The Feast
Doors 6:30pm | Show 7:00pm

The performances on December 12 and 13 are the culmination of a month-long workshop, which began with Schweiger randomly pairing writers of short fiction with artists working in other artistic media. Each pair was given the task to create one collaborative work around the theme “the feast” to be performed at the showcases at the end of the month.  The result of these collaborations is nothing short of pure magic: words transmuted into musical notes, stories taking the form of painted scrolls, characters jumping off of the page and into the hands of waiting puppeteers. 

Mo Schweiger is a multidisciplinary writer based in Western Massachusetts whose work reveals,  and ridicules, the cultural and political structures that keep people divided. Through satire, storytelling, and collaboration, their goal is to inspire connection and critical reflection. A founding member of the multimedia production company Free Pile Productions, Mo is the co-author of the Montague Reporter satire column True Love Will Find You in the End, and a co-organizer of numerous multimedia projects including Eggtooth Productions’ A Happening and the Far Out! Comedy Festival. They are currently working on a short story collection, and are in post-production on the absurdist transsexual short film Baker’s Boy which they wrote and directed.

The Pay it Forward program is generously funded by the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, Greenfield Savings Bank, Tandem Bagels, Applied Mortgage, Boston Rare Maps, Greenfield Cooperative Bank and Northampton Cooperative Bank, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and Individual Donors.