Synchronicity, A Festival in the Rain
The skies graced us with a sudden deluge this weekend but that didn’t bother us as everything felt like sunny skies on the art farm during our Synchronicity festival Aug 7th & 8th . The week ramping up to Synchronicity was hotter then a bakers oven so who were we to guess the weather would turn at the last second. We had a beautiful sunset on the Friday marking our Gala event where over 50 invited guests showed up. They were the first people to see the artistic collaboration in it’s final…ready or not. And just as we were about to open the gates and invite the guests through one of the actors got stung by an aggressive wasp. We held the show for 15 minutes to make sure all was ok and then the show went on. The audience was invited to put on masks and follow the beautiful minstrel around the laurel spiral where the action began. 
The main character came running in following the sound of wings. 
The audience was then lead to the 2nd performance space and introduced to another character whose job was to terrorize him and then she promptly sang her heart out…literally. The audience then made their way to the final performance space in the old growth forest where they searched for the bird and her heart. 
The final moment was when a rising spirit appeared on the hill above the audience and all was revealed. 
At the end of the play the production received an outstanding response and applause. And then on Saturday we woke up to rain, rain and more rain. 
But that did not deter the audience, we had over 30 people at the first performance, over 35 for the second performance and then petering out to under 20 for the final and very wet 7pm performance. On Sunday the word had gotten out and we had over 50 people for the 11am show, 71 people for the 3pm show and up to 125 people for our final 3pm show.
Photos belong to Diego Samper, artfarmer and photographer.Check out his profile on the site!
