Afro Atlantic Playwrights Festival Closing Roundtable at Playwrights' Center Minneapolis on Sunday 1
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2019-07-15

The Playwright's Center in Minneapolis presents the Afro-Atlantic Playwright Festival Closing Roundtable livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network on Sunday 14 July 2019 at 11 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC-7) / 1 p.m. CDT (Minneapolis, UTC-5) / 2 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC-4) / 18:00 UTC+0. Add to calendar

As part of the Afro-Atlantic Playwright Festival which celebrates new works by African and African-American playwrights, a closing roundtable discussion will bring together curators Carlyle Brown and Chuck Mike, alongside three participating playwrights, France-Luce Benson (New York City), Zainabu Jallo (Bern, Switzerland, and Nigeria), and Femi Osofisan (Ibadan, Nigeria). 

The festival has been created in partnership with the Camargo Foundation’s Cultural Diaspora Program. While at Camargo, playwrights had the opportunity to meet African-European artists and work with local theater students. The goal was to bring together mid-career and established African and African-American theater artists, in Brown’s words, “from opposite ends of the Africanist Diaspora,” engaging them in debates about identity and authenticity and exploring the different ways in which international boundaries shape the African experience.

The festival is being sponsored by the Camargo Foundation, Carlyle Brown & Company, Playwrights’ Center, Venturous Theater Fund, and Knock Inc.

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