Fertile Ground City-Wide Festival Begins 1/22 in Portland

Now in its seventh year, the Portland-grown Fertile Ground City-Wide Festival of New Works continues to flourish planted in a town of prolific playwrights, abundant actors, innovative dancers, talented designers and adventuresome producers. With wide variety of new producers, along with several returning companies, FG15 brings dozens upon dozens of new artistic works from Portland's teeming jungle of artists to light to thrive on stages, nooks and crannies all over Portland for 11 days from Thursday, January 22 to Sunday, February 1, 2015.

Shining out through the winter darkness, Fertile Ground offers an astonishing breadth of creative work for the stage, compressed into the darkest and wettest days of the Portland calendar. From seasoned theatre and dance companies, to spunky young art-creators of a variety of ilk, Portland is fertile ground for presenting new work with world premieres or pieces at every step in development.

This Festival's myriad of new works span theatre, dance, comedy, clown and social action through the arts with theatre and dance world premieres, workshops, staged readings, readings and multidisciplinary events, for 11 days, at all times of the day. In addition to seasoned producers, dozens of emerging young producers, playwrights and choreographers are also choosing to offer their work for this collaborative Portland showcase festival.

"Our city is a special place, a place where creativity thrives and creators are (almost literally) on every corner," said Nicole Lane, Fertile Ground Festival Director. "Likewise, Fertile Ground is an incubator for new works of art creation citywide in theatres, pubs, studios, community centers and galleries all over town in January. This festival is about that phenomenon, that impetus, that undercurrent in our city's culture to create everywhere, anywhere, with abounding diversity."

All festival ticket information can be accessed through www.fertilegroundpdx.org

à All access Festival Passes are $50 and are available here: http://www.fertilegroundpdx.org/festival-passes---tickets.html

à Single tickets for all festival events are purchased directly through the producing companies.