Although the doors have been closed and the stage lights left dark since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Bainbridge Performing Arts has fully embraced that old theatrical motto, “The show must go on.”
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Bainbridge Performing Arts (BPA) is now accepting submissions for our upcoming podcast series and would love to hear from you. Bainbridge Pod Accomplice will be a weekly program beginning in September that features audio plays, poetry, short stories, and music.
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Due to popular demand, the “Bainbridge Stay At Home Companion” has added two episodes, extending its run through June 23.
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BPA Theatre School is thrilled to resume programming, and is now accepting enrollments for four online summer classes for students, ages 8 – 19.
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Welcome to the Bainbridge Stay At Home Companion from BPA! A weekly podcast in the “What’s Up Bainbridge?” feed from Bainbridge Community Broadcasting in partnership with Bainbridge Prepares and the Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network (BARN).
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Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra and Bainbridge Chorale join forces to perform one of Brahms’ most intensely spiritual works, A German Requiem. Led by Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra Music Director & Conductor Mario Alejandro Torres and featuring soloists Janeanne Houston (soprano) and Charles Robert Stephens (baritone), this collaborative performance takes place off-site at the Bainbridge High School Gym.
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Head to BPA for a “rip-roaring night of fun” April 4 as The EDGE Improv offers imagination on demand, divined spontaneously from audience suggestions. The troupe’s riotous antics have inspired rave reviews from shrewd onlookers since the dawn of time.
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Join us in the BPA Gallery April 3 for an enjoyable evening of art and friends. Just as memories are made up of disparate pieces, Wendy Brown’s collages reflect an array of elements ranging from photos, to mementos, a cherished piece of ribbon, an old postcard, and buttons or beads.
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BPA Theatre School is now registering for an enticing array of spring classes for pupils of all ages.
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Find your humor groove on Bainbridge Island March 7 as The EDGE Improv offers imagination on demand, divined spontaneously from audience suggestions. The troupe’s riotous antics have inspired rave reviews from shrewd onlookers since the dawn of time. Audience member Val R. said, “These guys (and gals) are a hoot. I can’t possibly get enough of them.”
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Join us in the BPA Gallery March 6 for an artist reception and an enjoyable evening of art and friends. The March exhibit features abstract mixed media with a dominating force of recycled photography by Thendara Kida-Gee. Thendara obsesses over the mountains and the feeling of freedom they inspire as she contemplates her own “speck-like nature compared to the vastness of it all.”
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Newsday calls Fun Home “A blazingly original heartbreaker and a non-stop treasure of invention.” Fun Home traces the coming-of-age of lesbian author Alison Bechdel, from her youth, to her years at Oberlin College, and finally to the present, where Alison, now grown, is struggling to write her own graphic autobiography.
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We invite you to join us for an evening of love and joy on February 14 as Anzanga makes its 8th annual appearance as part of BPA’s Cultural Outreach Program. Celebrating 32 years of performing throughout the Northwest and globally, the troupe returns to perform the lively and beautiful melodies of Southern Africa, one night only at BPA.
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Bainbridge Performing Arts is pleased to announce that combined auditions for PRIDE AND PREJUDICE plus MACBETH will be held February 9 and 10, Sunday from 5:30 – 9:30 p.m. plus Monday from 6:40 – 9:30 p.m. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE includes roles for 8 – 10 actors, ages 18 and up, and MACBETH includes roles for 14 – 20 actors, ages 12 and up.
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“Head for Japan” this February as BPA’s Cultural Outreach Series brings the powerful and beautiful tones of Japanese Taiko Drumming and other Japanese instruments to the BPA stage. This concert is created and led by Japanese professional Taiko performers, Ringtaro Tateishi and Asako Tateishi. Since 2009, the two have led Taiko programs at the Seattle-based CHIKIRI & The School of TAIKO. Recommended for ages 5 and older.
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Constellation Choir and Bridges, a string orchestra, come together to present “Awakening,” a winter concert of works for choir and strings at BPA. The featured work on the program will be Sunrise Mass by Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo. Conducted by Mario Alejandro Torres, the work takes us on a journey through lyrical, lush, evocative, and stirring moments. The concert will also include works performed separately by Constellation Choir and Bridges.
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Join us for a unique concert filled with great and powerful works composed exclusively by women. These “Women of Power” went to great lengths to ensure that they had the same rights to work and to be acknowledged in the same way as their male counterparts. Works by Elfrida Andrée, Amy Beach, and Louise Farrenc yield a glimpse of the extraordinary, but often overlooked, contributions of women to orchestral music.
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Liven up the long winter days with a night out on Bainbridge Island February 1 as The EDGE Improv offers imagination on demand, divined spontaneously from audience suggestions. Audience member Tyler D. said, “The EDGE is reliably the funniest night out on Bainbridge!”
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In this body of work Mary McCann explores outcomes of events in the geologic story of our planet Earth – transformations that require time that humans cannot comprehend. Mary’s two-month exhibit of oils on panels continues through February 29 in the BPA Gallery.
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Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra is pleased to announce the winners of BSO’s 2020 Young Artist Concerto Competition. Yvette Kraft (violin) is the 2020 Winner of the Senior Division and Daniel Stein (cello) is the 2020 Winner of the Junior Division.
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