The Empathy Project: a new human experience at The Outer Loop Theater Experience

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The Empathy Project: a new human experience | Volume 1
All we have to do is survive this moment.

From The Outer Loop and The Humanity Project, comes a LIVE virtual collaboration and devised theatrical response to the moment of crisis, we as a global community, currently find ourselves in. These are strange and uncertain times... ones simultaneously abundant and lacking in connection and hope. Can we, through theater, inspire empathy and reconnect to our shared humanity?

The Empathy Project, our virtual devised theater event, launching on Saturday, May 30th, will include both live and pre-recorded performances of stories from people of all ages, races, beliefs and demographics, all surrounding their current experience of COVID-19 and the global pandemic. We've gathered these stories from our communities and beyond, and are collaborating with a group of actors, singers, dancers, movers, songwriters and artists... curating, devising and assembling the larger Empathy Project piece. We will then perform it LIVE on May 30th via the Zoom platform!

As the project is a devised piece, we're not sure yet exactly what it will look like, but we are sure it will have an impact; the project's purpose stemming from The Outer Loop's greater purpose and mission: to create art that matters. We are hoping by bringing together voices, stories and experiences from all walks of life and artists from all mediums, both participants and audience alike will engage in the greater conversation of what it means to be human... right now. And that together, we might discover while our experiences or views of the pandemic may differ, our feelings of fear, joy, disappointment, hope, anger, and love are all the same.

Featuring stories from: Elizabeth Bradley, Miles Potter, Emily Vitrano, Cat Lloyd, Joseph Vitrano, Joel Ottenheimer, Destiny Dunn, Maura Duff, Jeff Graves, Shayne David Cameris, Susan DeArcangelis, Kallen Eckert, Jessica Roark, Joe Edward Metcalfe, Jill Marlow, Katy Kantner, Jamie Cotler and more!

Featured artists include: PUSH Physical Theatre, Maddy Smith, Courtney Lavender of Xs & Arrows, Destiny Dunn, Izzy Hepker, Diane Lent, Bill Bowers, Ella Vitrano, Isaiah Gates, Joel Ottenheimer, Ken Miller, Al Herrmann, Jessica Roark, Emily Vitrano, Rachael Yoder, Michael Herman, Jill Marlow, Joe Edward Metcalfe, Caroline Williamson, and more!

Donation-based tickets available here:https://empathyproject.eventbrite.com/
ALL donations go directly to the artists involved who have lost performance income due to COVID-19.