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Essay
Meeting at the Corner of Chaos and Divine
by JD Stokely
9 June 2026
Podcast
Doing It For Us When We Do It In Community
by Martin Boross, Tara Khozein, Jeremy Eaton, GG Griffith
27 January 2026
Podcast
Re-sensitizing to Place in Site-Specific Performance
by Tara Khozein, Martin Boross, Matthew Glassman, Wanda Strukus
20 January 2026
A promotional graphic for MicroCosmos.
Essay
5 March 2025

Interdisciplinary artists and producers Jennie Hahn and Sharon Mansur are connecting performance and community through their work in Indigenous-settler relations and Arab American artist communities, respectively. In this MicroCosmos encounter, they consider the practices and experiments at the heart of their work.

A promotional graphic for MicroCosmos.
Essay
24 February 2025

The MicroCosmos project convenes artists who venture into the inner dimensions of artistic practice to be in dialogue and right relation with the outer context in which we live. In this introductory encounter, the project's co-curators surface the micro in their own practice.

Essay

A River and Recovery in Many Acts

19 September 2017

Maine artist Jennie Hahn explores environmental stewardship in Maine’s Penobscot River Watershed with the performance project IN KINSHIP and shares her three guiding principles for making art in a time of climate change.

Essay
25 September 2016

The trajectory of playwright Tammy Ryan’s play Lost Boy in Whole Foods about Sudanese refugees in America and how a play about refugees plays today.

Video
Friday 28 August - Sunday 30 August 2015
Fayette, ME, United States

The Network of Ensemble Theaters (NET) presented the NET 2015 National Gathering livestreamed on the HowlRound TV channel at howlround.tv Friday 28 August - Sunday 30 August from Camp Winnebago in Fayette, Maine.

Photo for Sweet Dreams, Mr. Heroin.
Essay
28 November 2014

Amy Merrill writes about Sweet Dreams, Mr. Heroin and the value of presenting this piece at a substance abuse recovery center in Lewiston, Maine.

A candid photo of participants.
Essay
9 June 2026

In October 2025, eighteen artists gathered in Maine for a weekend of sharing artistic practice as part of the MicroCosmos project. JD Stokely reflects on the embodied learnings of the convening, what it meant to come together at a crossroads, and how this was only the beginning of what’s to come. 

A promotional graphic for Bridge Between Realities.
Podcast
27 January 2026

How do our own needs inform and drive our work with community? In this episode, Tara Khozein and Martin Boross sit down with theatre artist Jeremy Louise Eaton and journalist Graham “GG” Griffith at Chocolate Church Arts Center after Memory Bath, a multidisciplinary site-specific theatre piece on place memory.

A promotional graphic for Bridge Between Realities.
Podcast
20 January 2026

How can theatre artists enter a space as outsiders and create work there in a way that does not fall into our habits of colonialism and consumerism? In this episode, Tara and Martin sit down with Wanda Strukus and Matthew Glassman at Chocolate Church Arts Center in Bath, Maine.

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