Ampersand Live
Storytelling Event
How can leading artists, activists, and thinkers push the boundaries of conservation, challenge beliefs, and help a community deepen its connection to place? This is the challenge of the Ampersand Live event, an evening of storytelling, presented by a conservation nonprofit in the Pacific Northwest.
My roles: associate producer in 2020, vice President of communications & marketing for the host nonprofit (Forterra) 2019 and 2020
Collaborators: Yolanda Altamirano (assoc. producer); Jillian Brown (assoc. producer), Justin Devine (graphic design), E. Ryan Mcmackin (editor, producer, videographer), Tomo Nakayama (producer, curator, performer), Paula Wrzecionowska (assoc. producer); See full list of performers, below.
Deliverables: live and recorded 2019 event; 2020 video production; podcasts
Staged & unstaged.
In 2019 the event was live onstage at Seattle’s historic Moore Theater with an audience of ~1,800. In 2020, the event went virtual and was recorded in places indoors and outdoors across the region.
Performers: Etta Cosey, Degenerate Art Ensemble, Christopher Icasiano, E. J. Koh, Heather Thomas Loepp (Santee Sioux), Amanda Morgan, Clyde Petersen, Emily Pinckney, Juan Alonso-Rodríguez, Shaina Shepherd
Performers: Ken Workman | 4th generation grandson of Chief Sealth , Paul Chiyokten Wagner | Musician , Anna Brones | Illustrator/Author , Whitney Mongé | Singer/Songwriter , Natalie Mutter | Dancer , Stefan Gruber | Animator, Neil Welch | Saxophonist, Greg Lundgren | Museum of Museums, Dakota Camacho | Multi-Disciplinary Artist , Tamara Power-Drutis | Storyteller, Black Stax | Musical Duo, Inye Wokoma | Visual Artist, Shin Yu Pai | Poet, Sera Cahoone | Singer/Songwriter, Judy Twedt | Climate Scientist, House Band: Tomo Nakayama, Alina To and Chris Icasiano