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Open Channels—a Caribbean Theatre Workshop from Santiago de Cuba & New Orleans
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Open Channels—a Caribbean Theatre Workshop from Santiago de Cuba & New Orleans

Canales Abiertos—un Taller de Teatro Popular del Caribe desde Santiago de Cuba y Nueva Orleans

Thursday 9 July 2020
Santiago, Cuba
SEGAL TALKS: Tania Bruguera
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SEGAL TALKS: Tania Bruguera

An update on the situation for theatre artists in Cuba

Wednesday 17 June 2020
Cuba
School of Resistance - Episode One: This Madness Has to Stop
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School of Resistance - Episode One: This Madness Has to Stop

Opening speech of Wiener Festwochen by Kay Sara. Followed by a debate with Tania Bruguera and Milo Rau, moderated by Lara Staal

Saturday 16 May 2020
Ghent, Belgium
Caribbean Theater Workshop's Open Channels poster.
Open Channels—a Caribbean Theatre Workshop from Santiago de Cuba & New Orleans
CubaNOLA Arts Collective logo.
CubaNOLA Arts Collective
Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute of Tulane University logo.
Cuban Institute, Tulane
Estudio Macubá logo.
Estudio Macubá
College Unbound logo.
College Unbound
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Open Channels—a Caribbean Theatre Workshop from Santiago de Cuba & New Orleans

Canales Abiertos—un Taller de Teatro Popular del Caribe desde Santiago de Cuba y Nueva Orleans

Thursday 9 July 2020
Santiago, Cuba

Estudio Teatral Macubá, CubaNOLA Arts Collective, Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute at Tulane University present Caribbean Theatre Workshop: Open Channels was a live learning encounter for popular theatre artists, scholars, students, teachers, and audiences of Caribbean culture. This three-hour online event was held in Spanish and English, Thursday 9 July 2020 livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv.

Tania Bruguera.
SEGAL TALKS: Tania Bruguera
Segal_Centre_Logo
Segal
Center
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SEGAL TALKS: Tania Bruguera

An update on the situation for theatre artists in Cuba

Wednesday 17 June 2020
Cuba

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented SEGAL TALKS: Tania Bruguera livestreamed on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 17 June 2020 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 17:00 BST (London, UTC +1) / 18:00 CEST (Berlin, UTC +2).

school of resistance conversation series graphic.
School of Resistance - Episode One: This Madness Has to Stop
National Theatre Ghent logo.
NTGent
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School of Resistance - Episode One: This Madness Has to Stop

Opening speech of Wiener Festwochen by Kay Sara. Followed by a debate with Tania Bruguera and Milo Rau, moderated by Lara Staal

Saturday 16 May 2020
Ghent, Belgium

NTGent presented School of Resistance - Episode One: This madness has to stop livestreamed on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 16 May 2020 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC-7) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC-4) / 17:00 BEST (London, UTC+1) / 18:00 CEST (Belgium, UTC+2).

“The Camera is My Beloved”
Essay

“The Camera is My Beloved”

Michelle Memran Creates Documentary Art with María Irene Fornés

12 June 2018

Journalist and filmmaker Michelle Memran reflects upon the easy beginning, the messy middle, the focused concluding months, and MOMA premiere screening of her documentary dreamscape film The Rest I Make Up about her great friend, the beloved playwright and teacher María Irene Fornés.

Afro Blue, un homenaje
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Afro Blue, un homenaje

A Room of My Own

11 April 2017

In this third installment, Jadele McPherson discusses how artists (both past and present) influence each other across the African diaspora, and advocates for more contemporary artists to acknowledge their ancestors.

Afro-Cuban History in La Sirene
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Afro-Cuban History in La Sirene

Rutas de Azucar / The Siren: Sugar Routes

24 January 2017

Cherry Lou Sy reflects on Lukumi Arts’ immersive production of La Sirene: Rutas de Azucar (The Siren: Sugar Routes), which explores the black history of Cuba through José Antonio Aponte’s book of paintings.

Claiming Your Space: a Conversation about Writing and Performing Identity with Cuban-American Performer/Playwrights Marissa Chibas and Melinda Lopez
ArtsEmerson
ArtChange US
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Claiming Your Space: a Conversation about Writing and Performing Identity with Cuban-American Performer/Playwrights Marissa Chibas and Melinda Lopez

Saturday 30 April 2016
Boston, MA, United States

ArtChangeUS@, ArtsEmerson, and HowlRound presented Claiming Your Space—a conversation about writing and performing identity with acclaimed performer/playwrights Marissa Chibas and Melinda Lopez moderated by Dr. P. Carl livestreamed from Boston on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Saturday 30 April at 4 p.m. EDT (New York) / 3 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 1 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 20:00 GMT / 9 p.m. BST (London). In Twitter, use #howlround and follow @howlroundtv. 

The Sad Virgin
Essay

The Sad Virgin

The Corporality of Historical Memory / La virgen triste: La corporalidad de la memoria histórica

28 May 2015

Beatriz J. Rizk on La virgen triste by Elizabeth Mena, performed by Miami-based theatre  company Galiano 108.

A Cautiously Optimistic Cuban American
Essay

A Cautiously Optimistic Cuban American

22 January 2015

Marissa Chibas weighs both the positive and negative sides of reestablishing diplomatic ties with the Cuban government, and what it could mean for people in both Cuba and the United States.

Dreaming Cuba
Series

Dreaming Cuba

A series of blog posts about Cuban theatre and performance.

A series of blog posts about Cuban theatre and performance