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The Living Presence of Our History Part X
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The Living Presence of Our History Part X
The Ohketeau Cultural Center and co-producer Double Edge Theatre host a panel with Indigenous leaders and scholars
Sunday 10 March 2024
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Kinship, Solidarity, and Working Towards Everyone’s Survival
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Kinship, Solidarity, and Working Towards Everyone’s Survival
by Mary Amanda McNeil , Samora Pinderhughes, Storme Webber
14 September 2023
Decolonizing Arts Leadership Through Shared Black and Indigenous Leadership
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Decolonizing Arts Leadership Through Shared Black and Indigenous Leadership
by David Howse, Ronee Penoi
12 September 2023
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Boston Mayoral Candidate John Connolly Addresses a Full Hall at the Villa Victoria Center for the Arts
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Boston Mayoral Candidate John Connolly Addresses a Full Hall at the Villa Victoria Center for the Arts

Friday 25 October 2013
Boston, MA, United States

MASSCreative presented an address by John Connelly on his Arts and Culture Agenda archived on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 25 October 2013.

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Marty Walsh, Boston Mayoral Candidate, Unveils his Arts and Culture Platform at the Museum of African American History
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Marty Walsh, Boston Mayoral Candidate, Unveils his Arts and Culture Platform at the Museum of African American History

Friday 18 October 2013
Boston, MA, United States

MASSCreative presented a speech by Mayoral Candidate Marty Walsh on his arts and culture platform livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on ​Friday 18 October 2013.

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A Dance of Desegregation at Jacob's Pillow
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A Dance of Desegregation at Jacob's Pillow

15 October 2013

Allison Vanouse writes about Pavement, an adaptation of the 1991 film, Boyz N the Hood at Jacob's Pillow Dance.

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A Ballgame
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A Ballgame

3 October 2013

Boston is a sports city. It also is an arts city. Allison Vanouse takes a look at the similarities including how both mediums and how they share time and space principles.

On Becoming a Playwright-Producer
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On Becoming a Playwright-Producer

25 September 2013

Adara Meyers gives an overview of her artistic journey navigating as a producer and playwright. 

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The Violence Divide: Race and Class Disparities in the Media’s Response to Gun Violence conversation at ArtsEmerson
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The Violence Divide: Race and Class Disparities in the Media’s Response to Gun Violence conversation at ArtsEmerson

Thursday 19 September 2013
Boston, MA, United States

The Elma Lewis Center for Civic Engagement, Learning, and Research and ArtsEmerson:The World On Stage present a panel discussion on the presence of race and class disparities in media responses to urban and suburban acts of violence, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 19 September 2013 at 4 p.m. (PDT) / 6 p.m. (CDT) / 7 p.m. (EDT).

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The Business of Magic
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The Business of Magic

Lucy Watson's Re-Present Me at Anthony Greaney

19 September 2013

Allison Vanouse reviews Lucy Watson's Re-Present Me, a performance art piece meditating on the artist's relationship with the supernatural.

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Columbine High School Shooting: The Impact of the Media on Survivors of Trauma conversation at ArtsEmerson
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Columbine High School Shooting: The Impact of the Media on Survivors of Trauma conversation at ArtsEmerson

Wednesday 18 September 2013
Boston, MA, United States

ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage, Boston presents The Impact of the Media on Survivors of Trauma conversation livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 18 September 2013 at 1:30 p.m.-2:45 p.m. (PDT) / 3:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m. (CDT) / 4:30 p.m.-5:45 p.m. (EDT) / 20:30 GMT - 21:45 GMT. 

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Mayoral Candidate Forum on Arts, Culture, and Creativity 
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Mayoral Candidate Forum on Arts, Culture, and Creativity 

Monday 9 September 2013
Boston, MA, United States

Create the Vote coalition presented the Boston Mayoral Candidate Forum on Arts, Culture, and Creativity livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 9 September at 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m. EDT (Boston) / 5 p.m.-6:30 p.m. CDT (Austin) / 3 p.m.-4:30 p.m. PDT (San Francisco).

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Bathaus, DEAD ART STAR and Abuse of the Document
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Bathaus, DEAD ART STAR and Abuse of the Document

5 September 2013

Allison Vanouse writes about DEAD ART STAR at Bathaus, and how social media documentation interacts and intersects with performance art and its goals.

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Succession Complex
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Succession Complex

Richard II with Rocco Sisto

22 August 2013

Allison Vanouse examines Shakespeare & Company's start to their history cycle: Richard II. She argues that Shakespeare's history plays work best when they speak to our contemporary concerns.

Film As Live Art
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Film As Live Art

Gabriel Abrantes and Theatrical Gesture

21 August 2013
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Homer’s Trojan War on Boston Stages
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Homer’s Trojan War on Boston Stages

4 August 2013

Kyna Hamill investigates the implications of addressing war on stage and shares a brief overview of Theatre of War.

Art & Survival Convening at Double Edge Theatre
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Art & Survival Convening at Double Edge Theatre

Saturday 3 August and Sunday 4 August 2013
Ashfield, MA, United States

Double Edge Theatre in Ashfield, Massachusetts presented the Art and Survival Convening livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 3 August and Sunday 4 August 2013.

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Poetic Drama, Guerilla Opera
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Poetic Drama, Guerilla Opera

30 July 2013

Allison Vanousewrites about the premiere production of Adam Roberts' Giver of Light, an opera based on the life of the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi.

Story Slam at KoFest in Amherst
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Story Slam at KoFest in Amherst

Sunday 28 July 2013
Amherst, MA, United States

The KoFest in Amherst, Massachusetts presented Story Slam livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 28 July 2013 at 5 p.m. PDT (Vancouver) / 7 p.m. CDT (New Orleans) / 8 p.m. (Toronto).

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The Mad Dash: A Theatrical Endeavor in 24 Hours at Fresh Ink Theatre and Interim Writers
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The Mad Dash: A Theatrical Endeavor in 24 Hours at Fresh Ink Theatre and Interim Writers

Saturday 13 July 2013
Boston, MA, United States

Fresh Ink Theatre and Interim Writers presented The Mad Dash: A Theatrical Endeavor in 24 Hours, bringing together the Boston theater community to write, rehearse, and mount an evening of new plays in just 24 hours, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 13 July at 5 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 7 p.m. CDT (Austin) / 8 p.m. EDT (Boston).

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Elegant Variation
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Elegant Variation

4 July 2013

Brown Box Theatre Project’s production of The Nina Variations cast three actresses as Nina. Allison Vanouse constrasts Steven Dietz's play with other works that explore repetition and deconstruct classic plays.

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Notes on Odd Spaces
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Notes on Odd Spaces

25 June 2013

Allison Vanouse reviews "Odd Spaces" at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. What is to be gained, she asks, in finding new ways to perform in odd spaces?

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Ballet and Time
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Ballet and Time

20 June 2013

Allison Vanouse writes about Boston Ballet's 2013 triple-bill of George Balanchine’s Serenade and Symphony in C, and Wayne McGregor’s Chroma

From the Dirty War and Beyond: A Conversation with Argentine Theatre Artists Carlos Uriona & Jorge Onofri at Double Edge Theatre
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From the Dirty War and Beyond: A Conversation with Argentine Theatre Artists Carlos Uriona & Jorge Onofri at Double Edge Theatre

Sunday 16 June 2013
Ashfield, MA, United States

Double Edge Theatre in Ashfield, Massachusetts presented "From the Dirty War and Beyond"—a conversation with Argentine Theatre Artists Carlos Uriona and Jorge Onofri livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 16 June 2013 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 11 a.m. CDT (Austin) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York) / 1 p.m. ART (Buenos Aires) / 16:00 GMT / 5 p.m. BST (London) / 6 p.m. CEST (Berlin).

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Exist Stronger
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Exist Stronger

14 May 2013

Allison Vanouse profiles Near Death, a performance art presentation at Boston's Cyclorama.

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Suzan-Lori Parks' Watch Me Work and Lecture at Emerson College
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Suzan-Lori Parks' Watch Me Work and Lecture at Emerson College

Wednesday 3 April 2013
Boston, MA, United States

Emerson College in Boston presented two events involving Suzan-Lori Parks livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 3 April 2013.

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Panels on Gender & Race in the New Play Sector at XX PlayLab Festival
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Panels on Gender & Race in the New Play Sector at XX PlayLab Festival

Saturday 23 March and Sunday 24 March 2013
Boston, MA, United States

Company One and the BCA presented panels on gender and race in the new play sector livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 23 March and Sunday 24 March 2013.

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Live on #NEWPLAY TV
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Live on #NEWPLAY TV

Latinx Theater Commons Steering Committee Convening

21 March 2013

Livestreaming of the Latinx Theater Commons Steering Committee on updating the American narrative of Latina/os in the theatre.