After almost a year of grassroots organizing and coalition building, we co-hosted Creative Workers Rising in partnership with the Arts & Culture Coalition of Altadena. Yesterday was a remarkable day; over 500 people participated in workshops, distributed resources, gathered around story, music, and every kind of creative practice -- all in service to caring for creative workers impacted by the Eaton Fire. Almost 60 organizations took part, Side Street Projects hosted "The People's Free Store," and Home of Kings and Queens set up a free farmers market.

At the center of the day long event was "Home Microphone" -- a pop up stage curated and produced in collaboration with Juila Grob and Khalil Almustafa. The stage hosted performances from 7 year olds and 70 year olds, it held a space for wild comedy, gorgeous improvisation, collective joy, and shared mourning. We'll be holding that space for years to come as we continue asking how the arts, and theater in particular can take part in long-term, equitable recovery from disaster.

Find out more about the Coalition here.

How do you reparent a play?

We're not sure but we're excited to try to do just that with Agnes Borinsky and her extraordinary play The Trees.

This summer, we're partnering with New Dramatists to raise the play again from a new beginning.

Yes, we started a zhuzh committee to prepare for Creative Workers Rising at the Eaton Fire Collaborative.

If you're reading this -- join us, zhuzhing is better together.

Thursday, May 14th, 6-9PM
@ The Armory Arts Center in Pasadena

zhuzh
/ZHo͝oZH,ZHo͝oSH/
informal
verb
make something more stylish, lively, or attractive.
the bag is a cool but economical way to zhuzh up many an outfit
noun
an act, addition, or quality that makes something more stylish, lively, or attractive.
they have given the traditional Spanish farmhouse an added zhoosh

A pop up stage in the burn zone in Altadena.
Eulogies for destroyed ancestral homes.
A soapbox labeled on each side -- RANT, PRAISE, SING, CONFESS.
Performances of Gertrude Stein's Lectures in America at the queer Korean Spa.
Open rehearsals of the hyperlocal news.

We've begun dreaming into an performance practice that can speak to the present tense from the present tense. If you have any experience with a Living Newspaper, in any way it could be defined, reach out.

The California State University, Long Beach, in association with Cornerstone Theater Company, presents THE ASSEMBLYWOMEN co-directed Bonnie Dolan, Drew Kelly and by our Artistic Director, Sunder Ganglani, and adapted by playwright Kate Attwell and Sunder Ganglani.

THE ASSEMBLYWOMEN is a bold and brand-new original adaptation of Aristophanes’ Assemblywomen, opens in the Studio Theatre at California State University Long Beach.