A Festival for Theatre and Democracy

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 Theater 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 theater 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, to 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!