Gathering Lessons

Ten artists. Ten stories. Ten pieces of glass.

Gathering Lessons is an experimental storytelling theatre piece set in the UrbanGlass Hot Shop. Featuring ten original short plays performed in a random order as decided by the audience, the piece explores the relationship between craft practice and community building by pairing the plays with a live collaborative glassmaking demo. The audience will be presented with a menu of ten small sculptures, one per artist, from which to select the next component to be attached to the collaborative piece. Each sculpture will have a relationship with one of the ten plays. By selecting the next glass piece, the audience also chooses the order of the plays simultaneously creating a one-time and one-time only theatre piece and a directly translated archival glass sculpture.

This piece is a real time experiment put together in 10 days. Some of us have been working with glass for a decade, some of us have only touched glass three times. Some of us have performed off-broadway, some of us have never been on the stage. We thank you for joining us in this investigation and can't wait to share it with you!

Featuring plays and glass by:

Anooj Bhandari

Clay Palmer

Foley

Han Duong

Lena Luo

Lucky Kernan

Phil Garip

Roxana De Leon

Soraya Shockley 

and Spider Martins

Stage Managed by Rose Tablizo

Design and archival work by Minh Cao

Conceived and directed by Anooj Bhandari and Lucky Kernan