Do Not Miss This Incredible Film
After many audience members asked major US theater festival, the Ko Festival of Performance, how they could share “Canary in a Gold Mine” with their friends and family, Ko has decided to make the streaming event available on demand.
The first public in-person screening is Thursday March 3, 2022, at the University of Albany School of Public Health Auditorium. Bring “Canary” to your local university, library, theater or drive-in! After watching the film, U of Albany students are invited to delve into these post-show discussion questions
Contact “Canary” to bring this event to your local university, library, theatre, drive-in or organize a streaming event with local stakeholders and national experts!
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The Ko Festival of Performance is sharing “Canary in a Gold Mine” as a streaming event available on demand.
Piti Theatre’s “Canary in a Gold Mine”
The Ko Festival of Performance begins 2022 with a pre-Valentine’s Day online treat: “Canary in a Gold Mine.” Not Zoom Theater, but made especially for the web, Canary… uses a comedic lens to explore fatherhood, marriage and environmental health.
Locked down during COVID and desperate to make theatre, Piti Theatre’s Jonathan Mirin turns the camera on . . . himself, telling the story of the mysterious symptoms his life and production partner, Swiss choreographer/designer Godeliève Richard began experiencing in 2010. Increasingly unable to leave the house and take care of their new baby, the couple contends with the growing likelihood that her illness is environmental – and inescapable. Richard‘s severe neurological symptoms are triggered by exposure to EMFs, the wireless radiation that the rest of society is passionately embracing to connect phones, devices and upload cat videos. As her electro-hypersensitivity (a.k.a. “microwave sickness”) worsens, Mirin finds himself compelled to become a public health advocate, activist and petitioner in a landmark legal case against the FCC. The result: a show that’s a 21st century love letter as well as a wakeup call to the risks of 24/7 wireless exposure.
KoFest Artistic Director Sabrina Hamilton says, “At first I was worried that this might be an earnest public health lecture, but I’ve been watching the daily footage, and it’s really entertaining, with wonderfully inventive camera work. Anyone who has experienced chronic illness themselves or helped a loved one in crisis will find comfort and laughter in this show. It’s a fun and compelling dive into the opposing forces of corporate profit vs. public safety.” Mirin thinks of this show as his contribution to a new genre that’s “like theater…but flatter.”
Ko is funded in part by the New England States Touring program of the New England Foundation for the Arts made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies. supported by the New England Foundation for the Arts through the New England Arts Resilience Fund, part of the United States Regional Artis Resilience Fund, an initiative of the U.S. Regional Arts Organizations and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with major funding from the federal CARES Act from the National Endowment for the Arts. We receive additional support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council; a state agency; the Amherst & Pelham Cultural Councils, local agencies supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. HilltownFamilies.org is a Ko Festival 2022 Media Sponsor.
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