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Pieces

Susan DiPronio

Details

Categories: Immersive/Interactive Experience, Storytelling

Dates: September 6, 2023 - September 15, 2023

Run Time: 40 mins

Venue: The Icebox Project Space

Overview

“Pieces” is a collection of audio performances gathered from over 17 years of memoir writing workshops facilitated by Susan DiPronio who strives to create Art For Social Change. It is an archive of the shared stories serving as a healing place for the storytellers and the communities from which they come. “Pieces” seeks to both educate and to inform. Some of the earlier workshops were funded by The Leeway Foundation.

The “Audience/Listeners” will be able to hear/experience the tracks of the stories wearing earbuds. It is Free to experience. Donations will be accepted on behalf of “Project Safe” – Affinity based harm reduction for women, queer and trans people involved in the street economies of Philly.

Cannonball, produced by Almanac Dance Circus Theatre, is the first and largest independent festival hub of the Philadelphia Fringe that presents risk-taking independent artists in back-to-back performances next to delicious lounge spaces, fostering creative collisions and community conversation.

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About the Artist

Susan DiPronio is a queer published writer of poetry, plays, prose, one-time houseless and a cancer warrior. An award winning analog photographer, recipient of ‘The Art for Change Grant’ and ‘The Transformation Award’ from The Leeway Foundation for conducting memoir writing workshops with women identifying, the houseless, cancer warriors, adults and children with HIV. Their plays, films and photography have appeared in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, in New York City, in Boston and Toronto, Baltimore, India and Chile. They live in Philadelphia and founded “Pink Hanger Presents” dedicated to giving voice to the stories of our lives.