American in Tent Exploring the art of the possible with podcasting, virtual visual, and live streaming while honouring sustainability.

Virtual Venue. Here we present a virtual spoken word venue featuring a diverse and inclusive collective of artists and performers to collaborate, create and showcase their talent. Created by Stephanie Vlahos to collaborate, create, showcase, innovate, flex their imagination and talent

American in Tent Virtual Venue

Virtual Venue for Performance Art, Story Telling and Dramatic Ruse

Exploring the art of the possible we explored sustainability in a Virtual Venue at the biggest arts festival in the world.

People value their engagement with art. It is the most succinct interface between what we experience in our world and how we process it. 

The American in Tent is a collective of American artists. Expressing their take on the  American narrative more personally while mitigating the carbon footprint of global festivals. us. We welcome cultural exchange and seek to be part of a greater global awareness. Even in the darkest of times, the artist’s voice must be heard

Virtual Venue performances via Pod Cast channel

John Fleck Artist What the Fleck Exploring the art of the possible with podcasting, virtual visual, and live streaming

What The Fleck

John Fleck a successful performance artist known as one of the infamous ‘NEA Four’ – along with Karen Finley, Tim Miller, and Holly Hughes – whose lawsuit against the National Endowment of the Arts achieved notoriety in the early 90’s.

Lily Ali-Oshatz Artist She Said Exploring the art of the possible with podcasting, virtual visual, and live streaming while honouring sustainability

She Said

Lily Ali-Oshatz “I was raped in New York City. This moment marked a rupture in my childhood freedom and forced the beginning of my autonomy as an adult.”

Never Say Never Exploring the art of the possible with podcasting, virtual visual, and live streaming while honouring sustainability

Never Say Never

This ramps up emotions with skateboards and rap with a hook as it focuses on alienated youth as inspired by the Lost Boys in JM Barrie’s Peter Pan.

Part of Reach In Don’t Outreach program promoting the voice of youth, cuz the kids are alright. Directed and performed by youth artists, this program advocates cultural commonality out of current issues that deeply afflict younger generations. Never Say Never is written by Stephanie Vlahos with rap lyrics by Jack Zager.

In the Moon Room Exploring the art of the possible with podcasting, virtual visual, and live streaming while honouring sustainability

In the Moon Room

In The Moon Room leaves us all with the question, how do we mindfully inspire future generations to do the right thing?

These are the stories about women and how their voices are better heard. Written by Stephanie Vlahos for American in Tent.

John K from A Road Trip to Mars – a Triptych part 2 Exploring the art of the possible with podcasting, virtual visual, and live streaming while honouring sustainability in a Virtual Venue

John K from A Road Trip to Mars – a Triptych part 2

A series of spoken word performances telling the story of creation – the writer’s creation, where characters on the page become real.

“I am a witless forger of my fate, a fate that should have been about touching a life, providing someone insight into their humanity, reminding whomever that all of us are everything. We are all, we are…” John K

Stephanie Vlahos A Branch of Frangipani– a Triptych part 2 Exploring the art of the possible with podcasting, virtual visual, and live streaming while honouring sustainability in a Virtual Venue

A Branch of Frangipani

Join Stephanie Vlahos on a a stage director’s process, exploring the story behind playwright Willy Holtzman’s play “The First Mrs Rochester.” It moves to unexpected places.

The Sound of My Grandmother’s Voice story telling through audio and performance art

The Sound of My Grandmother’s Voice

Our Voices carry the emotional history of our lineage. It is a sonic map of our joy and pain–an identity carried across language, through the generations. Soprano and Sound Artist Micaela Tobin reflects upon the lineage of her voice through an intimate narration of aural memory and soundscape. 

The Art of the Possible – the podcast as dramatic ruse for dramatic storytelling through Audio

Virtual Venue The Art of the Possible – the podcast as dramatic ruse for dramatic storytelling

The Art of the Possible – the podcast as dramatic ruse for dramatic storytelling

“When artful expression went silent in Lockdown, overtaken by the angry volley of rhetoric on social media, stuff shifted.

Arguably, artists say what is recklessly expressed on social media with tools that are far more succinct, thought-provoking, and impactful – craft, the benefit of mentors, and the understanding of dramatic structure, of poetic metaphor and simile.

A virtual spoken word venue at this years Edinburgh Fringe Festival featuring a diverse and inclusive collective of artists and performers. 

American in Tent – a Virtual Venue for exploring the art of the possible with podcasting of original stories and voices to bring joy to the world

Though we perhaps haven’t been able to travel to the USA as much as we might have liked in the past year, this spoken word show is just the transportation needed to become immersed in current American Life. From baseball to outer space, this lively event features performance artists, playwrights, composers, musical theatre performers, emerging talent, gender-driven narratives, singers, fantasy, drama, comedy, tragedy, jazz, opera, hip-hop and American art; creators from across the 52 states who are bringing their thought-provoking narratives on travel sustainability and diversity to the small UK screen.

Conde Naste Traveller – Style and Culture 
(About American [in]Tent)

American in Tent – virtual spoken word venue featuring a diverse and inclusive collective of artists and performers with Stephanie Vlahos

The American in Tent is a collective of American artists expressing their take on the  American narrative more personally while mitigating the carbon footprint of global festivals. We honor diversity and positive inclusion while freely exploring everything that ails us. We welcome cultural exchange and seek to be part of a greater global awareness. Even in the darkest of times, the artist’s voice must be heard.

Stephanie Vlahos