Kansas City, MI Office of Culture and Creative Services, 20 Apr 2018

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From YouTube: NTDF supports ORIGIN KC: New Works Festival

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Learn about upcoming events supported by the Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund of the Office of Culture and Creative Services.

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The origin, KC new works festival, kicks off on April 27th and includes parties panel discussions and world and regional premiere productions here to tell us more about this event, that is supported by the neighborhood Tourist Development Fund is Marisa wolf new works director numerous! Oh, thank you so much for having us here. Thank.

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Repertory offices.

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Yes, yes, well we're thrilled to share the third annual Origin KC New Works Festival, so the festival was started three years ago as a way to respond to new voices and new plays coming out that are looking at issues of this moment of our time, questions that we ask ourselves every day, both in Kansas City and across the country. This year's festival features three amazing new plays brother toad by Nathan, Lewis Jackson that looks at Kansas City families and how they protect themselves.

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In a era of mounting gun violence, Carolee course, Ron's play welcome to fear city, which it looks at the birth of hip-hop in the 1970s Bronx and letters from Freedom Summer by Ricardo Kahn, who leads the project with UMKC MFA students, undergrad and community members, and that ones here on the Spencer stage, and that one looks at the 1964 Freedom Summer, in which people worked on the right to vote for black folks in the South we're thrilled to present these three plays in rotating repertory.

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So one night you can come and see one play and you come back the next night and see a different play and then on may 11th and 12th. We have something called festival weekend.

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This is an incredible weekend at the copayment stage, where you can not only catch these productions, the full productions, but you can also see three new play readings and catch all kinds of panel discussions that will go really deep into our cultural moment and the role arts play in thinking about politics and perspective and we'll also, of course, offer many parties lunches and we love bringing people together to break bread and share in art. Well,.

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And so the productions are ticketed, but the rest of the programming is free. That's.

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Exactly right, that's exactly right, so we try to keep the production tickets accessible to all and we've got great offers for you. If you go to our website and the festival weekend with the readings is completely free, so you can drop by see all three readings catch. A panel have a meal with us or just come to one and check it out.

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Readings can be so fun because you're seeing a new play in process, you actually get to be at the forefront of the creation of art and one of the other things that I love about the origin. Kc New, Works festival is that audiences come together to discuss the powerful topics that are looked at inside the plays. We have a community conversation that we host after every production, and we talk with audiences about the questions that the plays raise, we're really interested in engaging not only as artists and audience but as a community. So.

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As a parent, if you're deciding what activities to do with your children, what would be the ideal age that you would recommend we're.

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Seeing 12 and up I think that these plays are certainly accessible and have a youthful element, and so middle school. High school age will really connect to the themes in the play and as.

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Far as your audiences that you're hoping to reach what what has been your attendance in the past, where we're doing audience members come from and where, how many people are you, anticipating this year, great.

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Question so we've got our core rep audiences, who come from the greater Kansas City area, absolutely Jackson and Johnson County and the Northlands. But we've also draw a lot of new audiences with the festival, because we're telling new stories we've got a wonderful sort of multi-generational spread and most of our festival shows and a more diverse audience. We also are thrilled to welcome out-of-town guests for for the festival, including some VIP artistic thought, leaders and artistic directors from across the country who come in and see the work we're doing here and respond to it.

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And if you come out on the festival weekend, you'll get to hear their responses and engage with them in the national conversation.

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We are so grateful for the neighborhood Tourist Development Fund for their support, so that we can get the word out that this festival is happening and build a major local and national presence. Great.

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And where's the best place to get all of the information about the festival you can.

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Purchase tickets and find out information on our website, KC rep, Arg great.

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Well, thank you so much for having us here at the rep and we're looking forward to the festival. Thank you so much.

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The neighborhood Tourist Development Fund supports local nonprofits that bring cultural, social, educational and recreational activities to our area.

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To learn about additional upcoming events, visit KCMO gov, slash in TDF.