Weekly Howl on Thursday, April 18
"Austin's Maker Culture"—a convo on hashtag #newplay
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The Weekly Howl is a peer-produced, open-access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens in real-time on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay.*
Join us Thursday, April 18 for the Weekly Howl on hashtag #newplay at 11am PDT – 12pm PDT (San Francisco) / 1pm CDT – 2pm CDT (Austin) / 2pm EDT – 3pm EDT (Boston) / 18:00 GMT – 19:00 GMT / 7pm BST - 8pm BST (London). Click here for an automatic conversion into your local time.
Travis Bedard @travisbedard—curator of this week's HowlRound Journalism Series on Austin, Texas—will be moderating this Thurday's conversation about "Austin and its Maker Culture". If you already have specific topics, prompts, or questions you want addressed for this chat, please write them in the comments section below. Volunteer to co-moderate, to co-produce this.
On Thursday, get heard in the conversation by searching for #newplay in Twitter (sort by “all”) and by putting “#newplay” somewhere in your messages. Spread the word!
*The hashtag #newplay in Twitter is a commons tag (i.e. non-proprietary, community-invested tag) for aggregating global knowledge, information, and conversation related to new works, new performance, and new strategies in the theater.
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