Phame Academy

Our primary performance focus of this fiscal year was the presentation for our first big staged production since the pandemic, stop making sense, a tribute concert to the talking heads, performed at revolution hall in portland, oregon in august of 2023. While we cast this show in the winter of 2023 and began rehearsals in the spring, the majority of the rehearsals, as well as the two performances, occurred in july and august of 2023.

Under the leadership of our new performance & partnerships director, we introduced our first ring-a-ding-ding winter concert. This event expanded on our tradition of offering a winter concert event by adding non-musical acts including performances by our comedy troupe and dance ensemble. Also, under the leadership of this new director, we introduced and presented three "suitcase workshops" where phame staff taught workshops to students at other disability-serving organizations. Lastly, we invested new time and attention in our "gig" program where local organizations can book our performers; we booked and performed two gigs.

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