Opening Plenary at the The CAATA Conference & Festival in Chicago—Tuesday 14 August 2018
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2018-08-14

The Consortium of Asian American Theaters & Artists presents their 2018 National Conference & Festival livestreaming from Chicago on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv from Tuesday 14 August to Friday 17 August 2018.

 

Tuesday 14 August

Opening Plenary
7 a.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 9 a.m. CDT (Chicago) / 10 a.m. EDT (New York)

Welcome by City of Chicago

Welcome by Randy Reyes, CAATA Board President

Introduction by Leilani Chan, Artistic Director, TeAda Productions
and Andi Meyer, Artistic Director, Tradewind Arts

KEYNOTE: TAMMY HAILI‘ŌPUA BAKER
Artistic Director, Ka Hālau Hanakeaka
Associate Professor, Department of Theatre & Dance, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

LANGUAGE REVITALIZATION AS A REVOLUTIONARY ACT, PART I
Discussion to follow with Moses Goods, Founder and Artistic Director, ʻInamona Theatre Company and Ensemble; Christopher K. Morgan, Dancer/Performer, Executive Artistic Director, Dance Place; Sami LA Akuna aka Cocoa Chandelier
Tammy Haili’ōpua Baker joins members of the native Hawaiian community for a conversation around language revitalization as a revolutionary act and what this means for Indigenous communities in the Hawaiian Islands and beyond.

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