Hot Topics at the Virtual Synchronous LMDA Conference on Friday 18 June 2021
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2021-06-18

Hot Topics
Original language: English and Spanish
10:30 a.m. PDT (Tijuana, UTC -7) / 12:30 p.m. CDT (CDMX, UTC -5) / 1:30 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4)
Hostess: Jane Barnette

HOT TOPICS speakers present a provocative question, assertion, issue, or project with which they are currently (passionately) engaged to initiate conversations and collaborations, or to address pressing issues for our community. Speakers have just five minutes each to open a door into their topic. The strict time limit allows for multiple presentations and follow-up conversations. It also requires careful preparation. At four minutes, the hostess will give the presenter a one-minute warning; at five minutes, the presenter will be gently, but firmly, yanked off of the stage.

This year’s Hot Topics features presentations in both English and Spanish! Speakers will share scintillating insights about the pandemic, the canon, archives, film dramaturgy, religious challenges, and dramaturgical drag, among other topics. Come for the provocation; stay for the conversation; be inspired by the critical generosity!


Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas presents Without Borders: Dramaturgy in the New Decade / Sin Fronteras: Dramaturgismo en la Nueva Década livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 17 June and Friday 18 June 2021.

LMDA’s mission with this ground-breaking gathering is to ignite a global conversation about the impact / purpose / process / evolution of dramaturgy in the new decade. This conference will ask participants to examine how dramaturgy lives, breathes, and changes during/after the social, political, and economical adjustments that COVID-19 has brought to our lives.

This project is supported in part by an award from National Endowments for the Arts.

The in-person conference in Mexico City is supported in part by Coordinación Nacional de Teatro of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL).


https://howlround.com/happenings/livestreaming-conference-without-borders-dramaturgy-new-decade-virtual-synchronous