by gpafest2019 | Feb 4, 2022
Julie Fitzpatrick, our 2020 Artists’ Award recipient in Spoken Word, is working on a book form of the script of her play All the World’s a Stage: A Guilford (Pandemic) Love Story. She reports, “It includes background on how the piece was formed and the process of...
by gpafest2019 | Feb 4, 2022
The festival has received a $7,400 grant under a state program called the CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grants. The grant is the result of a collaboration between CT Humanities and the Connecticut Office of the Arts to help arts and cultural organizations...
by gpafest2019 | Feb 4, 2022
With three successful festival cycles under our belt, we’re looking for a small number of passionate and dedicated people to help us reach the next level of effectiveness and sustainability. Thanks to a tremendous amount of volunteer effort and terrific support from...
by gpafest2019 | Feb 4, 2022
Since 2019, a key element of the Guilford Performing Arts Festival has been commissioning new work and premiering it at the following year’s festival. To date, we’ve granted a total of $20,000 to eight Connecticut performing artists: playwrights Emily Breeze, Susan...
by gpafest2019 | Feb 4, 2022
Almost as soon as the Skyler Hagner Nonet left the stage after premiering Hagner’s jazz suite Invisible Cities at the festival in September, they headed into the studio to start recording it. Skyler tells us the band finished recording in the fall and that he’s hoping...
by gpafest2019 | Feb 4, 2022
Fresh from the premiere of their work Prudence Crandall and Sarah Harris: Whole-Souled Women at the Guilford Performing Arts Festival, Dimensional Dance was invited to perform a section of the piece for the 20th anniversary of the 5×5 Dance Festival in West...
