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We're a free and open platform for theatremakers worldwide, and we've been amplifying progressive and disruptive ideas about theatre and facilitating connections between diverse practitioners for the past decade. We function as a “commons”—a social structure that invites open participation around shared values. We believe Black Lives Matter.

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Afghan Art and Advocacy
Podcast

Afghan Art and Advocacy

20 September 2021

On this special episode of Kunafa and Shay, Marina and Nabra are joined by actor and activist Yousof Sultani, who discusses his experiences in the theatre field as an Afghan American artist and the advocacy and community organizing he does for the people of Afghanistan.

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The Politics of Rebuilding Theatrical and Civic Communities: Global Autocracy, Brexit, and Racism
Essay

The Politics of Rebuilding Theatrical and Civic Communities: Global Autocracy, Brexit, and Racism

16 September 2021

Verity Healey sits down with Javaad Alipoor to discuss themes that preoccupy Alipoor as a theatremaker and political person: racism, history, Brexit, international communities, politics, and how these things come into his work and collaborations with other artists.

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Transforming Organizational Structures
Podcast

Transforming Organizational Structures

With Eric Lockley of The Movement Theatre Company

15 September 2021

Yura Sapi speaks with Eric Lockley, co-founder of the Movement Theatre Company. Lockley is a member of the company’s producing artistic leadership team, who work together to create an artistic social movement by developing and producing new works by artists of color. Their work engages audiences in a rich theatrical dialogue, enlightens communities to the important issues affecting our world, and empowers artists to celebrate the many sides of their unique voice.

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Livestreaming Panel: What Does Anti-racist Producing Look Like?
The Playwrights Realm
Video

Livestreaming Panel: What Does Anti-racist Producing Look Like?

A cohort of theatre professionals discuss the many ways they’re embracing a values-centric approach to putting on a show.

Thursday 23 September 2021
New York City

What does anti-racism look like when applied to the theatre’s core activity — producing plays? In this panel, a cohort of theatre professionals discusses the many ways they’re embracing a values-centric approach to putting on a show, from first rehearsal all the way to closing night. Livestreaming on the commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Thursday 23 September 2021 at 1 p.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 3 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 4 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 21:00 BST (London, UTC +1).

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Livestreaming Panels: School of Resistance: For a Politics of Justice!
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NTGent
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IIPM
Video

Livestreaming Panels: School of Resistance: For a Politics of Justice!

Three panels on a new politics of humanity and justice

Friday 24 September to Saturday 25 September
Ghent, Belgium

NTGent presents School of Resistance: For a Politics of Justice! livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 24 and Saturday 25 September 2021.

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NO SUMMARY: Theatre from the Streets of Palestine, India, and Venezuela
Golden Thread
Video

NO SUMMARY: Theatre from the Streets of Palestine, India, and Venezuela

A conversation about the international pilot program aiming to bring forth truthful stories and realities of the people of Palestine, India and Venezuela

Friday 2 September 2021
United States

Golden Thread presents NO SUMMARY: Theatre from the Streets of Palestine, India, and Venezuela livestreaming on the commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 24 September 2021 at 11 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 1 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 2 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).

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