Humanizing Exile A Creative Response—2016 TCG Pre Conference—Georgetown University—June 22, 2016
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2016-06-24

Theatre Communications Group and the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics (the Lab) present a Global Pre-Conference livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV at howlround.tv on Wednesday, June 22, 2016 from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Share your thoughts and media with #tcg16 and #howlround, and follow @TCG and @HowlRoundTV in Twitter for updates. 

As an introduction to Theatre Nation, the Global Pre-Conference embodies our collective pursuit of a highly participatory, inclusive nation without borders that includes and celebrates all theatre citizens. The theme for the Pre-Conference is Finding Home: Migration, Exile, and Belonging.

Curated by the Global Theater Initiative (GTI), a newly-formed partnership between TCG and the Lab, the Global Pre-Conference will include a range of international guests from around the world, in dialogue with artists and leaders from across the country.

Through a dynamic and innovative range of performances, workshops, and discussions, we will explore together the value of meaningful cultural exchange in the context of an increasingly polarized world, beset by so many forms of conflict and crisis (geopolitical, humanitarian, environmental, etc.). Our hope is that the alliances we make across these borders will help strengthen and inspire us to together identify and face the most pressing issues in our field and in our world.

Humanizing Exile: A Creative Response, moderated by Nadia Oweidat, New American (USA/Jordan)
11:30am EDT (Washington, DC) / 8:30am PDT (Los Angeles) / 15:30 GMT / 4:30pm BST (London) / 17:30 CEST (Berlin) / 18:30 EEST (Beirut)

We, as a global theatre community, are reaching a critical mass of exiled artists. Our day will kick off with a forum that weaves a range of theatrical excerpts with discussion about theatre that documents exile and migration. What are the conditions and parameters about which exiled artists can and can’t discuss? How have these artists navigated those challenges? How has their worked changed? How do non-exiled artists document individuals who have migrated or been exiled?

Participants include:
Martín Acosta, Director (Mexico)
Marissa Chibas, Playwright and Head of Duende CalArts (USA)
Natalia Koliada, Founding Co-Artistic Director, Belarus Free Theatre (Belarus)
Torange Yeghiazarian, Founding Artistic Director, Golden Thread Productions (USA)
Wendy Young, President, Kids in Need of Defense (USA)

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