Finding Common Ground at the Intersections Summit at Milwaukee Rep—Saturday 24 March 2018
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2018-03-24

Finding Common Ground. Building a Collective Framework.
2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. EDT (New York) / 1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. CDT (Milwaukee) / 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. PDT (San Francisco)

Mary Sutton (Alley Theatre)
Designing an uplifting experience to celebrate a specific community’s personal narrative? Creating lobby displays created by community members to celebrate a neighborhood? Launching a narrative medicine program? Applying art beyond our organizations walls merits a systematic shared point of view to help guide the field, better explain our work and build shared legitimizing language that builds longstanding support for what we do.

Is it Audience Development? Audience Engagement? Community Engagement? Where on the spectrum does my project fit?  What should I consider? What does a fiscally responsible models look like? How to determine the true ROI when implementation is so costly?

Let’s dump all our models on the table, merge old and new ideas, and generate cohesive thoughtful dialogue. Our goal: build a strong “rubric” and/or “logic model” to guide our national conversations in and outside of our institutions.   

 Milwaukee Repertory Theater presents the Intersections Summit livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 23 March and Saturday 24 March 2018.

This spring, Milwaukee Repertory Theater will host the Intersections Summit, a national convening for community engagement practitioners in regional theaters across the country. As large arts organizations add community engagement departments and practices to their institutions at increasing frequencies, the Intersections Summit will be a platform for reflection, inquiry, and collaboration.

At the heart of the Intersections Summit is the recognition that community engagement efforts constantly intersect with the work of others—with colleagues in other areas of our organizations, with organizers and leaders in our communities, with donors, trustees, audiences, and artists. The Intersections Summit is an opportunity for practitioners and supporters of community engagement to name the tensions and the strengths that occur at these intersections, to build collective capacity across institutional and geographical borders, and to envision a future for community engagement in the American theater. 

http://howlround.com/livestreaming-the-intersections-summit-at-milwaukee-repertory-theater-in-milwaukee-wi-friday-23