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The Snow Queen: A Folk Opera

The Snow Queen: A Folk Opera

About The Snow Queen: A Folk Opera resets Hans Christian Andersen’s tale in contemporary Detroit where two neighbors make their way through a very un-fairytale like world with the help of imagination and eerie folk music. The Snow Queen: A Folk Opera was a semifinalist at the Earth

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 smelly markers, velvet, and Sriracha. Redo the game of Life into a drinking game that includes alternative

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 at night. BYOB, and BYOPajamas. Listen to lyrical folk music and get cozy and haunted.

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 share. Have a fancy tea party in the median on Cesar Chavez. Put tiny flux capacitor statues

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 water. What would it look like? How would it be different? Create a dance around your skydiving

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" as a fact or idea that helps us unravel a mystery or problem. But it

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/2016/01/29/sampling-locally-grown-artisanal-theatre-at-portlands-fertile-ground/