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Braiding Narratives of Repair
What is Needed for True Black and Indigenous Solidarity
Wednesday 19 November 2025
New York City
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Finding Ground in a Shifting World
A Public Conversation on Home, Displacement, and Collective Sanctuary
Friday 24 October 2025
Los Angeles, CA
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Theatre Practices for Healing and Engagement
A Stages of Change Panel
Friday 10 October 2025
New York City
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What is Needed for True Black and Indigenous Solidarity

Wednesday 19 November 2025
New York City

Finding kinship through shared leadership convening.

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A Public Conversation on Home, Displacement, and Collective Sanctuary

Friday 24 October 2025
Los Angeles, CA

Bringing together cultural workers, organizers, and artists across movements to share models, experiences, and stories about what is working and how we can build power towards a shared freedom. 

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A Stages of Change Panel

Friday 10 October 2025
New York City

Visionaries in the theatre field lead a community conversation exploring a range of theatrical practices for engaging communities in conflict resolution, healing, and fostering an environment of empathy and care.

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A Resource Sharing Model for Culture Makers in New York City

Monday 9 June 2025
New York City

Exploring the insights, surprises, and impact of Re/Venue's experimental model for theatre production and presentation. 

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ArtsLink Assembly

Friday 23 May and Saturday 23 May 2025
Lviv, Ukraine

A two-day gathering of key artists and cultural leaders in Ukraine and those displaced abroad together with key international partner organizations, foundations, and supporters in Ukraine’s new independent cultural space.

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Key Takeaways on Health and Wealth in the Arts and a Panel on Navigating Change

Wednesday 2 April and Friday 4 April 2025
New York City

At this year’s Spring Summit, the A.R.T./New York team shared early findings from the data project, Health and Wealth: Supporting NYC Theatremakers through Data and Insights.

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The Opening of the WE WILL DREAM: New Works Festival 2025

Friday 28 March 2025
New Orleans, Louisiana

The OverFlow is an evening of networking, entertainment, and special guests to mark the We Will Dream Festival’s grand opening. 
This panel features Patrick Duggan and Stuart Andrews, guided by Lauren Turner Hines.

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From Amplify & Ignite, a Symposium of the American Alliance for Theatre and Education 

Friday 21 March 2025
Boston, Massachusetts

As we face an uncertain world with stark divisions and ruptures, what is our role as artists, educators, and scholars working with and across our multiple communities?

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A Space for Artists, Activists, and Audiences to Engage With Performance as a Tool for Social Change

Saturday 1 March through Monday 3 March 2025
Chicago, Illinois

The festival is rooted in a commitment to theatre that uplifts and empowers marginalized voices by bringing together individuals and organizations dedicated to using theatre for justice and transformation.

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On the Enduring Challenge of Cultural, Economic, and Racial Equity in the Performing Arts Sector

Friday 28 February and Saturday 1 March 2025
Austin, Texas

Over two days, through conversations with cultural professionals and humanities scholars, this convening addressed gaps in understanding about how performing artists in the United States work and how their work is supported systemically.

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The Future of Arts and Health in Policy, Infrastructure, and Culture

Friday 7 February 2025
Dallas, TX

The Arts for EveryBody Capstone Convening in Dallas, Texas is an action-oriented learning and networking opportunity for practitioners, leaders, and funders in the health, municipal, and arts sectors. 

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With Speakers Kamilah Forbes (Apollo Theater), Mei Ann Teo (Ping Chong and Company), and Dorcy Rugamba (Rwanda Arts Initiative)

Thursday 9 January 2025
New York City

Free and open to the public, this dynamic gathering brought together global arts leaders, cultural innovators, and a vibrant community of over 350 professionals to explore bold visions for strengthening the live and performing arts field.

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Essay
24 July 2024

Al Heartley believes that executive search process should leave an organization better than it was before. This, he writes, is one way to address the fieldwide issues facing theatre leadership. 

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A.R.T./New York's Spring Summit, Panel Two

Wednesday 5 June 2024
New York

A.R.T./New York convenes their 2024 Spring Summit, UNCHARTED: Leading Beyond The Path to encourage solution-sharing and strengthen relationships across New York’s nonprofit theatre community, as we build our shared, prosperous and sustainable future. This multi-day event will be an opportunity for collective learning, relationship building, solution sharing, and, perhaps most importantly, joyful social events!

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A.R.T./New York's Spring Summit, Panel One

Tuesday 4 June 2024
New York

A.R.T./New York convenes their 2024 Spring Summit, UNCHARTED: Leading Beyond The Path to encourage solution-sharing and strengthen relationships across New York’s nonprofit theatre community, as we build our shared, prosperous and sustainable future. This multi-day event will be an opportunity for collective learning, relationship building, solution sharing, and, perhaps most importantly, joyful social events!

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A festival curated by Keith Josef Adkins on Unapologetic Humanity and Unapologetic Accountability at the Segal Center

Monday 22 April 2024
New York

The New Black Fest, which is in its fourteenth year, comes to the Segal Center on Monday, 22nd April 2024, and we hope you will join us for a heart, soul, and mind provoking evening centered around the theme of Unapologetic Humanity and Unapologetic Accountability—as curated by The New Black Fest's artistic director Keith Josef Adkins.

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A Book Talk

Thursday 18 April 2024

The Segal Center presents an excerpt from The Children of the Dead, which has been recently translated into English by Gitta Honegger and published by Yale University Press.

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A presentation of key findings from a transnational study on theatre during and after the pandemic.

Wednesday 3 April 2024

Barbara Fuchs and Rhonda Sharrah (UCLA) are the US researchers for a transnational study on the state of theatre post-pandemic, and what key lessons can be learned from the COVID experience. They will present their findings and recommendations in conversation with Corinna Schulenburg, director of communications and research for Theatre Communications Group and Greg Reiner, Theatre & Musical Theatre director in the Performing Arts Division of the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Join us for a conversation between celebrated exiled Russian Dimity Krymov and Yasha Klots, associate professor of Russian, CUNY Hunter College.

Monday 25 March 2024
New York

A little over a year after Krymov’s relocation to New York, they discuss rebuilding his career from the ground up, censorship, and the importance of artistic expression.

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Post show talkback with cast and designers

Thursday 29 February 2024
New York.

Director Anne Bogart, Talking Band (Ellen Maddow and Paul Zimet), set designer Anna Kiraly, and costume designer Gabriel Berry discuss their collaboration on Existentialism, as well as their creative process and what it means to make work now.

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On Community Building and Resource Sharing in the New York Theatre Community

Monday 23 October 2023
New York City

ART/ New York hosted the first Fall Forum to foster community, support collaboration, and encourage resource sharing among our members. We kicked off the 2023 Fall Forum with an event to bring together the entire ART/New York community.

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Breathe.Explore.Restore.

Tuesday 13 June 2023
United States

Latinx affinity networks are like a breath of fresh air, offering a space to explore your interests and restore your energy. They can also help you advance your career by providing access to resources, support, and opportunities. This group of influential organizers talked about the foundations of their collectives and the significance of making spaces where our most genuine selves can be seen, celebrated, and advanced, even and especially if they do not already exist.

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Reading Karaoke Led by Youngsook Choi

Saturday 29 April 2023
London, United Kingdom

After three years of digital only, transnational collaborations, performingborders is opening a space for movement, sharing, and conversation, to re-center our bodies in the explorations of borders, live art, community, and resistance. This event features live captioning and closed captioning for the video archive.

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Webinar Exploring the Tensions Between Cultural Mobility and Parental Responsibility in the EU and Internationally

Tuesday 7 March 2023
European Union

For this third Mobility Webinar, On the Move will explore the tensions between cultural mobility and parental responsibility in the EU and internationally. Discussing how our ecosystem considers and manages parenthood, particularly for women, at the different stages of the creative value chain.

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Artistic Imagination as a Force for Change

Friday 18 November 2022
United States

Art2Action and Animating Democracy presented Artistic Imagination as a Force for Change, the third event in the series Animating Democracy: REFLECTING FORWARD, livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 18 November 2022 at 1 p.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 3 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 4 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).

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