"These Don't Easily Scatter" (General Admission - $20)

The William Way LGBT Community Center & Pick Up Performance Co.

Ain Gordon's "These Don’t Easily Scatter" follows three imagined figures navigating the early years of the AIDS crisis in Philadelphia.

William Way LGBT Community Center

Ain Gordon’s These Don’t Easily Scatter is inspired by the <a href="https://www.waygay.org/remembrance" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Remembrance</a> oral history project and more than twenty interviews Gordon personally conducted chronicling stories of Philadelphia-area community members who have passed unnoticed, with or without the love and support of families throughout the HIV/AIDS crisis. The work follows three imagined figures navigating the early years of the AIDS crisis in Philadelphia: a nurse starting her career one year before the city’s first officially diagnosed case; an inexperienced man tiptoeing toward his sexuality while everything changes; and a middle-aged chorister joining a church that must reimagine itself for a community in need. “…artist Ain Gordon haunts the margins of history. Main events featuring famous people, the kind recorded with unblinking authority in encyclopedia entries, have never been his primary interest…Mr. Gordon conjures the sort of distant lives that don’t make it into textbooks, processed into oblivion by what he calls history’s “ruthless editing machine.” - The New York TimesProduction credits:Written and directed by Ain GordonCast: Kathleen Chalfant, Bill Kux, and Cherene SnowStage Manager: Ed Fitzgerald Lighting Designer: Kelly MartinProducer: Alyce DissetteThese Don’t Easily Scatter is commissioned The William Way LGBT Community Center producing in collaboration with Pick Up Performance Co. The project is generously supported by The Pew Center for Arts &amp; Heritage and donors to William Way. COVID protocols:Performances will take place in William Way Community Center’s Ballroom, and all attendees are required to wear masks when inside the building at all times. Proof of vaccination is required for attendance and will be checked before the performance upon your arrival. Please bring your vaccination card (or a photograph) and your photo ID and be prepared to present it upon your arrival.

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"These Don't Easily Scatter" (General Admission - $20)

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