Coming Soon!
The 4th Hurricane Gap Community Performance Institute July 23-25, 2021 

To reserve a place at the institute, including the performance, please click here.

If you have ideas for workshops you’d like to present or workshops you’d like to see at HGCPI, it’s not too late!
​Contact khandzlik0001@kctcs.edu with your ideas.
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The 4th Hurricane Gap Community Performance Institute July 23-25, 2021 
Will Be At Pine Mountain Settlement School presented by Clear Creek Creative & Higher Ground in partnership with Carpetbag Theater & Roadside Theater featuring; Full Performances Clear Creek Creative’s Ezell:  Ballad of a Land Man & related workshops with the lead artists Excerpts of Higher Ground’s 9th production, Shift Change and Carpetbag Theater’s COVID Stories  & related workshops with the lead artists Conversations on Generational Change & Leadership in community-based theaters throughout the region Clowning and Circus Arts  Facilitated as well as informal space to explore your individual and/or group work in community as well as meet / reconnect with other community performance practitioners throughout the region!

​To reserve performance-only tickets for Clear Creek Creative’s Ezell experience on Sunday afternoon open to the public, contact cb@clearcreekcreative.net

Questions or additional information, contact khandzlik0001@kctcs.edu

​Support has been provided by: Brook & Pam Smith The Chorus Foundation National Theater Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts

Limited time engagement!            Don't miss this event!            Live theater  performances!               Something for everyone to enjoy!
                                                                                   
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                                                                        At Pine Mountain Settlement School

​Presented by Clear Creek Creative & Higher Ground in partnership with Carpetbag Theater & Roadside Theater
featuring;

• Full Performances Clear Creek Creative’s Ezell:  Ballad of a Land Man & related workshops with the lead artists
• Excerpts of Higher Ground’s 9th production Shift Change and Carpetbag Theater’s COVID Stories  & related workshops with the lead artists
• Conversations on Generational Change & Leadership in community-based theaters throughout the region
• Clowning and Circus Arts 
• Facilitated as well as informal space to explore your individual and/or group work in community as well as meet / reconnect with other community performance practitioners throughout the region!​

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who we are...

Higher Ground is a community arts organization based in Harlan County, Kentucky. Higher Ground has worked with community members and visiting artists to create photography exhibits, tile mosaics, and plays. Each of these projects rely heavily on oral histories collected by Harlan Countians and about Harlan Countians. Higher Ground is a project of the Appalachian Program at Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College.
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In addition to Higher Ground, our office is also home to several other cultural and revitalization projects. For more information on these projects,
​please visit our PROJECTS page. 

Project staff...

Robert Gipe
Higher Ground- Executive Producer
Southeast Kentucky Revitalization Project- Design Education Coordinator
Alexia Ault
Southeast Kentucky Revitalization Project- Project Director
Higher Ground- Staff
Marsha Griffey
Southeast Kentucky Revitalization Project- Project Coordinator
Mike Allison
Creative Capital Investment Assessment- Project Coordinator
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Black and white photographs courtesy of Maranda DeBusk, lighting designer for Find a Way.