A Festival for Theatre and Democracy
Thu, Oct 31
|New York
Join us for a day of readings, panels, and workshops that explore theatre that uplifts and performs democracy.
Time & Location
Oct 31, 2024, 12:00 PM – 9:00 PM
New York, 365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016, USA
Guests
About the event
Please join us for a day-long festival of readings from works that perform democratic processes; panels with artists whose practices rehearse and represent democratic ideals; and artist-led workshops that provide tools for creating theater that uplifts, rehearses, and performs democracy.
The organizing principle of the festival is that both theatre and democracy depend on dialogue to function. Each of the presentations throughout the day will ask the practitioners and participants to experiment in some way with the notion that an argument performed dialogically before a theatre audience offers the distance, space, and time to hear, contemplate, and see better an issue critical to a community.
There seems no better time to flex and strengthen the muscles of argument, listening, contemplation, gathering in community, and exercising one’s power to agree, disagree, persuade, be persuaded, and to witness the strange and familiar. This festival hopes to remind theater practitioners and theater-goers that our participation in this medium can be foundational practice to a more robust democracy.
Schedule of events and artists participating to be announced soon!