PRIME Productions Outreach Events

Board of Directors hosted a Meet the Advisors event!

PRIME had a terrific get together in September to introduce our Board to our Advisors and brainstorm ways to move the company forward. We met at EaTo, an exciting new restaurant in East Town Minneapolis with amazing soft serve gelato!

Westminster Presbyterian Church/ Hennepin Library Magnet Senior Center

By combining and leveraging resources, both the Library and Westminster serve the seniors in our community with programs ranging from chair yoga and healthy diets to board game competitions and book discussions. PRIME Productions introduced a series Staged Readings in 2019 with professional actors along with feedback and lively discussions about the value and relevance of the material from the members of the Magnet program. PRIME Readings will return in 2021.

MARJORIE PRIME by Jordan Harrison PARK SQUARE THEATRE – ANDY BOSS THRUST STAGE

April 28, 2019

Professor Maria Gini from the University of Minnesota Department of Computer Science and Engineering specializing in robotics and artificial intelligence was interviewed by Laurie Fitz from CONNECTIONS RADIO am950 and joined by lead actor of MARJORIE PRIME, Candace Barrett Birk.

May 11, 2019

Marysue Moses from Ebenezer Memory Care, discussed the creative and clinical ways of treating dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, including how to counsel family, friends, and caregivers.

May 17, 2019

Minnesota Women’s Press Publisher/Editor Mikki Morrissette hosted a guest panel focusing on the topic of ‘Endings” and how our society needs a re-set about how we (don’t) talk about death, the dying, the elderly, the grieving, and the chronically and terminally ill. Women from the Death Café, a global organization with the mission of increasing comfort with death through public conversation circles, invited us to welcome death to live more consciously — to allow fear and grief to also give birth to joy.

TWO DEGREES by Tira Palmquist at GUTHRIE THEATRE – DOWLING STAGE

Interactive Climate Change Lobby Display

Mourning Global Warming is an interactive environmental social practice project by multidisciplinary L.A. artist Sarita Zaleha, whose work explores human perception of the environment and our understanding of climate change. The Mourning Global Warming Storm Flags have been exhibited extensively across the United States as well as in Iceland, Canada, Sweden, and Germany. Participants embroider the names of hurricanes and typhoons and completed embroideries are sewn into patchwork flags that are carried and displayed at climate change events. Two Degrees attendees were ask to sign pledges as to what they would change in their day-to-day life to help reduce the progression of climate change. The pledges were exhibited next to the flags each performance and several hundred were collected by the end of the run.

October 7, 2018

California Playwright, Tira Palmquist was interviewed by Elena Giannetti about the larger themes of the play, specifically Climate Change & Grieving and how she researched to find the information she needed to present the conflicts in the play.

October 19, 2018

Dr. Louisa Bradtmiller from Macalester College spoke following the performance. Professor Bradtmiller is a paleo climatologist/paleoceanographer interested in the ocean’s role in climate change over glacial-interglacial timescales. She discussed her ongoing research uses ocean sediments to reconstruct past changes in ocean biogeochemistry and nutrient cycling, with a focus on the transfer of carbon between the ocean and atmosphere during periods of past climate change and her recent research into changes in major monsoon systems on glacial-interglacial timescales as well as during abrupt climate transitions.

LITTLE WARS by Steven McCasland at MIXED BLOOD THEATRE

May 7, 2017

Patric Richarson, Fashion Historian and known as The Laundry Evangelist spoke about the vintage clothes worn in Little Wars and how the fabrics were created in the 1940’s and maintained in the past and present.

May 12, 2017

Laurie Fitz from CONNECTIONS RADIO am950 interviews NY playwright Steven Carl McCasland about his idea of bringing famous female writers together in a fictional salon and how he created the characters based on his research.