Spring Shot 2024
March 28th, 2024 to April 13th, 2024
Celebrating a "diverse garden" of performance artists, SpringShot serves as a launch pad for brand-new dance, theater, burlesque, and comedy shorts over three weekends. This year, 30+ artists have come to lay roots at 18th & Union, curated around the theme HOMEGROWN.
Expect the intimate, the absurd, and the audacious. Each weekend features a new bouquet of performers with acts 18-minutes or less.
Healing Harmony: Sound Bath
April 17th, 2024 at 7 PM
What is a Sound Bath? A sound bath is a deeply relaxing and restorative experience where those in attendance are “bathed” in sound waves.
Healing Harmony is excited to partner with 18th & Union’s Wellness Wednesdays, bringing a 60-minute group sound healing experience designed to help relax, unwind, and restore your physical, mental and spiritual bodies. Healing Harmony creates a unique improvisational soundscape with crystal and metal singing bowls, her handmade deerskin drum, and vocals to guide you on a transformational journey into deep healing and wellness.
Bless This Jess
April 19th & 20th, 2024 at 3 PM & 7:30 PM
*World premiere* This one woman show about Joan of Arc and mental illness is a combination history lesson and autobiography. Both humorous and heartbreaking, it weaves together the stories of Joan of Arc, the writer’s journey with mental health, and the moment where both women’s lives overlap. A swift 80 minutes with no intermission this limited performance is not to be missed.
“The show was brave, inspiring and just the way that history should be taught.”
Content warnings: Depression, Suicide, Sexual Assault, Death.
Written and performed by award winning actor and creator, Jessica Erin Martin.
New Works Festival: New Voices, New Narratives
May 9th-19th, 2024 at 7:30 PM
A festival of original plays written and directed by the 2023-2024 Incubator/Mentor Cohort performed in rotating repertory at 18th & Union
Three new plays by women and non-binary playwrights and directors.
The Uterine Files: Virginia Mary’s experiences echo through the lives of her descendants. Moving through time from 1863 to the present, this choreopoem’s stories of disruption demand an answer: what are they doing with our uteruses?
Carmilla: A camp-horror play based on the queer, female-centered, pre-Dracula vampire novella of the same name, introducing the mother of the modern monster and shattering the mold of male protagonists in horror.
On the Train: A timely indictment of medical racism as three women fight a hypocritical senator to secure the right for women to control and protect their own reproductive destinies.