OUT LOUD celebrates new beginnings in 2023
Join OUT LOUD in celebrating the launch of our NEW STUDIO SPACE @ "THE HAWKRIDGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS" in Pawtucket, RI where we will prepare to present our 10th Season entitled "TIME". Season 10 will consist of 3 wholly original and devised productions from our Resident Artists and Season 10 Ensemble, including A GREAT MANY THINGS... & THE MELTING MIND this Summer, MORTAL/WOMEN this Fall, along with ongoing explorations and workshop presentations of our in-development creation "hello my love it's time." Learn more about what is in store for OUT LOUD in 2023!
It's difficult to believe that it has been 3 years since OUT LOUD made the collective decision back in March of 2020 to postpone all forms of in-person programming indefinitely, moving to an "inward facing" model for the foreseeable future. Our original goal all those months and years ago was to establish a new baseline to reimagine, rediscover, and reconnect with our unique methodology and ensemble driven work - holding space for one another as we wholeheartedly responded to the experience of the pandemic.
What was born from the past 3 years of intensive, mindful, introspective, and radically collaborative in-development time - spent in virtually driven spaces, vastly expansive outdoor locations, community members homes / backyards around the fire, guest artist partnerships with educational institutions and collectives, and now within our new home at "The Hawkridge Center for the Arts" - is a vibrant, expansive, creative community eager and excited to share what has been built and discovered.
What was born from the past 3 years of intensive, mindful, introspective, and radically collaborative in-development time - spent in virtually driven spaces, vastly expansive outdoor locations, community members homes / backyards around the fire, guest artist partnerships with educational institutions and collectives, and now within our new home at "The Hawkridge Center for the Arts" - is a vibrant, expansive, creative community eager and excited to share what has been built and discovered.
Celebrating 10 Years OUT LOUD
“As we prepare to celebrate 10 years of OUT LOUD, we are truly invested in internalizing everything we have learned throughout the course of our history, including what the challenges of the pandemic have revealed and taught us, and how we can bring those lessons forward through solid and systemic changes, holistically and logistically. We are passionate about establishing a culture of holistic care rooted in Awareness, Connection, & Trust through its many forms: Mind, Body, Space, and Spirit alike - for every member of our community. This has always been an internal priority, but the extent in which OUT LOUD is striving to create pathways and support systems is exponentially more expansive in its scope and intention because of the time we took to simply exist and discover. It remains incredibly important to our ensemble that we took the time that we needed to investigate every element of our collaborative process and make the conscious and deliberate effort to mindfully and intentionally evolve. This was one of the central elements and driving forces in our decision to focus inward since 2020. We have spent years now shifting the way the ensemble operates through an intensive "inward facing" model, examining and crafting our collaborative steps forward piece by piece with empathy and care. Through this experience, our collective has discovered an overall flexibility and fluidity that has proven to not only be ideal to our creative process, but necessary for our growing community.
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"We are passionate about establishing a culture of holistic care rooted in Awareness, Connection, & Trust through its many forms: Mind, Body, Space, and Spirit alike - for every member of our community."
We strive to unapologetically center the humanity of all people in the room - putting accessibility, capacity, and autonomy over product - always, and without exception. An example of this is our fully flexible "tap in when you can and tap out when you need to" model, which allows for our ensemble to hold space for one another and openly communicate our given circumstances on a day to day, week to week, and month to month basis. We are constantly checking in, setting realistic goals for ourselves to prevent burn out, centering mental, physical, and emotional health, and holding space for the unforeseen. No one person has to hold everything on their own, there are creative lifelines in place to hold one another up when we all inevitably need to tap out - no matter the circumstances.
This is one example of how we are a community above all else and that remains our top priority when assessing our relationship to generating and presenting productions and in-development work. The structure of a given creation now allows for varying levels of involvement as it evolves from conceptualizing, to creating, to experiencing the work. I'm exceptionally grateful to our incredible ensemble who have infused their time, talents, and collaborative spirits into making this community a proven reality. It's an empowering experience to actively work to establish sustainable pathways that embrace and embody this mindset - that we are all people first, and collaborators second."
- Kira Hawkridge, Founding Artistic Director (she/her/hers)
"We don't need to tell you all we've done over the past three years. Here it is: our hearts and minds on the page."
"Why do we go to the theatre? For me, it's the feeling I get afterwards - the adrenaline pumping through my veins, the feeling of having experienced something with my whole body. I want to see the sweat, feel the breath, hear the effort. I want to be a part of it, to be uncomfortable, to be challenged. I go to the theatre to have an experience that I cannot have elsewhere. After years of sitting on my couch staring at screens, I want to feel something more than just mild entertainment. I want to share the art with the artists."
"Season 10 is stretching what it means to create and rehearse. It's breaking down the walls of a traditional process, and not building them back up. It's wearing your heart on your sleeve and then throwing your shirt on the floor. It's trusting that that shirt will be there when you need it. It's letting go of the product. It's listening and absorbing and writing and researching and working and breathing. It's believing in your voice and making space for it. It's collaboration in its purest and most immersive form.
I believe audiences today are ready for this - they want connection, not distraction from their own life or the many horrors of our world. The past three years have been a period of intense creative introspection for our collective, and we have tapped into an extremely personal space, often pulling from childhood and early life experiences. And though it's personal and unique to all of us in the ensemble, we've found that it's precisely what makes this work accessible to others. We don't need to tell you all we've done over the past three years. Here it is: our hearts and minds on the page. We're ready to put it into our bodies and to continue to grow, and be challenged, right alongside you."
-Ottavia De Luca, Core Ensemble / Resident Artist / Season 10 Ensemble (she/her/hers)
I believe audiences today are ready for this - they want connection, not distraction from their own life or the many horrors of our world. The past three years have been a period of intense creative introspection for our collective, and we have tapped into an extremely personal space, often pulling from childhood and early life experiences. And though it's personal and unique to all of us in the ensemble, we've found that it's precisely what makes this work accessible to others. We don't need to tell you all we've done over the past three years. Here it is: our hearts and minds on the page. We're ready to put it into our bodies and to continue to grow, and be challenged, right alongside you."
-Ottavia De Luca, Core Ensemble / Resident Artist / Season 10 Ensemble (she/her/hers)
"With bare floorboards and a passion we explore the means and methods of storytelling. While our process is certainly non-traditional, you in no way have to be a non-traditional person to take part. If you come with an open heart and an open mind, you will be welcomed with open arms."
"In OUT LOUD there are no “stars”, we are a collective sun, working to help each other shine brighter. "
"OUT LOUD is a community driven ensemble; we put aside the traditional theatrical hierarchies and seek to create a space where everyone has an equal impact. In OUT LOUD there are no “stars”, we are a collective sun, working to help each other shine brighter. One of the benefits of working in an ensemble like this is the element of play. We are unrestricted in our source material, there is no meter to abide by, no words to remain faithful to, and in that way the nature of our work lends itself to exploration. Normally bound only by a couple of themes or a source text, we can examine performance at its roots and experiment with all different kinds of narrative. You’d be surprised what you can get across with an atmosphere and wooden blocks."
- Josh Raymo, Resident Artist / Season 10 Ensemble (he/him/his)
- Josh Raymo, Resident Artist / Season 10 Ensemble (he/him/his)
"The honest need for connection and vulnerability is something that is embraced so authentically at OUT LOUD. And I think every artist comes to a point in their lives where they just want more of it."
"The honest need for connection and vulnerability is something that is embraced so authentically at OUT LOUD. And I think every artist comes to a point in their lives where they just want more of it. Being on the spectrum has been so difficult for me, as a person and as an artist. I feel like I want too many things, or have unrealistic expectations of how I should feel during a rehearsal process. I seemed to be in a different world compared to my peers, speaking a completely different language. and any information shared about their thoughts on the process or story never seemed to satisfy me enough. I wanted to crawl into their brains and peak around inside, see how colors looked and food tasted. I wanted to explore so much more and know so much more, “Do you like the way this is being blocked? do you get along with your mom? Does the recording of Patti LaBelle’s 1989 encore performance of “If You Don’t Know Me By Now” at the Apollo also make you cry?” and granted, sometimes it’s just me being nosy. I’m Dominican. But isn’t that the way we all should be? Artists, that is. Not Dominicans. Just blood thirsty little creatives feasting on the vibrancy of life to feed our art? and then sharing that with each other?
"I will never be told that my creativity is too big or that my dreams are too wild ever again. I know now what happens when you tend to your soul."
We’ve carried such heavy things with us our whole lives and here is a space where it is not only safe to put it down, but where we set it down together. And we take a step back and examine it and create this process where we understand ourselves and each other in ways I was told were impossible or impractical or too time consuming to ever be useful or marketable. I think that sums up OUT LOUD and this season. Things take however long they take, product isn’t the goal, and we work and work until questions are answered and communicate until people feel safe, and we dream in a way that is almost jokingly absurd until someone comes in the next day with a floor plan on how to make those dreams a reality. I will never be told that my creativity is too big or that my dreams are too wild ever again. I know now what happens when you tend to your soul."
- Tabi Baez-Bradway, Resident Artist / Season 10 Ensemble (they/she - she/they)
- Tabi Baez-Bradway, Resident Artist / Season 10 Ensemble (they/she - she/they)
"So much of what we do goes beyond theater performance."
"We're stringing up safety nets for each to take leaps of faith."
"Working with OUT LOUD means the gross, overhead lights will never be on and there's never a room you can't speak up in. There's no seniority, no designer's table, and rarely an exclusive production meeting. The ensemble are designers and the designers are in the ensemble.
Designing with OUT LOUD sparks a lot of "Why haven't we always been doing it like this?" moments. Which feels like it goes hand in hand with the "Because we've always done it like this" conversation seen in more conventional theater settings. Costume designing for Rocky Horror (during Season 7: Mortals & Monsters in 2019) was more about curation, pulling together, and sifting through materials, textures and silhouettes to tell a story. Elements felt purposeful and intimate to each actor. It was such a beautiful study on ensemble building and it was literally about sexy aliens.
So much of what we do goes beyond theater performance. Early pandemic times, we focused heavily on healing and learning with each other. We learned how to adapt our collaboration style to an online world, we learned how to support and create space for one another. So much of the self reflection and self exploration I've done and the growth I have experienced has been through OUT LOUD. We're stringing up safety nets for each to take leaps of faith. So far, I've done more writing exercises and movement exercises than "actual designing." I'm excited to share our thoughts and learnings with the community. I always look forward to discussions afterward, i.e. "Well, what do YOU think it meant?"
- Emma Impagliazzo, Resident Artist & Designer / Season 10 Ensemble (she/her/hers)
Designing with OUT LOUD sparks a lot of "Why haven't we always been doing it like this?" moments. Which feels like it goes hand in hand with the "Because we've always done it like this" conversation seen in more conventional theater settings. Costume designing for Rocky Horror (during Season 7: Mortals & Monsters in 2019) was more about curation, pulling together, and sifting through materials, textures and silhouettes to tell a story. Elements felt purposeful and intimate to each actor. It was such a beautiful study on ensemble building and it was literally about sexy aliens.
So much of what we do goes beyond theater performance. Early pandemic times, we focused heavily on healing and learning with each other. We learned how to adapt our collaboration style to an online world, we learned how to support and create space for one another. So much of the self reflection and self exploration I've done and the growth I have experienced has been through OUT LOUD. We're stringing up safety nets for each to take leaps of faith. So far, I've done more writing exercises and movement exercises than "actual designing." I'm excited to share our thoughts and learnings with the community. I always look forward to discussions afterward, i.e. "Well, what do YOU think it meant?"
- Emma Impagliazzo, Resident Artist & Designer / Season 10 Ensemble (she/her/hers)
"Collaborating with OUT LOUD is not just hearing, but LISTENING. Contribution. Adding to the full picture. Bringing yourself, your experience, and your journey with you every step of the way. Building each other up. Comfort."
"It's about breath: centering, connecting, sensing, feeling, awareness. It's about exploration: Starting over. Removing expectations. A fresh perspective. Discovering life anew. Absorbing. Discovery. Creating."
- JT Cunha, Resident Artist / Season 10 Ensemble (they/she/he)
- JT Cunha, Resident Artist / Season 10 Ensemble (they/she/he)
"OUT LOUD is an experience."
"OUT LOUD is an experience —
a collective of humans preparing story-telling not merely to be seen but experienced.
As an ensemble we breathe together and as more people come into the space,
a wall doesn’t suddenly appear —
one space, one breath, one mind, one hive. An experience where all are welcome."
- Audrey Lavin Crawley, Resident Artist / Season 10 Ensemble (she/her/hers)
a collective of humans preparing story-telling not merely to be seen but experienced.
As an ensemble we breathe together and as more people come into the space,
a wall doesn’t suddenly appear —
one space, one breath, one mind, one hive. An experience where all are welcome."
- Audrey Lavin Crawley, Resident Artist / Season 10 Ensemble (she/her/hers)
"Here, everyone's thoughts, feelings, and ideas are valued, welcomed, and utilized. Everyone gives a piece of themselves - there's a piece of everyone in our work."
"I feel like "ensemble" is often seen as a "bad word" in traditional settings. The undervalued background bodies who didn't make the cut for a "lead" role. I was told "no small parts, only small actors" which I can appreciate, but many people feel differently deep down, like they aren't valued - that they aren't "talented" enough - or at all. At OUT LOUD, we are one huge ENSEMBLE, we redefine the word and shatter those connotations. We come together, "many beings forming one being, equally valued, equal parts of a whole. Whether you have an opportunity to step out and have a moment by yourself or not, you are a crucial part of the work.
I think anyone looking to grow creatively, personally, spiritually would find a home here, especially if they are seeking a change from the traditional theatre process. Traditionally, that setting does not encourage a lot of collaboration or bringing new ideas into the mix. It can be very much "what the director says, goes". And while it can be beneficial to have a sense of order / organization it can also muzzle individuality and creative processes. Here, everyone's thoughts, feelings, and ideas are valued, welcomed, and utilized. Everyone gives a piece of themselves - there's a piece of everyone in our work. If you've ever felt like you could be doing or contributing more in your creative / performance setting, but felt like you couldn't speak up, OUT LOUD is the place for you."
- Ellis del Pino, Resident Artist / Season 10 Ensemble (she/they)
- Ellis del Pino, Resident Artist / Season 10 Ensemble (she/they)
"We invite you to step into this journey with us and to feel free to immerse yourself."
"We have emerged from our collective and individual lockdowns stronger, clearer, and more than ever committed to inclusive, authentic and innovative storytelling. OUT LOUD is bursting through convention to bring you theatre from a fierce collaborative that purposely aims to trample the box. We invite you to step into this journey with us and to feel free to immerse yourself."
- Pat Hawkridge, Resident Artist / Ensemble 10 Ensemble (she/her/hers)
- Pat Hawkridge, Resident Artist / Ensemble 10 Ensemble (she/her/hers)
"We are finding new ways to breathe and move together, to share ideas and find inspiration, and to support each other as artists and as humans. Of course, we always do this - but it feels especially vital now."
- Beth Alianiello, Core Ensemble / Resident Artist / Season 10 Ensemble (she/her/hers)
"Never before had I experienced the freedom and innovation that I have with this ensemble."
"I had been acting for many years prior to my daughter forming OUT LOUD. Once I began to work with her excellent ensemble, I can honestly say that my experience has been most profound, rewarding and enjoyable. More than I have ever had onstage. Never before had I experienced the freedom and innovation that I have with this collective. It has been nothing short of life changing and has transformed me into the actor I always knew I could be. Playing KING LEAR was a performance of a lifetime. I look forward to the future experiences in store for me as a member of this extraordinary ensemble." - Alan Hawkridge, Resident Artist / Season 10 Ensemble (he/him/his)
"We have not been hibernating - we have been transforming. We are deliberately choosing to turn outward again, to open our doors and embrace this new phase, to share our metamorphosis with the world. We have evolved. Get ready."
"The shutdown in March 2020 was difficult for all of us, and posed a special challenge for artists who rely on being in an in-person community to create and share. I'm so proud of how we took this obstacle and turned it into a creative laboratory. We stayed connected virtually, we focused on creating and devising conceptually, we produced virtual experiences to remain connected with our audience and the wider community. We honed our skills in writing, research, and imagination. We made the conscious choice to turn inward toward each other, and that choice led to an expected wealth of strength, expression, and inspiration. We have not been hibernating - we have been transforming. We are deliberately choosing to turn outward again, to open our doors and embrace this new phase, to share our metamorphosis with the world. We have evolved. Get ready." - Siobhan LaPorte-Cauley (she/her/hers)
The Hawkridge Center for the Arts
OUT LOUD Theatre | LaVoce: Theatre That Speaks | Albert T. Hawkridge Art Gallery
The Mills @ 545 Pawtucket Ave, Pawtucket RI 02860
The Mills @ 545 Pawtucket Ave, Pawtucket RI 02860
Family of Rhode Island Artists - Alan, Pat, and Kira Hawkridge - are bringing their unique individual collaboratives under one roof with a united and expansive vision. Kira Hawkridge's, OUT LOUD Theatre, Pat Hawkridge's, La Voce: Theatre That Speaks, and Alan Hawkridge's, Albert T. Hawkridge Art Gallery will now be located @ 545 Pawtucket Ave in Pawtucket, RI - coming together to form THE HAWKRIDGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Learn More about this exciting collaboration - coming soon!
"I had the tremendous fortune of not only growing up with Alan and Pat Hawkridge as my parents, but as my artistic and creative guides. They lead with empathy and compassionate in every aspect of their lives and infuse that energy and mindset into every aspect of their work. They have always been more invested in uplifting the potential of those around them then taking up that space themselves. While this center is rooted in our family name, I'm honored to be a part of extending my parents legacy out into our community. A legacy of creating space that allows everyone involved room to breathe, heal, and discover their own voice. I'm incredibly grateful to be able to forge new paths as we have always done - as individuals and as a collective." - Kira Hawkridge, Founding Artistic Director of OUT LOUD Theatre
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"The Hawkridge Center for the Arts will be a place in which we continue to do our individual and collective work. A space that welcomes all. A space that remains safe, nurturing and creative. It is simply a dream come true."
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"THE HAWKRIDGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS is the culmination of a family's life work. Each of us have spent our professional lives working to create innovative, authentic, powerful and thoughtful Art. We have made it a priority to open our space to anyone who wants to join us. In community, we have created a working environment built on respect, love and joy. The Hawkridge Center for the Arts will be a place in which we continue to do our individual and collective work. A space that welcomes all. A space that remains safe, nurturing and creative. It is simply a dream come true." - Pat Hawkridge, Founding Artistic Director of LaVoce: Theatre That Speaks
"As a family we are so excited to be opening THE HAWKRIDGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS. The studio space at The Mills complex at the apex of North Main Street and Pawtucket Avenue will allow us to create and expand our various artistic projects we have ready to go into production. As well as performances and classes, I am happy to announce that the studio will also have space to create the ALBERT T. HAWKRIDGE ART GALLERY, named after my dear dad who had the spirit and talent of an artist but spent his life working for British Rail as a railway signalman. As well as a space to show my own paintings, we intend to welcome and support and showcase local artists. Along with OUT LOUD and LaVoce: Theatre That Speaks, we plan to offer various classes in the theatre arts. Please plan to join us in a supportive and creative environment as we together build THE HAWKRIDGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS." - Alan Hawkridge, Founder of the Albert T. Hawkridge Art Gallery
Season 10: TIME
The Melting Mind
WORLD PREMIERE | SUMMER 2023
An OUT LOUD wholly original & devised creation
Guided and Curated by Founding Artistic Director, Kira Hawkridge
Devised by the Season 10 OUT LOUD Ensemble
An OUT LOUD wholly original & devised creation
Guided and Curated by Founding Artistic Director, Kira Hawkridge
Devised by the Season 10 OUT LOUD Ensemble
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.
The Melting Mind seeks to viscerally and physically investigate this inner transition from cognitive memory into emotional memory through the lens of a father and daughter as visual artists and painters. They first paint their canvas, then their surroundings, and eventually themselves, stepping into their emotional connection as tangible - an embodiment of what it means to experience their relationship shifting, altering, and becoming something new. Our emotional memory is potent and allows threads of connection that often remain untouched. This work provides a pathway for audiences and creatives alike to go on this journey together, opening up the door for how we think about our own memories, how we think about those in our lives, our circles, our communities experiencing a shift in their own perception and how meeting someone where they are with a commitment to being present can be a profound pathway for empathy, connection, and emotional understanding. Our ensemble has dug deep into our own autobiographical experiences and offered them into the collective space. Our memories made tangible, developed and explored throughout the piece, overlay and intertwine with this visual transformation - breaking down and giving way to the nonverbal, further asking the audience to go on this journey along with us.
The impact of developing this work has been immense. The process of creating something so deeply personal that can be widely interpreted while blurring the lines between performance and visual art installation is thrilling, all aiming to further break down the walls between artistic mediums and disciplines. This piece has the potential to engage the senses and provide insight into seemingly unknowable experiences in a capacity that we had not dreamed possible.
A Great Many Things...
WORLD PREMIERE | SUMMER 2023
Original & devised adaptation of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Guided & Adapted by Founding Artistic Director, Kira Hawkridge
Devised by the Season 10 OUT LOUD Ensemble
Original & devised adaptation of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Guided & Adapted by Founding Artistic Director, Kira Hawkridge
Devised by the Season 10 OUT LOUD Ensemble
A Great Many Things... is a meditation on Louisa May Alcott's classic source material "Little Women". Through a collaborative and sensory experience exploring family, friendship, and artistic passion through the eyes of the March family, OUT LOUD's physical and visceral interpretation grounds us firmly in the appreciation, beauty, and profound impact of the day to day moments that hold the truth of who we are and what we leave behind.
mortal/women
WORLD PREMIERE | FALL 2023
An OUT LOUD theatre wholly original & devised creation
Guided and Curated by Founding Artistic Director, Kira Hawkridge
Devised by the Season 10 OUT LOUD Ensemble
An OUT LOUD theatre wholly original & devised creation
Guided and Curated by Founding Artistic Director, Kira Hawkridge
Devised by the Season 10 OUT LOUD Ensemble
mortal/women is a full body transformation, a convergence of outward metamorphosis and inward emotional affirmation ruled by deep hungers and insatiable thirsts. This experience tells the story of two beings at opposite ends of time (The Ancient and The New) as they individually and collectively swirl in and out of, closer and farther away from self and not self - embarking across a landscape unencumbered by space, reality, and reason. Equal parts beautiful and grotesque, these beings slowly but surely step into their full power and potential, recognizing that they might not be destined to be separate beings after all.
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In-Development
A large portion of OUT LOUD's collaborative work since the pandemic has resulted in an original and devised creation, entitled “hello my love it’s time”; a viscerally exploratory multi-media experience developed through collectively created language, visual art, and soundscapes. The development of this project began in January of 2021 as a means of documenting this moment in time, and has evolved into an expansive collaborative teaching tool utilized in educational institutions across New England, including through one of OUT LOUD's longest standing collaborations with Sara Ossana at The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).
"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."
hello my love it's time
"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
“Outside of very intimate settings, our relationship with creating material for audiences has drastically shifted, not only because of the circumstances surrounding the pandemic, but because of these radical shifts in perspective that have been unearthed through going inward. Our hope is that this project will continue to be workshopped, discussed, developed, and shared in the years to come through a multitude of potential artistic mediums and artistic perspectives. There is so much potential to continue to grow this work and I can’t wait to share it with all who are interested in experiencing our response to this moment in time.” - Kira Hawkridge
"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
“Outside of very intimate settings, our relationship with creating material for audiences has drastically shifted, not only because of the circumstances surrounding the pandemic, but because of these radical shifts in perspective that have been unearthed through going inward. Our hope is that this project will continue to be workshopped, discussed, developed, and shared in the years to come through a multitude of potential artistic mediums and artistic perspectives. There is so much potential to continue to grow this work and I can’t wait to share it with all who are interested in experiencing our response to this moment in time.” - Kira Hawkridge
Interested in bringing OUT LOUD & "hello my love it's time" into your collaborative space or classroom?
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Interested in Collaborating with OUT LOUD?
JOIN US FOR OUR OPEN WORKSHOP AUDITIONS!
We are opening up our process for any/all interested collaborators across disciplines and levels of experience - including but not limited to musicians, visual artists, designers, assistant directors, stage managers, assistant stage managers, production managers, devising artists, playwrights, poets, dramaturges, actors, dancers, & performers!
IN PERSON @ THE HAWKRIDGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Open Workshop Auditions: Saturday April 15th 12pm-4pm
Open Workshop Auditions: Sunday April 16th 12pm-4pm
Open Workshop Auditions: Saturday April 15th 12pm-4pm
Open Workshop Auditions: Sunday April 16th 12pm-4pm
Please be prepared to utilize an individualized 20 minute time slot with the creative team to present and/or discuss your area(s) of interest and why you might be invested in collaborating with OUT LOUD for Season 10. This can take the shape of a performance, a portfolio presentation, and/or a collaborative discussion. There are no right or wrong answers, we look forward to the opportunity to get to know you and welcome you into our space. Our goal is to meet collaborators where they are at, sculpting ideal pathways to join our community and get creative.
COLLABORATIVE CALLBACK: Monday April 17th 7pm-10pm
Based on our time spent in space through our Open Workshop Audition process, invitations to our Collaborative Callback will be offered and communicated by 6pm on Sunday April 16th through email. Please be prepared to attend the whole session from 7pm-10pm. We will be engaging with movement based ensemble building exercises & creative writing prompts. Thank you in advance for wearing clothing you feel comfortable moving in and bringing something to write with / something to write on. We look forward to collaborating with you!
LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR OPEN WORKSHOP
AUDITION PROCESS & SIGN UP TODAY!
Some words of encouragement from our Ensemble
"We are looking for people who are open-minded and ready to unleash their full potential. People who think deeply and tend to go above and beyond in their creative processes. People who are ready and able to look at art and humanity from unusual perspectives, make unexpected moves, and be just as comfortable in unreality (or more so!) than reality. People who crave collaboration and hands on explorations of concepts and language. People who are looking to enter a creative workspace that welcomes them, their perspectives, and their ideas. People who are eager to share and remain open - to be a sponge and absorb as much as possible." - Ellis del Pino
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Photography by Kira Hawkridge & Marc Tiberiis II
Art Direction by Kira Hawkridge
Photography by Kira Hawkridge & Marc Tiberiis II
Art Direction by Kira Hawkridge