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Dell’Arte is thrilled to invite you to the world premiere of the highly anticipated “potumentary” based on the highest grossing show in Dell’Arte’s history Mary Jane: The Musical. This black-tie and tie-dyed affair will roll out the green carpet and blaze-up the silver screen for one night only at the Eureka Theater. Tickets and Information HERE. Visit maryjanethemusical.com for information …

“The River, Our Home” / “Lalilh, Jouwa Hinarr Daduk” ANNOUNCING THE 2016 MAD RIVER FESTIVAL LINEUP The 2016 Mad River Festival is centered around Dell’Arte’s current initiative “The River, Our Home,” which explores through a variety of community partnerships, including with the Wiyot Tribe of Table Bluff, the ways in which we impact and are impacted by our relationship to …

Dell’Arte is proud to announce that alumni company AriLu Productions (MFA 2014 graduates Ariel Lauryn and Lucy Shelby) is the recipient of the 2016 Nancy Lafrenz Memorial Scholarship. AriLu’s production Whether We Like It Or Not will be featured in the 2016 Mad River Festival July 7 – 10 in Dell’Arte’s Carlo Theatre. On December 26, 2005, Nancy Jacobs Lafrenz succumbed to colon cancer. At …

Check out our latest update for upcoming shows, our partnership with the Wiyot Tribe, and more!

Dell’Arte International has been awarded $60,000 by All Points North Foundation, a small, private foundation that supports projects that promote solar energy awareness and implementation, to design and install a solar electricity generation system. Going solar is part of Dell’Arte’s ongoing environmental and sustainability effort, reflected not only in the message of Dell’Arte’s artistic programming, but also in administration operations …

Dell’Arte International has received funding support for founding artistic director Joan Schirle’s travel to Denmark this summer to initiate an international collaboration with Norwegian-Danish sculptor Marit Benthe Norheim. For five years Norheim has been creating “Life-Boats,” three ferro-concrete, mobile sailing sculptures representing three stages of a woman’s life. The boats will be launched in June 2016 in Aarhus, Denmark, the …

“Mary Jane: A Musical Potumentary” SOUNDTRACK RELEASE PARTY ON 215 The MJ soundtrack will debut for public listening and sales on Monday, February 15 at 5 p.m. at Richard’s Goat Tavern and Tea Room in Arcata. The public is invited to visit with artists and members of the production team, preview and purchase the official motion picture soundtrack, watch exclusive …

Dell’Arte is very pleased to announce that we have received support from the James Irvine Foundation as part of their New California Arts Fund (NCAF). The grant is for $660,000 over three years to expand and add value to the Arts Engagement efforts at the center of Dell’Arte’s mission by more deeply engaging the diverse peoples and low income Californians …

Tafadzwa Bob Mutumbi of Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe came to the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre (PTP) last October as a student in the one-year Professional Training Program (PTP). He graduated from the PTP in June of 2015. Because of his exceptional talent as an actor and theatre-maker, and because of the lack of available financial resources in his home country, …

The Danish Institute for Popular Arts and Dell’Arte International invite you to the Prize of Hope 25th anniversary at Aasen Theatre in North Jutland, on Pentecost Sunday, May 24, 2015. The Hope Prize is an international award, presented in Denmark since 1989 and at Dell’Arte International in California on alternate years since 2008. The vision of the Hope award is …