The Ko Festival of Performance’s 30th season will feature three different productions centering the themes of Justice, Environmental Safety and Climate Change, plus two different weekend workshops. With Amherst College’s COVID-driven cancellation of all outside summer programs, the Ko Festival will be presenting the bulk of its season online, however…
Ko Festival of Performance streams last summer’s Zoom presentation of “The Magic City Massacre” on demand June 19-July 4th. With a cast of 14, Deletta Gillespie’s play tells the story of one of the most prosperous black communities in the history of the United States, how Tulsa came to be…
The Ko Festival of Performance is staying online for the summer of 2021.  Amherst College, where we usually present our live performances and workshops, is not hosting and summer programs this year, due to Covid. It’s so hard to be patient. We miss you – but safety first! The silver…
The Ko Festival of Performance has hired Facilitator | Director | Writer | Actor | Artivist Trenda Loftin to facilitate and host the post-show discussions for our online summer season of new pieces by Serious Play Theater Ensemble and the Piti Theater Company. Committed to using theatre to raise awareness, question patterns,…
July 5—August 4, 2019 on the Amherst College campus in Amherst, MA AMHERST, MA – The Ko Festival of Performance, in its 28th summer season on the Amherst College campus, is a perennially popular summer experience in Western Massachusetts, featuring five weeks of theatrical performances, the KoFest Story Slam, and three 6-day intensive theater…
