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How the way she spoke Resuscitated the Power of Storytelling Through Minimalism
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How the way she spoke Resuscitated the Power of Storytelling Through Minimalism

by Sean Anthony Chia
10 November 2019
Theatre for Development in Malawi
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Theatre for Development in Malawi

by Isaac Mafuel
5 November 2019
Beyond the “Other”
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Beyond the “Other”

Seeking Commonality in a Divided World

by Jan Cohen-Cruz
31 October 2019
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How the way she spoke Resuscitated the Power of Storytelling Through Minimalism
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How the way she spoke Resuscitated the Power of Storytelling Through Minimalism

10 November 2019

Sean Anthony Chia examines the impact of a powerful story—one without spectacle—through the lens of Isaac Gomez’s the way she spoke.

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Theatre for Development in Malawi
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Theatre for Development in Malawi

5 November 2019

Isaac Mafuel talks about Malawi’s most prevalent form of theatre, its history, and its impact and challenges.

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Beyond the “Other”
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Beyond the “Other”

Seeking Commonality in a Divided World

31 October 2019

Jan Cohen-Cruz looks at how collaborative art-making can help bridge the divide between groups of people with different identities.

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How Object Puppetry Confronts Climate Change
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How Object Puppetry Confronts Climate Change

3 October 2019

Caroline Reck, artistic director of Glass Half Full Theatre in Austin, Texas, talks about how her company uses clown and object theatre to engage people in the battle against climate change.

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Adapting to a New Normal in Jeune Terre
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Adapting to a New Normal in Jeune Terre

29 September 2019

Playwright Gab Reisman discusses writing a play about climate change and moving toward a model of collective accountability and civic action.

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Nothing is an Answer, Everything is a Signal
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Nothing is an Answer, Everything is a Signal

On NYC’s the Shed and the Institution of Novelty

15 July 2019

Zach Donovan discusses how the Shed—the state-of-the-art arts complex in New York City’s recent real estate development, Hudson Yards—has become a point of contention in the downtown theatre community.

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So You Want to Move to the Developing Neighborhood?
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So You Want to Move to the Developing Neighborhood?

25 June 2019

Jordan Schwartz discusses gentrification in developing neighborhoods, how artists moving in need to work with the existing communities, and what kind of change that can bring about.

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Language and Identity in the Welsh-Turkish Play Y Brain/Kargalar
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Language and Identity in the Welsh-Turkish Play Y Brain/Kargalar

12 June 2019

Emily Garside discusses Y Brain/Kargalar, in which the playwright, Turkish refugee Meltem Arikan, who settled in Wales, explores her conflicting identities. 

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New to New Orleans / Venant d’arriver à la Nouvelle Orléans
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New to New Orleans / Venant d’arriver à la Nouvelle Orléans

Three Theatremakers’ Impressions on Parades versus Protests /  Les impressions de trois femmes de théâtre des parades et des manifestations

23 May 2019

Amelia Parenteau, along with theatremakers Eva Doumbia and Marie Houdin, explores the similarities and differences of parades and protests.

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"Fighting Fire With Fire"
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"Fighting Fire With Fire"

The Intersection of Gun and Sexual Violence in Kristiana Rae Colón’s good friday

5 May 2019

Sean Anthony Chia discusses Kristiana Rae Colón’s good friday, placing it within what he calls “theatre of the unashamed.”

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Conversation about the Meet the Neighbours project
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Comédie de Béthune
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Le 18
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Conversation about the Meet the Neighbours project

Who do you work for?—an international symposium on artistic practices with local communities, hosted by Labirynt Gallery and East European Performing Arts Platform (EEPAP) in Lublin, Poland

Friday 14 December 2018
Lublin, Poland

East European Performing Arts Platform (EEPAP) and Labirynt Gallery presented a livestreaming conversation about the Meet the Neighbours project during the Who do you work for? international symposium at Labirynt Gallery in Lublin, Poland on artistic practices with local communities. Livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 14 December 2018 at 14:00 UTC +1 (Berlin) / 13:00 UTC +0 (London) / 8 a.m. EST (New York, UTC -5).

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Monuments: Shaping Public Space, Memory & Culture: Discussion
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Monuments: Shaping Public Space, Memory & Culture: Discussion

with NEFA and WBUR in Boston

Thursday 13 December 2018
Boston, MA

Update: this event will no longer be livestreamed. Check back here for a video archive. New England Foundation for the Arts and WBUR present a discussion on Monuments: Shaping Public Space, Memory, and Culture livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv at 2:30 p.m. PST (San Francisco) / 4:30 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 5:30 p.m. EST (Boston) on Thursday 13 December.

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Belonging in a “Creative” City
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Belonging in a “Creative” City

11 October 2018

Dr. Friederike Landau and Christophe Knoch explore artist activism in Berlin, detailing the purpose of the Koalition der Freien Szene and weaving in thoughts from the city’s senator for culture and Europe, Dr. Klaus Lsderer.

Decolonizing Theatre/La Descolonización del Teatro
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Decolonizing Theatre/La Descolonización del Teatro

an Introduction/Introducción

27 May 2018

Annalisa Dias and Madeline Sayet introduce the Decolonizing Theatre series by exploring the ways the American theatre has been and still is complicit in the legacy of colonialism.

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PS122

Past and Future

Monday 17 April 2017
New York, NY, United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in New York City presented PS122: Past and Future with Vallejo Gantner, Mark Russell, and Jenny Schlenzka livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 17 April at 6:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 5:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 3:30 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles).

The New Cities, Future Ruins Convening at Southern Methodist University
New Cities, Future Ruins
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The New Cities, Future Ruins Convening at Southern Methodist University

Sunday 13 November 2016 
Dallas, TX, United States

You’re invited to join the New Cities, Future Ruins convening from Southern Methodist University’s campus in Dallas, Texas for the Sunday morning mainstage presentations livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 13 November at 7:30 a.m. PST (Vancouver) / 9:30 a.m. CST (Austin) / 10:30 a.m. EST (New York) / 15:30 GMT-UTC (London). 

The Next Generation Rural Creative Placemaking National Summit at the University of Iowa
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The Next Generation Rural Creative Placemaking National Summit at the University of Iowa

Thursday 13 October and Friday 14 October 2016
Iowa City, Iowa

The Rural Policy Research Institute presented the Next Generation Rural Creative Placemaking National Summit livestreamed on the global, commons-based and peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 13 October and Friday 14 October 2016. See the livestream schedule below. In Twitter, follow @HowlRoundTV and use #howlround

The ArtPlace America Summit on Creative Placemaking
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The ArtPlace America Summit on Creative Placemaking

Monday 4 April to Wednesday 6 April 2016
Phoenix, AZ, United States

ArtPlace America presented the annual ArtPlace Summit in Phoenix, Arizona livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Monday 4 April to Wednesday 6 April. In Twitter, use #ArtPlaceSummit, and follow @ArtPlaceAmerica and @HowlRoundTV. 

Translations—CPCP Update 3
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Translations—CPCP Update 3

New Civic Practice Case Studies

18 August 2015

Michael Rohd with an update on the Center for Performance and Civic Practice’s Catalyst Initiative. 

Panel Gentrification & Business at The N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art
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Panel Gentrification & Business at The N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art

Thursday 19 March 2015
Detroit, MI, United States

The N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art in Detroit presented the panel discussion Gentrification & Business livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 19 March at 3 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 5 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 6 p.m. EDT (New York). In Twitter, follow @NNamdiCenter, and use #howlround.

A street festival in full swing.
Live Webcast & Twitter Discussions for Beyond the Building
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Live Webcast & Twitter Discussions for Beyond the Building

Performing Arts and Transforming Place—#PerformPlace—Mon, Nov 3

24 October 2014

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), with support from ArtPlace America, is hosting a convening that examines how performance-based organizations, and the artists they engage, transform places through their artistic practices: "Beyond the Building: Performing Arts and Transforming Place". This multiplatform convening will be live webcasted and will have Twitter discussions on hashtag #performplace on Monday, November 3, 2014, from 6am PST to 2pm PST / 7am MST to 3pm MST / 8am CST to 4pm CST / 9am EST to 5pm EST.

Biking Beyond Linear
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Biking Beyond Linear

Past and Future in The Kirkbride Cycle

14 October 2014

Haley Honeman writes about The Kirkbride Cycle, a site-specific musical performed at Fergus Fall State Hospital, a deinstitutionalized asylum in Minnesota.

A person waving out of a window.
Community Building with the Chicago Home Theater Festival
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Community Building with the Chicago Home Theater Festival

24 June 2014

Dani Snyder-Young writes about the 2014 Chicago Home Theater Festival, which places participatory performances inside private homes.

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The Arts Factor 2014 Report
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The Arts Factor 2014 Report

Tuesday 10 June 2014
Boston, MA, United States

ArtsBoston livestreamed The Arts Factor 2014 Report on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 10 June at 8:30 a.m. EDT (Boston) / 12:30 GMT / 1:30 p.m. BST (London) / 2:30 p.m. CEST (Berlin).  

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Grantee Summit on Creative Placemaking by Artplace America
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Grantee Summit on Creative Placemaking by Artplace America

Monday 3 March to Wednesday 5 March 2014
Los Angeles, CA, United States

ArtPlace America hosted the 2014 Creative Placemaking Grantee Summit in Los Angeles livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv from Monday 3 March to Wednesday 5 March. Watch the livestream and participate via Twitter hashtag #ArtPlace.