Theatre Communications Group

Are you a BIPOC theatre leader newly named since March 2020 as staff at a PWI? Hold Saturday, November 14, 4-7pm Eastern/3-6pm Central/2-5pm Mountain/1-4pm Paci...fic/12noon-3pm Alaska/10am-1pm Hawaii for a virtual Field Conversation hosted by Theatre Communications Group (TCG) and a planning team of BIPOC theatre leaders with support from Walt Disney Imagineering and The Howard Gilman Foundation. Leaders in artistic, administrative, production and education areas of producing and presenting theatre organizations; theatre departments of universities; and theatre training programs are invited to come together to build community, strategize how to dig our roots deeper for the future of other BIPOC in the theatre, and begin to further understand how our larger BIPOC theatre community can best provide support. If you would like to attend, please fill out this brief RSVP by end of day Thursday, November 12: bit.ly/NewBIPOC If you would like to attend, please fill out this brief RSVP by end of day Thursday, November 12. (LINK HERE). If you know others who you believe should be in this space, please share this link. For more information please contact Sam Morreale, [email protected] We imagine a thriving future for all BIPOC theatre leaders, and wish to work to ensure this through intentional community building

Earlier this year we gathered together for TCG’s National Conference amidst a global pandemic and a reckoning for racial justice. This year’s Fall Forum takes place amidst that continued backdrop, plus the added need for collective breath during a challenging election season. As we examine how these and other challenges impact our field, we present the 2020 TCG Fall Forum: A Just and Thriving Theatre Ecology. November 11th: Summit on Governance The first day will welcome TCG... Member Theatre leaders and trustees in a working session centering the #WeSeeYouWAT demands through the lens of governance. November 12th & 13th: Centering Joy, Community and Accountability for A Just & Thriving Theatre Ecology The final two days of the Fall Forum will welcome all practitioners in the field. Amid a divisive election and the ongoing pandemics of COVID-19 and racism, we’ll focus on connecting with and caring for each other. Our four plenary spaces will invite generative and emergent conversations around four themes: Joy, Community, Accountability and finally answering the question, What do we mean by Just & Thriving? In each session, we’ll make space to discuss the foundation and practice of these themes, allowing for the smaller group connections and sharing that have always been a beloved part of our in-person gatherings. Through these conversations, we hope to collectively envision our way forward. For more information and to register: https://circle.tcg.org/events/fall-forum-on-governance

"SMU DataArts Director Zannie Voss, Ph.D., will share key findings from The Alchemy of High-Performing Arts Organizations. Using a technique borrowed from the business world, the research offers analysis and insights into approaches adopted by especially healthy arts institutions and other organizations that were in distress but managed to turn things around."

Join the editors of American Theatre magazine every other Friday for Offscript, a free-ranging discussion about the theatre field with special guests. Watch here on Facebook and send questions in the comments!

How can arts and culture organizations address the new normal caused by #COVID19 and other challenges? A new scenario planning toolkit aims to guide arts leaders through the considerations. Developed by AEA Consulting and commissioned by the Wallace Foundation, the tool sets out four potential scenarios with worksheets to help guide considerations and spark new ideas to help organizations prepare for potential threats and capitalize on hidden opportunities. Download the toolkit and report: https://www.wallacefoundation.org//navigating-uncertain-ti The Wallace Foundation

Theatres across the nation have joined Act Out:Vote 2020, a theatrical event organized by Lynn Nottage, Danai Gurira, and Stephen Daldry, created and performed by some of the most exciting voices in the theater community, and in partnership with When We All Vote. Please join them, and help #getoutthevote! How you can participate-->https://circle.tcg.org//chiar/2020/10/23/act-out-vote-2020 #ActOutVote2020 Thank you, Baltimore Center Stage!

Please join us! https://circle.tcg.org//registration-open-for-2020-tcg-fal

"Theatres have rightly been focusing on how to reopen safely, how to center BIPOC artists, and how to support #GetOutTheVote efforts. With our production of Fannie Lou Hamer, Speak On It!, Premiere Stages, the professional Equity theatre in residence at Kean University, is working toward all three." https://circle.tcg.org//2020/10/16/fannie-lou-hamer-speak-

From our colleagues at the Knight Foundation: Though the events of 2020 have cast a spotlight on systemic racism, Black theater has long been making art in context of racial inequity and working to dismantle it. On Episode 15 of DISCOVERY, we’ll talk with Gary Anderson, producing artistic director of Plowshares Theatre Company in Detroit. Anderson is also a co-founder of Black Seed a new, unprecedented national initiative addressing historic inequities in theater by foste...ring growth and sustainability for Black theater organizations. We’ll discuss why it’s important to remake theater for an equitable future beyond COVID-19 and how to do it. Join on Facebook live or click here to register for the event: http://kf.org/discoveryrsvpfb

"As a final part of their election efforts, in partnership with That Uppity Theatre Company and Webster University, this year DTV is offering a contest for college students anywhere in the US under the title 'Make Good Trouble: Why John Lewis Inspires Me to Vote.'" #GetOutTheVote #MakeGoodTrouble https://circle.tcg.org//joan-lip/2020/10/14/dance-the-vote

Tomorrow and Friday, join Long Wharf Theatre for their inaugural State of the Union: An Artistic Congress on October 15 & 16. In partnership with other community and national organizations, Artistic Congress, is a two-day virtual convening that includes keynote speakers, community-led discussions, and live performances. See the link for details, and tune in for livestreamed broadcasts of each day’s events, including a special conversation between Dominique Morisseau and Luis Alfaro : https://www.longwharf.org/artistic-congress-for-the-people/