Summer Program 2008
Heartwood in the Hills Summer Program July 7 - 11 was a collaboration with Energy Express and Calhoun County Heads-UP! This project was supported by Grant # 2006-FL-FX-0325 awarded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice.
December Celebration
The December Celebration is an annual event showcasing student and faculty work completed during the fall program and is one of Heartwood's important fund raisers. The 16th Annual December Celebration will be held on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008.
Wood Festival
For fourteen years Heartwood in the Hills ended it's Spring Program with students,faculty and alumni joining in the Wood Festival Parade and performed in front of the Calhoun County Courthouse.
20th Anniversary Celebration
On September 7, 2003 175 people helped Heartwood celebrate its 20th anniversary. Students former students, friends and supporters attended the all-day event.
Productions
Since 1985, Heartwood has mounted seven major touring productions. All Heartwood productions have been multi-media affairs, incorporating music, original masks and artwork, dance and drama, and often slides, puppets and video components. The shows consist of choreography, music, and puppets, all with original scripts written by Jude Binder.
Heartwood uses its theatre work to address issues of social justice, to strive to promote critical thinking, and to spark a desire to know more and to change things for the better. Theatre productions have examined the impact of environmental pollution (Earth, Air, Fire, Water, 1985, and Goldie’s Dream, 1989), the dumping of out-of-state garbage (Goldie and the Magic Scissors, 1988), racism (Red, Yellow, Blue, 1986 and 1987), child labor (Broken Bough , 1990), homeless children (Song of the Sidewalk, 1993), domestic violence (Field of Flowers, 1995 - 2006).
The making of Broken Bough was documented by WNPB-TV, Morgantown, West Virginia. The five-part series, entitled “ACT UP: The Story of a Performance,” is used as an educational tool by public school teachers across West Virginia and the nation. “ACT UP” received several prestigious awards, and airs regularly on public television.
| Work on the video Field Of Flowers was completed in November 2006. Begun in 1995, Field of Flowers debuted on Saturday, Nov. 18, at the West Virginia Cultural Center in Charleston |
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It is funded by grants from the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, the West Virginia Commission on the Arts and individual donors.
Field of Flowers is a collaboration with the West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Ethel Caffee Austin, the state’s preeminent Gospel musician, and other artists. |
Special Events
Heartwood often hosts special events, intensive workshops, and celebrations. In 1995, Heartwood hosted a children's peace festival, marking the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.
Heartwood’s faculty and students are often invited to display their masks and perform for other groups like the Benedum Foundation at venues such as the West Virginia Department of Culture and History in Charleston, West Virginia, Appalshop in Whitesburg, Kentucky, local public schools, and county festivals.