In the Works!
BroadArts is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization and donations are tax deductible.
We are supported in part by the City of Portland VisionPDX Project, the Kinsman Foundation, the McKenzie River Gathering Foundation,the Polk Family Trust, and your generous donations!
In the Works!
Would you like to help create our future and change the world with BroadArts?
You can! BroadArts Theatre, Portland's award-wining, original musical theatre company, with the support of the Vision Into Action project of the City of Portland, is creating five Broad~Arts Visionary Salons - discussions, presentations and theatrics- with local leaders, activists and visionaries, homing in on fashioning the future we want for Portland.
Two years ago, BroadArts received a grant from the city to involve and engage more than the 'usual suspects' in creating a thoughtful and inclusive plan for all residents. BroadArts, true to our comic, creative and innovative reputation, created a musical, interactive cabaret spoof on The Wizard of Oz called "If I Were the Queen of this Forest!" to encourage civic participation in planning the "perfect City of Rose." "Queen" performed to rave reviews and is featured on the visionPDX website and in the DVD that Community Media made about the visionPDX project.
Please join BroadArts along with twenty extraordinary women and two terrific men, community organizers, neighbors, artists and friends at the BroadArts Visionary Salons. Each Salon features four speakers of diverse experience, tradition and organizational affinity. Interspersed are songs and monologues performed by BroadArts Theatre, illuminating the issues and topics of the speakers. After the speakers, BroadArts initiates the conversation between you, the audience and community speakers about how we each personally and organizationally contribute to a better future for Portland and in our world.
It's fun! It's informative! It's active! You'll laugh! You'll cry! You'll meet girls! And there is a quiz! (and prizes!)
The Broad~Arts Visionary Salons focus on specific communities whose voices have not traditionally been represented in 'wonky' government initiated city planning. Each Salon's speakers and Special Guest Artists overlap in focus. BroadArts is focusing each Salon's conversation in this matrix:
| Date | Location | Focus | Speakers |
| Sunday Nov. 9 | Multnomah Arts Center, SW 5-7 pm Map | Arts, Peace and Justice issues | Milica Markovic- World Affairs Council Roslyn Farrington- Creating Community, OR State Women's Commission Donnella Wood- Write Around Portland Pamela Phan- Youth Coordinator, Vision Into Action |
| Thursday Nov. 13 | Friendly House, NW 6-9 pm Map | Arts, Environmental issues | Suzanne Briggs- Farmer's Markets Brenna Bell - Tryon Farm Mary Kate Anderson- Free Geek Jeri Williams- EJAG, Office of Neighborhood Involvement |
| Saturday Nov. 15 | Jefferson High School, N, 6-9 pm Map | Arts & Education | Dr. Cynthia Harris- Jefferson High Principal Dr. Barbara Byrd- Labor Education Resource Center Connie Ashbrook- Oregon TradesWomen's Network Martin Gonzalez- Portland Public Schools Board of Directors, Community Activist |
| Thursday Nov. 20 | SEIU Local 503, SE, 6-9 pm Map | Arts, Women, Civil & Union & LGBTQQIA rights | Eliana Machuca- Jobs With Justice Lannie Kali- Safe Communities NW, Hillary Clinton Campaign Jo Ann Bowman- Oregon State Rep, Oregon Action Kevin Eaton- The Equity Foundation |
| Saturday Nov. 22 | PSU Multicultural Center, SW, 6-9 pm Map | Arts, Economy & Social Portland | Adrienne Fritz- Working Artists Margaret Butler- Jobs With Justice Barbara Dudley- PSU School of Economics & Political Science Monica Beemer - Sisters of the Road Café |
Each Salon event is free and open to the public! BroadArts staff and volunteers will also provide limited children's activities during the Salons.
For more information or to volunteer, call BroadArts at 503-288-5181 or contact us at BroadArts@aol.com.
You probably saw WONDERBROADS, the sparkling original musical comedy that celebrates forty 20th Century North American women, the Babes and Broads Who Broke the Rules. This funny, edgy, dangerous, historic, inspiring, sexy, interactive theatrical revue has toured on and off since 1999. The musical won the 2000 Angus L. Bowmer Prize for Best Drama.
Next year, join us for WONDERBROADER, BroadArts Theatre's 2008-2009 season's newest comedy with music. WONDER-BROADER celebrates global women now, in the 21st century, who change our world for the better, by working for peace, equality, justice, sustainability and compassion.
Visit the WONDERBROADER page to learn more!
WONDERBROADER is the sequel to the original play. In our new theatrical production, the Goddess Lilith has reached her elder years, and is ready to pass the work for rights and freedoms on to a younger generation of activists. Lilith's protege, Lilly, tires of the older woman's 'wait and see' attitude- she wants to change the world and change it today! The two titans of power clash over methods, strategy and timing, as they each struggle to define and redefine their place in a world grown more discordant and divided.
Juice
It's not pulp fiction. It's pulp fact.
Juice. What Juices us up? When we're squeezed by the pressures and demands of daily life, and numb to the problems of the world, what moves us from paralysis to passion?
BroadArts Theatre's upcoming comedy with music, written and composed by Melinda E. Pittman, enacts these questions through the lens of real people who have experienced a transfiguration. Talented actor-singers portray people who have been organized and radicalized and now give their talent to making a better world. Visit the Juice page to learn more!
