The Field Project: A Public Health Initiative
JOIN THE CROSS-GENERATIONAL COUNCIL
Grow the future with us.
PINPOINT OPPORTUNITIES TO ENHANCE JOY.
INCREASE SPECIES SURVIVAL.
AMPLIFY RADICAL CARE.
You’re invited to participate in a professional development opportunity. A conference to generate collective solutions for spiritual and social thriving. All ages are welcome.
Come to the field at the magic hour.
Let’s begin…
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The Field Project was an immersive and collaborative experience devised over three months with 30 teenagers during the second spring of the pandemic.
The Future Tactics Collective, a Cross-Generational Council, was derived from the company's need to create a healing space through live performance. Each audience member became an active participant in the creation of the whole piece, and subsequently, all involved became members of the collective.
The project examines and makes us complicit in the legacies of history & pop culture within the framework of ecology, restorative practice, and memory.
In the course of 13 1/2 hours over 5 days, the Future Tactics Collective hosted and communed with hundreds of community members from Essex and its surrounding towns in one-to-one conversations with the goal to “Grow the Future.”
We are what we construct.
CREDITS
Conceived and Directed by Aly Perry
Devised and Written by Aly Perry & Essex High School Theater Company Members
Scenic Design by Andy Butterfield
Stage Management by Olivia Toomey
Costume Design by Abby Kolar
Prop Design by Natalie Morris
Technical Direction by Lex Page & Henry Robinson
Performed by Cino Ambris, Grace Allard, Faith Awotho, Erin Caldo, Max Couture, Navarro Dodge, Xandra Ford, Ethan Gibbs, Theodore Herrin, Bryan House, Bella Joly, Shannon Kelly, Abby Kolar, Calvin Ku, Owen Kupferer, Abby Lee, Mikaela Perrin, Noah Sanderson, Anneka Shepherd, Isabella Silva, Ella Weidman
Production Support by Vianne Ball, Abagail Cook, Ari Kuemerle, & Madeleine Noel
Photography & Film by Jesse Keefe
“Every once in a while I witness a piece of theater that leaves me transported...this was one. A spell is cast; when the applause fades, I am still under its power.”
— SO, audience member
“You found ways to offer voice & agency in an impossibly challenging season. In turn, you offered us rare moments of true human connection after more than a year of isolation. Such important, life-saving work.”
— SL, audience member
