The Works: Voices of the Harbors gallery

~ Sarasota premiere ~

Project created by Lyndall Hare and Steve Umberger with the group

Project January - November 2024 / Production November 2024

Holley Hall / Beatrice Friedman Symphony Center, Sarasota FL

~ Event film 2025 ~

A group born in the last decade of The Silent Generation, now ages 80-90, revisit the turning points of their lives and trace how they were involved in the cultural changes in a defining era of innovation in America and abroad. Voices of The Harbors is the latest in the seven year series with two formats, stage events and documentary films, that tells our history through the experiences of people who helped it happen. The stories of the group members are woven together into a tapestry of voices and images that tells a bigger story of their times. The projects, developed over the course of a year, culminate in a live stage performance or a documentary film.

Sponsored by Plymouth Harbor

Jeff Weatherhead, CEO

Produced by The Playworks Group

Steve Umberger, Director

MEDIA GALLERY

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Comments from audience members

"It was a great, seamless weaving together of many stories that they all shared as part of their generation. My reaction at the end of the performance was WOW." Susan Lowy

"I enjoyed it immensely. Such amazing, beautiful, heartwarming stories. The editing was perfect, the delivery divine. We all have stories, some more exciting than others. But the diversity of the group is what made this special. Can you tell I loved it all?" Meredith Shay

Comments from group members

"Thank you for the extraordinary experience of Acting Our Age. It has been one of the most memorable events of my life." Lynne Woodman

"This gave us the spaces to open up to our own challenges and the truthful celebrations of accomplishments." Winnie Downes and Carl Denney

"Thank you for a most wonderful year of self-discovery." Bob Lifeso