sprout and the stories of our investigations

pictures and videos from The Social Contexts of Light

The January 2010 sprout spaghetti dinner focused on the theme The Social Contexts of Light. John Bell and Shaunalynn Duffy sandwiched the featured performances with short toy theaer tableaux exploring the nature and history of different types of light. Music was provided by Mike Romanyshyn on bari sax, clarinet, and drums.

First, The Aaatack, [...]

pictures and video from The Grind: Out of the Office

December’s theme was The Grind: Out of the Office. Mike Nagle cooked our spaghetti and we saw performances by The Boston Typewriter Orchestra, who are a musical performance group that play typewriters like instruments in the character of white collar office workers.

The Royal Frog Ballet performed a puppet show [...]

pictures and videos from The Science of Accordion Reeds

The night opened with delicious, pumpkin-sauce spaghetti cooked by Beth O’Sullivan, a math teacher from Cambridgeport involved in sprout and The Science Club for Girls.

After socializing for a while, we heard a world premiere of the piece You Are written by local musician and composer Mike Romanyshyn for clarinet choir. The ensemble [...]

the little red school house–on its head!

October 15 was the second in our series of dinner theater events. The theme for the evening was education, and we had a range of performers and perspectives. People began arriving around 7:00. We ate and talked until around 8:15 when we started the first of the performances.
(Please excuse the [...]

our first dinner was a success!

Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Band

What is HONK? a cantastoria performed by members of Somerville’s Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band looking at the many and joyful meanings of the sound “HONK!” (It is not only a plug for the HONK! festival to be held in Davis [...]