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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 night of unpaid nude fluting. Where can art stowaway in your daily life?

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: from a rib, a misogynistic swan, a scoop of clay, a bossy finger, or a crazy dance.

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 would you say? This month, make a piece of art that would speak to your five year

Making the Monster: February 2015

The next Broken Planetarium is Saturday, February 21st at 7:00 pm (potluck) 8:00 pm (start). The theme is Making the Monster. We are a group that celebrates the making and the creating, but what happens after its over? Mary Shelley's Frankenstein says to his maker, "

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 the new Tilikum Crossing bridge with the top a shadowed sky. Bring in a sestina with only

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 the winter. Write a burlesque featuring those misogynist literary characters you secretly want to do (HEATHCLIFF, anyone?

Collaborate/Complicate: October 2014

Collaborate! Complicate! Work with a partner in a different genre than your own, and create a piece that tells a famous story from another side. Write Birth on the Orient Express, paint Mona Lisa's derrière, animate a cartoon where the roadrunner finally gets shot and eaten for thanksgiving,