The LIMINAL Series
Li / min/ al : a transitional or initial stage of a process.
This series aims to support artists in the in between; the space between idea and result. So much of traditional art making and production is at the mercy of strict timelines, financial ‘bottom’ lines and programming beholden to tickets sales. By liberating this process from those exclusionary parameters we are producing art in a more equitable and accessible way; we are reinventing how, who and what gets created, produced and witnessed in our communities and we are bringing important, transformative stories to life in The LIMINAL Series.
IN THE STUDIO
Ritual
Created and Performed By Aberdeen Stuart
What is it like to grow up in a high-demand cult like group?
Ritual reflects on a childhood spent in Masonic lodges and performing ritual works. Reaching across decades to examine what truths we can still find within, Aberdeen weaves their lived experience with stories from their two siblings and two grandmothers, all past members. Looking closely at the gender roles and expectations as they pressurize over time. Secrets will be revealed as Aberdeen takes long lost power back into their hands. This pieces moves through the theatrical space authentically and bring to life their unique perspective with urgency. A reckoning, a remembering of what it takes to leave.
COMING TO FROM THE GROUND UP NEW WORKS FESTIVAL JULY 2026
Hoy es la Envidia de los Muertos or Now is the Envy of the Dead
Created and Performed By: S Recavarren Franco
Written in the aftermath of their mother’s death, the artist confronts grief, cultural and intergenerational trauma, and the complexity of identity across language, borders, and religion & customs. They excavate their family history and seek comfort in Peruvian myths & arts in an attempt to grasp the turbulent, mysterious and mythic figures in their life. Hoy es la Envidia de los Muertos or Now is the Envy of the Dead is a bilingual exploration of the pain we just can't seem to shake from our bones, and a celebration of what it means to choose life.
COMING TO FROM THE GROUND UP NEW WORKS FESTIVAL JULY 2026
CHEMO BRAIN
Created by: Kathleen Cahill
"Chemo Brain" is the working title of a project which is meant to be a truthful, irreverent, dramatic portrait of being a cancer patient. Kathleen became curious about creating this new work in the throes of a second bout with the disease, when she began to look for writing about cancer which would help her understand (and accept) what life as a cancer patient is really like. But the search was fruitless - where was she to go for guidance, for understanding, for help, how was she to find peace with the big C and if and when the time came, to die from it. Well, she has lived to tell the tell of it all - from a deep desire -- a need -- not to hide from the disease but to understand and face it. Kathleen combine science, language, emotion, experience. And (of course) gallows humor - into a striking new work that will grab you right at the center.
COMING TO FROM THE GROUND UP NEW WORKS FESTIVAL JULY 2026
FIRST TIMES
Created and Performed by Laura Cannon
Of course, we all know there is a first time for everything, but have you ever considered that anything can be a first time for something? In First Times Laura Cannon will guide you through the mental gymnastics that she uses to keep dreaming big even when the road ahead doesn’t look all that promising. A parfait of humor, movement and hazy Slacker-era memories, First Times will ask the heavy questions and answer none of them. At least it will be fun. Hey, if the existential dread doesn’t get us, the high-fructose corn syrup certainly will.
COMING TO FROM THE GROUND UP NEW WORKS FESTIVAL JULY 2026