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Community Conversations – Youth
As part of Festival UnBound, participants were invited to mealtime conversations at Cafe the Lodge, guided discussions of our festival themes. Casually nicknamed as “Lunch with Christopher,” these chats were facilitated by Ensemble Member Christopher Shorr and accompanied by special guests from the festival company. Now, in the months following ...
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Community Conversations – Health
As part of Festival UnBound, participants were invited to mealtime conversations at Cafe the Lodge, guided discussions of our festival themes. Casually nicknamed as “Lunch with Christopher,” these chats were facilitated by Ensemble Member Christopher Shorr and accompanied by special guests from the festival company. Now, in the months following ...
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Voices of the Community
I wish I could say that I stood here, in view of the Steelstacks bellowing smoke into the air, feeling the bustle of that beating-heart industry of this town. However, I was not around 30 years ago to witness that… nor was I around 20 years ago when Bethlehem Steel ...
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Community Conversations – discussion, analysis, synthesis
Festival UnBound has grown out of ongoing dialogue with the community. Many of Touchstone’s projects develop this way– out of story gathering or interviews related to major questions with which the community is wrestling. Although most of the “headline” events in the festival are arts events– concerts, plays, theatrical spectacles, participatory experiences– there ...
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Bethlehem, Through Our Eyes
“I’ve been working at Community Action for four years now. Also, my church is a block away, so I really enjoy the ability, on lunch hour, to go to mass, and still be part of the neighborhood, to be someone that works here and someone that worships here. “I dislike ...
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Bethlehem, Through Our Eyes
“I was seventeen years old when I came over here to the southside, and now I’m 70 years old, so I’ve been living here for a long time. I thought it was beautiful here. […] When I first came here, I saw this house, and I said ‘This is going ...
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Join the Festival UnBound Team: Volunteer!
Festival UnBound is the biggest undertaking Touchstone Theatre has ever dared dream up. The idea emerged in 2015 during our last community-based project, Journey from the East, and has been in development for the past three years. As we near the 10-day festival, coming October 4-13 with its 20+ events, ...
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Flavor of Bethlehem – Food Sustainability in Bethlehem
Food sustainability is an area of environmentalism that is often overlooked in the grand scheme of things. Bethlehem, however, has taken action in this field to make the ways of distributing and making food more sustainable for the whole community. Since food is such an important part of the way ...
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Closing Ceremony – making our pledges to the future
How do you end ten days of epic art-making and community discussions around where we want to go as a community and how we might get there? Why, with an even more epic Closing Ceremony. Taking over Payrow Plaza, the Closing Ceremony will invite the entire community to come see ...
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