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Parkville
with Verandah Porche and Michael Bradford
FREE | refreshments will be provided
Poet Verandah Porche and The Parkville Project playwright Michael Bradford will talk about their works. Both Porche and Bradford have spent time in the Parkville neighborhood to make community-based creative works.
In celebration of both the Parkville community and the upcoming “Parkville Project,” Verandah Porche and Michael Bradford will read from their works and lead a discussion that focuses on the words and experiences of Hartford’s Parkville neighborhood residents.
Porche previously partnered with Real Art Ways in 2002 on Listening Out Loud: A Hundred Days in Parkville – a collection of “told poems” aimed at creating a living history of the Parkville neighborhood.
In October 2008 Helene Kvale and Michael Bradford interviewed the Parkville community’s diverse residents and explored its rich history to craft “The Parkville Project,” which is set to premiere at the Playhouse on Park in July, 2010.
About The Parkville Project
Created by the Bated Breath Theatre Company, “The Parkville Project” hopes to bring to life the experiences of Hartford’s diverse Parkville community by incorporating professional and community actors in a devised, promenade piece. It runs at the Playhouse on Park from July 7 – July 18. Call 860.523.5900 x10 for tickets or visit www.playhouseonpark.org.
About the Artists
Verandah Porche listens, probes, and records the told poetry or shared narrative of a diverse community. She has created these collaborative writing projects in literacy and crisis centers, hospitals, factories, nursing homes, senior centers, a 200-year-old Vermont tavern, and an urban working-class neighborhood.
Michael Bradford is a director, playwright, and founding member of the Bated Breath Theatre Company. He is currently an Associate Professor of Dramatic Arts at the University of Connecticut, where he teaches theatre history, dramatic literature and playwriting.