Director's Statement
Flint, MI is hungry for a place like this…and she already has it.
The Flint Farmers’ Market, a WPA-built part of Flint’s landscape since 1940, is community in action. Local food, local business, local people coming together to nourish the Flint community. This project wants to tell a good story about Flint – something that’s nourishing about Flint, MI – in order to counter-act the negative stories the media tells, as well as those we may unknowingly hold in our hearts.
The market is a place where we know our neighbors and the growers of our food by name. This market is Flint’s town square, a place where we safely come together for good food, good talk, and good people. Even though we may collide, we see each other…we remember when…we taste something good about our future.
This project is generously funded by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Flint Farmers’ Market Website: www.flintfarmersmarket.com
NOURISH: The Flint Farmers’ Market Site-Specific Theatre Project
Creative Director
Janet Haley, University of Michigan-Flint
Playwright
Michael Rohd, Northwestern University
Managing Director
Kimiko Shimoda
Produced by Flint Youth Theatre, in alliance with The University of Michigan-Flint, Boyer Scholars Program for the Scholarship of Engagement
Market Theatre Collective Members: Connor Coyne, Rodney Creech, Nic Custer, Destiny Dunn, Janet Haley, Andrew Morton, Brittany Reed, Michael Rohd, Kimiko Shimoda, Jeremy Winchester
Market Theatre Collective Research Phase: February-July 2012
Script in Development: Summer 2012-Winter 2013
Production opens at Flint Farmers’ Market site: Fall 2013
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