The Long Match Conversations Day Two at Double Edge Theatre
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2022-03-19

Friday 18 March 2022

Session two was an in-person event livestreamed from Double Edge Theatre and moderated by Matthew Glassman that brings together different dimension of this prism—artists, organizers, activists, Indigenous leaders, and culture bearers—including:

David Bollier (activist and author of The Commoner’s Catalog for Changemaking: Tools for the Transitions Ahead)

Rhonda Anderson and Larry Spotted Crow Mann (Ohketeau Cultural Center)

Jonathan McCrory (National Black Theatre)

Stacy Klein and Carlos Uriona (Double Edge Theatre)

Francisco Perez (solidarity economy activist, educator, and researcher)

Olga Sanchez (Chautauqua Theatre, Latinx Theatre Commons, Middlebury College)

Abigail Vega (HowlRound Theatre Commons)

Harold Steward (The Theater Offensive)

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Double Edge Theatre and HowlRound present two conversations exploring the intersection of art, culture, and commoning livestreaming on the commons-based peer produce HowlRound TV network Thursday 17 March and Friday 18 March 2022 at 11 a.m. PDT (Los Angeles, UTC -7) / 2 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 6 p.m. GMT (London, UTC +0) / 19:00 CET (Berlin, UTC +1).

Organized and curated by Matthew Glassman and Jamie Gahlon

“The long match” refers to the multiplicity of Indigenous technologies and traditions for carrying the embers of a fire over long distances by storing the embers in moss, loam, or other materials. Having live embers is not only helpful for starting a fire in a new camp, but for the spiritual and cultural continuity provided by those embers. It is the same fire even after having been transported across great distances and time— continuity of practice, a continuity of story and mythos, and a continuity of ethos and being.

During the decline of the Anthropocene, artists have a special role to play in imagining transitions to sustainable ways of living and creating. Commoning is just one of many powerful frameworks for reconnecting with the rich panoply of pre/post-capitalist and pre/post-colonialist practices and for deepening our understanding of them. But there are many paradigms, practices, and lifeways that break the death march of white modernity. Whatever the particular name or framing, it is clear that we must become skilled at ways of carrying the embers across time and space to a new/old world. This two-day TV event seeks to better understand, in poetics as much as practice, the spaces of emergent power where art, culture, commoning, solidarity, and Indigeneity converge.

Our event asks: How can our work as artists develop in confluence with these understandings? What is the role of the imagination in carving new paths and affecting large-scale transformation? Where are the upswells of models and outcroppings occurring today, and what are the areas that need to be honored and developed? What are the ways that marginalized theatre artists have needed to innovate to build sustainable practices that do not depend on the marketplace?

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About HowlRound TV

HowlRound TV is a global, commons-based, peer-produced, open-access livestreaming and video archive project stewarded by the nonprofit HowlRound. HowlRound TV is a free and shared resource for live conversations and performances relevant to the world’s performing-arts and cultural fields. Its mission is to break geographic isolation, promote resource sharing, and develop our knowledge commons collectively. Anyone can participate in a community of peer organizations revolutionizing the flow of information, knowledge, and access in our field by becoming a producer and co-producing with us. Learn more by going to our participate page. For any other queries, email tv@howlround.com or call Vijay Mathew at +1 917.686.3185 Signal. View the video archive of past events.