The TCG Nationwide Convention is among the largest nationwide gatherings of the nonprofit theatre neighborhood. TCG has been gathering of us this fashion since 1976 and every year, the Nationwide Convention creates area for theatre practitioners throughout the globe to get impressed, be taught from each other, and construct towards collective motion. It’s additionally been a approach for TCG and the sector to get intimately accustomed to theatre communities across the nation, and to channel the actual power of their artists.
In 2020, whereas we supported the sector in contending with overlapping existential crises, TCG additionally accomplished a brand new strategic planning course of. In our new plan, bolstered by our new mission to guide for a simply and thriving theatre ecology, we’ve dedicated to centering the wants and experiences of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous Individuals of Colour) and BITOC (Black, Indigenous, Theatres of Colour) all through our programming. With that ongoing work in thoughts, it’s our purpose that our conferences could have some, if not all, of the next outcomes:
Individuals come away with new concepts and instruments for activating fashions of collective care.
BIPOC, TGNC, disabled, and younger theatre practitioners see extra alternatives for management and collaboration open to them all through the sector.
Incremental but transformative shifts in energy buildings and organizational practices start to emerge in theatres throughout the nation, and people shifts start to create safer, human-centered working circumstances for our freelance artists.
The native theatre neighborhood builds off their shared work on the TCG Convention right into a long term, inclusive technique of peer assist and collaboration, and host metropolis artists are invited to deliver their work into different regional theatre communities.
In 1976, TCG convened its first ever Nationwide Convention. For the primary few a long time, the Nationwide Convention was biennial, held first on school campuses after which in cities throughout the nation. In 2006, the Nationwide Convention grew to become an annual occasion, and in 2020, we went digital in response to the pandemic. In 2022, we held our first-ever hybrid Nationwide Convention, gathering in Pittsburgh, PA and on-line.
Schedule
Thursday, June 20
ENOUGH! Performs to Finish Gun Violence
9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4)
Since 2019 and over three program cycles, ENOUGH! Performs to Finish Gun Violence has introduced collectively hundreds of artists on the intersection of artwork, activism, and amplifying teen voices in important evenings of theater that enable communities to confront the problem of gun violence. Founder and Joaquin Oliver Inventive Producer Michael Cotey, together with previous ENOUGH! collaborators in a dialog led by Michael Rohd, will share what has been profitable with this mannequin for calling on submissions from new teen writers, the way it has created a brand new pipeline for younger playwrights; the way it’s nationwide studying has led to significant, lasting collaborations; and what it means to consider approaching theater as an “inciting incident.” This dialog will embody a presentation of one among ENOUGH’s 2022 performs SOUTH SIDE SUMMER by younger Chicago playwright McKennzie Boyd.
Michael Cotey
Loria Perez
Michael Rohd
McKennzie Boyd
Dr. Quenna Lené Barrett
Aaron Nichols
Friday, June 21
Creating Accessible and Values-Pushed Multimedia Content material
10 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 12 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 1 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4)
Be a part of HowlRound Theatre Commons for a panel dialogue that includes HowlRound workers members and sequence curators. We’ll discover the method of designing, curating, and publishing multimedia theatre content material with a concentrate on values-driven storytelling. We’ll focus on livestreaming occasions, producing podcasts, and creating essay sequence, from idea to publication. Attendees will achieve insights into what it takes to craft digital content material that prioritizes progressive and disruptive concepts. This dialogue will equip you with the instruments to create accessible, values-driven conversations in our more and more distant area.
Julia Schachnik
Ramona Rose King
Vijay Mathew
Jordan Ealey
Leticia Ridley
Chantal Bilodeau
Move the Torch(es): Navigating Transitions to Expanded Management Constructions @ Positive Arts Constructing, Annex Studio B
2:30 p.m. – 4 p.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 4:30 p.m. – 6 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4)
Throughout this time of huge management transition within the area, there’s additionally an unprecedented variety of theatres and different arts and nonprofit organizations exploring extra distributed and shared management buildings. Some are doing each without delay. What does a course of appear to be that efficiently navigates a considerate shift in organizational construction and management concurrently? This session will hear from organizations who’ve made such transformations lately, with each victories and challenges to share, and with helpful takeaways for different organizations present process such modifications now or within the close to future.
Mei Ann Teo
Sara Zatz
Cynthia Fuhrman
Megan Wanlass
Sunder Ganglani
Saturday, June 22
Session TBA
9:30 a.m. – 11 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12:30 p.m. – 2 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4)
Particulars to return.
Theatre Futures hosted by American Theatre Journal
11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4)
It is no secret that the nonprofit theatre is at a crossroads that has pushed us to reimagine, reorient, and reinvent the best way we create artwork and do enterprise. To talk to this second, American Theatre journal, with assist from the Ford Basis, is publishing a sequence of 16 essays written by a few of the brightest minds in our business, inviting us to think about vibrant prospects for our artform. To kick off the sequence, Lane Harwell, senior program officer, creativity and free expression at Ford Basis, will reasonable a panel together with Martine Kei Inexperienced-Rogers, dramaturg, playwright, and professor in The Theatre Faculty at DePaul College; Jocelyn Prince, principal at ALJP Consulting; and Michael Rohd, co-founder/member of Sojourn Theatre and director of Co-lab for Civic Creativeness on the College of Montana. They’ll focus on what a brighter future for theatre within the U.S. can appear to be and the way we are able to create the place we’re going with new instruments. Be a part of us for a dynamic and interesting dialog!
Martine Kei Inexperienced-Rogers
Lane Harwell
Jocelyn Prince
PennyMaria Jackson
Charlique Rolle
Within the origin story of Chicago—and its evolution into probably the most vibrant cultural capitals of the world and one that’s frequently named as The Greatest Massive Metropolis within the U.S.—a catalyzing occasion that remodeled the town was the notorious Nice Hearth of the nineteenth century. The Hearth is now generally understood because the consequence of poor city planning, embedded structural flaws that price a whole bunch of houses, companies, and lives. Devastated because it was, the town seized the second as a chance for a rebuilding course of that left behind an period of outdated design and resulted in probably the most architecturally superior cityscapes and culturally eclectic epicenters of the fashionable period. The lore of Chicago’s historical past and rebirth reveals a helpful recipe for metamorphosis: a wholesome dose of grit, a splash of ingenuity, a penchant for collaboration, and a will to all the time do higher by its folks.
The story of Chicago echoes the story of our area—comprising many tales—that we’re nonetheless telling. “The sphere is on hearth,” we are saying, and we keep. As antiquated buildings smolder round us, we seize the second as one among risk, we glance round, and we attempt to decide what we’ll save. From 20-22 June 2024, TCG and the League of Chicago Theatres will welcome theatre practitioners to the Metropolis of the Massive Shoulders, the place collectively we’ll reply the decision of risk, design new instruments, and get to worldbuilding. We’ll take inspiration from Chicago’s energetic and numerous theatre neighborhood to scaffold new buildings and start telling our tales anew. We’ll work, we’ll play, and we’ll go to new locations; at our first nationwide gathering in two years, and our second hybrid Convention, TCG’s in-person programming will burst out of the confines of a lodge, and disperse into the town’s many cultural venues, historic websites, and hubs of artistic innovation. Hold an eye fixed out for each in-person and digital registration to launch in November, and be a part of us in June (along with your sleeves rolled up).
