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Wednesdays at WICA with ISF: Expand the Canon!

  • Whidbey Island Center for the Arts PO Box 52 | 565 Camano Avenue Langley, WA 98260 (map)

Island Shakespeare Festival in Collaboration with WICA Presents:
August Wednesdays at WICA

This week’s show: Expand the Canon; Why We Need Women Writers

How many classic female playwrights can you name? If the answer is less than three, you should attend this event! Meet Emily Lyon, the Artistic Director of New York’s Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre –– and director of Island Shakespeare Festival’s A Bold Stroke for a Husband. We’ll discuss the need for a canon of classics that includes a diverse group of women, who some of those women are, and what you can do to help expand the canon.

Every Wednesday in August
7:30 PM

Tickets available:
$50, $30, $15
Pay What You Will
Patron’s choice

Emily will begin with a discussion of Hedgepig's cornerstone program, Expand the Canon. This will be followed by a handful of scenes and monologues performed by Island Shakespeare Festival actors. Finally, WICA’s Executive Artistic Director Deana Duncan will facilitate a conversation between Emily, and Island Shakespeare Festival’s Executive Artistic Director Olena Hodges, to discuss their three year and beyond partnership. This is not an event to miss!

Pay What You Will enabled for all performances; must be through box office an hour or closer to the start of show.

Earlier Event: July 24
Acting for Stage and Screen: WICA Youth Conservatory
Later Event: August 4
Those Guys in Concert: A Century of Popular Music

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.