This digital showcase lands as a direct response to the recent political transformations in Syria and includes two live artist discussions to deepen the engagement with the featured works and their creators. Photo credit: Koon Theater, The Other Side of The Garden, @Hubert Damiel.
Live artist Tania El Khoury discusses her creative process, the ways audience participation cultivates solidarity and awareness of social justice issues, her role as the director of the Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College, and the intersection of art and activism in her work.
An update on the situation for theatre artists in Syria
Friday 26 June 2020
Syria
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented SEGAL TALKS: Liwaa Yazji livestreamed on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 26 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).
Canopy Theatre, in partnership with La Scéne Theatre from Aix-en-Provence, France, and The VORTEX in Austin, Texas, presents Mawlana livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 6 October at 6 p.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 8 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 9 p.m. EDT (New York) / 20:10 GMT+1 (London).
In the second installment of this series—a collaboration with SpiderWebShow—Majdi Bou-Matar writes about the power and relevance of a Canadian production featuring the work of two Syrian immigrant artists.
The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University in Washington, DC and the Syria: The Trojan Women Projectin Amman, Jordan presented a conversation livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 19 September at 4:30 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles)/ 7:30 p.m. EDT (Washington DC)/ 23:30 GMT / 2:30 a.m. AST (Amman, Jordan on Saturday, September 20) / 9:30 a.m. AEST (Sydney, Australia on Saturday, September 20).
