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Series allow for an in-depth exploration of a topic from multiple points of view. We have TV Series, Journal Series, and Podcast Series focusing on a wide variety of theatremaking practices and industry conversations.

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Alchemy of the Reset
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Alchemy of the Reset

Our society is igniting the potential to leap forward. How can you engage in the reset?

Alert! Seismic shifts underway. Culture, politics, and policy are transforming in real time. In the wake of ongoing racist police violence and the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and countless others, and while we continue to face the COVID-19 crisis, our society is igniting the potential to leap forward. How can you engage in the reset? How can you support a radical reimagination of what is possible? How can you push against old structures and work to rebuild?

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Green New Theater
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Green New Theater

Bring your dinner, hold your kid, and we can all break bread together and hold space.

Green New Theatre (GNT) is a movement building tool that provides a set of actionable principles for the arts field to adapt and evolve in the face of the climate crisis. Our approach is multi-layered and emergent. It adapts for organizations and individuals at every level of production.

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Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists ConFest Virtual Series
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Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists ConFest Virtual Series

Kuʻu ʻĀina, Kuʻu Piko, Kuʻu Kahua - Return to the Source

The virtual series will explore the theme of the upcoming 7th Annual Asian American Theater Festival & Conference (ConFest) “Kuʻu ʻĀina, Kuʻu Piko, Kuʻu Kahua - Return to the Source” in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi in May 2021, which centers the voices of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander theater practitioners, and will feature the thriving theater community of Hawaiʻi, where Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander faces on stage are the norm, not the exception.

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PWC Summer In Conversation Series
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PWC Summer In Conversation Series

With Playwrights' Center Minneapolis

Gain insight and knowledge through these candid discussions where you'll have the opportunity to not only hear from some of our leading artists as they discuss our world today and new ways of thinking about writing and theater, but also ask questions.

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ArtsEquator's Burning Questions
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ArtsEquator's Burning Questions

Now more than ever, we need artists to challenge assumptions and imagine new futures.

This series of four talks, organised by ArtsEquator, attempts to ask some big questions. Being in the middle of an unpredictable global crisis precludes easy answers. Burning Questions offers a space for regional voices to dialogue and discuss some of the unasked questions facing the arts community.

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National Black Theatre @ Home — Founder's Month
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National Black Theatre @ Home — Founder's Month

A letter to the future

⁣About the Series: NBT @ HOME: Founder’s Month Edition is a four-part conversations series with artists and NBT Family around Dr. Barbara Ann Teer's legacy.

Glod: Political Theatre as a Civil Right
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Glod: Political Theatre as a Civil Right

with BÉZNĂ Theatre

Glod: Political Theatre as a Civil Right is a series of political theatre screenings from around the world including from Romania, Lebanon, UK, Mexico, Palestine and Jordan. Join us every two weeks in solidarity with artists, activists and academics resisting from the ground.

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AATAB Online
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AATAB Online

A virtual reading series

We've gathered theatre artists from the AATAB community, the Boston theatre community, and friends across the country that are now virtually available, to explore a play in development by a Boston-based Asian American playwright, and experiment with how we can become even more creative storytellers through Zoom.

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Beyond the Western Canon
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Beyond the Western Canon

This five-part series features curators and artists who participated in the Stratford Festival Lab’s Beyond the Western Canon workshop series in the Summer of 2019.

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School of Resistance
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School of Resistance

A project of IIPM and NTGent, in cooperation with Akademie der Künste

A biweekly livestream with experts of change from around the world: artists, activists, politicians and philosophers.

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