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The International Mobility of Disabled Artists and Culture Professionals
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The International Mobility of Disabled Artists and Culture Professionals
Join this webinar to collectively investigate international artistic and cultural mobility.
Tuesday 12 March 2024
Europe
Turning Political Violence into Entertainment in Hate Radio
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Turning Political Violence into Entertainment in Hate Radio
by Joseph Dunne-Howrie
27 July 2023
Histories of the Avant-garde and Contemporary Disruptive Technologies
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Histories of the Avant-garde and Contemporary Disruptive Technologies
Cyber Attack: Digital Art and Activism Conference
Wednesday 16 November 2022
Berlin, Germany and international.
Lecture by Bojana Kunst, Author of Artist at Work, Proximity of Art and Capitalism
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Lecture by Bojana Kunst, Author of Artist at Work, Proximity of Art and Capitalism

Monday 10 October 2016
Lublin, Poland

The 21st edition of Konfrontacje Festival in Lublin, Poland presented a lecture by Bojana Kunst, author of Artist at Work, Proximity of Art and Capitalism livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Monday 10 October at 15:00 CEST (Lublin/Berlin) / 16:00 EEST (Bucharest) / 2 p.m. BST (London) / 13:00 UTC / 9 a.m. EDT (New York). Follow @HowlRoundTV and @konfrontacje on Twitter for updates.

Western Europe Meets Eastern Europe
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Western Europe Meets Eastern Europe

Yasmina Reza’s Bella Figura in Zagreb, Croatia

19 July 2016

Anđela Vidović on the reception of Bella Figura by French Playwright Yasmina Reza in Zagreb, Croatia.

Discussion with Theatre Historian Erika Fischer-Lichte on Theatre, Sacrifice, and Ritual
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Discussion with Theatre Historian Erika Fischer-Lichte on Theatre, Sacrifice, and Ritual

Thursday 31 March 2016
New York, NY, United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in New York City presented a discussion with theatre historian Erika Fischer-Lichte on theatre, sacrifice, and ritual livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 31 March at 3:30 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 5:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 6:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 22:30 GMT / 23:30 BST (London). On Twitter, use #howlround to join the conversation.

Reading and Discussion of Wolfram Lotz’s The Ridiculous Darkness
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Reading and Discussion of Wolfram Lotz’s The Ridiculous Darkness

Monday 21 March 2016
New York, NY, United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in New York City presented a reading and discussion of Wolfram Lotz’s The Ridiculous Darkness livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 21 March at 3:30 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 5:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 6:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 22:30 GMT (London) / 23:30 CET (Berlin). In Twitter, use #howlround to join the conversation.

Staging The Glass Menagerie with Puppets
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Staging The Glass Menagerie with Puppets

15 March 2016

Eric Bass discusses the dramaturgy of puppetry in a production of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie in Germany.

One Year in Berlin
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One Year in Berlin

An Interview with Andrea Stolowitz by Henning Bochert

24 February 2016

Translator Henning Bochert talks with playwright Andrea Stolowitz who was recently in residence in Berlin at the English Theatre Berlin.

Readings of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Theatre Work
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Readings of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Theatre Work

Monday 16 November 2015

 

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in New York City presented Fassbinder and the Stage livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 16 November at 3:30 p.m. PST (Los Angeles) / 5:30 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 6:30 p.m. EST (New York) / 23:30 GMT (London). 

The Block
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The Block

A Short Meditation on the Dramatic End of a Playwright

30 April 2015

Lydia Stryk shares a heartfelt exploration of being unable to continue to write plays after losing two important figures in her life, and notes the bravery that comes with writing.

Google Glass Performance of Annie Berman’s STREET VIEWS at Galerie Patrick Ebensperger
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Google Glass Performance of Annie Berman’s STREET VIEWS at Galerie Patrick Ebensperger

Saturday 14 February 2015
Berlin, Germany

On opening night, Berman further investigated the reality of embodiment/liveness/the artist’s presence/performance/live film, by performing a live broadcast of the installation, wearing Google Glasses ("Glass"). Her direct sight and interactions were broadcast via Google Glass,  livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 14 February at 8 p.m. CET (Berlin) / 7 p.m. GMT (London) / 2 p.m. EST (New York) / 1 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 11 a.m. PST (Los Angeles).

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Innovate Heritage: Conversations between Arts and Heritage conference
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Innovate Heritage: Conversations between Arts and Heritage conference

Friday 6 June to Sunday 8 June 2014.
Berlin, Germany

Innovate Heritage: Conversations between Arts and Heritage is an international and inter/transdisciplinary conference livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv from Friday 6 June to Sunday 8 June 2018.

Repertory is the Answer
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Repertory is the Answer

25 May 2014

Brian Bell shares insight into the benefits of the repertory model.

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Theater for Young Audiences, America, and the Two Plutos
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Theater for Young Audiences, America, and the Two Plutos

18 March 2014

I have to wonder why Berliners are willing to bring their children to film or theater like "Pluto". Why are they more apt to present for their children’s consideration an unvarnished exploration of what is dark and hard in the world, and Americans are not?

An actor onstage rides a stationary bike while speaking into a microphone.
Riding a Bike on Stage
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Riding a Bike on Stage

Green Theater and Katie Mitchell’s Production of Lungs

22 January 2014

Summer Banks offers an overview of eco-theatre and talks about her experience watching Katie Mitchell's production of Atmen.

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On Theatricality
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On Theatricality

22 August 2011

Following up to a piece for the Brooklyn Rail on Gesamtkunstwerk, playwright Lydia Stryk contrasts the German practice with contemporary American theatricality and collaborative practices.

Translating Laughter
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Translating Laughter

A Cabaret from the Terezín Ghetto

6 April 2011

Lisa Peschel considers her experience adapting a comedic play written by survivors of the Holocaust and the way in which its humor translates to audiences today.

A poster that reads "Beatbox: A Raparetta."
The Tuedelband Plays On
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The Tuedelband Plays On

4 April 2011

Dan Wolf discovers the artistic legacy of his ancestors and uses that as inspiration to deepen his own artistic vision.

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Roma Theatre Retrospective 2021
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Roma Theatre Retrospective 2021

Celebrating Four Years of Contemporary, International Romani Theatre

Independent Theater Hungary in partnership with HowlRound Theatre Commons presented the Roma Theatre Retrospective 2021 which included forty livestreams of twenty shows and twenty interviews from Romani artists in ten countries who were featured during four editions of the Roma Heroes International Theater Festival, Budapest. Livestreamed on the commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network Tuesday 19 October to Friday 10 December 2021.

State of German Theatre
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State of German Theatre

Thomas Schmidt talks about the state and history of German theatre.

"The Hummingbirds" Internationalist World Tour 
Series

"The Hummingbirds" Internationalist World Tour 

A series tracing the journey of Garret Groenveld's play The Hummingbirds.