Upcoming & Past Events
GARAGE FEST 2019
Fri. May 31 and Sat. June 1, 2019 PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE HERE Or at Latimer & Kenkel Law Offices, 330 Wall St,, Chico, 9am-5pm M-F (cash/check only) Slow Theatre presents the first annual GARAGE FEST 2019, a two-night festival of local theatre in Chico! Friday, May 31 and Saturday, June 1 Doors at 7pm, Show at 7:30pm 1295 Eaton Road, Chico (biking encouraged!) Tickets $15 advance / $18 at the door Purchase online Facebook Event For two nights, four Chico performing arts organizations will stage four short productions at a North Chico home. PLUS there will be a no-host bar, food option, and live music! Live music by Webster Moore / The Sardines, no-host bar, and Greek food options (see menu posted in event). In addition to Slow Theatre, participating groups include: Chico Live Improv Comedy, Chico Dance Lab, and Captain Murphy's Flim Flam Dream Machine. The theme of this year’s festival is…LOVE! With this new festival, Slow Theatre returns to the roots of the popular Butcher Shop theatre festival, a Chico tradition that debuted in the Latimer family garage in 1989. Produced, in part, with a City of Chico Arts & Culture grant. Please invite your friends to the Facebook event here! #garagefest2019 Image: Love mural by Jed Speer PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE |
You Got Older by Clare Barron
Wednesday, February 20, 2018 @ 7pm a cold-reading salon at The Bookstore 118 Main Street, Chico Everyone is welcome to read. If you’d like a pdf shared by Google Drive, let us know. If you want to listen, we welcome that, too. Seven parts this time: 3 women, 4 men Notes from Samuel French: Mae returns home to help take care of Dad and – maybe (a little) – herself. You Got Older is a tender and darkly comic new play about family, illness, and cowboys – and how to remain standing when everything you know comes crashing down around you. |
ROMANTIC SHAKESPEARE
Come join us Saturday Feb 16, 2019 @ 2 pm at 1078 Gallery (1710 Park Ave, Chico) for scenes and songs highlighting the romantic side of Shakespeare. $15 at the door. This is an event to help build excitement (and funds) to bring back full Shakespeare productions to Chico. And THEN, don’t stop there with Shakespeare (or with Slow Theatre’s newest collaboration!). Please join Chico Live Improv Comedy (CLIC) the next evening Sunday Feb 17, 2019 @ 7 pm at the CLIC space (561 E Lindo, Chico) for “Much Ado about Improv,” a Shakespeare-based improv show. $8 at the door. |
Slow Theatre presents Chico Speaks: Free Speech
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 at 7PM - 9PM 1078 Gallery - 1710 Park Ave, Chico CA 95928 |
Free speech is protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and is a concept many Americans hold dear. Yet, this right faces new challenges in modern society from all sides. On many college campuses, left-wing groups are protesting, heckling, or otherwise driving away conservative speakers. Meanwhile, politicians in the highest offices of government use their power to undermine or suppress speech they consider controversial. What is happening to the idea of tolerance and respect for diverging views? What is the role of free speech on campus? In the media? In government? What can we do to protect this bedrock virtue of American society?
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Speakers: Mark Herrera, Sue Hilderbrand, Rich Ober, Robert Speer, Peter Washington, Student Representative for a Quality Education (Chico State)
Free & open to the public. Donations for non-profit Slow Theatre & non-profit 1078 Gallery gladly accepted.
Free & open to the public. Donations for non-profit Slow Theatre & non-profit 1078 Gallery gladly accepted.
Slow Theatre cold reading: salon style (at Blackbird)
Monday, October 15, 2018 @ 5:30pm Consent by Nina Raine Blackbird: Books, Gallery, & Cafe 1431 Park Ave, Chico Everyone is welcome to read. If you’d like a pdf shared by Google Drive, let us know. If you want to listen, we welcome that, too. Eight parts this time: 5 women, 3 men |
Slow Theatre teams up with Chico Bocce Club
BUTCHER SHOP TOURNAMENT – SUNDAY OCTOBER 7th 9 AM – TEAMS OF FOUR – $100 A TEAM 2500 ESTES RD – end of Normal – cash prizes for 1st and 2nd place. Always a great day. Get your team together for one of the best tourneys of the year. Limited to 16 teams. Sign up for the BS tourney here! |
Shakespeare Mix Tape: Order & Disorder
Friday August 10 and Saturday August 11, 2018 1078 Gallery @ 1710 Park Ave, Chico Join Slow Theatre as we perform short scenes and monologues from the Bard, highlighting domestic chaos, both tragic and comedic. Featuring scenes from Hamlet, MacBeth, Taming of the Shrew, and more! Plus hear the music of local Renaissance musicians Beltain. Doors 7pm | Show 7:30pm $10 admission | Facebook Event At the new 1078 Gallery, 1710 Park Avenue, Chico. 1078 will be having their Grand Opening (and Members' Show 2018 reception) on Saturday, August 18 from 6 to 9pm. More info on their website at 1078gallery.org |
The Wolves
by Sarah DeLappe August 2 + 3 + 4 @ 7 pm & August 5 @ 2 pm 1078 Gallery @ 1710 Park Ave, Chico $10 at the door | Facebook Event "The scary, exhilarating brightness of raw adolescence emanates from every scene of this uncannily assured first play by Sarah DeLappe." --The New York Times FINALIST! 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama WINNER! 2015 Relentless Award for Playwriting From the relative safety of a stretch circle in suburban America, members of a girls' soccer team refer glibly but genuinely to some of the most horrific episodes of modern history—all the while facing the edges of their own maturing identities. The cast of teenagers includes Cara Agnew, Patrice Berry, Devyn Cusick, Sierra Hall, Emily Hyder, Zoe Karch, Sydnee Kenny, Mia Naron, and Ilani Welsh-Johnson. With Sharon DeMeyer. Directed by Kelly T. Candelaria. Soccer coach: Hayes Tellesen. Graphics and house manager: Eric Collins. Stage manager: Hope Kozielski. The Wolves is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. For more information or to make contact, send an email to slowtheatre@gmail.com |