Of Spacious Skies

The FAC Theatre Company is packaging up joy and merriment and sending it your way! From our homes to yours, we're bringing love, light, laughter, and a few surprises direct to your kitchens and living rooms for the FAC's 2020 holiday production. We're happy to provide this audio version, but hope you will also watch the cabaret, in order to take full delight in the performances. Available at fac.coloradocollege.edu --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fine-arts-center/support

by Marisa D. Hebert Spanning 23 years, this play proves that love is love is love. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fine-arts-center/support

by Jessica Kahkoska Stuck in New York City since COVID began, Jessica Kahkoska brings us a play based on the process of creating this play. And, she plays herself. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fine-arts-center/support

by Mickey Burdick This episode was recorded and takes place on Thursday, November 5, 2020 – two evenings following Election Day. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fine-arts-center/support

by Jonathan Andujar & Jess Weaver They came 250 million miles from outer space to hold the world spellbound with new and startling powers from another planet. You will never be able to forget…INVASION!!! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fine-arts-center/support

By Xochitl Portillo The mountain sees and hears all. Here are a few stories, based on conversations with real people, about the power of growing up and living in Colorado Springs. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fine-arts-center/support

by Jonathan Andujar It's the turn of the 20th century, and Leonidas Frank Chaney, one of Colorado Springs' most famous sons, is about to make the big choice that will lead him to become Lon Chaney, the man of a thousand faces. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fine-arts-center/support

by Mickey Burdick There was once a neighborhood known as the Conejos district that held a small playground featuring a dragon sculpture. The dragon loved the city, and the kids all came to play with it. It was a kind, reasonable dragon. But one day, a knight in yellow-gold armor showed up on horseback to slay the dragon. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fine-arts-center/support

by Marisa D. Hebert The summer of 2020 will be remembered for a lot of things, not least of which is the amplification of the Black Lives Matter movement and the protests that reached every community across our nation. In this episode, a father and daughter attend a protest in Colorado Springs. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fine-arts-center/support

by Jess Weaver The year is 2021, and Toc Withers—with his championship racing dad by his side—is getting ready to compete in the annual Pikes Peak International Hill Climb race. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fine-arts-center/support

by Jessica Kahkoska A “trail bro” brings us along on his EPIC ascent of the most awesome mountain in the region. A modern, comedic interpretation of the real-life trek of Zebulon Pike, the man for whom Pikes Peak is named, and his small crew. A parody of adventure bro culture, and an incisive look into what is considered to be “classic” Colorado history. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fine-arts-center/support

by Mêlisa Annis It's the summer of 1893, and Katherine Lee Bates is traveling with her companion, Katharine Coman, by train to Colorado Springs, where she becomes inspired to write the poem that would become the lyric to AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fine-arts-center/support

Of Spacious Skies is an audio drama anthology series, with stories spanning eras and genres, exploring the past, present, and future of Colorado Springs through stories converging around Pikes Peak. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fine-arts-center/support