How do children in Ukraine see their world and their future after two years of war?
RealTime Arts heads into 2024 embarking on its next large-scale “hyperlocal-meets-international” project, along with presenting revisiting a couple of past performances.
The Pittsburgh-based company is collaborating with art therapists working in Ukraine through partnerships with DTCare, local Ukrainian artists, and Pittsburgh families with Ukrainian roots to mark the two years since the Russia invasion, on February 24, 2022.
Artistic directors Molly Rice and Rusty Thelin announced that RealTime Arts is “following the blue bird (an enduring cross-cultural emblem of hope + happiness) to create a new music-theater work sourced by children’s art, folk songs + stories, letters sent across the ocean, and admiration for the young minds with whom we share the world.”
Rice has been invited to the Bogliasco Fellowship in April, where she and Thelin will begin research and writing “in earnest” to complete the project.
Other 2024 plans include an April return for Khūrākī – a culinary/theatrical work “designed to challenge Americans’ perceptions about Afghanistan, while supporting a group of Afghan female refugees in their goal to start a collectively-owned food business in Pittsburgh.”
October will mark the return of the true-crime cabaret “Angelmakers: Songs for Female Serial Killers, “with an exciting new cast at a beloved Pittsburgh venue.”
While the artistic directors are at work on a new project, “We’ll not only be opening up our People of Pittsburgh series to nominations from former PoP audiences … but also inviting new artist teams to create their own original theatrical portraits of local subjects.”
For updates on RealTime in 2024, visit https://realtimeinterventions.org/.
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