Thanks to Amy Aquino and Drew McCoy's generous $10,000 matching grant, you all just helped us raise $20,000 to support Notch Theatre Company's Wild Home program!! And now an anonymous donor has offered an additional $5,000 match, if we can reach $25,000 by the end of the campaign. This additional match would allow us to take Wild Home to a third community, Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge where the Trump administration is trying to auction off -- to the oil industry -- one of the last pristine and untouched wild landscapes on Earth.
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American wilderness is under siege. As the current administration leases (for $2 an acre) massive swaths of National Public Lands to oil and gas companies, we are witnessing what may be the largest loss to Public Lands our country has ever seen. Notch Theatre Company and playwright Jessica Kahkoska are partnering with rural communities across America to fight for these national wilderness areas and the towns and people that depend on them.
Wild Home takes an Odyssey Across Rural America by traveling to 15 wilderness areas under tremendous threat from pressures for oil, gas, and mineral extraction on Public Lands--including the Appalachian Trail in Virginia, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, Grand Canyon in Arizona, Mojave Trail in California, Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, and more.
In each community, we develop a series of plays through public storytelling events, which are then performed by community members and professional actors in the very outdoor wilderness spaces that are under attack. The plays are interspersed with facilitated dialogue about efforts in the community to make change. Wild Home is currently active in the North Fork of the Gunnison of Colorado and is intended to raise awareness of, explore, and deepen the conversation around protecting Public Lands at a grassroots level, as well as on a national policymaking scale.
Wild Home takes an Odyssey Across Rural America by traveling to 15 wilderness areas under tremendous threat from pressures for oil, gas, and mineral extraction on Public Lands--including the Appalachian Trail in Virginia, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, Grand Canyon in Arizona, Mojave Trail in California, Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, and more.
In each community, we develop a series of plays through public storytelling events, which are then performed by community members and professional actors in the very outdoor wilderness spaces that are under attack. The plays are interspersed with facilitated dialogue about efforts in the community to make change. Wild Home is currently active in the North Fork of the Gunnison of Colorado and is intended to raise awareness of, explore, and deepen the conversation around protecting Public Lands at a grassroots level, as well as on a national policymaking scale.
"Our nation seems stalled in an ever-polarizing inability to engage in productive dialogue, and we believe this requires us artists and cultural workers to find ways of being in proximity to communities with which we might not normally interact. This includes bringing the theatre experience to geographically marginalized and rural communities." --From HowlRound's feature on the program in their Theatre in the Age of Climate Change series.
Your contribution not only goes to making excellent works of art, but also to the economic betterment of each community with which we partner. We invest in the local economy by hiring neighborhood workers for every production, renting community-run rehearsal spaces, using local catering companies, housing out-of-town artists in "mom and pop" accommodations, paying all our community participants/actors, and contracting area nonprofits to partner in ways that advance mutual missions and strengthen their sustainability. We are committed to raising funds from individuals and investors that seek economic justice and not the exploitation of peoples oppressed by poverty.
These plays mobilize grassroots civic engagement in towns all over the nation, while also documenting each community’s unique history and culture at a particularly urgent moment in that community’s journey. In Beyond Philanthropy, Sylvia Sukop describes the power of this community-engaged, activism theatre: "Because they are based on true stories, the plays are marked by an authenticity of character and voice, and a sometimes disarming honesty, making them very real and very accessible to members of the public and giving them a unique power to touch people on a deeply personal level."
Join us for the first public performance of Wild Home in Colorado’s North Fork Valley!
When: Saturday, April 27th, 2019, 2:00pm
Where: Delicious Orchards, 39126 Highway 133, Hotchkiss, CO
The event is free and open to the public; facilitated discussion and reception to follow.
A full production cycle costs roughly $10,000 per town. Thanks to the generosity of Amy and Drew (and all of you), this campaign will allow us to bring Wild Home to two more communities! Help us continue on this epic journey by making a tax-deducible contribution. For more information on the program, visit Notch's Wild Home site. Or contact us directly at [email protected].
These plays mobilize grassroots civic engagement in towns all over the nation, while also documenting each community’s unique history and culture at a particularly urgent moment in that community’s journey. In Beyond Philanthropy, Sylvia Sukop describes the power of this community-engaged, activism theatre: "Because they are based on true stories, the plays are marked by an authenticity of character and voice, and a sometimes disarming honesty, making them very real and very accessible to members of the public and giving them a unique power to touch people on a deeply personal level."
Join us for the first public performance of Wild Home in Colorado’s North Fork Valley!
When: Saturday, April 27th, 2019, 2:00pm
Where: Delicious Orchards, 39126 Highway 133, Hotchkiss, CO
The event is free and open to the public; facilitated discussion and reception to follow.
A full production cycle costs roughly $10,000 per town. Thanks to the generosity of Amy and Drew (and all of you), this campaign will allow us to bring Wild Home to two more communities! Help us continue on this epic journey by making a tax-deducible contribution. For more information on the program, visit Notch's Wild Home site. Or contact us directly at [email protected].