WICA Announces Their Upcoming Events

The Kentucky Project combines the songs and stories of American history and offers opportunities for complex and inclusive civic dialogue. The music and drama, at times vivid and revealing, provide direct links to our national heritage and to the social and political struggles we have overcome or continue to face. The goals of The Project are to produce great art and to engage community members about the interconnectedness between themselves, their collective stories, and the ongoing struggles of our society.

The Kentucky Project is comprised of three productions: Simple Gifts: The Music of America , a WICA Conservatory Choir concert; Play Party: Songs and Stories of Appalachia, a Family Series presentation; and the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama The Kentucky Cycle.

The Project also features Special Events and Community Partnerships such as Ties that Bind: The Biggs, Rowen, and Talbert Families, and Our Lives, Our Land: The Kentucky Cycle Stories in the Good Cheer Garden .

 

"JULIE MAE PIGOTT: Out on a Limb" Local Artist Series

Singer, songwriter and entertainer Julie Mae Pigott presents a concert of unique and funny songs. Julie crafts an original blend of music balancing the sacred with the irreverent, for a night you won't soon forget!

Drawing from the diversity and richness of life, the evening will feature songs and stories of relationships, social causes and spirit.

Julie and friends will let their hair down in the second set, presenting a local rendition of the Alaskan musical group Women With Hair, supporting pro-choice in all things hairy! Featured songs will include "Molehair Blues," "Body Hair" and "You've Got The Nubs."

Mar 13, 2010
Sat @ 7.30pm

TICKETS
all seats $15

360/221.8268 or 800/638.7631

"SHANE MAUSS with Brian Moote"
Special Event

Shane Mauss is one of the top young touring comedians in the country. In just 6 years, he has made appearances on Conan O'Brien, Showtime, the BBC, and has a new 30 minute special on Comedy Central airing this spring. He is a comedian you do not want to miss. The show will be hosted by South Whidbey's own Brian Moote.

Recommended for ages 18 and above.

Mar 21
Sun @ 7.00pm

TICKETS
all seats $15

360/221.8268 or 800/638.7631

ALERT:
Comedy Central Presents: Shane Mauss, Friday Mar 12 @ 11:30pm

THE KENTUCKY PROJECT
March 14 - April 24, 2010

The Kentucky Project is an exploration of the process of 'myth making': that alchemy of wish fulfillment and political expediency by which history is collected and altered and revised, by which events become stories, and stories become folklore, and folklore becomes myth.

The Kentucky Project is comprised of three productions:

Simple Gifts: The Music of America
A WICA Conservatory presentation

Whidbey Island's finest (and largest) choral ensemble, the WICA Conservatory Choir, invites you to celebrate our nation's musical traditions through classics such as Aaron Copland's "Old American Songs", "Down by the Riverside", "Water is Wide", "Shenandoah", and "Amazing Grace".

Mar 14, 2010 Sun @ 7.00pm

Play Party: Songs and Stories of Appalachia
A WICA Family Series presentation

Come share a rollicking good time with storyteller, Jill Johnson, and her special guests Steve Showell and Bruce Rowland and the Shape Note Singers. Together, they will evoke an older, simpler time and invite the audience to participate in some "old-timey" fun. Jill will spin yarns, Steve will play his fiddle and banjo, and they will bring back the songs and stories of America's first frontier. Bring the whole family and get ready to listen, sing, stomp, clap, and play; it's a Play Party!

Mar 19, 2010 Fri @ 7.30pm

The Kentucky Cycle
A WICA Theatre Series presentation

This Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of three families in eastern Kentucky spans 200 years of American history from 1775 to 1975. Fast-paced and finely drawn, Robert Schenkkan' s stunning six-hour, nine-play cycle (with 33 actors portraying 70 characters) examines the myths of the American past which have created, for better or for worse, the country we are today.

"A cautionary parable about American character..."

Apr 09 - 24, 2010 Fri + Sat @ 7.30pm, Sun @ 2.00pm

The Project also features Special Events and Community Partnerships such as

Ties that Bind: The Biggs, Rowen, and Talbert Families, presented in partnership with the Genealogical Society of South Whidbey Island.

Apr 09 - 24, 2010

Our Lives, Our Land: The Kentucky Cycle Stories in the Good Cheer Garden.

Apr 17, 2010 Sat @ 2.00pm

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