Workshops

Is Theatre Becoming A Place For The Elite And How Do We Break It?
Saturday, November 6th at 1pm (EDT)

This session is a conversation with Miguel Salazar where he discusses his experiences as an educator, a designer and a technical director at an university theatre program in the Rio Grande Valley and the intersections he found working at a summer stock theatre program in Montana.  His experiences have led him to question how we can break the current theatre model which limits access, education, and financial sustainability to a few with the resources and support to pursue a career in the field.  His questioning comes from his life and educational experiences and what he sees occurring with his students at a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI).

Community Performance and Care
Saturday, November 6th at 2:45pm (EDT)

Communities that have experienced large-scale natural and/or human-made disasters regularly turn to the arts to develop and stage public acts of self-repair. As human beings, we fundamentally understand that it is through performance that we make, unmake and remake our world. In this workshop, Dr. Lisa Biggs will share some examples of theatre as a practice of community self-repair, and invite participants to investigate how the skills of theatre artists might be used to address and redress some of the inequities and needs laid bare during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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