The next Broken Planetarium is Variation-tines Day! Our culture puts a great emphasis on romantic love, but what about all the other kinds of love that enrich our worlds? Let's celebrate all the variations of love around us. Let's woo our friends, family, neighbors, habitat, animals, food, and more. Write

December Prompt: Time to Defy The next Broken Planetarium is Time to Defy. Virginia Woolf said "Thinking is my fighting." Toni Morrison says that, "This is precisely the time when artists go to work... That is how civilizations heal." Is there art that you have found or that you can

The next Broken Planetarium is Losing My Religion. In the past, some of the most moving art came from religious patronage and religious devotion (Michelangelo, Hafiz, mother f&@$ing amaze balls 80s country-pop diva Amy Grant!) Many now shy away from religion because of its associations with extremism, violence, bigotry,

The next Broken Planetarium is Art Party! Create an art making station for our art party and bring it to share on Saturday, July 23rd @ 5:00. Build your own sensory booth involving smelly markers, velvet, and Sriracha. Redo the game of Life into a drinking game that includes alternative

The next Broken Planetarium will be a Pajamajams house concert on Wednesday, June 15th @ 6:00, featuring Dan Blakeslee, Moniker, and Laura Dunn, plus anything you'd like to share that keeps you up at night. BYOB, and BYOPajamas. Listen to lyrical folk music and get cozy and haunted. We'll pass

The next Broken Planetarium is Make Portland Weird Again. Make your art in the middle of the city, brightening and confusing your fellow citizens, and bring photos and stories of your experience to share. Have a fancy tea party in the median on Cesar Chavez. Put tiny flux capacitor statues

The next Broken Planetarium is Sunday, April 24th. The theme is Agua Vida. Create something around a moment where you felt most alive, and narrate that moment as if it took place under water. What would it look like? How would it be different? Create a dance around your skydiving

The next Broken Planetarium is Sunday, March 20th. The theme is ety-mythology. Etymology is the history of the meaning of a word and its origins. For instance, we know the word "clue" as a fact or idea that helps us unravel a mystery or problem. But it comes from the

Thank you, Jessica Wallenfels of our theater hero Many Hats for this thoughtful tribute to Fertile Ground, all of its amazing shows, and Frankenstein: A Cabaret for American Theater. http://www.americantheatre.org/2016/01/29/sampling-locally-grown-artisanal-theatre-at-portlands-fertile-ground/

A thoughtful piece by Kathleen Dolan for Thru Magazine on Frankenstein: A Cabaret http://www.thrumag.com/frankenstein-a-cabaret/

And a review from the Portland Mercury: http://www.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2016/01/28/fertile-ground-review-sex-jazz-and-monsters-in-frankenstein-a-cabaret

Check out a beautiful review of Frankenstein: A Cabaret from Sophia June of Willamette Week. http://www.wweek.com/2016/01/22/fertile-ground-diaries-frankenstein-a-cabaret/ Also we were top picks for the week in WW as well. Thank you Enid Spitz! http://www.wweek.com/2016/01/22/willamette-weekend-16-things-to-do-and-see-in-portland/

The next Broken Planetarium is The Art of Losing. Like Bishop's poem ( http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/176996), make something out of what you've lost, whether it is your keys, your chinchilla, your mind, or your religion. Tell us a story about losing and also how you fill the negative

Tickets for Frankenstein: A Cabaret [https://www.boxofficetickets.com/bot/wa/event?id=306523] are now available for purchase! $20 adult, $15 students / seniors. Please visit the Broken Planetarium Productions [https://www.brokenplanetarium.org/productions/] page for up-to-date show times and more information about the show!

New York! Not able to make it to Frankenstein: A Cabaret in January in Portland? Come hear a preview at Postcrypt Coffeehouse on Columbia Campus this coming Friday, December 4th @ 9:30. Laura Dunn plays the crypt with Kendy Gable, previewing songs from the upcoming folk opera.