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ARTIST signup for MAY Shakespeare
FREE space available for YOUTH & ADULT ARTISTS!
Artists in all mediums are welcome to display and sell their work during our “Shakespeare In The Park” 2022. Bicentennial Park is excited to partner with THE ART MOVEMENT, INC – once again!
OUTDOOR PLAY
This year’s performance is “As You Like It” – 80’s style! We kid you not.
PRESENTED BY
Billie Limacher Bicentennial Park & Theatre
ASSISTED BY
The Joliet Drama Guild
The Strange and Unusual Gallery
The Art Movement, Inc.
ARTIST FEE & SHOW ADMISISON
Both are FREE. Schweet!
WHEN ARTISTS SETUP & DISPLAY
THURSDAY, MAY 19
FRIDAY, MAY 20
SATURDAY, MAY 21
5:00 – 6:00 pm ARTISTS SET-UP (One hour before the grounds open to the public, artists setup their displays and then move vehicles to designated parking)
6:00 – 7:00 pm PRE-SHOW (One hour before the play begins, the grounds open to audience for lawn seating, viewing artwork, meeting artists and visiting concessions)
7:00 – 8:00 pm 1st ACT (The play’s 1st act is about 1 hour. Artists are welcome to stay for the whole play. If they need to bounce, artists may leave after intermission)
8:00 – 8:15 pm INTERMISSION (Intermission is about 15 minutes. If you strike after intermission, please be very quiet, as the 2nd act will have begun. See you the next day!)
8:15 – 9:00 pm 2nd ACT (The play’s 2nd act is about 45 minutes. After the play is over, artists may strike their displays. Until the next day, we bid you a most excellent ado!)
SUNDAY, MAY 22
12:00 – 1:00 pm ARTIST SET-UP (One hour before the grounds open to the public, artists setup their displays and then move vehicles to designated parking)
1:00 – 2:00 pm PRE-SHOW (One hour before the play begins, the grounds open to audience for lawn seating, viewing artwork, meeting artists and visiting concessions)
2:00 – 3:00 pm 1ST ACT (The play’s 1st act is about 1 hour. Artists are welcome to stay for the whole play. If they need to bounce, artists may leave after intermission)
3:00 – 3:15 pm INTERMISSION (Intermission is about 15 minutes. If you strike after intermission, please be very quiet, as the 2nd act will have begun. We bid you a righteous ado!)
3:15 – 4:00 pm 2nd ACT (The play’s 2nd act is about 45 minutes. After the play is over, artists may strike their displays. We bid you a most triumphant ado!)
GRODY WEATHER
If weather bites, the show and artists will be moved indoors.
ARTISTS’ DEADLINE = MAY 12, 2022
Save a bodacious FREE spot by emailing your funky fresh info to Eryn.
ARTISTS’ CONTACT
Awesome Eryn: Eryn@ArtMovementJoliet.org
WHAT TO TOTALLY EMAIL ERYN
• name
• phone
• email
• picture of your most excellent self
• picture of your fave artwork
• short, bad-to-the-bone bio
BOMBDIGGITY ARTIST OFFER
Artists that get their info in early will be promoted on Facebook. Cheeuh!
WHAT TO LIKE BRING ON SHOW DATES
• your fantabulous artwork
• tables
• chairs
• whatever needed to display & sell . . . no doy
CHILL LOCATION
Billie Limacher Bicentennial Park
201 W Jefferson St, Joliet 60432
Outdoor pavilion near fountain. Stellar.
OUTDOOR SEATING
Most definitely bring blankets and chairs for lawn seating and vegging out.
CONCESSIONS & CASH BAR
We’ll have totally tubular concessions (grilled brats, popcorn, chips & candy) and a cash bar . . . for sure.
Calling All Artists – Shakespeare In The Park – May 19-22, 2022
FREE space available for YOUTH & ADULT ARTISTS!
These Shining Lives
In honor of Women’s History Month, Billie Limacher Bicentennial Park Theatre is proud to present “These Shining Lives” by Melanie Marnich.
OVERVIEW
This live production follows the four women from the Radium Dial Company in Ottawa, IL. The women, once excited to work with this new glowing technology during World War I, began suffering from radiation poisoning and later bureaucratic coverups. Their struggle led to eventual workplace reforms we deem essential today. (see below for more)
AGES
The indoor theatre production is suitable for adults, as well as 6th grade students and older.
The production is ideal for school field trips.
PRODUCTION
Directed by Jan Novotny
Assisted by Tom Csepregi
Produced by Bicentennial Park Theatre
DATES & TIMES
Thursday & Friday
March 24 & 25, 2022
10:00* am & 7:00** pm each day
*10:00 am
RESERVATIONS EXTENDED
Contact the office for details
bipark@joliet.gov or 815-724-3761
**7:00 pm
Lobby, light concessions & cash bar will be available.
Lobby opens at 6:00 pm.
ADMISSION
$5.00
May pay at the door (lobby opens 1 hour before showtime) or online
ONLINE
May pay online thru Ticket Tailor (no additional charge):
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/billielimacherbicentennialparkandtheatre
LOCATION
Billie Limacher Bicentennial Park Theatre
201 West Jefferson Street
Joliet, IL 60432
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During and after World War I, hundreds of women were employed at companies in Illinois and New Jersey that used radium, a radioactive element. The United States Radium Corporation and the Radium Dial Company had profitable military contracts to provide luminous dials for airplanes, tanks, ships and the watches worn by soldiers. The pay was good, the working conditions were friendly, and the soft glow in the dark emanating from the women’s hair, skin and clothing was looked upon almost as a status symbol by the working class girls and women who could afford the latest fashions because of their jobs at the radium facilities.
Their Cinderella story soon turned sad for the factory workers who were called “the shining girls.” Historian Kate Moore detailed the story of their long and courageous battles in hospitals against their own illnesses and in courtrooms against corporate power in her 2017 book, The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women. Workers at the dial painting factories began sickening and even dying at early ages from the tortuous symptoms of radium poisoning. Their long legal battle to obtain justice from the business that exposed them to the toxic substance spanned the decades of the Roaring Twenties and the Depression-era Thirties.
“It is impossible to say how many dial-painters were killed by their work: so many were misdiagnosed or never traced that the records simply do not exist,” wrote Moore. “Sometimes the cancer that former workers suffered in later life was never attributed to the job they did in their teens, though it came as a direct result.” Moore credits the struggle by the “shining women” that finally led to a courtroom verdict against the radium industry as a historic legal fight that eventually led to the establishment of the U.S. Office of Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). (Tant)
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