International Women's Day
Farm Arts Collective will host a free community gathering in celebration of International Women's Day. The 2026 theme for the United Nations International Women’s Day (IWD 2026) is “Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls.” The day calls for action to dismantle all barriers to equal justice: discriminatory laws, weak legal protections, and harmful practices and social norms that erode the rights of women and girls.
Farm Arts Collective’s event will feature scenes and music from Scattered Seeds of Troy a new feminist anti-war performance by Farm Arts Collective, along with guest presentations by women farmers and artists, and interactive seed planting activities. The event is sponsored in part by Women In Philanthropy (Wayne County Community Foundation).
Participants are invited bring baked goods to share. Coffee will be provided. The event is free and all genders are welcome.
Participants are also invited to bring any and all resource material that you feel is helpful for women and people Identifying as women to be displayed on our resource table.
My Bookish Friends
My Bookish Friends
A Literary Afternoon
Sunday, March 29 at 2 PM
Farm Arts Collective is launching a literary series in 2026 with book readings and signings by authors we admire and love.
Featuring book readings and conversation with Karen Malpede, LAST RADIANCE & Brad Krumholz, WHY DO ACTORS TRAIN? Moderated by Mimi McGurl.
Meet two authors who will read from their books that weave theatre, politics, embodiment of art, body, intellect, and spirit. An afternoon of readings, conversation, and food.
New York playwright, Karen Malpede says “Last Radiance is my love letter to the cultural avant-garde and pacifist left. This is my love letter to George Bartenieff, Julian Beck and so many more. This is my love letter to all of us who have sought a better world and live to make that happen.”
Theatre practitioner Brad Krumholz engages with contemporary ideas of theatre, neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, and philosophy. Why Do Actors Train? offers a new lens to re-examine the craft of acting, a framework to understand the art form as one that is fundamentally grounded in embodied experience.
No Reservation Required - Pay What You Can at the Door - Suggested Donation $10
Volunteer Supper & Sign Up
We welcome you (and yours!) to join us for a volunteer supper & sign up for our 2026 season. We cannot do what we do without our volunteers!
Come together around farm fresh food and learn about our exciting workshops, performances & events this year. There will be plenty of opportunities to sign up to volunteer for this jam packed season!
Scattered Seeds of Troy at The Greenhouse Project
Inspired by the ancient anti-war Greek tragedy The Trojan Women, director Tannis Kowalchuk is creating Scattered Seeds of Troy, a new, devised performance in collaboration with Jess Beveridge (Helen), Costanza Bugiani (Kassandra), Ginny Hack (Andromache), Kowalchuk (Hecuba) along with sound artist & musician Char McCutcheon and costume designer, Karen Flood.
Kowalchuk and team will launch the creative process with the questions: What seeds does each woman take with them when forced to leave their land? How do we find hope in a hopeless situation? How is human and seed migration vital to evolution, survival, and life?
Stay tuned for ticket information.
BIG Birthday BASH!
Tannis and Jess have BIG birthdays this Spring and the collective is throwing a party to celebrate!
Please join us for DJ music, cake, drinks, food, pin-the-tail-on-the-director, and more.
Tix are $60 or $40 or Pay-What-You-Can.
All proceeds to benefit the Farm Arts Collective season of programming.
Jazz on the Farm
Please join us for Jazz on the Farm with the Farm Arts All Stars. A very special evening with local & international musicians from the NY & PA area.
This event promises to be a beautiful setting for these world renowned musicians featuring: Will Sellenraad, Ben Street & others. Join us as we levitate the farm.
We are starting a Jazz on the Farm production fund to help cover artist fees and production costs for this exciting new program. Click below to donate NOW!
NEPA Gives
NEPA Gives is a 24-hour Online Giving Extravaganza!
For 24 hours—from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.—on the first Thursday in June every year, donors may make secure donations to their favorite local nonprofit organizations through the NEPA Gives online platform. Donations to participating nonprofits will be enhanced with bonus funds provided by NEPA Gives sponsors—making donor dollars stretch further! Nonprofits will also be eligible for cash prizes. Registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations serving residents in Northeastern Pennsylvania can participate in NEPA Gives. And, anyone can donate.
Lucy Joseph at The Cooperage Project
We are thrilled to be bring Lucy Joseph to The Cooperage Project after 2 sold out runs at Farm Arts Collective.
Lucy Joseph is an original performance by Farm Arts Collective based on the life of a 19th century gender non-conforming pioneer Lucy Ann Joseph Israel Lobdell. Written and directed by Mimi McGurl with contributed story and texts from author William Klaber, historical texts by L.A. Lobdell and others. The original musical performance features Jess Beveridge, Doug Rogers, Pam Arnold, John Roth, Annie Hat, Samantha Mehlman, Laura Moran. Editor and additional text by Mark Dunau.
Stay tuned for ticket information!
Farm Arts Presents: Venomous
Farm Arts Presents: Venomous
By Morgan McKenzie Kauffman
Directed by Marisol Rosa-Shapiro
Saturday, June 13 at 7:00pm
Who's got it right? The preppers or the protesters? The wizards or the prophets? The techo-futurists or the native wisdom keepers? And has anyone even asked the bees?!
Venomous is a solo show looking at our shared planet through differing realities: A venomologist who is on the brink of discovering a life-saving cure from the venom of a rare insect on the brink of climate-driven extinction....A self-injector's who’s been on the fringes of science and research for years, self-injecting snake venom in the hopes of living forever.... An AI programer whose belief that new technologies will lead to true global abundance is put to the test...A rare bee whose civilization abides by a very different code of ethics than the human’s. Through overhead projector art, storytelling and physical theatre virtuosity, we see how, despite these characters' hold wildly different definitions of 'a good life', their lives are intricately reliant on one another.
In a time of deep political division, the rise of the MAHA movement and naturalist fallacy, the destruction and opportunity provided by superhuman technologies, Venomous asks - if there is a future for this planet, who’s in it? The humans? The bees? The trees? The people we disagree with?
Tickets are $25 online and $30 at the door. There is a limited number of pay what you can tickets available at all performances.
Annual Juneteenth Celebration
Annual Juneteenth Celebration
Juneteenth is an important American holiday celebrating the abolishment of slavery in the United States. Join Farm Arts Collective and a local cast of actors, writers, and artists for an exciting premiere of a new short play that celebrates Juneteenth.
THE DAWN OF A NEW CENTURY
by Tasa Faronii-Butler
Directed by Oliver King
Featuring Crystal Tweed, John Neils, Robin Greywolf Henderson, Tasa Faronii-Butler and Moderated by Janus Adams
A short play that illuminates a conversation between W. E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington
Refreshments will be served.
$10 suggested donation
Farm Tour & Lunch with Greg Swartz
Join a walking tour across 24 acres of Willow Wisp Organic Farm. Led by farmer-owner Greg Swartz, participants will observe the crop diversity, irrigation systems, and the organic farming methods that focus on soil health, crop rotation, and cover-crops. The tour will be followed by a farm-fresh lunch with a Q and A with the farmer.
Flower Cut & Design Workshop with Tannis & Jess
The day begins with coffee at the barn followed by a led tour by Willow Wisp flower farmers, Tannis Kowalchuk and Jess Beveridge. The attendees will visit the annual and perennial flower fields and learn best practices in growing cut flowers, our favorite varieties, and tips on post-harvest methods.
-Wear your farm boots!
-Bring clippers or scissors. We have a few pairs!
-Bring a vase or vessel to bring your bouquet home.
-Light refreshments will be served
-Please NO pets!
Dream on the Farm #7
Stay tuned for further details and ticket information!
Farm Arts Collective’s primary performance project is DREAM ON THE FARM, a decade-long performance cycle focused on climate change. Directed by artistic director Tannis Kowalchuk, the collective is creating one new climate change play annually from 2020-2030.
Dream on the Farm #7
Stay tuned for further details and ticket information!
Farm Arts Collective’s primary performance project is DREAM ON THE FARM, a decade-long performance cycle focused on climate change. Directed by artistic director Tannis Kowalchuk, the collective is creating one new climate change play annually from 2020-2030.
Flower Cut & Design Workshop with Tannis & Jess
The day begins with coffee at the barn followed by a led tour by Willow Wisp flower farmers, Tannis Kowalchuk and Jess Beveridge. The attendees will visit the annual and perennial flower fields and learn best practices in growing cut flowers, our favorite varieties, and tips on post-harvest methods.
-Wear your farm boots!
-Bring clippers or scissors. We have a few pairs!
-Bring a vase or vessel to bring your bouquet home.
-Light refreshments will be served
-Please NO pets!
Flower Cut & Design Workshop with Tannis & Jess
The day begins with coffee at the barn followed by a led tour by Willow Wisp flower farmers, Tannis Kowalchuk and Jess Beveridge. The attendees will visit the annual and perennial flower fields and learn best practices in growing cut flowers, our favorite varieties, and tips on post-harvest methods.
-Wear your farm boots!
-Bring clippers or scissors. We have a few pairs!
-Bring a vase or vessel to bring your bouquet home.
-Light refreshments will be served
-Please NO pets!
Jazz on the Farm
Please join us for Jazz on the Farm with the Farm Arts All Stars. A very special evening with local & international musicians from the NY & PA area.
This event promises to be a beautiful setting for these world renowned musicians featuring: Will Sellenraad, Ben Street & others. Join us as we levitate the farm.
We are starting a Jazz on the Farm production fund to help cover artist fees and production costs for this exciting new program. Click below to donate NOW!
Seed Saving Workshop
Join us for a seed saving workshop with Adrianne Picciano owner of The Dirt Diva Garden Design
Adrianne aka The Dirt Diva will highlight the life cycle of flowering plants including vegetables.
You'll learn how to recognize when certain plants are in seed bearing stage and how to collect the seeds in late fall.
You'll learn how to harvest, clean store and replant seeds from your garden.
The class will be hands on and we will get dirty!
Space is limited for this class! Reserve your spot today!
Scattered Seeds of Troy
Inspired by the ancient anti-war Greek tragedy The Trojan Women, director Tannis Kowalchuk is creating Scattered Seeds of Troy, a new, devised performance in collaboration with Jess Beveridge (Helen), Costanza Bugiani (Kassandra), Ginny Hack (Andromache), Kowalchuk (Hecuba) along with sound artist & musician Char McCutcheon and costume designer, Karen Flood.
Kowalchuk and team will launch the creative process with the questions: What seeds does each woman take with them when forced to leave their land? How do we find hope in a hopeless situation? How is human and seed migration vital to evolution, survival, and life?
Stay tuned for ticket information.
Soup Making Workshop
Soup-Making for the winter months. Participants will work together under the soup tutelage of Tannis Kowalchuk. Two kinds of soups will be prepared using farm fresh vegetables from Willow Wisp Organic Farm.
In the farm kitchen, together, participants will learn the recipe and cook soup together.
Bring Tupperware for your share. Space is limited for this class.
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