At the Tenth Anniversary Convening, the Latinx Theatre Commons (LTC) announced its next cycle of programming, which will span from October 2024 to June 2027. The LTC received a wide range of applications from the community that all centered the needs of the Latine theatre field. Consistent with their commons-based approach, all applications were reviewed by LTC steering and advisory committee members, and the programming was selected by consensus.
Steering committee member and champion of the 2022 Comedy Carnaval Amelia Acosta Powell shares:
The selection process for our 2024-2027 programming was a beautiful embodiment of the LTC’s commons-based approach that has been developed over the past ten years. The opportunity to apply was opened up broadly to anyone interested, and steering committee members with experience selecting and/or championing events in the past mentored applicants through the robust process. The steering committee explored deep conversations about the merits of each proposal, with a strong focus on alignment with our mission, vision, and values. We had so many wonderful submissions that it was very difficult to narrow down, but I am thrilled by the creative ideas that the committee offered to support projects in new and different ways. The slate we agreed upon will set the LTC up for success well beyond 2027 by celebrating and expanding upon our existing traditions, introducing new perspectives, and investing in intentional relationship building that will plant seeds for the future.
The LTC will kick-off its new programming with a convening at the 2024 Encuentro, the tenth anniversary of the national theatre festival produced by the Latino Theater Company featuring three weeks of artistic exchange, cross-company co-creation, and presented performances—all in repertory—for Los Angeles audiences. The LTC will host a weekend-long convening during the festival that will aid in documenting, preserving, and disseminating what is learned from the participating companies; illuminating dialogue that emerges from the festival to archive its events; and furthering the advancement of the Latine narrative in American theatre. The convening will be championed by Jose Luis Valenzuela.
In 2025, the LTC will produce the Fornés Symposium.
The 2025 Fornés Institute Symposium will be a one-day convening of scholars, artists, students, advocates, and others invested in the life, work, and legacy of playwright María Irene Fornés. The event will celebrate the pathbreaking publication of Fornés in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2024), a volume featuring the work of more than thirty artists, advocates, and scholars, which is slated for digital publication in summer 2024, with print publication arriving in tandem with the symposium.
The symposium will take place in the Lewis Arts Complex at Princeton University on Saturday, 22 March 2025. The 2025 Symposium will offer a series of plenary readings from Fornés in Context in tandem with a constellation of hosted breakout conversations engaging questions of context, legacy, and engagement around Fornés’s work. And just as the 2018 Symposium launched the current wave of scholarly, artistic, and community engagement with the work of María Irene Fornés, the 2025 Symposium will be designed to activate the next wave of critical, creative, and collaborative explorations of the Fornésian tradition. The symposium will be championed by Dr. Anne García-Romero and Dr. Brian Herrera.
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