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Cross-cultural Exchange and Cultural Mobility

Content in this section focuses on theatremakers having conversations and creating work across geographical and cultural borders. There are many examples of powerful work here, but for those interested in learning more, consider starting with “Ten Transformative Ideas for Community-Building and Cross-Cultural Exchange.”

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How Cultural Resistance for Palestine Makes Revolution Irresistible
Essay
How Cultural Resistance for Palestine Makes Revolution Irresistible
by Beto O'Byrne
15 May 2024
World Voices
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World Voices
Displacement Plays from Uganda, Lebanon, West Africa, Haiti and Ukranian Playwrights Project
Monday 13 May 2024
New York City
Sowing Futures at the Latinx Theatre Commons Tenth Anniversary Convening
Essay
Sowing Futures at the Latinx Theatre Commons Tenth Anniversary Convening
by Georgina Escobar
8 May 2024
Left: Three actors in black with two of them sitting on the ground and looking down. The actor in the center looks up and sits on a higher level. Right: Three actors standing side-by-side.
When Arts Presenters and Creative Independent Producers Come Together
Essay

When Arts Presenters and Creative Independent Producers Come Together

3 June 2021

The International Presenting Commons shares a statement on how and why arts presenters and creative independent producers have come together to sustain and evolve a commitment to international cultural exchange and engagement.

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SEGAL TALKS with Fergus Linehan (Scotland)
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SEGAL TALKS with Fergus Linehan (Scotland)

Join us for a conversation about curating, producing and presenting theatre and performance in the Time of Corona

Wednesday 2 June 2021
Scotland

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented SEGAL TALKS with Fergus Linehan (Scotland) livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 2 June 2021 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).

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SEGAL TALKS with David Gothard
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SEGAL TALKS with David Gothard

Join us for a conversation about curating, producing and presenting theatre and performance in the Time of Corona

Friday 28 May 2021
United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented SEGAL TALKS with David Gothard livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 28 May 2021 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).

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SEGAL TALKS with Carol Martin
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SEGAL TALKS with Carol Martin

Join us for a conversation about curating, producing and presenting theatre and performance in the Time of Corona

Thursday 27 May 2021
United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented SEGAL TALKS with Carol Martin livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 27 May 2021 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).

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Universality vs Plurality
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Drama School Mumbai
Embodied Poetics logo
Embodied Poetics
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CTDPS, Cape Town
Video

Universality vs Plurality

Episode 8: Notes on Intercultural Practice

Thursday 27 May 2021
South Africa

Unrehearsed Futures: After the Fall livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Thursday 27 May 2021 at 5 a.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 10 a.m. BST (London, UTC +1) / 11 a.m. SAST (Cape Town, UTC +2) / 2:30 p.m. IST (Mumbai, UTC +5:30) / 7 p.m. AEST (Hobart, UTC +10).

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SEGAL TALKS with Shane Baker, Allen Lewis Rickman, and Yelena Shmulenson
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SEGAL TALKS with Shane Baker, Allen Lewis Rickman, and Yelena Shmulenson

Join us for a conversation about curating, producing and presenting theatre and performance in the Time of Corona

Wednesday 26 May 2021
United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented SEGAL TALKS with Shane Baker, Allen Lewis Rickman, and Yelena Shmulenson livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 26 May 2021 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).

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SEGAL TALKS with Marco Layera and Martin Valdés-Stauber
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SEGAL TALKS with Marco Layera and Martin Valdés-Stauber

Join us for a conversation about curating, producing and presenting theatre and performance in the Time of Corona

Friday 21 May 2021
United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented SEGAL TALKS with Marco Layera and Martin Valdés-Stauber livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 21 May 2021 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).

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School of Resistance—Episode Fourteen: Revolution Today: The world in protest
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NTGent
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School of Resistance—Episode Fourteen: Revolution Today: The world in protest

How Can We Use Artistic Tools to Create a Common, Global Language of Progress and Change?

Thursday 20 May 2021
Ghent, Belgium

NTGent presented School of Resistance, Episode Fourteen: Revolution Today livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 20 May 2021 at 18:00 CEST (Brussels, Cairo, UTC +2) / 17:00 BST (London, UTC +1) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, Santiago de Chile, UTC -4) / 9 a.m. PDT (Los Angeles, UTC -7).

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SEGAL TALKS with Carey Perloff (USA)
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SEGAL TALKS with Carey Perloff (USA)

Join us for a conversation about curating, producing and presenting theatre and performance in the Time of Corona

Thursday 20 May 2021
United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented SEGAL TALKS with Carey Perloff (USA) livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 20 May 2021 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).

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Unrehearsed Futures: After the Fall
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Drama School Mumbai
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Embodied Poetics
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CTDPS, Cape Town
Video

Unrehearsed Futures: After the Fall

Episode 7: Thoughts on Theatrical Interventions in/from the Global South

Thursday 20 May 2021
South Africa

Unrehearsed Futures: After the Fall livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Thursday 20 May 2021 at 4 a.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 9 a.m. BST (London, UTC +1) / 10 a.m. SAST (Cape Town, UTC +2) / 1:30 p.m. IST (Mumbai, UTC +5:30) / 6 p.m. AEST (Hobart, UTC +10).

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SEGAL TALKS with Ana Ablamonova and Dr. Goraparasit (Lithuania)
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SEGAL TALKS with Ana Ablamonova and Dr. Goraparasit (Lithuania)

Join us for a conversation about curating, producing and presenting theatre and performance in the Time of Corona

Wednesday 19 May 2021
United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented SEGAL TALKS with Ana Ablamonova and Dr. Goraparasit (Lithuania) livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 19 May 2021 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).

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SEGAL TALKS with Bettina Milz, Stefan Schmidtke & Olaf Kröck​ (Germany)
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SEGAL TALKS with Bettina Milz, Stefan Schmidtke & Olaf Kröck​ (Germany)

Join us for a conversation about curating, producing and presenting theatre and performance in the Time of Corona

Thursday 13 May 2021
Germany

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented SEGAL TALKS with Bettina Milz, Stefan Schmidtke & Olaf Kröck​ (Germany) livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 13 May 2021 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).

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SEGAL TALKS with Abhishek Majumdar (India)
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SEGAL TALKS with Abhishek Majumdar (India)

Join us for a conversation about curating, producing and presenting theatre and performance in the Time of Corona

Wednesday 12 May 2021
India

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented SEGAL TALKS with Abhishek Majumdar (India) livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 12 May 2021 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).

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SEGAL TALKS with Kirill Serebrennikov
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SEGAL TALKS with Kirill Serebrennikov

Join us for a conversation about curating, producing and presenting theatre and performance in the Time of Corona

Friday 7 May 2021
United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented SEGAL TALKS with Kirill Serebrennikov livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 7 May 2021 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).

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Reflections on Moscow’s Golden Mask Festival
CITD
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Reflections on Moscow’s Golden Mask Festival

Making the best Russian theatre more accessible than ever

Friday 23 April 2021
Russia

The Center for International Theatre Development (CITD) presented Reflections on Moscow’s Golden Mask Festival livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 23 April 2021 at 10 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 1 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 8 p.m. MSK (Moscow, UTC+3).

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SEGAL TALKS with Eva Mann and Washington Obwanda
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SEGAL TALKS with Eva Mann and Washington Obwanda

Join us for a conversation about curating, producing and presenting theatre and performance in the Time of Corona

Friday 23 April 2021
United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented SEGAL TALKS with Eva Mann and Washington Obwanda livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 23 April 2021 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).

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SEGAL TALKS with Melati Suryodarmo
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SEGAL TALKS with Melati Suryodarmo

Join us for a conversation about curating, producing and presenting theatre and performance in the Time of Corona

Thursday 22 April 2021
Indonesia

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented SEGAL TALKS with Melati Suryodarmo livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 22 April 2021 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).

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Unrehearsed Futures: The Many Lives of Red Peter
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Drama School Mumbai
Embodied Poetics logo
Embodied Poetics
Centre for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies, Cape Town, logo
CTDPS, Cape Town
Video

Unrehearsed Futures: The Many Lives of Red Peter

Episode 3: On Theatre Making (it), before and after the pandemic

Thursday 22 April 2021
South Africa

Unrehearsed Futures: The Many Lives of Red Peter livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Thursday 22 April 2021 at 4 a.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 9 a.m. BST (London, UTC +1) / 10 a.m. SAST (Cape Town, UTC +2) / 1:30 p.m. IST (Mumbai, UTC +5:30) / 6 p.m. AEST (Hobart, UTC +10).

Downtown Variety: SeoulArts Edition
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CultureHub
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Downtown Variety: SeoulArts Edition

Bringing La MaMa's 1960s café aesthetic to a virtual platform that links performers and audiences in real time across distance

Friday 26 March 2021
Seoul, Korea

La MaMa and CultureHub presented Downtown Variety: SeoulArts Edition livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 26 February 2021 at 6 p.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 8 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 9 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / Saturday 27 February 2021 at 10 a.m. KST (Seoul, UTC +9).

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Letters From Warsaw
Essay

Letters From Warsaw

24 March 2021

Marta Keil and Grzegorz Reske share letters from the past and the future, from June 2020 to June 2029, detailing the changes to the theatrical landscape in their hometown of Warsaw, Poland.

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How Did We Get Here?
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How Did We Get Here?

The History/Future of International Presenting: The US Perspective

Monday 1 March 2021
United States

IPG International Presenters Group presented the conversation How did we get here? The History/Future of International Presenting: The US perspective livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 1 March 2021 at 4 p.m. PST (San Francisco, UTC -8) / 6 p.m. CST (Chicago, UTC -6) / 7 p.m. EST (New York, UTC -5).

Black Spatial Relics
Black Spatial Relics
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Black Spatial Relics

Celebrating and learning from the centuries-long Black freedom dialectic between the Caribbean and Philadelphia

Tuesday 23 February to Saturday 27 February 2021
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Black Spatial Relics presented their second annual convening livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv from Tuesday 23 February to Saturday 27 February 2021.

School of Resistance: A Film and Discussion Series
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IIPM
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NTGent
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Akademie der Künste, Berlin
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School of Resistance: A Film and Discussion Series

Examining the Conditions of Global Art Production in General and the Artistic Strategies of the IIPM In Particular.

Wednesday 24 February to Sunday 28 February
Belgium

NTGent presented Schol of Resistance: A film and discussion series livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv from Wednesday 24 February to Sunday 28 February 2021.

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Beto O'Byrne and Radical Evolution
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Beto O'Byrne and Radical Evolution

Building Our Own Tables Episode #7

10 February 2021

For the last episode of this season's Building Our Own Tables, podcast host Yura Sapi talks with Beto O'Byrne of Radical Evolution, a multiethnic producing collective.

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International Presenting and Exchange: What Can We Champion Now and into the Future
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International Presenting and Exchange: What Can We Champion Now and into the Future

Friday 8 January 2021
New York City

Members of the International Presenters Group (IPG), a volunteer ad-hoc working group, surfaced critical issues for consideration related to the future of international presenting, from the perspective of U.S. presenters and stakeholders.