Can You Cry on Cue?—Cultural Appropriation—10th Annual NoPassport Conference—Mon, March 14, 2016
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2016-03-14

NoPassport and New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study present The 10th Annual NoPassport Theatre Conference—Dreaming the Americas: Who is it for? Spectatorship and the Body Politic​—livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday, March 14 from 10am to 8pm EST (New York). 

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Initiated and curated by playwright and NoPassport founder Caridad Svich and co-curated by Gallatin faculty and director Kristin Horton.

A one-day conference that will explore acts of spectatorship in relationship to citizenship, the body politic, and the functions of art and art-making in the 21st century. The conference features a keynote address from Pulitzer-nominated playwright Lisa D’Amour, panel on cultural appropriation chaired by Saviana Stănescu and Jeff Janisheski, panel on climate change theatre chaired by Chantal Bilodeau, session on participatory performance chaired by Kristin Horton, film screening from Mezclao Productions and members of theatre department of Pomona College, session on Maria Irene Fornes' legacy chaired by Anne Garcia-Romero (Notre Dame University), session on writing and witnessing chaired by Bianca Bagatourian, playwright/president of the Armenian Dramatic Art Alliance, session on epic theatre chaired by playwright Chiori Miyagawa, manifestos and addresses on the conference topic from Lenora Champagne, David Cale, Daniel Gallant, Erik Ehn, Teresa Eyring, Migdalia Cruz, Catherine Filloux, Oliver Mayer, and more authors and editors from NoPassport Press. This conference is dedicated to the memory of playwright-performer Lynn Manning.

"Can You Cry on Cue?" Emotion on Demand with the Alba Technique
Patricia Angelin (Alba Technique Master Teacher) in collaboration with Kevin Schuering (actor/singer)
Introduced by Randy Gener
9:15am PST (Los Angeles) / 12:15pm EST (New York) / 17:15 GMT (London) / 18:15 CET (Paris)

Upstander or Bystander? moderated by Bianca Bagatourian
Panel: Erik Ehn (Playwright), Greg Hittelman (Enough Project, Washington D.C.), and Leslie Ayvazian
10am PST (Los Angeles) / 1pm EST (New York) / 18:00 GMT (London) / 19:00 CET (Paris)

As playwrights, can we afford to be one or the other? We have tools that can fight injustice and try to overcome the structures that facilitate them in this world. We may not cure things with our work, but can we make them better as we move beyond witness. *This is an Armenian Dramatic Art Alliance session.

3-5 minutes on spectatorship from Erik Ehn
10:55am PST (Los Angeles) / 1:55pm EST (New York) / 18:55 GMT (London) / 19:55 CET (Paris)

Epic Plays
Moderated by Oliver Mayer (Associate Professor, USC Dramatic Writing)
Panel: David Herskovits, Lenora Champagne, Vasanti Saxena, t. tara turk, and Meghan Brown
11am PST (Los Angeles) / 2pm EST (New York) / 19:00 GMT (London) / 20:00 CET (Paris)

How does a playwright dream big today? How does she break out of producorial expectations and economic limitations to create something other, new, and original? Taking from Brecht's definition of epic theatre, this panel discusses alternative ways to make plays that play with time and space, use large casts, and find opportunities outside the box.

3-5 minutes on spectatorship from Daniel Gallant
11:55am PST (Los Angeles) / 2:55pm EST (New York) / 19:55 GMT (London) / 20:55 CET (Paris)

Cultural Appropriation—Who's telling whose story?
Moderated/Curated by Saviana Stanescu
Panel: Kristoffer Diaz, Jeff Janisheski, Aizzah Fatima, Kyoung Park, Geoffrey Jackson Scott
12pm PST (Los Angeles) / 3pm EST (New York) / 20:00 GMT (London) / 21:00 CET (Paris)

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