethanyarts.org GEO:41.17225;-73.828321 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining NY 10562 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Somerstown Rd.:geo:-73.828321,41.17225 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221023T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221023T210000 DTSTAMP:20220825T113943Z CREATED:20220802T150347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220825T113943Z UID:10000834-1666553400-1666558800@bethanyarts.org SUMMARY:River’s Edge Theatre Company presents "Riverside Haunts" DESCRIPTION:Join us Sunday\, October 23\, 2022 @ 7:30pm as River’s Edge Theatre Company presents another round of “Riverside Haunts”\, a spooky storytelling performance that seamlessly blends Hudson Valley history\, creative fiction\, and live music. Five ghosts share their spine-tingling stories about love\, hate\, and what it means to live and die by the Hudson River.   \nBUY TICKETS\nTickets: $25 per person Available for purchase on the River’s Edge Theatre Co website: https://www.riversedgetheatre.com/onstage  \nRecommended for mature audiences only.  URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/riverside-haunts/ LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States CATEGORIES:Storytelling,Theater,Theater Makers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bethanyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Haunts-Thgeard-presBW-16-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Arts Community":MAILTO:info@bethanyarts.org GEO:41.17225;-73.828321 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining NY 10562 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Somerstown Rd.:geo:-73.828321,41.17225 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221110 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221121 DTSTAMP:20221101T184603Z CREATED:20221010T120930Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221101T184603Z UID:10000932-1668038400-1668988799@bethanyarts.org SUMMARY:Axial Theater presents Never the Sinner by John Logan DESCRIPTION:BUY TICKETS \n \nT: Patrick McGuiness and Albi Gorn\nB: Najah Imani Muhammad\, Tom Ryan\, Bruce Apar\, Michael M. Alva\, Youlim Nam \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n​Three-time Emmy Award-Winning Actress Cady McClain Directs\n“Never the Sinner” by John Logan \nStarring Patrick McGunness as “Robert Crowe” and Albi Gorn as “Clarence Darrow”\nPresented by Axial Theatre\nat\nBethany Arts Community in Ossining (N.Y.)\nNovember 10 – 12 at 8pm\, November 13 at 3pm\n& November 17-19 at 8pm\, November 20 at 11am \nWestchester\, NY – Axial Theatre\, under the Artistic Director Cady McClain\, is proud to announce the fall production of Never the Sinner by John Logan\, featuring Broadway actor Patrick McGuiness\, Tuesdays With Morrie star Albi Gorn\, Michael Howard Conservatory Members Tom Ryan and Michael M. Alva\, and Axial Theater Members Bruce Apar\, Youlim Nam and special guest Najah Imani Muhammad. McClain will be directing and producing alongside Axial Board Members Steven Williford (Emmy© Winning Director)\, Amanda Quinn Olivar (Editor-in-Chief\, Curator.Guide)\, and Axial Ensemble member Dan Walworth. \nThe play will be produced at Bethany Arts Community in Ossining (N.Y.)\, Nov. 10 – 13 and Nov. 17 – 20\, 2022. Thursday through Saturday shows are 8 p.m. Sunday performances are 3 p.m.  A post-show discussion of the topics of the play will follow each performance\, led by director McClain\, members of the ensemble and special guests. \n​Tickets are $10 students\,  $25 general seating\, available at axialtheatre.org \nNever the Sinner is based on the true story of two young men\, Nathan Leopold (Tom Ryan) and Richard Loeb (Michael M. Alva)\, who murder a local boy to prove their superiority and claim the right to having committed “the crime of the century.”  The case is argued by two esteemed lawyers\, Clarence Darrow (Albi Gorn) and Robert Crowe (Patrick McGuiness).  While Crowe wants to fulfill the outraged nation’s cry for a hanging\, Darrow argues for the rights of all human beings to be shown mercy\, no matter how shocking the crime. \n​Covid protocols will be in place per CDC and Actors Equity Association (AEA) guidelines that are posted at the time of the production. \nABOUT PATRICK McGUINNESS (as “Robert Crowe”):\nPatrick McGuinness has been a member of the Axial Theatre Company since 2017. He is a graduate of the theatre dept. at Binghamton University (’85) and the Trinity Rep. Conservatory in Providence\, RI (’87). He has performed in several Axial productions including Love at Worst Sight\, Plattsburgh (both part of Axial’s Twisted Valentines series)\, Nectar and The Second Coming. Additionally\, he has performed in shows for GoJo Productions\, Westchester Collaborative Theatre and the Phillipstown Depot Theatre. Past theatre credits also include roles in such shows as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest\, Godspell\, South Pacific\, Macbeth\, Brigadoon\, Rope\, and Arsenic and Old Lace\, just to name a few. He has appeared in several feature films\, most notably the movie One Eyed King written and directed by Academy Award winner Bobby Moresco starring William Baldwin\, Armand Assante and the late Bruno Kirby. \n​ABOUT ALBI GORN (as “Clarence Darrow”):\nAlbi Gorn has been acting for fifty years. He last acted with Axial as Dr. Rank in A Doll’s House. A former Ensemble member\, he also has had several of his plays produced at Axial\, including the Westchester premiere of Back to the Garden.  Among the plays he has acted in: Tuesdays With Morrie\, A Man For All Seasons\, Talk Radio\, You’re a Good Man\, Charlie Brown\, The H.M.S. Pinafore\, Oleanna\, Speed-the-Plow\, Dry Powder\, The Cooking Lesson (written by his wife\, Robin Anne Joseph) and his favorite role\, that of Herman in his own one-act\, It’s About Forgiveness. He and Robin run GoJo Clan Productions\, a nomadic theater company in Westchester gojoclanproductions.com. You can read his plays and listen to his songs at www.albigorn.com \nABOUT CADY MCCLAIN (Director/Producer):\nCady McClain is proud to be Axial Theatre’s new Artistic Director. In 2021 she was recognized by Deadline for being a history-making three-time Emmy© winner\, acting as three unique characters on three different daytime shows. Cady studied theater directing with legendary artistic director of Ensemble Studio Theater\, Curt Dempster and acting for eight years with Michael Howard. Her theatrical directorial debut was with Axial Theatre in Paint Made Flesh by Howard Meyer\, shown at The Cell in NYC. Her film documentary on female directors\, Seeing is Believing:Women Direct won multiple awards including the Audience Award at the SOHO Film Festival and a Jury Prize at the Newport Beach Film Festival. It was released on regional PBS stations nationwide and the educational platform\, Kanopy. She currently plays “Jennifer” on Days of Our Lives.  www.cadymcclain.com \n​ABOUT AXIAL THEATRE:\nAxial Theater is a 23-year-old not-for-profit institution founded by Howard Meyer. It is dedicated to supporting the professional development of the independent voice through audience involvement and is commited to presenting challenging and relevant theatrical experiences. The company and its productions have been reviewed in The New York Times and are supported by the William T Morris Foundation and ArtsWestchester among others. axialtheatre.org \n​“Never The Sinner” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French\, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/never-the-sinner/ LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States CATEGORIES:Axial Theater,Theater,Theater Makers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bethanyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/NevertheSinner_11.01.22.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Arts Community":MAILTO:info@bethanyarts.org GEO:41.17225;-73.828321 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining NY 10562 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Somerstown Rd.:geo:-73.828321,41.17225 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221210T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221210T203000 DTSTAMP:20221121T202122Z CREATED:20221121T201459Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221121T202122Z UID:10000947-1670698800-1670704200@bethanyarts.org SUMMARY:Theater O Presents: Choose Your Own Oz DESCRIPTION:BUY TICKETS\nDecember 8 – 10\, 2022\, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM \nThe Wizard of Oz meets Choose Your Own Adventure in this fresh and fast-paced retelling of the L. Frank Baum classic in which the audience plays playwright and gets the chance to change everything from Dorothy’s footwear (silver slippers or ruby red…clown shoes?) to Toto’s species (lion\, tiger or octopus?—oh my!) to the Witch’s flying footmen. A delight for children of all ages\, Choose Your Own Oz reminds us all that at the end of the day\, there really is no place like home. \nTheater O URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/choose-your-own-oz/2022-12-10/ LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States CATEGORIES:Theater,Theater Makers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://bethanyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/thumbnail_Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-2160-×-1080-px-11-×-17-in-e1669061640190.png ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Arts Community":MAILTO:info@bethanyarts.org GEO:41.17225;-73.828321 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining NY 10562 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Somerstown Rd.:geo:-73.828321,41.17225 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221217T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221217T210000 DTSTAMP:20221121T201957Z CREATED:20221121T201957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221121T201957Z UID:10000950-1671305400-1671310800@bethanyarts.org SUMMARY:Theater O Presents: Hope & Heartache Diner DESCRIPTION:BUY TICKETS\nDecember 15 – 17\, 2022\, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM\nDiners are a special place. You can get your coffee\, fall in love\, and find light when the world is dark. \n\nDuke’s is a family business – four generations strong. Felix wants one last hurrah before leaving for college. She’s doing the full run – open to close – just like her grandpa did when he was a teenager. But why? Everyone knows Felix can barely wipe tables. Why is she trying so hard to connect? And what happens when Felix’s parents announce they’re selling the diner?\n\n\nTheater O URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/hope-heartache-diner/2022-12-17/ LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States CATEGORIES:Theater,Theater Makers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://bethanyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/thumbnail_hopeheartacheclickhere-e1669061850137.png ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Arts Community":MAILTO:info@bethanyarts.org GEO:41.17225;-73.828321 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining NY 10562 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Somerstown Rd.:geo:-73.828321,41.17225 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230209 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230212 DTSTAMP:20230211T201624Z CREATED:20230206T141633Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230211T201624Z UID:10000993-1675900800-1676159999@bethanyarts.org SUMMARY:Theater O Presents: The Handless Maiden DESCRIPTION:February 9-11\, 2023 @ 7PM \nTICKETS\nLoosely based on a Grimm fairy tale\, THE HANDLESS MAIDEN weaves together three stories\, that of a miller and his wife who have fallen on hard times and whose story includes devils\, wizards\, and cross-country treks; that of an ambitious New York lawyer who decides to give it all up and travel to Seattle to see Bill Gates’ mansion\, her magic castle; and that of a man who is about to be married in Seattle but decides he must first see an old lover. Their stories ultimately converge in an enchanted diner. \nThe Handless Maiden\nby Jeremy Dobrish\nDirected by Jessica Irons\nDesigned by Andrew Irons\n\nFeaturing Theater O Highschool Actors:\nDylan Alter\nCavan Brouder\nWill Flahaven\nJacob Irons\nSofia Kringas\nCiara Moyer\nAnisa Ridenhour\nKiran Roye\n\n\n\n\nPoster Art by Esme Lily Irons URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/handless-maiden/ LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States CATEGORIES:Theater,Theater Makers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bethanyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/the_handless_maiden_for_web.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Arts Community":MAILTO:info@bethanyarts.org GEO:41.17225;-73.828321 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining NY 10562 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Somerstown Rd.:geo:-73.828321,41.17225 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230409T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230409T163000 DTSTAMP:20230221T182927Z CREATED:20230221T182857Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230221T182927Z UID:10001027-1681052400-1681057800@bethanyarts.org SUMMARY:Collected Stories – GoJo Clan Productions DESCRIPTION:GoJo Clan Productions presents Collected Stories by Donald Margulies. When the power dynamics between an established author/professor of writing and her adulatory student become blurred\, can their relationship survive the head-on collision of their personal and professional stories? Directed by Albi Gorn. Featuring Julia Boyes and Robin Gorn. \nDate(s) and Time(s) (8 Shows):\nFriday\, March 31 at 8PM\, Saturday\, April 1 at 3PM & 8PM\, Sunday\, April 2 at 3PM\nFriday\, April 7 at 8PM\, Saturday\, April 8 at 3PM & 8PM\, Sunday\, April 9 at 3PM \nGET TIX \n$25 Adults/$20 Students/Seniors URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/collected-stories/2023-04-09/ LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States CATEGORIES:Performance,Theater,Theater Makers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bethanyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/collected-stories-gojo.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Arts Community":MAILTO:info@bethanyarts.org GEO:41.17225;-73.828321 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining NY 10562 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Somerstown Rd.:geo:-73.828321,41.17225 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230603T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230603T201500 DTSTAMP:20230520T154057Z CREATED:20230520T154057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230520T154057Z UID:10001070-1685818800-1685823300@bethanyarts.org SUMMARY:Theater O Presents: Midsummer (ish) DESCRIPTION:GET TICKETS\nGirl loves boy. Boy loves girl. Dad hates the boy but wants the daughter to be with another… who someone else loves. Magical forest. Crazy actors. Ridiculous fairies. Mixed-up love potions. A donkey’s head. Theater O actors grades 2-5 bring the magic of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream to the stage\, with a twist. URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/midsummer/2023-06-03/ LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States CATEGORIES:Theater,Theater Makers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://bethanyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/asset-1684581310607.png ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Arts Community":MAILTO:info@bethanyarts.org GEO:41.17225;-73.828321 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining NY 10562 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Somerstown Rd.:geo:-73.828321,41.17225 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230610T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230610T140000 DTSTAMP:20250802T151615Z CREATED:20250802T151615Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250802T151615Z UID:10001074-1686398400-1686405600@bethanyarts.org SUMMARY:Theater O Presents: Cobweb Dreams DESCRIPTION:GET TICKETS\nCobweb is not having a good time as part of Titania’s train. She dreams of a life where she plays pranks all day long and doesn’t have to be a stuffy\, stuck-up fairy in waiting. If only it was a simple as crossing the brook to be part of Oberon’s train! \nBut life in the woods is not simple. The King and Queen fight tooth and nail\, Cobweb fights to make her dreams come true\, and her friends fight to keep her from being turned into a toadstool. A mortal with a donkey head has wandered into the grove and the flower fairies blame Cobweb. Oh will this midsummer night never end? \nFeaturing Theater O Middle School performers. URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/cobweb-dreams/2023-06-10/ LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States CATEGORIES:Theater,Theater Makers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://bethanyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/asset-1684581314980.png ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Arts Community":MAILTO:info@bethanyarts.org GEO:41.17225;-73.828321 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining NY 10562 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Somerstown Rd.:geo:-73.828321,41.17225 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231020 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231030 DTSTAMP:20231016T141643Z CREATED:20231016T141643Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231016T141643Z UID:10001156-1697760000-1698623999@bethanyarts.org SUMMARY:Ichabod (An Immersive Theatrical Experience) with River's Edge Theatre Co. DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets & Learn More Here! \nIchabod (An Immersive Theatrical Experience)\nby Meghan Covington\nDirected by Jessica Irons \nYou are invited to go back in time to the 1950s\, to the night of our high school Harvest Hop. There you can drink the punch\, dance\, and enjoy\, but please do not disturb lingering spirits who roam the halls. Follow some familiar characters (Ichabod\, Katrina\, and Brom) into the dark corners of the school to witness secret encounters and haunting surprises. We can only hope no one will lose their head. \n*Please be advised: \n– Ichabod is immersive in nature\, therefore guests may not always be seated during the show. Please wear comfortable shoes for standing and walking.\n– The show is meant for mature audiences only. There are depictions of violence and sexual aggressive behavior\, as well as gruesome imagery that may not be appropriate for younger audiences. \nDates & Times: October 20-22 and 27-29\, 2023\, All shows 7:30pm\nTicket Prices: $30 (+fees) general admission\, $25 (+fees) seniors/students\n*10% of ticket sales go to the Be a Friend Project. \nThe Be A Friend Project is a nationwide organization supporting student “Upstanders” working to save the lives of their bullied peers and build kinder communities. \nThis project was made possible by with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program\, a regnant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by ArtsWestchester. URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/ichabod/ LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States CATEGORIES:Program,Storytelling,Theater,Theater Makers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bethanyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Untitled-design-17.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Arts Community":MAILTO:info@bethanyarts.org GEO:41.17225;-73.828321 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining NY 10562 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Somerstown Rd.:geo:-73.828321,41.17225 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240207T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240207T203000 DTSTAMP:20240131T210119Z CREATED:20240131T163843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T210119Z UID:10001208-1707334200-1707337800@bethanyarts.org SUMMARY:COMMUNITY PROGRAM: Imagination\, Honoring History\, and Reclaiming our Stories - Marginalized Voices through American Cinema and History DESCRIPTION:Title: Workshop: Imagination\, Honoring History\, and Reclaiming our Stories – Marginalized Voices through American Cinema and History\nDate & Time: Wednesday\, February 7\, 2024 7:30-8:30PM\nJoin Artist-in-Residence Kayla Farrish and the team behind “Put Away the Fire\, dear” for this FREE community program! \nWhat is it to hold our own lens to see ourselves\, our community\, and to see the efforts of our people? \nKayla Farrish with her collaborators in creative residency working on a new group piece Put Away the Fire\, dear combines dance-theater\, storytelling\, cinema’s inspiration\, and music. \nWe invite all interested\, and also in celebration with Black History Month to join us for a workshop where we will have conversations together\, write\, and witness excerpts of our new work. In this shared discussion\, I am inviting folks of various backgrounds and experiences to share the histories or lineages that need to be uncovered or seen more. To ask what draws us to narratives and cinemas\, and how we can see more of our own stories. And what present and future is possible when we can re-imagine or imagine spaces that can include or full selves? \nJoin us for a discussion\, community archiving in writing\, and some live-performance excerpts. \nAbout Put Away the Fire\, dear\nPiece Title: Put Away the Fire\, dear\nBy Choreographer: Kayla Farrish in collaboration with artists\nPerforming Artists: Jessica Alexander\, Christian Paris Blue\, Kayla Farrish\, Imani Guadin-County\, Kerime Konur\, and Christian Warner\nSet Design: Dyer Rhoads\nLive Music Composition: Alexander MacKinnon \nPut Away the Fire\, dear is a live dance-theater work mapping the journey of 6 BIPOC and marginalized characters taking the reins of their own narrative in an evening-length piece. As a Choreographer and Filmmaker\, I apply filmmaking techniques in narrative formation\, camera movement and editing to witness these characters in full humanity. Through Old Hollywood plot frameworks\, the live performance plays out along these arc structures as the characters disrupt their oppressive tropes of their designated scripts. Jumping through portals spanning reality and cinema\, Put Away the Fire\, dear\, uproots power and history across generations of the American landscape\, to rupture the leading socio-political narratives living in American Cinema of the 1930s-60s. Toni Morrison defines “The Master Narrative” as the lens of a dominant power and our consumption of inherited stories that depicts us all in archetypes of identity. Bursting tropes and filling missing storylines\, they endeavor to write new narratives of ranging humanity and power. In a 75-minute performance of moving stories\, the 6 characters traverse scenes and worlds through dance-theater\, ranging storytelling\, set design\, and a score of reclaimed exploited Black American music. \nAbout Kayla Farrish\nKayla Farrish is a Black American Director merging dance-theater\, filmmaking\, narrative\, and sound score. She captures ranging identity\, the mythical dualities of history and present survival\, and powerful dreaming lending to liberation.   \nHer commissions include Limon Dance Company\, Gibney\, Louis Armstrong House Museum\, Danspace\, Pepatian\, Little Island\, Harlem Stage\, Blacklight Summit and beyond. Some works formed: Black Bodies Sonata\, The New Frontier: My dear America\, Sunny Side/Inside the Laughing Barrel\, December 8th\, Martyr’s Fiction\, and others. She creates live works\, films\, site-specific/immersive\, and collaborations. She recently shared Choir (Carrie Mae Weems Exhibition)\, To Dream A Lifetime (BlackLight)\, Roster with Melanie Charles\, MIXTAPES with Alex MacKinnon and site-specific Broken Record (Little Island) with Brandon Coleman\, and Rinsing and Harbor films. Presenting spaces include Lincoln Center\, Park Avenue Armory\, Symphony Space\, and National Sawdust\, among receiving support from Watermill Center for the Arts\, Armstrong Now\, Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective\, Baryshnikov Arts Center\, La Mama Experimental Theater\, and others.  \nShe received the Sundance Uprise Grant for Emerging BIPOC Directors\, Bessie Awards for NYLA’s Motherboard Suite and December 8th-Gibney\, NY Times Top 2021 Dance Performances- Roster and Breakout Star. She is a recipient of the Harkness Promise Award for 2022. During 2022\, she was a Rehearsal Director for Punchdrunk Sleep No More\, and adjunct faculty for NYU Tisch Dance. During 2023\, she created new works for Arizona State University\, LINES dance Training Program\, University of Arizona. She has been commissioned to create a reimagined archival work for Limon Dance Company\, and to collaborate with musician Trixie Whitley\, for her new music tour. In her next company project\, Put Away the Fire\, dear\, she is touring a group narrative work of radical imagination and liberation\, supported by NEFA NDP Touring Dance Production Grant. She is also the 2023 recipient of Watermill Center Nina Von Maltzahn Fellowship and the Ellis Beauregard Foundation Contemporary Dance Award.\n \nCredits\nPut away the fire\, dear was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project\, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation; commissioned and created in part with the support of The Joyce Theater Foundation’s Creative Residencies Program made possible by lead funding from the Mellon Foundation; supported in part by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts’ Emergency Grant; residency support provided by NYU Tisch Department of Dance (2024); supported in part by The Watermill Center and the Nina Von Maltzahn Fellowship (2023); supported in part by Works & Process Showing at the Guggenheim Museum and LaunchPAD Residency at Bethany Arts Center (2024); supported in part by La Mama Experimental Theater- La Mama Moves Festival and Mertz-Gilmore Late Stage Grant (2023)\, Triskelion Theater (2022); and ODC Theater where it will premiere in March 2024. \nPhoto Credit: Kerime – Camera Eye by Steven Pisano\, 2023 URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/kaylafcommunityprogram/ LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States CATEGORIES:Black History Month,Community Program,Dance,Program,Theater,Theater Makers,Workshop,Workshops ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bethanyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/kayla-farrish-community-program.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Arts Community":MAILTO:info@bethanyarts.org GEO:41.17225;-73.828321 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining NY 10562 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Somerstown Rd.:geo:-73.828321,41.17225 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240302T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240302T210000 DTSTAMP:20240129T140840Z CREATED:20240126T215422Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T140840Z UID:10001207-1709407800-1709413200@bethanyarts.org SUMMARY:2 TRUTHS AND A LIE DESCRIPTION:Purchase Tickets Here!\n2 TRUTHS AND A LIE Presented by River’s Edge Theatre Co.\nDate & Time: Saturday\, March 2\, 2024 7:30-9PM\nEstimated run time 75 minutes.\nAll Tickets $25\n10% of ticket sales go to the Innocence Project\nMature audiences only.\n \nIn these uncertain times it’s hard to tell the difference between truth and lie… River’s Edge Theatre Co. presents its signature interactive storytelling experience. Witness 6 storytellers share their stories live on stage and then test your intuition to see if you can tell who’s lying and who’s telling the truth. The audience votes TRUTH or LIE. \nAbout River’s Edge Theatre Co.\nRiver’s Edge Theatre Company is a nonprofit organization with the mission to reflect the human experience\, spark conversation\,  and inspire social change.  Learn more about their performance\, classes\, and workshops at https://www.riversedgetheatre.com/ URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/2truthsandalie/ LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States CATEGORIES:Performance,Storytelling,Theater,Theater Makers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bethanyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Untitled-design-31.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Arts Community":MAILTO:info@bethanyarts.org GEO:41.17225;-73.828321 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining NY 10562 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Somerstown Rd.:geo:-73.828321,41.17225 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240310T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240310T170000 DTSTAMP:20240304T200512Z CREATED:20240218T014601Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240304T200512Z UID:10001213-1710082800-1710090000@bethanyarts.org SUMMARY:Praise! Exploratory Workshop DESCRIPTION:Praise! Exploratory Workshop\nDate: Sunday\, March 10\, 2024 3-5PM\nCost: FREE!\nSpace is limited\, registration required. \nJoin Artists-in-Residence\, Vincent E Thomas & Gabriel Thom Pasculli\, to explore the material of Praise! as it is being developed. The performers and participants will engage in viewing and experimenting with prepared material from Praise! and in collective dialogue. The experience will be a mixture of a performance\, a story circle\, and a dinner party! \nABOUT PRAISE!\nPraise! is co-created and performed by Vincent E Thomas of VTDance and Gabriel Thom Pasculli in collaboration with Desiré Graham | Created with the support of NPN Creation Fund\, co-commissioned by Bethany Arts Community\, Sandglass Theater\, and The Baltimore Theater Project. \nPraise! is an immersive event exploring self and spirit through a child’s experience of Church. Moments of dance\, song\, testimony and confession are interwoven through collective dialogue and story sharing. Praise! opens the door into a conversation around body\, queerness\, and sacred celebration in a way that takes nothing for granted. While the two performers crisscross memories and fantasies of divine encounters\, the piece asks how we reconcile past experiences to make new meaning for the present. \nVincent E Thomas is a Black gay man\, a professional dancer\, and arts educator whose dance company\, VTDance\, just celebrated its 20th Anniversary in Baltimore. Vincent grew up in Edgefield\, SC where he sang joyfully (and dutifully) in the choir at his Southern Baptist Church\, and yet he felt as though he had to spend much of his adult life washing the church from his soul. \nGabriel Thom Pasculli is a queer\, white-bodied and second-generation Italian-Irish-American\, an ensemble theater-maker and arts educator who has been working in Chicago. Gabriel Thom grew up in the Catholic Church in New Jersey and has spent his adult life seeking the mystical experience he failed to find in the religion of his childhood. \nBoth artists are returning to a time they thought they had left behind. They are returning to the tender questions they developed as young people\, torn between their inner desires and the confounding morality of their Christian communities. With great curiosity\, intimacy\, risk and availability\, Praise! is asking how we reconcile those past experiences and conflicted parts of our younger selves to make new meaning in the present. \nDeveloped at Dartmouth College’s VoxLab and at Art Omi in New York State\, an excerpt of Praise! was featured as part of VTDance’s 20th Anniversary Concert at The Baltimore Theater Project in April 2023. \n——- \nAbout The Artists\nThe project’s current ensemble of collaborators includes Desiré Graham\, a New Haven-based project facilitator working in original theater and musical performance\, and Malia’Kekia Nicolini\, a Massachusetts-based dancer\, choreographer\, artistic director and educator. Additionally\, the work is being developed with Dwayne Hess\, a Baltimore-based spiritual guide who will be advising the project in the creation of community dialogues. \nVincent E. Thomas\, dancer\, choreographer and teacher\, received his MFA in Dance from Florida State University and a BME in Music from the University of South Carolina. He has danced with Dance Repertory Theatre (FSU)\, Randy James Dance Works (NY/NJ)\, EDGEWORKS Dance Theater (DC)\, and Liz Lerman Dance Exchange (MD). His choreography has been presented at various national and international venues including DUMBO Festival (NY)\, Velocity Festival (DC)\, Modern Moves Festival (DC)\, Philly Fringe (PA)\, Edinburgh Fringe Festival (UK-Scotland)\, Barcelona and Madrid\, Spain\, Avignon\, France\, Athens\, Greece\, Bari\, Italy\, Copenhagen\, Denmark\, Shanghai\, Taipei\, and Singapore. He received rave reviews for his performance of “Come Change” (2012) and “iWitness” (2014) in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Scotland). Theater credits: Movement Coach/Choreographer for Everyman Theater’s Brother’s Size by Tarell Alvin McCraney in Baltimore\, MD (2012)\, Mosaic Theatre’s Unexplored Interior by Jay Sander in Washington\, DC (2015)\, and Everyman Theater’s Los Otros by Ellen Fitzhugh in Baltimore\, MD (2017)\, and Associate Choreographer/Movement Coach for Williamstown Theater Festival’s Most Happy in Concert in Williamstown\, MA (2022) directed by Daniel Fish. He is the Artistic Director/Choreographer of the national touring What’s Going On project. Vincent was awarded the 2017 Pola Nirenska Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance (DC)\, the 2019 University System of Maryland Regents Faculty Award for Excellence in Research\, Scholarship & Creative Activity\, the 2020 MDEA Living Legacy Award\, a 2021 William G. Baker\, Jr. Memorial Fund Awardee\, and a 2023 Black History Month Honoree for Richland District II (SC). Vincent is the Associate Choreographer for the INTELLIGENCE Opera\, written and conceived by Jake Heggie\, Gene Sheer\, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar\, premiere at Houston Grand Opera. He is an Urban Bush Women BOLD Facilitator\, faculty member for the UBW Summer Institutes (NY)\, and Professor of Dance at Towson University (MD). \nHis multi-dimensional company VTDance builds on the use of contemporary dance\, improvisation\, text/ movement\, a variety of sound sources\, and collaborations with other artists\, including dancers\, musicians\, poets\, visual artists\, and others [to be discovered]. These ideas coupled with witty\, poignant\, athletic and gestural movement are the rich palette for VTDance. www.vtdance.org \nGabriel Thom Pasculli (he/they) is a US/Turtle Island-based performance artist\, teacher\, and theater director. Exploring the intersections of performance and decolonial praxis through body\, change and belonging\, Gabriel Thom embraces interdisciplinary processes of co-creation. For eight years\, Gabriel Thom was an artistic director of Walkabout Theater in Chicago (now called Wender Collective)\, with whom Gabriel Thom directed a series of outdoor public stilt spectacles as well as internationally-touring ensemble performances acclaimed as “surreal\,” “sublime\,” “gorgeous and exhilarating.” During the same period Gabriel Thom was a founding co-director of VoxFest\, an annual summer festival of innovative new works-in-progress at Dartmouth College. Recently\, Gabriel Thom was the creative producer at Sandglass Theater in Putney\, VT\, a puppet theater dedicated to social dialogue. Gabriel Thom has been teaching actor training\, movement and voice\, and co-creation for ten years; and they are currently teaching at the University of IL in Chicago and the University of Chicago. Gabriel Thom is a certified teacher of Fides Krucker’s Emotionally Integrated Voice pedagogy\, and they recently graduated from Goddard College’s MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program with a concentration in Decolonial Arts Praxis and Performance Creation. Other Chicago directing credits include work with Red Tape Theatre\, Trap Door Theatre\, Oracle Productions\, Redmoon and Steppenwolf Theatre. Additional influences include study at the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards in Italy\, the Odin Teatret in Denmark\, and Double Edge Theatre in Massachusetts. www.gabrielthom.com \nDesiré Graham is a performer\, director\, dramaturg and arts administrator. She sings to connect to a past that is not just her’s\, but a history of many. She writes to reconcile the shade and the sun. She collaborates\, in a constant search for those who also feel the tug to be elsewhere. From 2019-2022\, she was based in Tuscany\, Italy as a company member at the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards. Currently based in the U.S.\, Graham commits to the cultivation of artistic spaces that foster transparency\, active listening and anti-oppressive practices as a requirement. In alignment with these values\, Desiré works with Double Edge Theatre and VLA Dance as a recurring artistic collaborator. Additionally\, she curates a space for black queer performing artists to create inside of The Black Residency. Graham also hosts a workshop series entitled\, Somewhere in Between\, an invitation for BIPOC and ALAANA New Haven residents to discover the use of communal singing\, give weight to their vibrational soul\, activate\, and call on others to join in. She is freely in-process\, if you have any questions about what she’s done or where she’s been\, please ask about it to be about it. \nThis event is a Residency Community Program. As part of a residency at BAC\, we ask each artist to build and facilitate a Community Program. Community Programs are a unique opportunity for both artists-in-residence and our local community to gather\, engage\, and be in conversation with one another through art. Community Programs are free engagements open to the public and/or in collaboration with a local community partner. \nPhoto Credit: Vincent E. Thomas and Gabriel Thom Pasculli\, Photographer Rob Strong URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/praiseworkshop/ LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Program,Dance,Performance,Program,Residencies,Storytelling,Talk,Theater,Theater Makers,Workshop,Workshops ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bethanyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Praise.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Arts Community":MAILTO:info@bethanyarts.org GEO:41.17225;-73.828321 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining NY 10562 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Somerstown Rd.:geo:-73.828321,41.17225 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240712 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240715 DTSTAMP:20240529T193839Z CREATED:20240528T144757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240529T193839Z UID:10000869-1720742400-1721001599@bethanyarts.org SUMMARY:SPARK DESCRIPTION:SPARK\nJuly 12-14\, 2024 – One Weekend Only! \nSPARK is a thought-provoking and inspiring theatrical experience that captures the beauty and the drama of life and transformation. Told through the voices of 10 women\, SPARK is a tapestry of multi-layered personal stories\, movement and soul-stirring music covering identity\, loss\, love and growth. \nCreated by Tami McCarthy (Actor\, Artistic Director\, Writer\, Producer)\, SPARK is a profound journey into the depths of the human experience inspired by Tami’s own life. The experience weaves together a chorus of unique and powerful voices as the women in the cast reveal true life-changing moments when divine intervention or instinct takes control\, leading them to a spark that nurtured their spirit and lit the path ahead. \nSPARK serves as a mirror\, highlighting how we are all connected as it prompts audience members to reflect on their own moments of self-discovery while celebrating the resiliency of the human spirit. At times deeply jarring\, but ultimately uplifting\, SPARK encourages viewers to confront the complexities of life and\, in doing so\, find a sense of euphoric liberation. Together\, we reveal the malleable nature and complexity of the human experience\, and share in a revelatory moment that we are not alone.\n \nCreated\, Written\, Produced by Tami McCarthy. Creative Team: Directed by: Beth Spitalny\, Serena Norr\, Co-Writer and Co-Producer\, Music by Becki Davis and Lynne Barasch. Featuring Spoken Word Performances by Serena Norr\, Violet Benny\, Luz Michelle\, Monique Ford\, Shelley Molad\, Sarah Sanders\, Lynne Barasch\, Tami McCarthy\, and Shauna Lane; with a special performance by Inez Wilson and special appearance by Medicine Woman + Spiritual Healer Vasiliki Lagoudis. \nShowtimes\nFriday\, July 12\, 2024 8PM\nSaturday\, July 13\, 2024 2PM\nSaturday\, July 13\, 2024 8PM\nSunday\, July 14\, 2024 2PM \n$35 General Admission/$30 Senior/Student \nTickets for this show are non-refundable. URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/spark/ LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States CATEGORIES:Play,Program,SPARK: the experience,Storytelling,Talk,Theater,Theater Makers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://bethanyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/spark-CAST-NAMES-3.png ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Arts Community":MAILTO:info@bethanyarts.org GEO:41.17225;-73.828321 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining NY 10562 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Somerstown Rd.:geo:-73.828321,41.17225 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240712T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240712T213000 DTSTAMP:20240529T193915Z CREATED:20240528T143813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240529T193915Z UID:10001242-1720814400-1720819800@bethanyarts.org SUMMARY:SPARK - July 12 @ 8PM DESCRIPTION:SPARK\nJuly 12-14\, 2024 – One Weekend Only! \nSPARK is a thought-provoking and inspiring theatrical experience that captures the beauty and the drama of life and transformation. Told through the voices of 10 women\, SPARK is a tapestry of multi-layered personal stories\, movement and soul-stirring music covering identity\, loss\, love and growth. \nCreated by Tami McCarthy (Actor\, Artistic Director\, Writer\, Producer)\, SPARK is a profound journey into the depths of the human experience inspired by Tami’s own life. The experience weaves together a chorus of unique and powerful voices as the women in the cast reveal true life-changing moments when divine intervention or instinct takes control\, leading them to a spark that nurtured their spirit and lit the path ahead. \nSPARK serves as a mirror\, highlighting how we are all connected as it prompts audience members to reflect on their own moments of self-discovery while celebrating the resiliency of the human spirit. At times deeply jarring\, but ultimately uplifting\, SPARK encourages viewers to confront the complexities of life and\, in doing so\, find a sense of euphoric liberation. Together\, we reveal the malleable nature and complexity of the human experience\, and share in a revelatory moment that we are not alone.\n \nCreated\, Written\, Produced by Tami McCarthy. Creative Team: Directed by: Beth Spitalny\, Serena Norr\, Co-Writer and Co-Producer\, Music by Becki Davis and Lynne Barasch. Featuring Spoken Word Performances by Serena Norr\, Violet Benny\, Luz Michelle\, Monique Ford\, Shelley Molad\, Sarah Sanders\, Lynne Barasch\, Tami McCarthy\, and Shauna Lane; with a special performance by Inez Wilson and special appearance by Medicine Woman + Spiritual Healer Vasiliki Lagoudis. \nShowtimes\nFriday\, July 12\, 2024 8PM\nSaturday\, July 13\, 2024 2PM\nSaturday\, July 13\, 2024 8PM\nSunday\, July 14\, 2024 2PM \n$35 General Admission/$30 Senior/Student \nTickets for this show are non-refundable. URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/spark6128/ LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States CATEGORIES:Play,Program,SPARK: the experience,Storytelling,Talk,Theater,Theater Makers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://bethanyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/spark-CAST-NAMES-3.png ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Arts Community":MAILTO:info@bethanyarts.org GEO:41.17225;-73.828321 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining NY 10562 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Somerstown Rd.:geo:-73.828321,41.17225 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240713T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240713T153000 DTSTAMP:20240529T193929Z CREATED:20240528T144124Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240529T193929Z UID:10001243-1720879200-1720884600@bethanyarts.org SUMMARY:SPARK - July 13 @ 2PM DESCRIPTION:SPARK\nJuly 12-14\, 2024 – One Weekend Only! \nSPARK is a thought-provoking and inspiring theatrical experience that captures the beauty and the drama of life and transformation. Told through the voices of 10 women\, SPARK is a tapestry of multi-layered personal stories\, movement and soul-stirring music covering identity\, loss\, love and growth. \nCreated by Tami McCarthy (Actor\, Artistic Director\, Writer\, Producer)\, SPARK is a profound journey into the depths of the human experience inspired by Tami’s own life. The experience weaves together a chorus of unique and powerful voices as the women in the cast reveal true life-changing moments when divine intervention or instinct takes control\, leading them to a spark that nurtured their spirit and lit the path ahead. \nSPARK serves as a mirror\, highlighting how we are all connected as it prompts audience members to reflect on their own moments of self-discovery while celebrating the resiliency of the human spirit. At times deeply jarring\, but ultimately uplifting\, SPARK encourages viewers to confront the complexities of life and\, in doing so\, find a sense of euphoric liberation. Together\, we reveal the malleable nature and complexity of the human experience\, and share in a revelatory moment that we are not alone.\n \nCreated\, Written\, Produced by Tami McCarthy. Creative Team: Directed by: Beth Spitalny\, Serena Norr\, Co-Writer and Co-Producer\, Music by Becki Davis and Lynne Barasch. Featuring Spoken Word Performances by Serena Norr\, Violet Benny\, Luz Michelle\, Monique Ford\, Shelley Molad\, Sarah Sanders\, Lynne Barasch\, Tami McCarthy\, and Shauna Lane; with a special performance by Inez Wilson and special appearance by Medicine Woman + Spiritual Healer Vasiliki Lagoudis. \nShowtimes\nFriday\, July 12\, 2024 8PM\nSaturday\, July 13\, 2024 2PM\nSaturday\, July 13\, 2024 8PM\nSunday\, July 14\, 2024 2PM \n$35 General Admission/$30 Senior/Student \nTickets for this show are non-refundable. URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/spark6132/ LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States CATEGORIES:Play,Program,SPARK: the experience,Storytelling,Talk,Theater,Theater Makers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://bethanyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/spark-CAST-NAMES-3.png ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Arts Community":MAILTO:info@bethanyarts.org GEO:41.17225;-73.828321 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining NY 10562 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Somerstown Rd.:geo:-73.828321,41.17225 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240713T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240713T213000 DTSTAMP:20240529T193948Z CREATED:20240528T144331Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240529T193948Z UID:10000867-1720900800-1720906200@bethanyarts.org SUMMARY:SPARK - July 13 @ 8PM DESCRIPTION:SPARK\nJuly 12-14\, 2024 – One Weekend Only! \nSPARK is a thought-provoking and inspiring theatrical experience that captures the beauty and the drama of life and transformation. Told through the voices of 10 women\, SPARK is a tapestry of multi-layered personal stories\, movement and soul-stirring music covering identity\, loss\, love and growth. \nCreated by Tami McCarthy (Actor\, Artistic Director\, Writer\, Producer)\, SPARK is a profound journey into the depths of the human experience inspired by Tami’s own life. The experience weaves together a chorus of unique and powerful voices as the women in the cast reveal true life-changing moments when divine intervention or instinct takes control\, leading them to a spark that nurtured their spirit and lit the path ahead. \nSPARK serves as a mirror\, highlighting how we are all connected as it prompts audience members to reflect on their own moments of self-discovery while celebrating the resiliency of the human spirit. At times deeply jarring\, but ultimately uplifting\, SPARK encourages viewers to confront the complexities of life and\, in doing so\, find a sense of euphoric liberation. Together\, we reveal the malleable nature and complexity of the human experience\, and share in a revelatory moment that we are not alone.\n \nCreated\, Written\, Produced by Tami McCarthy. Creative Team: Directed by: Beth Spitalny\, Serena Norr\, Co-Writer and Co-Producer\, Music by Becki Davis and Lynne Barasch. Featuring Spoken Word Performances by Serena Norr\, Violet Benny\, Luz Michelle\, Monique Ford\, Shelley Molad\, Sarah Sanders\, Lynne Barasch\, Tami McCarthy\, and Shauna Lane; with a special performance by Inez Wilson and special appearance by Medicine Woman + Spiritual Healer Vasiliki Lagoudis. \nShowtimes\nFriday\, July 12\, 2024 8PM\nSaturday\, July 13\, 2024 2PM\nSaturday\, July 13\, 2024 8PM\nSunday\, July 14\, 2024 2PM \n$35 General Admission/$30 Senior/Student \nTickets for this show are non-refundable. URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/spark6138/ LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States CATEGORIES:Play,Program,SPARK: the experience,Storytelling,Talk,Theater,Theater Makers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://bethanyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/spark-CAST-NAMES-3.png ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Arts Community":MAILTO:info@bethanyarts.org GEO:41.17225;-73.828321 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining NY 10562 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Somerstown Rd.:geo:-73.828321,41.17225 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240714T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240714T153000 DTSTAMP:20240714T160510Z CREATED:20240528T150147Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240714T160510Z UID:10000871-1720965600-1720971000@bethanyarts.org SUMMARY:SOLD OUT - SPARK - July 14 @ 2PM DESCRIPTION:SPARK\nJuly 12-14\, 2024 – One Weekend Only! \nSPARK is a thought-provoking and inspiring theatrical experience that captures the beauty and the drama of life and transformation. Told through the voices of 10 women\, SPARK is a tapestry of multi-layered personal stories\, movement and soul-stirring music covering identity\, loss\, love and growth. \nCreated by Tami McCarthy (Actor\, Artistic Director\, Writer\, Producer)\, SPARK is a profound journey into the depths of the human experience inspired by Tami’s own life. The experience weaves together a chorus of unique and powerful voices as the women in the cast reveal true life-changing moments when divine intervention or instinct takes control\, leading them to a spark that nurtured their spirit and lit the path ahead. \nSPARK serves as a mirror\, highlighting how we are all connected as it prompts audience members to reflect on their own moments of self-discovery while celebrating the resiliency of the human spirit. At times deeply jarring\, but ultimately uplifting\, SPARK encourages viewers to confront the complexities of life and\, in doing so\, find a sense of euphoric liberation. Together\, we reveal the malleable nature and complexity of the human experience\, and share in a revelatory moment that we are not alone.\n \nCreated\, Written\, Produced by Tami McCarthy. Creative Team: Directed by: Beth Spitalny\, Serena Norr\, Co-Writer and Co-Producer\, Music by Becki Davis and Lynne Barasch. Featuring Spoken Word Performances by Serena Norr\, Violet Benny\, Luz Michelle\, Monique Ford\, Shelley Molad\, Sarah Sanders\, Lynne Barasch\, Tami McCarthy\, and Shauna Lane; with a special performance by Inez Wilson and special appearance by Medicine Woman + Spiritual Healer Vasiliki Lagoudis. \nShowtimes\nFriday\, July 12\, 2024 8PM\nSaturday\, July 13\, 2024 2PM\nSaturday\, July 13\, 2024 8PM\nSunday\, July 14\, 2024 2PM \n$35 General Admission/$30 Senior/Student \nTickets for this show are non-refundable. URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/spark6142/ LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States CATEGORIES:Play,Program,SPARK: the experience,Storytelling,Talk,Theater,Theater Makers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://bethanyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/spark-CAST-NAMES-3.png ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Arts Community":MAILTO:info@bethanyarts.org GEO:41.17225;-73.828321 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining NY 10562 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Somerstown Rd.:geo:-73.828321,41.17225 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240720T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240720T173000 DTSTAMP:20240624T183443Z CREATED:20240624T183443Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240624T183443Z UID:10001244-1721491200-1721496600@bethanyarts.org SUMMARY:HOMEGROWN SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream - River's Edge Theatre Co. DESCRIPTION:PURCHASE TICKETS HERE! \nHOMEGROWN SHAKESPEARE:\nA Midsummer Night’s Dream \nDirected by Jessica Irons \nShakespeare never looked so sustainable! Earth conscious actors are assigned their roles 30 days before the performance. Forbidden to rehearse with one another\, each actor must craft their own character\, costume\, and props in the privacy of their own home with sustainability in mind. Nothing can be purchased. Use of recycled materials is encouraged. Coming together for the first time on the weekend of the show\, these actors perform onstage in front of a live audience. NO HOLDS BARD! \n Recommended for ages 8 and up. \nJuly 20th at 4pm and 7pm\nJuly 21st at 4pm and 7pm \nBethany Arts Community\n40 Somerstown Road\,\nOssining\, NY 10562 \nTickets: $20 Seniors & Students/$25 General Admission \n10% of Ticket sales go to Groundwork Hudson Valley. a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating sustainable environmental change in urban neighborhoods through community based partnerships. \nLearn more about River’s Edge Theatre Co. here! URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/homegrownshakes07204/ LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States CATEGORIES:Performance,Program,River's Edge Theatre Co.,Storytelling,Theater,Theater Makers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bethanyarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/IMG_7418.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bethany Arts Community":MAILTO:info@bethanyarts.org GEO:41.17225;-73.828321 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bethany Arts Community 40 Somerstown Rd. Ossining NY 10562 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=40 Somerstown Rd.:geo:-73.828321,41.17225 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR