Every year since 2016, the Yale Cabaret has produced the Satellite Festival, a weekend of experimental and in-process work that exploded out of the 217 basement and into spaces around New Haven. In 2020, due to the global pandemic of COVID-19, the festival as planned was cancelled.

 

But it lives again.

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This year, we've all become small satellite pods, orbiting around each other with a safe six foot distance. But what was once a journey to 3-4 spaces around the Yale campus is now a virtual playground for anyone with an internet connection. The Satellite team has been working with some of the programmed pieces from the 2020 Satellite Festival to translate them to an online format, but we don't want to stop there. Daily creative practices can be found on our Instagram, a forum for discussions and disagreements is just a click away. We have a resource page, whether you're looking for a great book to take your mind off things or a list of songs to sing while you wash your hands. 

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We know that we can't all be in the same space right now, and as theater and live performance practitioners, that loss weight heavy on our shoulders. But art is alive at the Yale Cabaret and we can give it a place to live. We hope you join us on this journey of process, pathos, and participation.

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We are the 2020 Satellite Festival, welcome to our solar system.