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Work in progress showings presented August 12 - 20 at Caldwell Consistory in Bloomsburg, PA and Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia, PA
Thank you to all who have supported our work-in-progress showings in Aug 2022! We are wrapping up the Pilot Phase of this project, and soon we will be planning the next few years of our work on GUNSHOW, in Philadelphia and beyond. Please check back for updates!
THE GREAT AMERICAN GUNSHOW is an interview-based project exploring American gun culture, gun violence and trauma, and the tension within our society over the “right of the people to keep and bear Arms”. Created in partnership with numerous host organizations, GUNSHOW will document, map, archive and reflect our collective experience through a series of theatrical presentations across the country, each imagined as a unique hybrid of a live performance and a participatory townhall event. GUNSHOW explores the humanity at the heart of the gun debate and invites participants to engage in a more nuanced discussion about guns in America by setting aside political polarization and investigating whether or not we can find common ground. |
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Partners include: Asian Arts Initiative, Japan American Society of Greater Philadelphia, Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble (Bloomsburg PA), Mondo Bizarro (New Orleans), A Host of People (Detroit), and Appalshop/Roadside Theater (Whitesburg KY).
Project mentor: Ping Chong and Company
Project mentor: Ping Chong and Company
Special Thanks and Support
THE GREAT AMERICAN GUNSHOW was made possible with funding, in part, through an Exchange Grant from the Network of Ensemble Theaters’ Travel & Exchange Network (NET/TEN), THE GREAT AMERICAN GUNSHOW is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, Asian Arts Initiative, and NPN. The Creation & Development Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information: www.npnweb.org. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov. THE GREAT AMERICAN GUNSHOW was made possible with funding by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Theater Project, with lead funding from the Mellon Foundation and additional funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Support for Team Sunshine Performance provided by the Philadelphia Cultural Fund, Wyncote Foundation, and Independence Foundation.
Find out more about the project and our support from the National Performance Network by reading A Sense of Safety: Makoto Hirano on Assimilation, Fear, and Gun Reform
Read about THE GREAT AMERICAN GUNSHOW in WHYY and Pacific Citizen below