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Series allow for an in-depth exploration of a topic from multiple points of view. We have TV Series, Journal Series, and Podcast Series focusing on a wide variety of theatremaking practices and industry conversations.

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The Stories Women Carry
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The Stories Women Carry

Creative Practice of African Women from the Continent

The 6-episode season features leading writers, poets, directors, producers and interdisciplinary theatre-makers who will share their artistic practices and methodologies.

Text: 10 weeks in Jamaica. Theatre conversations from Jamaica to the world.
10 Weeks In Jamaica: Theatre Conversations from Jamaica to The World!
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10 Weeks In Jamaica: Theatre Conversations from Jamaica to The World!

Ten weekly conversations with Jamaica's leading theatre artists exploring the histories, memories and remedies of the Jamaican stage.

As the world focuses on achieving racial equity, the rich history and contemporary narratives of the Jamaican stage provides valuable learnings for theatre practitioners and audiences in search of models and memories of progressive community building through the arts.

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Searching a Way Forward
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Searching a Way Forward

Earlier this year, Mark Valdez, hungering for public discourse around the future of the American theatre field, prompted three arts leaders with the question, “What is our purpose now?”

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How to Produce a Livestream Event
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How to Produce a Livestream Event

Guides to the tools and embedded values.

A series of guides on how to produce your livestream events which prioritize accessibility, inclusion, low carbon practices, and the commons.

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NO SUMMARY
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NO SUMMARY

Golden Thread presents online conversations with artists that don’t fit in a Box

NO SUMMARY is a curated online series that invites artists of Middle Eastern and North African heritage to discuss the many layers of their identity and how it impacts their work and artistic choices.

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Contemporary Playwrighting in Romania
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Contemporary Playwrighting in Romania

Produced and presented by Reactor – a place for creative experiments

Eight performances written by eight contemporary Romanian playwrights.

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NBT @ HOME Presents An "Unbought & Unbossed" Conversation
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NBT @ HOME Presents An "Unbought & Unbossed" Conversation

A digital conversation series about the dynamic legacy of Shirley Chisholm and reclaiming our vote.

In tandem with its curated micro-commission series, "Unbought & Unbossed: Reclaiming Our Vote," National Black Theatre is hosting three NBT @ HOME conversations with its commissioned artists as well as community leaders and historians about the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, combating voter suppression, and our power to reclaim our vote.

poster for the Roma Theatre Retrospective 2020.
Roma Theatre Retrospective 2020
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Roma Theatre Retrospective 2020

Featuring Roma artists from the Roma Heroes Theater Festival, Hungary

The Roma theater has more than a century long past with active professional theatre groups in many European countries, but unfortunately, they are still hardly known.

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performingbordersLIVE20
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performingbordersLIVE20

A public programme focusing on the exploration of experimental and exciting artistic practices happening within the UK Live Art sector

performingborders is a curatorial research-platform that explores the relations between Live Art and notions and lived experiences of cultural, juridical, racial, gendered, class, physical, economic, and everyday borders.

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The Living Presence of Our History
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The Living Presence of Our History

Presented by The Ohketeau Cultural Center and Double Edge Theatre

On the history and presence of the Nipmuc and other Tribes in Ashfield, Massachusetts and the surrounding areas.

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