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Happy New Year and the biggest "thank you"!

Thank you for donating to our Season Launch Party last February, thank you for attending our screening of Mother Lear, thank you for rocking out with us at our Sites and Sounds concert, thank you for adventuring with Alice on both coasts, thank you for your generous support of our end of year campaign. Thank you for volunteering! Thank you for laughing! Thank you for your careful attention! Thank you for donating! Thank you for all the ways, big and small, that you contribute to our community! Thank you, old friends and new! We couldn't do it without you! Happy New Year, friend. Photo by Mark Kitaoka

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"Thank you for all you create, imagine and inspire. With gratitude for your role in my world." - Audience member

Cheers! Here's to the arts! Here's to theatre that makes us think and feel, to art that awakens our senses and asks us to attend to the natural world around us, to stories that connect us to our community and remind us of our shared humanity. And cheers to you!

We couldn't make this work without your support- thank you for investing in what we make as a vital way to shape our world.

If you've already made a contribution to our end of year campaign, thank you so much. If you have yet to give, please consider a donation today. https://www.weplayers.org/we-2024

Photo by Tracy Martin

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Finally wrapping up this long list of events from our busy 2024!

We of course put on our annual Sites and Sounds concert, this time featuring the tunes of our 2015 production of Ondine at Sutro, arranged for 6-piece jazz outfit.

Here's to a solid year of sharing sense-awakening events, and to continuing to connect with our community in the coming times.

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This year, we also shared a new short film project, See Clown, a story of self-love.

See Clown for yourself at https://www.weplayers.org/see-clown-2024

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In 2024 we also premiered a new 'popup' version of our PSYCHOPOMP work, with a gathering of guardian gods to be discovered one afternoon along San Francisco's Great Highway.

Photo: David Enloe

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"Happy to support the creative and ever effervescent work of the wonderful We Players!"

We are committed to telling stories that help us make meaning of our current moment, that inspire us to invest in the natural world around us, and that connect us to our shared humanity - but we need your help. We cannot do this work alone. Please lend your hand to lift us up.

This Giving Tuesday we're asking you to give what you can in support of local theatre. We're asking you to make a contribution that represents the joy, hope, wonder, and community that We Players has provided you. Any gift is the right size!

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Fall also saw us sharing our award-winning Mother Lear at Cal Shakes.

Mother Lear is a poignant play about an irascible middle-aged scholar with dementia who communicates with her caretaker daughter using only the text of King Lear as the two struggle with aging, love and their own balance of power.

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This fall, we brought our new hybrid visual art & performance piece Our Lady of the Moon to the golden grasses and oak groves of Cal Shakes in Orinda, California.|

Photo by the amazing Lauren Matley!

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A core corp of our Adventures With Alice cast also hit the Big Apple at New York Botanical Garden for our special event, The Queen's Tea!

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This past spring we also returned to Golden Gate Park with a second run of 2023's smash hit Adventures with Alice.

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We've had a busy year of events, beginning with a springtime sumptuous celebration of the senses at our annual Season Launch Party.

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Happy Halloween! Here's a shot from 2014's Macbeth at Fort Point

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Catch up with Ox Head and Horse Face, those wise-cracking Chinese guardians of the underworld, on SF's Great Highway this Saturday at Noriega from 12 to 4. This event is free and open to all ages!

Photos by the amazing Lauren Matley

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Visit the most metal band in all of Valhalla, Saturday on SF's Great Highway.

Val, Ky, & Rie will keep you entertained while philosophizing on movement through space & time. They’ll be hanging out at Pacheco, swing by between 12 & 4!

Photos: Lauren Matley

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A few looks at our recent performance art installation, Our Lady of the Moon at Cal Shakes. If you missed the magic, come by San Francisco's Great Highway THIS Saturday 10/12 to meet some of our other Psychopomps between 12 and 4. Stop by this free event to meet these mysterious gods from around the globe!

Learn more at https://www.weplayers.org/psychopomp-popup-2024

Photos by the amazing Lauren Matley

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Head down to San Francisco's Great Highway on October 12 for a free PSYCHOPOMP Pop-up performance!

Dance with Hermes, the golden messenger god of the ancient Greeks… here a hula-hooping wonder who celebrates in pure squawks. Meditate and make offerings with Ox Head/Horse Face, guardian of the gates to the Chinese underworld… Rock out with the Valkyries, winged goddesses of glory and victory… and help them get the band back together! Let the ancient oarsman Charon tow you to safety across the river Styx… or a patch of questionable pavement as the case may be.

Learn more: https://www.weplayers.org/psychopomp-popup-2024

Photos by Lauren Matley <3

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We Players is moving house!

Come lend a hand! After nearly ten years of enjoying our storage and studio space at Pier 54 in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood, the facility is shutting down and we are relocating further south to Pier 80. We're in need of some helping hands to make the big move!

Volunteers are needed on Friday October 4th, Saturday October 5th, and Tuesday October 8th. Come help for an hour or for an afternoon! You'll need to be able to lift at least 10-15 pounds, wear comfortable closed-toed shoes, and bring your own food, though we'll have some snacks and sparkling water to share.

Sign up at https://forms.gle/qKwu9avfi5btJGkH8