July Prompt: Lenore Rises Edgar Allan Poe is famous for a few strange things, including an obsession with writing about dead female characters. His speakers often go off mansplaining to their dead loves about how hard it
February Prompt: Variation-tines Day! 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
December Prompt: Time to Defy 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
August Prompt: Losing My Religion 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
July: Art Party! 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
June! The Broken Planetarium presents: Pajamajams House Concert 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
May Prompt: Make Portland Weird Again 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
April Prompt: Agua Vida 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
March Prompt: Ety-mythology 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&
A Celebration of Frankenstein and Fertile Ground by Many Hats' Jessica Wallenfels for American Theater 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/
Review of Frankenstein: A Cabaret from Thru Magazine A thoughtful piece by Kathleen Dolan for Thru Magazine on Frankenstein: A Cabaret http://www.thrumag.com/frankenstein-a-cabaret/
Review of Frankenstein: A Cabaret from The Portland Mercury 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
Review of Frankenstein: A Cabaret from Willamette Week 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
February Broken Planetarium: The Art of Losing 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
November prompt: Mortified The next Broken Planetarium is Mortified. Inspired by the podcast, and that Frankenstein who looked in horror at what he made, we are looking to examine how we perceive our own art. Take
In the works: upcoming Folk Opera for Fertile Ground 2016 About Frankenstein: A Cabaret From the producers and writer of last year's The Snow Queen: A Folk Opera, Frankenstein is reset in the changing and charged atmosphere of contemporary Portland. The story of
September Prompt: Stuck in the Middle A sandwich is often named after its insides. Tolkien didn't write about no Upper or Lower Earth. And who is happier in a triple spoon than Lucky Pierre? This month we celebrate the
August Prompt: The Copycat After a July hiatus, the next Broken Planetarium will be Friday, August 7th. 6:00 pm potluck/ 7:00 pm start. The theme is copycat. Take someone else's idea that you've loved, and
June Prompt: Propacalypse The next Broken Planetarium is Sunday, June 28th. The theme is pro-pocalypse. In a world, where too many film previews start with "in a world" and then show an apocalyptic setting,
May Prompt: Stowaway The next Broken Planetarium will be Friday, May 29th at 7:00. The theme is stowaway. Let's not keep art and life as separate spheres. Don't have your day job and then your
April Prompt: Origin Story The next Broken Planetarium will be Saturday, April 25th at 7:00 (potluck) and 8:00 (start). The theme is Origin Story. For millennia, religion had the monopoly on where we came from:
March Prompt! Close Encounters of Your Younger Kind The next Broken Planetarium will be Saturday, March 14th @ 7:00. The theme is close encounters with your younger kind. What would you do if you encountered your five year old self? What
Laura Christina Dunn's poetry chapbook now available! Many of you who have been coming to the planetariums have seen the poems I was working on last spring for this chapbook. I am so excited to tell you that Spider Blue
Unfinished Business: December 2014 The next Broken Planetarium (before a January hiatus for The Snow Queen production) will be Friday, December 19th. The theme is Unfinished Business. Bring in a painting of the rusty, bottom half of
Dark and Dirty: November 2014 The theme is dark and dirty! Create out of your sexy shadow. Create something that examines what parts of you that are kept underground, making out with Hades while your mom weeps through
