The Wild Mushrooms present: Five Persistent Women, Aging with Art
Saturday, June 4 at 8 PM
Sunday, June 5 at 4 PM
Tickets ($15 + service fee): The Wild Mushrooms
The Wild Mushrooms will be presenting a showcase of our various talents. Madelyn Farr, the initiator of the project, is a dancer who will be presenting a piece called “Sampling the Divine.” Madelyn’s unexpected detour two years ago into the study of Egyptian Dance, aka bellydance, raises a whirlwind of preconceptions about sensual movement as Divine nourishment for the heart and soul, especially for older women. Choreographer/dancer, Susan Waltner, will be showing a piece called “Mourning Suite,” which includes dancers Alison Buck, Heleen Cardinaux, Rebecca Nordstrom, and Kathy Steinem. Lilin Tseng, a visual artist, has produced “Gone Crazy,” a 2D animated film based on a chapter from her memoir titled “Warning from a Praying Mantis.” Carol Abbe Smith presents “Swinging Into Summer.” With Ken Forfia on piano and Lynn Lovell on bass, Carol swings from a breezy spring into a sultry summer with a few jazz standards. Ellen Wittlinger, a playwright, will stage her short play, “Four Daughters,” about two strangers who meet in front of a famous painting in a Boston museum. The play will be performed by Becca Greene-Van Horn and Jean Devereux Koester, and will be directed by Donald Van Horn.
The audience is invited to stay for a post-show discussion with the Wild Mushroom artists on aging and creativity that will be facilitated by Sabrina Hamilton, Artistic Director of the Ko Festival of Performance.
The project is part of the Technical/Administrative/Organizational Development program of the Ko Festival of Performance. Corporate Sponsors include Delap Real Estate. This program is supported in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Northampton Arts Council.
Tickets ($15 + service fee) can be purchased via the Wild Mushrooms website: http://agingwithart.com, and at the door. Masks will be required for the safety of all.