Coming out of the month-long Black Joy Project, JAG Productions will share its creative energy and healing power throughout the Upper Valley and beyond virtually this year during its annual fundraiser Juke Joint on November 14.
The Black Joy Project is the ultimate experiment on joy as a liberatory practice, particularly: Black Folks in The American Theatre. It is the audacious indulgence of pleasure, leisure and healing in the art-making process. It is the sweet-spot between rest and rigor. It decenters the Western gaze and sources from black and indigenous practices and sensibilities in the storytelling process.
JAG Productions Receives $100,000 COVID Relief Grant from The Bay & Paul Foundations
After having to indefinitely suspend its Off-Broadway run of Esai’s Table at Cherry Lane Theatre in New York due to the Covid-19 pandemic, JAG Productions has continued to garner support in the community and afar in order to keep Vermont and New Hampshire’s only Black theater alive.
A STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO THE MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD
The murder of George Floyd, Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery —and countless others—is part of a long history of anti-black state-sanctioned violence in the United States. This violence is woven into the fabric of our nation through structural attacks on Black, Indigenous, POC and LGBTQ members of our society. We must actively work to end it.
HELP US KEEP JAG OPEN AND ABLE TO SERVE THE UPPER VALLEY
In the midst of this coronavirus moment, you may know by now the heartbreaking news that JAG’s co-production with Esai’s Table at Cherry Lane Theater in New York is indefinitely postponed. JAG Productions is tremendously vulnerable and is experiencing the fierce urgency of this moment. Please consider making a meaningful donation to support our work at JAG Productions, as we face the financial blowback resulting from the coronavirus.
The founder of JAG Productions describes the theater company’s newest play, "Esai's Table," as a story of three young men on a mystical journey. They are guided by another mysterious man who gives the play its title.
JAG Productions closed its inaugural season with an enormous honor: as the 2017 recipient of the New England Theatre Conference's (NETC) Regional Award for Outstanding Achievement in the American Theatre. The award is given once a year in recognition of regional theaters that have perpetuated theatrical excellence.