Inspiration On-Demand with NET's BREAK/through Convening on Monday 25 July 2022
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2022-07-26

Inspiration On-Demand: Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr. in Conversation with Rhodessa Jones
1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. EDT (Philadelphia, UTC-4)
**ASL & Closed Captions**

NET’s popular Inspiration On-Demand: Creators In Conversation series returns with this live discussion about making work, and a life in the work, over decades.

Join NET Board member Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr. (artistic director, HartBeat Ensemble, Hartford, CT) and the legendary San Francisco–based Rhodessa Jones (co-artistic director, Cultural Odyssey; director, The Medea Project - Theater for Incarcerated Women)—who’s recently arrived in Philadelphia as a year-long Pew Fellow-in-Residence—for this deep-diving conversation exploring sources of inspiration, acts of resilience and resistance, and what it means to build with and for community, over time. A Q&A session will follow, open to both online and in-person attendees.

Visit NET’s website to view other episodes from NET’s “Inspiration on Demand” series featuring artists and practitioners such as Ping Chong, Tyrone Davis, Sharon Day, André Gregory, Leslie Ishii, Ursula Marcum and Glenn Ricci (Submersive Productions), Rosa Luisa Márquez, Rose Portillo, and Carlton Turner, in conversation with NET Board members Claudia Alick, Shoshana Bass, Carrie J. Cole, Carlos Alexis Cruz, Alison De La Cruz, Todd London, Dipankar Mukherjee, Michael Rohd and Godfrey L. Simmons Jr.

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