A.R.T., Huntington and ICA Present The Emerging America Festival 5/2

Huntington Theater Company Presents A Moving Festival (Launching the Emerging America Festival)
May 2, 2010 in Harvard Square

A collaboration with the Harvard Square Business Association's Annual Mayfair. The institutions and artists of the Emerging America Festival create a moving party leading from OBERON to the center of Harvard Square's Mayfair celebration. This extraordinary street spectacle will converge at 12:45pm and march, led by INCUS and Vadalna Tribal Dance Company to the Mayfair main stage. From 1pm to 1:30pm, a rally will overtake the crowd, celebrating the artists of Greater Boston and Cambridge, and launching the Emerging America Festival.

Continued through the day, these companies will perform on spontaneous stages throughout the square!

WHO:

PARTICIPATING in the Parade/Rally:
-The A.R.T.
-The Huntington Theatre Company
-I.C.A
- A.R.T. Instigators
- INCUS
- Small Theater Alliance
- Central Square Theater
- Gan-e-meed Theatre Project
- Beyond the Fourth Wall
- Imaginary Beasts
- Oberon Dance Battle
- Banners and Puppets from the Puppet Free Library
- Axe to Ice
- Hot Snow
- Momentum
-Calla Videt
-Axe to Ice
-Veronica Barron
and many more!

Podcast and Walking Tours - launching May 2nd and ongoing throughout the Festival weekend. Find them at www.emergingamericafestival.org

Roam Cambridge and Boston as you discover secret locations and favorite haunts of local and national voices. Hear from artists, leaders, figureheads of Cambridge and Boston, listen to short plays by Huntington Playwriting Fellows inspired by specific locations, and more. Download original podcasts and walking tours created for this festival that celebrate the neighborhoods and artists of each organizations community, past and present.

Some notable contributors to this project:
Diane Paulus; Artistic Director, A.R.T.
Peter DuBois; Artistic Director, Huntington Theater Company
David Henry; Director of Programs, I.C.A
Robert Brustein, Founding Director, A.R.T.
Ryan Walsh, of the band Hallelujah the Hills, on David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
Rachel Chavkin on Henry Adams; Director, The TEAM (participating in Emerging America Festival)
D.W. Jacobs, playwright, on Buckminster Fuller
Kelly Kerrigan; Fort Point artist
Ryan Landry; Huntington Playwriting fellow and local superstar
Ken Urban; Huntington Playwriting Fellow
Martha Jane Kaufman; Huntington Playwriting Fellow
Steven Sapp on EE Cummings; Artistic Director, Universes (participating in Emerging America Festival)

From May 14 through 16, Emerging America will bring some of the country's most promising performers, writers, companies and directors to Boston for a weekend filled with energy, imagination, creativity and drama.

Emerging America spans Boston and Cambridge with events happening at all three artistic homes throughout the weekend: the A.R.T. @ OBERON, at 2 Arrow St. Cambridge MA, the Huntington's Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA, 527 Tremont Street, Boston, and the ICA at 100 Northern Avenue, Boston.

For more information, visit www.emergingamericafestival.org