REAL TALK!

REAL TALK!, a guided response to Creating New Futures: Working Guidelines for Ethics & Equity in Presenting Dance & Performance, a tentatively-titled, living document-in-progress, was livestreamed on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 14 May 2020 at 12 p.m. HST (Hawaii, UTC-10) / 2 p.m. AKDT (Juneau, UTC-8) / 3 p.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC-7) / 5 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC-5) / 6 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC-4).

REAL TALK! was a two-hour Zoom webinar led by a moderator with 6 speakers who will spoke to the 6 sections of the document. The conversation was followed by a Q&A session.

Moderator: Maria Bauman-Morales
Speakers: Shane Fernando, Anna Glass, Miguel Gutierrez, Joseph Hall, Millicent Johnnie, Ronee Penoi

Creating New Futures: Working Guidelines for Ethics & Equity in Presenting Dance & Performance is an in-progress, living document collectively authored and compiled. It is intended to be a house for testimonials, a handbook for transparent conversations and a call for radical change. The document is now open for all to read and comment at this link: http://tiny.cc/6sjhoz. Please share widely.

The working group of this document--Yanira Castro, Laura Colby, Sarah Greenbaum, Emily Johnson, jumatatu m poe, Brian Rogers, Michael Sakamoto, Karen Sherman, Amy Smith, and Tara Aisha Willis--wanted to ensure we would be working in a conversation of solidarity, with accountability to our communities. This is very much a FIRST DRAFT, one that we hope will spark conversation and that will deepen the second phase of writing. We are looking for colleagues to join us and take on the next phase of this document. Read it. Comment on it. Help us make it the tool it can be for change.

Creating New Futures has been supported by the National Performance Network and The MAP Fund.