TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 7:30 PM
THE CLYDE BEST STORY
In 1969, a Bermudian teenager broke into England’s First Division Football (Soccer) becoming the first Black superstar of football/soccer’s modern television era.
The Clyde Best Story is a first-hand look at overcoming racial discrimination in sport through the lens of a barrier-breaking player. Clyde Best, known as “the first Black role model in English football,” is a Bermudian native who played 221 games for West Ham United Football Club from 1968-1976, scoring 58 goals as a striker, and in the process became one of the trailblazing non-white football (soccer) players in the 1970s. Following his English career, Best was one of the high profile athletes brought to the United States to grow the sport stateside in the North American Soccer League. He scored over 50 goals for the Tampa Bay Rowdies and the Portland Timbers, and faced off against high profile athletes including Pelé, efforts which created the first generation of American soccer fans.
Recruited from Bermuda at age 17, Clyde Best's journey to athletic success was turbulent - as one of the first Black athletes to play First Division Football, he faced extreme harassment and discrimination, yet shouldered through with excellence and in doing so broke racial barriers that forever improved the sport and opportunities for non-white, non-English athletes. He is a living legend who serves as torchbearer from old world English football all the way to the modern game.
Anchored by an exclusive, intimate interview with Clyde Best himself, and accompanied by a wealth of archival footage, this feature-length biography documentary uses Best’s story as the entry point for a larger narrative about BIPOC individuals in professional athletics, and examines the current state of unfinished equity in the game today.
Join Us All October for Harvest of the Arts! October 1-25, 2026
Spend an unforgettable evening filled with Broadway favorites, heartfelt performances, and the incredible talents of Kat Agudo, accompanied by Linda Dowdell, along with her friends Kyle LeMaire, Morgan Bartholick, and Maggie Jo Bulkley who will make this a night to remember.
Most importantly, this evening is an opportunity for our community to surround Kat with love and support as she begins the difficult journey of rebuilding after this devastating loss.
Come for the music. Stay for the community. Give what you can to help Kat find her way home again.
3 Playwrights face the impossible mission of penning a play to submit to the audience. Live writing to audience prompts will result in 3 short plays, one of which will be performed by actors waiting in the wings. See the craft of theatre unfold right before your eyes and play a part in the development of the next great play by local playwrights.
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Come for the music, stay for the existential crisis as genre-blurring jester and cellist Karen Hall peels back the layers of formality leaving you with only the humanity and insanity of the artist behind the instrument. And yourself.
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Come for the music, stay for the existential crisis as genre-blurring jester and cellist Karen Hall peels back the layers of formality leaving you with only the humanity and insanity of the artist behind the instrument. And yourself.
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After teaching high school for 12 years, Cory Michaelis "retired" to do comedy full time because he wanted to try out both of the lowest paying jobs in America. Now in his 12th year as a comedian (he's not THAT old...there was some overlap)!
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Také to Ito — koto master Curtis Patterson and shakuhachi virtuoso Bruce Huebner — have been forging a fresh path for two of Japan's most iconic instruments since 2003. Drawing on over forty years of study, performance, and teaching in Japan, their music flows freely from classical honkyoku and jiuta to compositions by John Coltrane, Ralph Towner, and Edward MacDowell.
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Musician/historian/storyteller Joel Underwood returns to KCPT with his triptych of performances that walk the audience through a gallery of American popular music in the twentieth century.
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Musician/historian/storyteller Joel Underwood returns to KCPT with his triptych of performances that walk the audience through a gallery of American popular music in the twentieth century.
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Musician/historian/storyteller Joel Underwood returns to KCPT with his triptych of performances that walk the audience through a gallery of American popular music in the twentieth century.
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Three 10-Minute comedic plays by regional playwrights, accompanied by fun cocktails. The evening culminates with the audience choosing one play to be shaken & stirred.
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Saturday, Oct 17
Three 10-Minute comedic plays by regional playwrights, accompanied by fun cocktails. The evening culminates with the audience choosing one play to be shaken & stirred.
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Drawing on seasonal repertoire from late Appalachian greats such as Jean Richie, Doc Watson, Dolly Parton, the Child Ballads, and from contemporary and trad. folk archives, Ash will explore themes of transition, longing, mystery, spirit encounters, and bounty at harvest time.
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Drawing on seasonal repertoire from late Appalachian greats such as Jean Richie, Doc Watson, Dolly Parton, the Child Ballads, and from contemporary and trad. folk archives, Ash will explore themes of transition, longing, mystery, spirit encounters, and bounty at harvest time.
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DramaforaChange, is proud to present the moving and impactful story-telling and theatre play Ruhi’s Story: When the Moment Comes at Key City Public Theatre in Port Townsend, WA, October 23- 24th 2026. This powerful play produced and acted by Nava Sarracino tells the true and harrowing stories of Bahá’í women and men persecuted in Iran after the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
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