HAWLEY ST ARCHIVE 2022

ON MAIN PROGRAMS ABOUT ENGAGE SUPPORT AT HAWLEY

2022 EVENTS + EXHIBITIONS

MOVING BETWEEN WORLDS:

Workshop and Book Conversation with Andrea Olsen
December 4

The Workroom and Split Level Gallery

• Workshop •
Exploring Seven Movement Practices for Embodied Living and Communicating
This event is based on explorations in Olsen’s newest book, Moving Between Worlds: A Guide to Embodied Living and Communicating

• Book Celebration •
A conversation hosted by Sarah Lass with Andrea Olsen, Chris Aiken (preface author), and collaborating visual artists about embodiment in creative work and daily living.

Illistration by Cass Sachs-Michaels

A THOUSAND WAYS (PART THREE):

An Assembly by 600 Highwaymen
The Workroom

Obie Award-winning 600 HIGHWAYMEN present A Thousand Ways (Part Three): An Assembly, a timely and intimate return to togetherness. A Thousand Ways: An Assembly brings together an audience of sixteen strangers to construct a unique and intimate theatrical event. Using a shared script, an evocative story of perseverance comes into focus, tracing how we consider one another individually and collectively after so much time apart. This experience is enacted by you and the other audience members.

A Thousand Ways: An Assembly is the final experience of the Obie Award-winning 600 Highwaymen’s triptych of encounters between strangers. Each installment of the series plumbs the essence of performance, bringing people together in the creation of a moving live experience. The work explores the line between strangeness and kinship, distance and proximity, and how the most intimate assembly can become profoundly radical.

A Thousand Ways
by 600 HIGHWAYMEN
Written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone
Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype
Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher
Line Producer: Sami Pyne

PLANT:

A New Absurdist Comedy

By Isabelle Bushue and Jackson Pelz
October 29th

The Workroom

Part of THE LAB at A.P.E.
The story of the insomniac, Sylvia, and her spiritually confused, unnamed houseplant who slowly gains consciousness through an infatuation with its caretaker. Using song structure, 'everyday' knowledge, religious belief, and the relationship between language and mathematics, Plant underlines the barriers that cause people saying to same thing to completely misinterpret each other.

TATSUYA NAKATANI GONG ORCHESTRA

October 27

The Workroom

The NAKATANI GONG ORCHESTRA is a contemporary live sound art project that tours internationally.
NGO is a continuous, growing community engagement sound art project; and the only bowing Gong orchestra in existence in the world today. Artistic concept, musical composition, conduction, and direction are Tatsuya Nakatani. For each performance, participating gong players are selected by a local presenter or the curator. Nakatani gives a specialized “training workshop” to gong players in preparation for the performance. Players will also learn Nakatani’s own unique point of view regarding gong techniques and will experience undiscovered dimensions while immersed in the sounds during a training workshop.

MOTHER TONGUE

Presented by First Generation
October 22- 23

The Workroom

“Mother Tongue” is a 90 minute original multilingual physical theater performance, created by First Generation Ensemble. The piece is inspired by events and family stories from Congo/Tanzania, Burundi/Nepal, South Sudan, Holyoke, and Springfield. “Mother Tongue” incorporates movement, music, and text in four languages (Arabic, Swahili, Nepali, and English). Themes touch on war and displacement, family, culture, and first generation identities.

photo by Peter Raper

MOVING THROUGH:

Celebrating Peter B. Schmitz
October 14- 16

LOCATION

A weekend of events honoring dance/theatre artist Peter B. Schmitz,
celebrating his creativity and impact on the artistic community.
Co-hosted by A.P.E, SCDT, and Northampton Open Media

Felt Absence of a Presence: an installation gathering space
Created by Kathy Couch, Katherine Sanderson, and Joey Trazo Schmitz
A meditative space to reflect, read, dance, sit, tell stories and be present with the space–alone or with others–in memory of Peter B. Schmitz.

Moving Through: Performance Works created in relationship with Peter Schmitz
Includes works by Andrea Olsen, Paul Matteson, Mary Beth Brooker and Kathy Couch, Peter Schmitz (recording), Anne Love Woodhull, Pamela Vail, Maya Laliberte and Joey Schmitz, Katherine Sanderson and guests .
VIDEO OF 12pm performance

Reset: Restoring Easeful Movement: a workshop with Caryn McHose and Andrea Olsen
Together, we will explore three practices that you can do on your own to establish the delicious flow between groundedness and spaciousness in daily life or artistic practice.

EXCHANGE

September 18

The Workroom

Six artists share movement-based performance works engaging questions of “exchange”: cultural, environmental, physical, and imaginative. Featuring performances from Lauren Horn (Hartford, CT), Rebecca Pappas (Hartford, CT), Tyler Rai (Northampton), Tori Lawrence (Chesterfield), Ellie Goudie-Averil (Chesterfield), and Sakina Ibrahim (Springfield/LA).

The Northampton Arts Council highlights dance in collaboration with SCDT and A.P.E.

IN DREAMS

Presented by The Leafies You Gave Me

Featuring Space Camp and Hedgewitch
Augsut 27

The Workroom

WORKS BY ADRIENNE ALBRO-FISHER AND CHLOE MCLEAN

August 4- 30

Split Level Gallery

Artist Reception: Friday August 12, 5-8 pm: Arts Night Out

WORKS BY ANNA BAYLES ARTHUR AND VICTOR SIGNORE

Split Level Gallery

In Search of Edge: New Small Works by Anna Bayles Arthur
As the planet burns and floods and human beings extinguish each others’ lives in brutal and rapid succession, it is increasingly difficult to comprehend any utility in sitting in one’s studio with a box of paints and a jar of sharp pencils. And yet. We persist. There is no sense to be made of it, of any of it...only here is a profoundly human act that in its most basic sense, approximates prayer.

On the threshold of a silence bursting: New work by Victor Signore
The new work in this show marks a return for me. A return home. Home to the creative process. Home to myself. To provide that missing outlet for the mounting thoughts, images, feelings, anxieties and amorphous, intangible senses that while, remain elusive as vapor, are too strong to ignore.

OUR TEXTS and SHIFT AGAIN

An Exhibition & Video Performance with Live Singing
July 24- 31

The Workroom

Our Texts and Shift Again are part of Sara Smith’s ongoing project Inside the Breath: In Network Time (INT). In the borderless future world of INT we honor Gloria Anzaldúa’s writings, octopuses, and our multi-species interconnected consciousness.
Our Texts is a series of prints and zines containing texts from the world of INT, and exists across and between virtual space and the physical space of 33 Hawley Street. Each print is accompanied by a scannable QR code that links to a related audio work online.
Shift Again is a multi-projector video performance with live singing by members of the Network Time Small Human Chorus.

Our Texts will be on view at the Workroom from Sunday July 24 to Sunday July 31.
Shift Again will happen at two matinee performances in the Workroom on Sunday, July 24

RAVELING <> REWEAVING

Three works of dance performance by:
Rebecca Pappas, Tatyana Tenenbaum, Lailye Weidman

July 15- 17

The Workroom

Part of the Distributed Curation program at APE@Hawley

In this shared weekend of programming, dance artists Rebecca Pappas, Tatyana Tenenbaum, and Lailye Weidman will present performances that interweave through and around questions related to personal ancestry, Jewish lineage, settler-colonial heritage and its ongoing impacts on relationships to land and the body. Each work takes a distinct approach to methods of archiving and excavation in order to unfurl the knotted threads of situated present-day identities.

Pappas, Tenenbaum, and Weidman have been in residence at APE@Hawley since 2020 as part of the Distributed Curation program. Each artist will present their work as part of this shared weekend of events, with opportunities to see all three works in one evening, or to see shorter performances and return on multiple days.