7 Stages Year in Review 2021-2022
We’d like to take a moment to share some of the highlights of our recent 43rd season. Thank you for joining us when you were able.
You are the entire reason we do it.
7 Stages is no stranger to digging into the messy topics that often divide us. As this season honored the work of US Poet Laureate and Mvskoke (Muscogee Creek Nation) Artist Joy Harjo and her book, An American Sunrise, we engaged in vital conversations that, at times, were uncomfortable. For over 40 years our space has occupied the unceded land of the Creek and Muskogee people. This year’s work has taught us about that land and led us to direct action. We have implemented a $1 per ticket Land Use Fee for all tickets sold to our events. These funds are donated directly to Indigenous organizations doing the work. It is our responsibility to reflect on our history, to confront our own complacency in colonialism, and to learn ways we can all better care for our earth and each other.
Our 43rd season offered brave stories and platforms to connect and create necessary pathways towards healing. This is a critical time to leverage our unique moment in history to create post-pandemic culture that honors the past, acknowledges pain, fear, and inequity, and ultimately sets us all up for sunrises that brighten our future.
We are so grateful to our artists and staff. The work they were able to do in the face of such daunting obstacles was incredible. We thank our patrons and sponsors too, for without their support in all forms for over 4 decades, we wouldn’t be able to share this work.
Our mission of focusing on the social, political, and spiritual values of our culture is perhaps more relevant now than when Del and Faye began
over 40 years ago. Your support means the world to us and allows us to continue developing new playwrights with new methods of collaboration. Whether it is attending in person or on-line, participating in one of our many discussions around the work onstage, sharing an event on social media, or donating. We cherish all of it.
We have some exciting things in store for our upcoming 44th season. We hope you’ll join us however you are able. Please consider donating as we return to full capacity to help us continue this important work in our community, and most of all thank you!
