Center For the Arts at Kayenta presents:
Your Optimism is not Required
With Team Sunshine Performance Philadelphia
April 21-30th, 2023, at 7:30 PM
Can you learn to have a positive outlook? And if you could, how would that change your life?
The Center for the Arts at Kayenta brings Southern Utah another professional, diverse, interactive, performance-based event. Your Optimism is not Required, is performed April 21-30th, 2023, at 7:30 PM, outside on the Walton Commons Plaza. Tickets are $10 for children and students and $35 for adults. Seating is General Admission for this outdoor event, centered around a small fire. Guests are welcome to bring a blanket if the night feels cold.
Join us to experience a unique and thoughtful moment around a campfire suspended in time. Explore parenting and being parented in the face of planetary crisis, along with an invitation to share s’mores. This intimate, outdoor performance, facilitated workshop, and communal gathering are all woven into an experience illuminating how we might move immobilizing despair about our world into collective hope and action. The event asks participants to ponder the question, “How can we dream about the future when it feels so heavy” and aims to move despair, anxiety, and hopelessness from immobilizing obstacles to animating forces of human connection.
Your Optimism is not Required, takes place at an intimate, outdoor performance site encircling a campfire. Guided by two performers, the audience comes to embody characters in the lives of Daughter and Dad: a biracial teenager and her white father on a camping trip confronting futures potentially shaped by environmental and societal crises.
Optimism is an original participatory theater piece from Team Sunshine Performance (Philadelphia). Inspired by renowned Buddhist ecologist Joanna Macy’s work Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in Without Going Crazy, OPTIMISM is an original piece of participatory theater from Team Sunshine Performance that aims to move despair, anxiety, and hopelessness from immobilizing obstacles to animating forces of human connection.
Your Optimism is not Required was developed, in part, with assistance from the Orchard Project (www.orchardproject.com), Ari Edelson, Artistic Director. Development support for this project was provided through the 2020 Trade School residency hosted by The Philadelphia Thing, and Art is Essential: A Project of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority’s Fund for Art and Civic Engagement with support from the Knight Foundation. This performance is part of the City of Philadelphia’s Arts in Action initiative managed by the Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy. Support is provided by the Philadelphia Cultural Fund, Puffin Foundation, and John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
For more information, visit www.KayentaArts.com or call the box office at (435) 674-2787.
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