Please join us for a day-long festival of readings from works that perform democratic processes; panels with artists whose practices rehearse and represent democratic ideals; and artist-led workshops that provide tools for creating theatre that uplifts, rehearses, and performs democracy.
The organizing principle of the festival is that both theatre and democracy depend on dialogue to function. Each of the presentations throughout the day will ask the practitioners and participants to experiment in some way with the notion that an argument performed dialogically before a theatre audience offers the distance, space, and time to hear, contemplate, and better see an issue critical to a community.
There seems no better time to flex and strengthen the muscles of argument, listening, contemplation, gathering in community, and exercising one’s power to agree, disagree, persuade, be persuaded, and to witness the strange and familiar. This festival hopes to remind theatre practitioners and theatregoers that our participation in this medium can be foundational practice to a more robust democracy.
Schedule of events and artists participating to be announced soon!
