The Healing Power of Writing: Kiesa Kay

Writing your story can be a huge tool for healing from abuse. My guest Kiesa Kay talks about her new writing workshop series for abuse survivors that is free to join! We have a wonderful conversation talking about her children's books, poetry, and other writing projects. This is a refreshing look into the realities of the abuse in the world, but the enduring hope of the Lord's healing! Join us! Website for the workshop: https://hendersonvilletheatre.....org/new-works-series Hendersonville Theatre (HT) continues its New Works Series (formerly called Staged Reading Series) Saturday, September 9 at 3 p.m. Showcasing the work of area playwrights and performed by local actors, The New Works Series is a FREE public reading of a new play in development. However, donations are welcome to support HT. HT’s New Works Series offers exciting script-in-hand readings of new plays by emerging local playwrights. The readings are followed by a talk back with the playwright and actors to provide feedback to the playwright. A short discussion will follow each reading to provide feedback to the playwright about their script. There is no charge to attend or to participate, however donations are welcome and will be used to support HT. Hendersonville Theatre is committed to exploring and developing new work for American theater, supporting local playwrights with their creative process from concept to production. Sky Eyes by Kiesa Kay will be read on September 9. Sky Eyes is a play with original music written for the play by Brad Hodge. The play is a look at a week in the life of a North Carolina family during the 1950s. Abby, the mother, works on the railroad to support her two daughters and put her husband, Jack, through college.She learns she must be strong  in more ways than she imagined. Kiesa Kay, poet and playwright, has written two produced plays. Love Makes a Home: The Story of Rebecca Boone was chosen as a convocation for Berea College in Berea, Kentucky. The play has been presented in a dozen venues, including Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, the Thomas Wolfe Center for Narrative at Lenoir Rhyne University, the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway, White Horse Black Mountain. the Orchard at Altapass, and the Chapel of Rest in Lenoir, NC. During the pandemic, it was livestreamed by Ouachita Little Theater in Mena, Arkansas. The play has been directed by five different directors and features music of frontier days.  Kiesa’s play Thunder is the Mountain’s Voice was shown at Rocky Mountain National Park, Park Village Playhouse, and as a staff celebration for YMCA of the Rockies, directed by Dr. Virginia Floyd. Kiesa also has some directing experience, and directed A Tale of Two Charlies by Jo Carson, presented at the Orchard at Altapass and White Horse Black Mountain. Playwrights who would like to submit work for consideration for the New Works Series can follow the submission guidelines posted at here and email questions to playsubmissions@HVLtheatre.org. Since 1966, Hendersonville Theatre has provided an inviting and nurturing environment for live theatre, as well as high-quality, affordable entertainment for the residents of Hendersonville and surrounding areas. Hendersonville Theatre is wheelchair accessible, with free parking behind and in front of the theater. The cast of Sky Eyes:  Amanda McLoughlin – Abby Briana Clary – Suzy Ruth McLoughlin – Cara Gary McClain – Jack Jerry Fitzgerald – Ace/Stage Directions Blaine Weiss – Leila/Stage Directions Here’s what’s coming up for the rest of 2023 Oct. 14, 2023 at 3 p.m.Oy Vey Y’all! by Erica McGee  Ester, a Jewish woman from upstate New York and Lynn Louise, a Christian woman from Savannah, GA., meet at a retirement community in Charlotte, NC, where both their children live. Dislike turns to appreciation when they discover they have m...