Morning Plenary Session—2017 TCG National Conference  Full Circle—Portland, OR—Fri, June 9 2017
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2017-06-09

Theatre Communications Group presents the 2017 TCG National Conference: Full Circle (ASL-interpreted) livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Thursday, June 8 to Saturday, June 10. Share your thoughts and media with hashtags #tcg17 and #howlround in all social media platforms. Follow @TCG and @HowlRound in Twitter for updates.

From June 8-10, the 2017 TCG National Conference: Full Circle will welcome 1,000+ theatre practitioners from across the globe to Portland, OR, for peer connection, professional development, and inspiring thought-leaders from within and beyond the field. We’ll build on the success of the 2016 DC Conference by strengthening core programming like our Skills-Building Workshops and At the Intersections arc, as well as conduct bold new experiments like last year’s visits to Capitol Hill.

Full Circle will also draw inspiration from our host city of Portland’s central role in the “Maker” culture—a network of artisans and hackers dismantling industrialized systems through a return to a more local, human scale. In a region renowned for its commitment to sustainable ecosystems, could our most local and human of art forms be a natural partner in these movements?

This will also be our first major gathering after a contentious election process that featured profoundly different visions of our country’s past, present, and future. As storytellers and community-builders, how can we bridge the divisions of our country and world? How can we create ‘virtuous circles;’ feedback loops where our vision for a better world for and because of theatre reinforce each other?

9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. PDT (Portland) / 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. EDT (New York)

Welcome: Adrian Budhu, Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer, TCG and Kevin Moriarty, Artistic Director, Dallas Theater Center
Remarks By: Representative Suzanne Bonamici
(D-OR 1st District)
Visionary Leadership Award Presented to Susan Medak, Managing Director, Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Speaker: Jeff Chang, Author and Executive Director, Institute for Diversity in the Arts, Stanford University

Jeff Chang has written extensively on the intersection of race, art, and civil rights, and the socio-political forces that guided the hip-hop generation. His most recent book, We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation, questions why we keep talking about diversity even as American society is resegregating, both racially and economically. Jeff’s many awards include the North Star News Prize, the St. Clair Drake Teaching Award at Stanford University, and being named as one of the “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing the World” by The Utne Reader. (photo credit: Jeremy Keith Villaluz)

Jeff serves as the Executive Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University, where he continues his long career specializing in culture, politics, the arts, and music.

Jeff’s Books include:
We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation
Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post-Civil Rights America
Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop
Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

Check out jeffchang.net for more information on Jeff’s work

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