A City of Contradictions at the 2019 Annual LMDA Conference on Friday 21 June 2019
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2019-06-22

A City of Contradictions: A Discussion with Chicago Theater Makers
9:45 a.m. - 11 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC-7) / 11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC-5) / 12:45 p.m. - 2 p.m. PDT (New York, UTC-4) / 16:45 - 18:00 UTC+0
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This facilitated conversation asks Chicago theater artists, educators, and administrators to consider how we employ dramaturgical approaches to develop programming that speaks to the city’s pressing social concerns. Questions we will consider include: how might the practices of translation, research, writing, and the development of new artistic voices help create space for challenging conversation and divergent perspectives for audiences? What is the work we do (or can do) to welcome in those who are not “traditional” theater-goers? How do Chicago theaters work to cross the divides that separate us geographically, economically, and socially? Finally, what is the role of dramaturgical practice in addressing the inherent challenges we face in Chicago, a (to borrow a phrase from LMDA’s own conference description) “city of contradictions”? 

This panel brings together a broad range of perspectives from Chicago’s theater community—from Artistic and Literary Management, to Education, and Audience Development—to discuss how we employ dramaturgical strategies to promote inclusion on our stages and engage Chicago’s diverse communities in our performance spaces. 

Livestreaming the 2019 Annual Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas Conference: Crossing Borders, Pt. 2: Action in a Time of Division from Chicago, Illinois livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network on Thursday 20 June to Saturday 22 June 2019.

https://howlround.com/happenings/livestreaming-2019-annual-lmda-conference