Name: August 28th - The Evolution Festival
Start: 2024-09-05T20:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-09-05T21:30:00-04:00
Location: The Center at West Park - Sanctuary (Entrance on Amsterdam Avenue)

August 28th - The Evolution Festival

The Center at West Park is a home for arts, culture, and community in the landmark West Park Presbyterian Church on the Upper West Side in Manhattan. The Center is a secular not-for-profit organization that offers a diverse range of programs for artists, audiences, and the neighborhood; manages the building’s venues; and stewards the restoration of its historic exterior.

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August 28th is a choreopoem following five Black women through a journey of self-discovery through poetry and movement.

The Center at West Park - Sanctuary (Entrance on Amsterdam Avenue)

The Evolution Festival 2024

The 2024 Evolution Festival showcases 18 original works of theater, dance, music, and comedy by NYC-area artists from September 5-28, 2024. Learn more about the festival and the full performance line-up at centeratwestpark.org/evolution-festival-2024

August 28th is a choreopoem following five Black women through a journey of self-discovery through poetry and movement. We follow the evolution of our past, present, and future by grappling with how to stay alive. The actors look through America, family, friendship, and love within the Black diaspora. This show asks: how do our bodies hold trauma, and how do we(Black folk) stop requiring excellence in exchange for joy.Hope Ward (playwright) is an actor, writer, director, and academic from Providence, RI. She earned a BA in theater and Black studies from Randolph-Macon College, an MFA in theater from Columbia University, and is pursuing a PhD in Media from VCU. She is an alumnus of "EMERGEnyc," an experimental space for artists and activists. Ward focuses on the roles of Black feminism and universal humanity. Her acting credits include roles in “Mountaintop,” “Antigone,” and “Bundle of Sticks,” and appearances in “Love My Roomie,” “Hawk’s Ridge,” “Evil,” and “Succession.” Her play “To All the Black Girls Who’ve Waited” debuted at the New York Theater Festival and Ars Nova’s 2023 ANTFEST. Hope believes performance helps navigate trauma in the Black experience in the U.S.About the Evolution FestivalAugust 28th is presented as part of The Center at West Park's 2024 EVOLUTION FESTIVAL. The 2024 Evolution Festival showcases eighteen original works of theater, dance, music, comedy, and interdisciplinary performance by NYC-area artists from September 5-28, 2024. Learn more about the festival and the full performance line-up at centeratwestpark.org/evolution-festival-2024

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