Laura

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 »

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 »

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 »

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, »

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: »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 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 »

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 »

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 »