A Festival for Theatre and Democracy

Please join us for a day-long festival of readings from works that perform democratic processes; panels with artists whose practices rehearse and represent democratic ideals; and artist-led workshops that provide tools for creating theatre that uplifts, rehearses, and performs democracy.

The organizing principle of the festival is that both theatre and democracy depend on dialogue to function. Each of the presentations throughout the day will ask the practitioners and participants to experiment in some way with the notion that an argument performed dialogically before a theatre audience offers the distance, space, and time to hear, contemplate, and better see an issue critical to a community.

There seems no better time to flex and strengthen the muscles of argument, listening, contemplation, gathering in community, and exercising one’s power to agree, disagree, persuade, be persuaded, and to witness the strange and familiar. This festival hopes to remind theatre practitioners and theatregoers that our participation in this medium can be foundational practice to a more robust democracy.

For schedule of events and participating artists please visit Segal Center website. 

About HowlRound TV

HowlRound TV is a global, commons-based, peer-produced, open-access livestreaming and video archive project stewarded by the nonprofit HowlRound. HowlRound TV is a free and shared resource for live conversations and performances relevant to the world’s performing arts and cultural fields. Its mission is to break geographic isolation, promote resource sharing, and develop our knowledge commons collectively. Anyone can participate in a community of peer organizations revolutionizing the flow of information, knowledge, and access in our field by becoming a producer and co-producing with us. Learn more by going to our participate page. For any other queries, email [email protected] or call Vijay Mathew at +1 917.686.3185 Signal. View the video archive of past events.