The Arts Uprise Festival

The Arts Uprise Resistance Theatre returns for a night of original one-act plays and music. The Uprise's first production was in June at the Millibo. In November, an Uprise production at the Manitou Art Center joined the nationwide anti-authoritarianism "Fall of Freedom" movement, with monologue, music, theatre, and a singing frog. This production at the MAT will feature some of the area's finest actors and directors and musicians, using their talents to entertain and inspire the resistance movement. All of the Uprise playwrights, performers, directors and producers work pro-bono to raise money for organizations being defunded. This one will raise money for the MAT and Rocky Mountain PBS.

What is the Arts Uprise?

It’s both a movement and an invitation – a movement to express what we feel about this moment in America, and an invitation to other creatives to make their own Uprise.

Uprise began with a meeting of mostly theater people at the Manitou Art Center. It began with a collective need, a collective rage, a collective drive to DO SOMETHING. The need to channel our creative expression to both keep ourselves sane and to provide some comfort to others who feel the same way.

One of the concerns at this initial meeting centered on the obvious question: “Aren’t we just preaching to the choir?”

Yes we are. But you know what? Our choir has been taking a beating these past six months, and they could use some comfort, some laughs, some insights and some entertainment.

We hope that this first Arts Uprise does that for you.

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This calendar listing is brought to you by Peak Radar, the Pikes Peak region's one-stop, online website for arts and entertainment events, powered by the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region.