Today is the first day of rehearsal for our Midsummer of Love! We're diving into design presentations and learning the basic moves of our Bergomask. We're soaking in Strawberry Hill with all of our senses - so that we can share some magic there with you this summer!
We need a bit of pixie dust from your pockets to tickle our wings. Kick us just $5 or $50 and we will spin it into gold (and glitter too perhaps). Please join us on Kickstarter and join the ranks of the esteemed foundations who believe in our work and who join us in creative risk-taking.
We are so immensely grateful for the support we receive from each and every one of our community members - - - from our loyal family of patrons to those just discovering We Players, as well as the local and national organizations that are committed to funding innovative work that enlivens and inspires.
Such forward-thinking institutions as the National Endowment for the Arts, the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, and the San Francisco Arts Commission were the pillars of support of our recent BEOWULF. These organizations know that risky, brave, new work and cross-discipline collaboration is necessary for challenging and shaping our cultural landscape.
We are honored to add our name to the list of arts organizations to which the NEA has granted funding, totaling over five billion dollars in its fifty-two years. The Rainin Foundation, based locally in the Bay Area, provides space and funds to companies that they feel “push the boundaries of creative expression”. Our friends at the the San Francisco Arts Commission believe in the creation and strengthening of community through an investment in the arts. We believe in art, now more than ever, that delves and questions and pokes and prods, that leaves us unsettled. Thank you to those individuals and organizations that continue to take risks with us!
We expect our upcoming Midsummer of Love will be a wild and wondrous mix of joyous delight and provocative edge-testing. We hope you'll join us for a romp in the woods this summer.
ABOUT WE PLAYERS
We Players was recently recognized by Backstage.com as one of seven companies around the globe producing groundbreaking immersive theatre. We Players was featured in American Theatre Magazine’s cover story on immersive theatre and was honored by San Francisco Magazine with the “Best of the Bay” pick for their unique site-specific performance work noting, “We Players didn’t just break the fourth wall, it toppled the whole playhouse.” We Players has received several “Best of Bay” awards from SF Weekly, including this mention in their 2015 award: “We Players actors have the ability to draw power out of their surroundings, channeling it into spectacular, immersive experiences for audience members unlike anything you’ll see on Broadway.”
We Players creates site-integrated performances that transform public spaces into realms of participatory theatre in an effort to engage with history and the environment, build community, and activate personal relationships with place. Our work inspires, awakens the senses, and connects people with each other and the landscape. We Players is a Bay Area arts non-profit founded in 2000 at Stanford University by Ava Roy. For more information about We Players, please visit www.weplayers.org.
