A.P.E. is thrilled to host a special two-day, live performance event to celebrate the reopening of the Workroom at 33 Hawley after its extensive renovations. The event will echo the pre-renovation participatory ceremonies of MAKING GROUND (February 2023), a public art + drawing project, in which the community covered the 3800 sq-foot floor of the Workroom with chalked drawings in an invitation to consider creative engagements with land, community, space, imagination, and stewardship.

Over the course of the two evenings, different bills of 8 artists and artists groups per night—dancers, musicians, performance + theater artists, writers, and poets— will re-activate the etchings of MAKING GROUND through short (six minutes or less!) performance offerings. As a catalyst for their performance, each performer received a packet of postcards with images of the chalked Workroom floor from MAKING GROUND. The event will conclude with a screening of a time-lapse video of the two-week MAKING GROUND creative action from February 2023.

Please join us in celebrating the re-opening of the Workroom! Events are free with donations accepted—all donations will go toward continuing to upgrade the Workroom’s technical systems. MAKING GROUND postcards will be available for sale each evening.

Friday January 19th

Julia Handschuh / Anna Hendricks

Batya Sobel

Annie Woodhull

Jules Skloot

Jesse Olsen Bay and Frieda Kipar Bay

Roy Faudree and Jane Karakula

Mary Beth Brooker

LOCULUS - Madison Palffy and Olana Flynn

More information and tickets:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/making-ground-live-tickets-790178885317