Events

Join us on Tuesday, September 30, 2025, for an unforgettable evening at The Chocolate Factory Theater’s Fourth Annual Gala as we proudly honor this year’s Artist In Industry Award recipient: Sheila Lewandowski, Co-founder and Executive Director Emerita. Sheila’s vision, passion, and tireless dedication are the very foundation of The Chocolate Factory Theater. Over the decades, she has poured her heart and soul into building a home for our community of artists and groundbreaking work—transforming a dream into a vital cultural institution.

Throughout the 2025 / 2026 season, ten artists selected via a peer nomination process will each receive access to space and financial support for early stage research into their new projects.

[…/+*^%<>€£¥$&@!!!!^^^] Confronts the body as a site of political and existential conundrums. The title is intentionally unsayable, engaging that which cannot be uttered in the ineffable present, a way to stay with the body. It resists the explicative we so often demand of the historical moment and instead offers dance and performance as a form to negotiate these complex times.

Memory Fleet is a continually expanding, episodic, migrating performance that builds an alternative archive for the preservation of shared embodied memories and stories.