ParityFest Baltimore 2015 Kickoff Party
Join us on Saturday, June 6th at Church on the Square as we get ParityFest Baltimore 2015 started right with an amazing party and fundraiser! To help cover some of the upfront costs of producing this huge festival, Cohesion Theatre Company is hosting a ParityFest Kickoff Party on Saturday, June 6, 2015, from 7pm to Midnight at Church on the Square, 1025 S Potomac Street.
There will be live music, DJ Arturo Ozaeta, dancing, food provided by local vendors, and beverages by Cohesion Theatre Company Sponsors Union Craft Brewing and Charm City Meadworks. Participating companies and venues will also be contributing silent auction and raffle items to help raise funds and awareness of local artists.
Tickets are $20 Online in advance, or $25 at the door. Get your tickets now through our Tixato page by clicking the link below. All proceeds go toward making this amazing festival happen!
What is ParityFest Baltimore 2015 you ask???
To cap off their Inaugural Season, Cohesion Theatre Company is tackling the need for parity in the arts and organizing Baltimore area theatre companies to participate in a city-wide festival aimed at exposing audiences to new and under-produced work by female playwrights. ParityFest Baltimore 2015 will run Wednesdays through Sundays for six weeks from July 1 to August 9, 2015 at multiple venues throughout Baltimore.
Cohesion has partnered with The Kilroys, an LA-based group committed to gender parity in the arts, who, in 2014, released The List, a compilation of the most recommended new and under-produced plays written by female playwrights. The 2014 edition of The List garnered national acclaim for opening a broader discussion on gender parity, and The Kilroys plan to release their second annual List in June of 2015. Cohesion Theatre Company Co-Founders Alicia Stanley and Brad Norris envision a festival of readings of each play included on the new 2015 List in an effort to get more of those authors and their work in front of audiences and theatre makers.
Over the course of six weeks, each participating Baltimore Area theater company will tackle at least one play from the 2015 List and present it in a reading style of their choosing. Some readings may be actors with scripts at a table, while others may make full use of costumes, props, and lighting. Each company will have full creative control over how they present the work, which will be complemented by talk back discussions with audiences, panels on gender issues, and discussions with playwrights, actors, directors, designers, and cultural leaders regarding parity across all disciplines in the arts. All of the tickets for ParityFest readings will be pay-what-you-will with proceeds supporting playwright royalties, artist stipends, and participating companies.
Current Participating Theatre Companies:
Arena Players, Baltimore Annex Theatre Company, Baltimore Improv Group, Center Stage, Cohesion Theatre Company, EMP Collective, Federal Theatre Project, Fells Point Corner Theatre, Howard Community College, Interrobang Theatre Company, Iron Crow Theatre Company, Nu Sass Productions, Pallas Theatre Collective, Rapid Lemon productions, Single Carrot Theatre, Small Batch Theatre Company, Spotlighters Theatre, Stillpointe Theatre, The Strand Theatre Company, UMBC, Vagabond Players
Current Participating Venues:
The Chicken Box, Church on the Square, Creative Alliance, Dangerously Delicious Pies hampden, Enoch Pratt Southeast Anchor Library, Gallery 788, Highlandtown Gallery, Hour Haus Studios, Joe Squared, Liam Flynn’s Ale House, The Mercury Theater, MICA Lazarus Center, Repair The World, St. Mark’s Church, Terrault Contemporary, Theatre Project, The Y Not Lot
The full schedule of performances and locations for ParityFest Baltimore 2015 will be announced in early June 2015 following the release of The Kilroy’s 2015 List.
Cohesion Theatre Company is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of Cohesion Theatre Company must be made payable to “Fractured Atlas” and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
