Sport and Art in Censored Society was the closing panel of PROPAGANDA: A Festival Celebrating Russian Voices livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 19 January at 3:15 p.m. PST/ 5:15 p.m. CST/ 6:15 p.m. EST/ 23:15 GMT. Use #propfest2014 and #howlround to tweet in your questions!
Nobokov’s thinking about absolute freedom included the notion that there could be no play without competition. It is critical to think about the lack of play induced by Putin’s “traditional Russian values.”
Tess Berry-Hart struggles to find stories for a documentary theater play on same sex couples in Russia. Some stories were sad, many appalling, others funny, but most of them spoke of one thing in common for the future: hope.
