Portland, January 23st, 2016. Fertile Ground 2016 is a 11-day arts festival held January 21st through 31 in Portland. This city-wide festival is focused on new work in the Arts. It features world premiere projects (like Box of Clowns presents Mustache Party! The Dalí Show) staged readings, developing works and a myriad of other arts events from the Portland creative community. The 2015 Festival included more than 75 Portland-generated new works. From fully staged world premieres in theatre to lunchtime readings and more. You can see a complete list online.
Daisy Dukes Shorts Night is a workshop production by PDXPlaywrights (photo credit, StephanieRoberts)
There’s a fully staged world premiere at Milagro Theatre Group. Broken Promises is by Olga Sanchez,
Directed by Francisco Garcia and Choreography by Gabriela Portuguez.
There’s a theatre workshop by Whink Productions exploring Buried Fire, Music & Lyrics by Dave Fleschner, Book by Wayne Harrel, Directed by Judy Straalsund (photo credit, Amanda Gresham).
CoHo Productions presents The Yellow Wallpaper By Sue Mach, Conceived by Grace Carter
Between Worlds is presented by The Circus Project (photo credit, Micah Reese)
Groovin Greenhouse is presented by Portland Bellydance Guild (photo, credit Phoebus-Foto)
From Fertile Ground:
Unlike a typical fringe festival, Fertile Ground features the finest new work of our LOCAL artists, performers and resident theater companies, ensuring that the artistic and financial benefits of the festival stay in Portland. Where other New Works Festivals are curated by one theater company and typically feature a string of staged readings, this festival is collaboratively shaped by variety of aesthetic voices.
Fertile Ground features a full range of artistic experience, giving audiences a greater depth and breadth of work from which to choose in a concentrated time frame. From Portland’s oldest and largest producing institutions to its newest, smallest or self-produced companies, the Fertile Ground Festival offers the breadth of creation. For this reason we feel this festival is nationally unique, providing a new model for creating and sharing new work that will be of substantive value to the national theater and arts.
Fertile Ground was launched by the Portland Area Theatre Alliance (the service organization for Portland theater artists and organizations) in 2009 to provide a platform for Portland theater companies to showcase their commitment to new work; and to invite regional and national artists, artistic leaders and arts aficionados to discover for themselves that Portland truly is fertile ground for creativity, innovation, and daring acts of performance. Fertile Ground has grown its scope of offerings to encompass the open field of arts creation to include dance, comedy and visual arts. Fertile Ground aspires to provide a forum where art lovers near and far will come to appreciate that Portland truly is fertile ground for creativity, innovation, and daring acts of performance.
