Why We Are Here at The Gathering from the CrossCurrents Festival on Wednesday 8 May 2019
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2019-05-09

As part of the inaugural CrossCurrents festival, The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. presents The Gathering livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv from Wednesday 8 May to Saturday 11 May 2019.

The Lab brings together more than 200 visionary artists from more than 40 countries to celebrate and highlight how their innovative work harnesses the power of performance to address the pressing challenges of our world.

In addition to the performances of The Chibok Girls: Our Story, a suite of solo and pair performances will run in repertory throughout The Gathering, with limited ticket availability for the wider public. Throughout this four-day event, artists will be joined by thought-leaders, policymakers, activists, scholars, and the next generation of change-makers. 

Wednesday 8 May 2019: Why We Are Here
2 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 18:00 - 19:45 UTC +0 / 7 p.m. - 8:45 p.m. BST (London, UTC +1)

Welcome
Derek Goldman, Co-Director, The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, Georgetown University

Ramadan Prayer
Ali Mahdi Nouri, UNESCO Ambassador & Secretary General ITI, International Theater Institute & Albuggaa Theatre Company

Ritual of Land Acknowledgment
Emily Johnson, Artistic Director, Emily Johnson/Catalyst
Kelsey Lawson, Director, Native American Student Council, Georgetown University
Jason Tamiru, Producer, Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Australia

Our Republic of Imagination
Amb. Cynthia Schneider, Co-Director, The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics (Intro.)
Azar Nafisi, best-selling author (Reading Lolita in Tehran); Centennial Fellow, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Here I Am/Here We Are: Georgetown, Student Activism, the Legacy of Slavery, and Performance
Kendell Long, Georgetown Student, Students for GU272 Advocacy Group
Melísande Short-Colomb, Georgetown Student, Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics

On Performing Care
James Thompson, Professor, Practitioner, Writer, University of Manchester

Hopeful Encounters – Part 1 Lab Fellows Demo           
Faisal Abu Alhayjaa, Actor, Comedian, Red Noses International
Caitlin Nasema Cassidy, Actor, Theater Maker; co-Artistic Director, LubDub Theater Company
Velani Dibba, Director, Columbia University
Devika Ranjan, Theater Maker, Ethnographer, Educator; Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Manuel Viveros, Actor, Director; University of Louisville

https://howlround.com/happenings/livestreaming-gathering-crosscurrents-festival