The Pink Tablet Project
Donation protected
The Pink Tablet Project is a coalition of artists seeking funding to design, produce, film, & promote two live, original performances & an accompanying film for online streaming & broadcast. Event details are here.
The Pink Tablet Project is: Rebecca Chadwell (production & design), Madeline McNeill (original composition & vocals) & the Love & Outrage Choir (vocals), Ellen Welcker (poetry), Elise Divens (dance & choreography), Darrien Mack (art), Maya Jewell Zeller (narration), Nerma Sultanic (acting), and DaShawn Bedford (film production).
The Pink Tablet is a feral opera—part play, part dance, part choral performance. The story it tells wanders a labyrinth of wilderness & femaleness, wherein (like the fairytales it echoes) adults are incapable, unwilling or averse to protecting children—girl children in particular—from the dangers they face by fact of their own existence in the world. Confronted with various modes of aggression, the girls lay claims with a shape-shifting ferocity. But the bodies they become are no safer vessels. Hunted, scapegoated, trapped, & loathed, the complexity we are exploring is the fact of being a being—how in so many small ways we open to & guard against the world in all its shimmering terror & beauty. We believe in complexity, unanswerability, & interconnectedness, & that artistic endeavors that are anti-moralistic & not easily categorized are vital to this time of oversimplification, misidentification, micro-aggression & erasure.
The Pink Tablet is a women-led project, written, composed, performed, filmed, & edited by a women-led team. In 2015, only 22% of such productions were produced by women, & only 15% by mixed-gender partnerships. The journal of American Theater lists working with women across art forms, building alliances between groups, & encouraging productions by or with participation of women as solutions to the problem of representation in media & entertainment.
For every new play with fresh perspectives on women, there are hundreds of advertisements and product placements that reinforce discriminatory attitudes about gender, race & class. The unique makeup of our team & the story we are telling work to actively undo this trend. CMTV reaches 107,000 households in our region alone; streaming & broadcast means inclusive access to this production.
THANK YOU for your support! 100% of project funding goes to the artists & to bringing this collaborative, community-inspired work to life. Your backing supports its creation—let’s make it happen, together.
The Pink Tablet Project is: Rebecca Chadwell (production & design), Madeline McNeill (original composition & vocals) & the Love & Outrage Choir (vocals), Ellen Welcker (poetry), Elise Divens (dance & choreography), Darrien Mack (art), Maya Jewell Zeller (narration), Nerma Sultanic (acting), and DaShawn Bedford (film production).
The Pink Tablet is a feral opera—part play, part dance, part choral performance. The story it tells wanders a labyrinth of wilderness & femaleness, wherein (like the fairytales it echoes) adults are incapable, unwilling or averse to protecting children—girl children in particular—from the dangers they face by fact of their own existence in the world. Confronted with various modes of aggression, the girls lay claims with a shape-shifting ferocity. But the bodies they become are no safer vessels. Hunted, scapegoated, trapped, & loathed, the complexity we are exploring is the fact of being a being—how in so many small ways we open to & guard against the world in all its shimmering terror & beauty. We believe in complexity, unanswerability, & interconnectedness, & that artistic endeavors that are anti-moralistic & not easily categorized are vital to this time of oversimplification, misidentification, micro-aggression & erasure.
The Pink Tablet is a women-led project, written, composed, performed, filmed, & edited by a women-led team. In 2015, only 22% of such productions were produced by women, & only 15% by mixed-gender partnerships. The journal of American Theater lists working with women across art forms, building alliances between groups, & encouraging productions by or with participation of women as solutions to the problem of representation in media & entertainment.
For every new play with fresh perspectives on women, there are hundreds of advertisements and product placements that reinforce discriminatory attitudes about gender, race & class. The unique makeup of our team & the story we are telling work to actively undo this trend. CMTV reaches 107,000 households in our region alone; streaming & broadcast means inclusive access to this production.
THANK YOU for your support! 100% of project funding goes to the artists & to bringing this collaborative, community-inspired work to life. Your backing supports its creation—let’s make it happen, together.
Organizer
Ellen Welcker
Organizer
Spokane, WA
