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The Albert T. Hawkridge Art Gallery
The Albert T. Hawkridge Art Gallery is named for Hawkridge Center for the Art's Co-Founder, Alan Hawkridge's, late Father -Albert "Bert" Hawkridge. "My Dad , like me, always thought he would be an Artist when he left school, but he had to take a "safe" job and he spent most of his life working on the British Railways in the incredible responsible position as railway signalman. I miss him greatly and know he would be so proud to have his name on this gallery space."
EXHIBITION: Visual Art by Alan Hawkridge
Featured throughout the Gallery.
EXHIBITION: hello my love it's time
OUT LOUD Theatre
Photography & Art Direction by Marc Tiberiis II & Kira Hawkridge
Featuring Daria-Lyric Montaquila, Emma Impagliazzo, Joshua Raymo, Beth Alianiello and Siobhan LaPorte-Cauley.
Photography & Art Direction by Marc Tiberiis II & Kira Hawkridge
Featuring Daria-Lyric Montaquila, Emma Impagliazzo, Joshua Raymo, Beth Alianiello and Siobhan LaPorte-Cauley.
Movement Piece Choreographed by Kira Hawkridge, inspired by the work created by OUT LOUD Theatre.
"This is a love letter to you. You don’t know who I am. I don’t even know who I am. Am I anybody? Anything? Maybe I’m everything. Stardust, atoms, fallen leaves, litter, the gum stuck on your shoe. Maybe you’re just an amalgamation of every thought I’ve ever had coupled with every regret I’m soon to feel. maybe neither of us are real. Actually that’s probably more likely because how am I to assume that in the billions of years of Earth’s existence, amid the evolving animals and expanse of language, that in every letter composed, this one is supposed to matter. Maybe that is the thesis to our story. none of it matters. 300,000 years of human existence and mine is supposed to have significance. Yet here you are. The combination of every thought you had. Every birthday party you’ve missed. Every alarm you’ve slept through. Every test you’ve failed. Every kiss you regretted. reading this letter composed exactly for you. Creation may be a myth yet here we both are. Creating this moment. Eternal. Standing still. Awake. An artifact of our existence. And maybe that’s something." - Daria-Lyric Montaquila
“It’s our mythology. A synthesis of historical origin stories and discoveries built from the movement of our bodies in our living rooms and various outdoor landscapes. Sprinkled throughout are musings about human and superhuman and nonhuman experiences. We’ve created a map through space and time that touches our world and others and begs to be illustrated.” - Beth Alianiello
"It began from nothing. Months of discussion, not knowing when we would begin or if we already had. But the nothing evolved into a black hole, pulling in all ideas, and from which infinite possibilities could be born. This metaphor led us in many directions. Having the extended time and space to unravel all of these discoveries has been necessary and ultimately freeing. I am amazed that we've been able to harness so many of our untethered, expansive, philosophical ideas into something visceral and (somewhat) contained, while still leaving it open to interpretation and possibility. To me, that's what “hello my love it’s time” is at its core: an invitation to keep expanding on the expansiveness, to lose yourself in possibility, to challenge your mind and your conceptions of your own creativity. This nothing — pulsing, pulling, bursting at the seams — has been a tool that has allowed us to recharge our idea of theatre-making. I hope it will spark something for you, too.” - Ottavia De Luca
“It’s our mythology. A synthesis of historical origin stories and discoveries built from the movement of our bodies in our living rooms and various outdoor landscapes. Sprinkled throughout are musings about human and superhuman and nonhuman experiences. We’ve created a map through space and time that touches our world and others and begs to be illustrated.” - Beth Alianiello
"It began from nothing. Months of discussion, not knowing when we would begin or if we already had. But the nothing evolved into a black hole, pulling in all ideas, and from which infinite possibilities could be born. This metaphor led us in many directions. Having the extended time and space to unravel all of these discoveries has been necessary and ultimately freeing. I am amazed that we've been able to harness so many of our untethered, expansive, philosophical ideas into something visceral and (somewhat) contained, while still leaving it open to interpretation and possibility. To me, that's what “hello my love it’s time” is at its core: an invitation to keep expanding on the expansiveness, to lose yourself in possibility, to challenge your mind and your conceptions of your own creativity. This nothing — pulsing, pulling, bursting at the seams — has been a tool that has allowed us to recharge our idea of theatre-making. I hope it will spark something for you, too.” - Ottavia De Luca
EXHIBITION: The Melting Mind
OUT LOUD Theatre
Photography by Katie O'Rourke & Kira Hawkridge
Art Direction by Kira Hawkridge
Featuring Siobhan LaPorte-Cauley, Alan Hawkridge, Emma Impagliazzo, Josh Raymo, & Ottavia De Luca
Photography by Katie O'Rourke & Kira Hawkridge
Art Direction by Kira Hawkridge
Featuring Siobhan LaPorte-Cauley, Alan Hawkridge, Emma Impagliazzo, Josh Raymo, & Ottavia De Luca
Movement Piece choreographed by Kira Hawkridge, inspired by the work created by OUT LOUD Theatre.
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The Melting Mind is, at its core, a meditation on memory. Through non linear expressions of past, present, and future, a chorus of voices and bodies in space journey through the ebbs and flows of time, dreams, color, and nostalgia, exploring what it means to live a life - to form bonds, to make mistakes, to love deeply, to be informed and shaped by our memories as we continue to create and experience new ones, and what it can mean when those memories fade or transform entirely.
The altering of memory, and the inevitable loss that can come with age and illness, particularly through Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease, can be unforgiving. It inarguably takes an incredible toll on the individual afflicted, rippling out to those who are near and dear to them. Because of the nature of this experience, in it’s portrayal it is often, and understandably so, centered around what is being lost. It is often viewed as painful and frightening as a mind slips away and loved ones become strangers. And while that great loss of what was once our reality is something many of our ensemble members have lived through, we've latched on to the calling so many of us heard to embrace the ability to be present with a new reality, opening up an unexpected opportunity to connect in a vastly different capacity - rooted in emotion and driven by our senses.
The altering of memory, and the inevitable loss that can come with age and illness, particularly through Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease, can be unforgiving. It inarguably takes an incredible toll on the individual afflicted, rippling out to those who are near and dear to them. Because of the nature of this experience, in it’s portrayal it is often, and understandably so, centered around what is being lost. It is often viewed as painful and frightening as a mind slips away and loved ones become strangers. And while that great loss of what was once our reality is something many of our ensemble members have lived through, we've latched on to the calling so many of us heard to embrace the ability to be present with a new reality, opening up an unexpected opportunity to connect in a vastly different capacity - rooted in emotion and driven by our senses.
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Art Installation
by Kira Hawkridge "Creating this Art Installation for The Melting Mind was a labor of love. Each strip of fabric, string, or yarn has been hand painted or dipped in color. The idea of this tangle of memories aims to feel chaotic and comforting - to invite you in while overwhelming your senses and your sense of self. Its tendrils can hang loosely, or expand out into the ether - reaching out or settling in. A visceral embodiment of memories made, lost, tangled, and fading - the last burst of vibrant life held frozen in time before it transforms."
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EXHIBITION: mortal/women
OUT LOUD Theatre
Photography & Art Direction by Kira Hawkridge & Marc Tiberiis II
Featuring Beth Alianiello, Siobhan LaPorte-Cauley, Audrey Lavin Crawley, Ryn Ordway, & Ottavia De Luca
Photography & Art Direction by Kira Hawkridge & Marc Tiberiis II
Featuring Beth Alianiello, Siobhan LaPorte-Cauley, Audrey Lavin Crawley, Ryn Ordway, & Ottavia De Luca
Movement Piece choreographed by Kira Hawkridge, inspired by the work created by OUT LOUD Theatre.
mortal/women is a visceral and ferocious full body transformation rooted in duality. This piece embodies, embraces, and challenges our conceptions of the beautiful / the grotesque - the monstrous / the feminine - the ancient / the new - and the unknowable and intoxicating spaces lying in wait in-between.
EXHIBITION: MEDEA
La Voce: Theatre that Speaks
Photography & Art Direction by Kira Hawkridge & Marc Tiberiis II
Featuring Mary Beth Luzitano & Patricia Hawkridge
Photography & Art Direction by Kira Hawkridge & Marc Tiberiis II
Featuring Mary Beth Luzitano & Patricia Hawkridge
Movement Piece choreographed by Kira Hawkridge, inspired by the work created by La Voce: Theatre that Speaks.
Gallery Curation by Kira Hawkridge, Marc Tiberiis II, & Patricia Hawkridge
Gallery Construction & Installation by Marc Tiberiis II, Josh Raymo, & Kira Hawkridge
Technical Direction by Marc Tiberiis II
Assistant Technical Direction by Josh Raymo
Gallery Construction & Installation by Marc Tiberiis II, Josh Raymo, & Kira Hawkridge
Technical Direction by Marc Tiberiis II
Assistant Technical Direction by Josh Raymo
