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One Month to Go and PEP Needs Your Help!
In addition to the substantial individual contributions PEP has received thus far, we were fortunate to receive two foundation grants, from the SHEA Collaborative and the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation. However, we find ourselves with a budget shortfall of $5,000 and just four weeks left to go before Our American Ann Sisters premieres at Live [...]
Sign up by Nov 9th for our performance workshop!
Developing Original Material for Performance: A workshop for actors. An opportunity for interested Charlottesville area performers to participate in some of the elements used by PEP in their process of developing original performance. Participants will develop their own etudes (short scores of physical action). Depending on interests of Performer and PEP, participants could be invited [...]
Where we are after one year
Well, we’ve made it. Exactly one year ago, Kara, Doreen, Sian, Jennifer, Kay and I sat down in Sian’s teeny little apartment and decided to take a risk — to experiment with the longest development process I’ve ever engaged in and create an original performance based on the lives of Americans who were a part [...]
Your Chance to Write Something for Our Script
The original play we are working on, Our American Ann Sisters, is an exciting experiment in community collaboration. Our script, which we’re writing in parallel with the development of the actors’ physical score, is part of this experiment. Some of the text for the script has been written by PEP members, some has been [...]
PEP at CACF Roundtable on 3/12
PEPster Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell will participate on the panel of the upcoming Charlottesville-Albemarle Community Foundation (CACF) Donors Roundtable on March 12th. This focus of this Roundtable will be a panel discussion titled, “Perspectives on the Charlottesville Area Nonprofit Arts Sector: Challenges, Needs, and Opportunities” and will include the following panelists:
· Maggie Guggenheimer, Director of [...]
PEP Receives Grant from the SHEA Collaborative
We are proud to announce that Performers Exchange Project was just selected as a major recipient of the 2009 SHEA Collaborative grant funds for our project Our American Ann Sisters.
The SHEA Collaborative promotes innovative collaboration in the Charlottesville area among groups, organizations and individuals active in the areas of Service, Humanities, Education and the Arts [...]
PEP Has a New Site
Thanks to Darren Hoyt and Category 4, PEP has a new bloggy website site. Please tell us what you think.
