Home Stretch

NEW PERFORMANCE: Music for the Equinox

Father-daughter duet Elm Duo performs magic-themed music for the autumnal equinox from the front porch. We like to call our style folk cabaret, an eclectic blend of acoustic music from bluegrass to jazz to klezmer and more.

https://www.homestretch.art/performances/music-for-the-equinox

INSIDE LOOK: Front Porch Bingo

"Jen Plants and her family have been staging “Front Porch Bingo” on occasional Friday nights, inviting neighbors and others to gather outside their home in lawn chairs for a rousing, 30-minute game of bingo.

The family has always loved bringing people together. Before the pandemic, Plants had mapped out a plan to perform a play for audiences in every room in her house. But with the arrival of COVID-19, squeezing a crowd into her living room was no longer possible.

Eventually, as COVID restrictions loosened and the weather warmed, she turned to bingo. Plants announced the event on a blackboard on her front sidewalk and purchased props, prizes, and even a bingo wardrobe.

“What I have missed most about live performance is that sitting together with a group of people and laughing collectively, or sitting with a group of people and feeling that tension,” she said. “And you get both those feelings with bingo.”

Friendly but also impressively competitive, the crowd that now assembles twice a month for a "Home Stretch" version of “Front Porch Bingo” vies for an array of zany prizes — from a life-size cutout of President Joe Biden to a giant inflatable roller skate.

“We go for the comedy,” Plants said. “It’s just about having fun, about bringing some joy.”'

From the Wisconsin State Journal: https://madison.com/wsj/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/watch-now-madison-artists-venture-out-with-home-stretch/article_8d4c7f2d-27ed-5796-907c-502f6585ca73.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share

Front Porch Bingo: https://www.homestretch.art/performances/front-porch-bingo""

Thanks, UW-Madison School of Education!

'Home Stretch' festival adds new performances - School of Education ‘Home Stretch’ festival adds new performances August 11, 2021 Spatula&Barcode has announced five additional participatory artworks in the “Home Stretch” festival, bringing the total number of projects to 17. “Home Stretch” is a “distributed festival” of small artistic acts taking pla...