From February 22 - March 4, A.P.E. will make available the 3800 sq ft. floor of the Workroom Theater at 33 Hawley for a public, participatory creative action -- Making Ground. Thanks to a federal grant awarded to the Northampton Community Arts Trust, renovations to the Workroom and 33 Hawley will begin in early March. These upcoming renovations of the Workroom offer A.P.E. a unique opportunity to integrate the expressions of artists and other community members into the very structure of an arts space. For the 11 days of Making Ground, the Workroom and the land on which it sits will be a site for personal and interconnected creative engagement with our relationships to land, community, space, imagination, and stewardship.

As renovations commence, our collective marks will be covered and preserved beneath a new sprung floor, and will remain–in perpetuity–as the unseen 'ground' upon which all future imaginings take form. PLEASE JOIN US for this rare opportunity to consider – personally and collectively – the traces we leave on the spaces and land we inhabit, and engage in creative interventions that might make new pathways possible.