The Opening of the WE WILL DREAM: New Works Festival 2025
Friday 4 April 2025
New Orleans, Louisiana
Art as First Responder: Co-Designing Place, Memory, and Justice in New Orleans is a conversation presented by The OverFlow, an evening of networking, entertainment, and special guests to mark the We Will Dream Festival’s grand opening.
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.
Liza Bielby and paris cyan cian are in Detroit and New Orleans, respectively, building the worlds they want to be in. They discuss their work in performance collectives, connections to community, and the places and relationships that undergird their work.
The MicroCosmos project convenes artists who venture into the inner dimensions of artistic practice to be in dialogue and right relation with the outer context in which we live. In this introductory encounter, the project's co-curators surface the micro in their own practice.
Finding Our Place in the Caribbean Cultural Landscape
Sunday 14 January 2024
New Orleans, Santiago de Cuba, Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo
Members of the global learning community Canales Abiertos | Open Channels premiered a new thirty-five minute documentary video together about their one-week residency in Santiago de Cuba in July 2023.
Amelia Parenteau details the devising process of Intramural Theater, sharing how the company creates a safe and supportive container for artists to tap into their wildest expressions and devise theatre that is wacky, surreal, and layered.
Amelia Parenteau chronicles the process of translating Eva Doumbia’s Autophagies from French to English and producing its tour in the United States, a project that unfolded across four years.
Featuring Playwright Cris E. Blak, Director John "Ray" Proctor, and Guest Panelists Glenn Wofford and Joe Hargrove III (AKA DJ Tank)
Friday 30 June 2023
United States
Warrior Writers is a veteran-focused arts organization that fosters artistic exploration and expression through casual, welcoming workshops and retreats. By reflecting and creating in a comfortable space, we encourage and support healing and community building. Art making becomes the creative tool through which we understand and transcend experiences of trauma and emotional disruptions that are not easily identified but constantly felt.
Playwright Cris E. Blak Shares How his Dream of Writing and Premiering Sons of Liberty Became a Reality
Friday 16 June 2023
New Orleans, Louisiana
Cris Eli Blak is an emerging Black playwright whose work has garnered him recognition from The Negro Ensemble Company, Kairos Italy Theater, Austin Film Festival, Barrington Stage Company, TEDxBroadway, and Ignition Arts. Here he sits down to share how his dream of writing and premiering Sons of Liberty became a reality.
Featuring Michele Seymour, Philana Imade Omorotionmwan, and Lauren Turner Hines
Friday 2 June 2023
New Orleans, Louisiana
This pre-show discussion was facilitated by Michele Seymour of Project Butterfly New Orleans, Playwright, Philana Omorotionmwan, and Producing Artistic Director of No Dream Deferred, Lauren Turner Hines. They address important themes and takeaways that were present in The Defiance of Dandelions.
Playwright Philana Imade Omorotionmwan Shares How her Dream of Premiering The Defiance of Dandelions Became a Reality
Friday 5 May 2023
New Orleans, Louisiana
Philana Imade Omorotionmwan is writing to save her body and spirit from a world that seems hell-bent on destroying them. She sits down to share how her dream of premiering The Defiance of Dandelions became a reality.
A Pre-Show Discussion Featuring Playwright Brian Egland, Director Lauren Turner Hines, & Facilitator Dr. Laura Adderley
Friday 28 April 2023
New Orleans, Louisiana
This is a pre-show conversation with Playwright Brian Egland, Director Lauren Turner Hines, & Facilitator Dr. Laura Adderley as they cover important themes that are present during Where The Suga Still Sweet.
Hosted by Intimacy Coordinators of Color, the Global Majority Intimacy Director Reception is a gathering of stage and screen intimacy professionals, artists, educators, directors, and producers to connect, learn, and inspire. Keynote by Kaja Dunn.
Amelia Parenteau introduces the We Will Dream: New Works Festival, a festival showcasing new plays by Black playwrights originating from or working in the American South.
Keynote speech delivered by actor Doug Spearman (Noah's Arc). The HBCU Theatre Summit is for Black theatre students as they navigate the world of the arts.
Featuring M. D. Schaffer, Director David Kote, & Facilitator A Scribe Called Quess?
Friday 31 March 2023
New Orleans, Louisiana
A pre-show discussion featuring playwright M.D. Schaffer, M. D. Schaffer, Director David Kote, & Facilitator A Scribe Called Quess? as they cover important themes that are present during Drapetomania.
Playwright M. D. Schaffer Shares How their Dream of Writing and Premiering Drapetomania Became a Reality
Friday 24 March 2023
United States
M.D. Schaffer (they/they) is a queer, non-Binary, African American writer born in Houston, Texas and currently residing in New York City. Their previous works include F***in’ Howard Phillips with the JaYo Theatre Company, Hotel On Fremont at The Lewis Center for the Arts, and A Rodeo Clown with the Obsidian Theatre Festival.
Hosted by Mark Caesar featuring the Glaspy Experience, the Black Film Festival of New Orleans (BFFNO) is a multi-day event designed to celebrate independent films and filmmakers. Through BFFNO, creatives have a home that advances African American cinema and cultivates local film and television in classic New Orleans style.
Lauren E. Turner, producing artistic director of No Dream Deferred, sits down with Amelia Parenteau to discuss their recent experiences in anti-racist facilitation work through No Dream Deferred’s service, Equity and Justice for Institutional Change.
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 8 July 2021
Cuba
The Stone Center for Latin American Studies and The Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute and The New Orleans Center for the Gulf South of Tulane University (New Orleans, LA), and Estudio Teatral Macubá presented Open Channels livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 8 July 2021 at 10 a.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 9 a.m. CDT (New Orleans, UTC -5) / 7 a.m. PDT (Los Angeles, UTC -7).
Artists, activists, and the New Orleans Police Monitor reflect on the life of Yvonne Bechet and using stories to build social movements
Monday 5 October 2020
New Orleans, Louisiana
The Yvonne Bechet Theatre Project presented a panel discussing issues raised in the play Black and Blue livestreamed on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 5 October at 12 p.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 2 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 3 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).
