Canales Abiertos—un Taller de Teatro Popular del Caribe desde Santiago de Cuba y Nueva Orleans
Thursday 9 July 2020
Santiago, Cuba
CubaNOLA Arts Collective, Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute at Tulane University, and Estudio Teatral Macubá present Open Channels, a live learning encounter for popular theatre artists, scholars, students, teachers, and audiences of Caribbean culture. The three-hour online inaugural event was held in Spanish and English, Thursday 9 July 2020 at 3 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 2 p.m. CDT (New Orleans, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles, UTC -7) livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv.
The National Performance Network presents their 2019 Annual Conference livestreaming from New Orleans on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv from Tuesday 10 December to Friday 13 December 2019.
In episode six of the From the Ground Up podcast, Jeffrey Mosser interviews Stephanie McKee about the history of Junebug Productions, and how they look to "that blue sky" to imagine what is possible for the future.
Theatre journalist Jim O’Quinn writes about eighty-three year old Yvonne Bechet, whose life and work inspired a new play about policing and racial justice in her hometown of New Orleans, Louisiana.
José Torres-Tama writes about the development of Aliens, Immigrants & Other Evildoers, a sci-fi Latino noir performance about the Latino immigration experience.
New Orleans-based artist Nick Slie writes about creating Cry You One, an interdisciplinary, site-responsive project addressing the ongoing effects of climate change on the Gulf Coast.
Distillery Artist Residency in New Orleans presented the culminating Work-In-Process showing for the two 2016 artist fellows: Scotty Heron and Kesha McKey, livestreamed on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV channel at howlround.tv on Monday 10 August at 8 p.m. CDT (New Orleans) / 6 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 9 p.m. EDT (Washington, DC).
DISTILLERY interview with Kesha McKey and Scott Heron
8 August 2015
Emilie Whelan facilitates an interview between dancers Kesha McKey and Scott Heron about age, visibility, and setting their choreography on the bodies of other dancers.
Urban Bush Women and Junebug Productions with support from the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans' Performance Support Program presented Urban Bush Women and Voices from the Bush with special guests Sunni Patterson, Craig Harris, and Rhodessa Jones livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 25 July at 7 p.m. CDT (New Orleans) / 8 p.m. EDT (New York) / 5 p.m. PDT (San Francisco).
Chris Kaminstein of the New Orleans-based ensemble Goat in the Road explains how they made Numb, an original piece about the origins of nitrous oxide and anesthesiology.
ArtSpot Productions and Soulographie presented a Ugandan/American production of Erik Ehn's Maria Kizito directed by Emily Mendelsohn livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 16 November at 1 p.m. PST (San Francisco) / 3 p.m. CST (New Orleans) / 4 p.m. EST (New York). For more information on the production visit www.mariakizitoneworleans.org.
Brighde Mullins writes about Andrei Belgrader's production of Samuel Beckett's Happy Days, and then zooms out to discuss the sucess of Beckett's work in post-Katrina New Orleans and San Quentin prison.
The Distillery presented their second process showing: fifteen to twenty minute showings by fellows, followed by facilitated audience discussion livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 22 August at 5 p.m. PDT/ 7 p.m. CDT / 8 p.m. EDT.
