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We Started a Nightclub: The Birth of the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge
Video
We Started a Nightclub: The Birth of the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge
A Book Talk
Thursday 23 May 2024
New York
The New Black Fest
Video
The New Black Fest
A festival curated by Keith Josef Adkins on Unapologetic Humanity and Unapologetic Accountability at the Segal Center
Monday 22 April 2024
New York
Elfriede Jelinek's The Children of the Dead
Video
Elfriede Jelinek's The Children of the Dead
A Book Talk
Thursday 18 April 2024
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We Started a Nightclub: The Birth of the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge
Video

We Started a Nightclub: The Birth of the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge

A Book Talk

Thursday 23 May 2024
New York

Join us to celebrate the publication of a new book on underground culture and performance at the infamous Pyramid Club. A panel with John Jesurun, Kestutis Nakas, and others.

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The New Black Fest
Video

The New Black Fest

A festival curated by Keith Josef Adkins on Unapologetic Humanity and Unapologetic Accountability at the Segal Center

Monday 22 April 2024
New York

The New Black Fest, which is in its fourteenth year, comes to the Segal Center on Monday, 22nd April 2024, and we hope you will join us for a heart, soul, and mind provoking evening centered around the theme of Unapologetic Humanity and Unapologetic Accountability—as curated by The New Black Fest's artistic director Keith Josef Adkins.

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Elfriede Jelinek's The Children of the Dead
Video

Elfriede Jelinek's The Children of the Dead

A Book Talk

Thursday 18 April 2024

The Segal Center presents an excerpt from The Children of the Dead, which has been recently translated into English by Gitta Honegger and published by Yale University Press.

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For a Resilient US Theater, Post-Pandemic
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For a Resilient US Theater, Post-Pandemic

A presentation of key findings from a transnational study on theatre during and after the pandemic.

Wednesday 3 April 2024

Barbara Fuchs and Rhonda Sharrah (UCLA) are the US researchers for a transnational study on the state of theatre post-pandemic, and what key lessons can be learned from the COVID experience. They will present their findings and recommendations in conversation with Corinna Schulenburg, director of communications and research for Theatre Communications Group and Greg Reiner, Theatre & Musical Theatre director in the Performing Arts Division of the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Murielle Borst-Tarrant and Women Artistic Directors of Color
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Murielle Borst-Tarrant and Women Artistic Directors of Color

A roundtable conversation at La MaMa

Friday 29 March 2024
New York

Murielle Borst-Tarrant, Mia Yoo, Avery Willis Hoffman, and Patricia McGregor gather together at La MaMa to discuss the highs and lows of theatre. What happens when you are the only womxn of color in these sometimes all White spaces? How do you maintain integrity and sustainability in the theatre field?

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La MaMa LiveTalks: Dmitry Krymov and Yasha Klots
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La MaMa LiveTalks: Dmitry Krymov and Yasha Klots

Join us for a conversation between celebrated exiled Russian Dimity Krymov and Yasha Klots, associate professor of Russian, CUNY Hunter College.

Monday 25 March 2024
New York

A little over a year after Krymov’s relocation to New York, they discuss rebuilding his career from the ground up, censorship, and the importance of artistic expression.

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Existentialism
Video

Existentialism

Post show talkback with cast and designers

Thursday 29 February 2024
New York.

Director Anne Bogart, Talking Band (Ellen Maddow and Paul Zimet), set designer Anna Kiraly, and costume designer Gabriel Berry discuss their collaboration on Existentialism, as well as their creative process and what it means to make work now.

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Fall Forum Kickoff Presentation
Video

Fall Forum Kickoff Presentation

On Community Building and Resource Sharing in the New York Theatre Community

Monday 23 October 2023
New York City

ART/ New York hosted the first Fall Forum to foster community, support collaboration, and encourage resource sharing among our members. We kicked off the 2023 Fall Forum with an event to bring together the entire ART/New York community.

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Benefits of Latinx Affinity Networks to Advance Your Career
Video

Benefits of Latinx Affinity Networks to Advance Your Career

Breathe.Explore.Restore.

Tuesday 13 June 2023
United States

Latinx affinity networks are like a breath of fresh air, offering a space to explore your interests and restore your energy. They can also help you advance your career by providing access to resources, support, and opportunities. This group of influential organizers talked about the foundations of their collectives and the significance of making spaces where our most genuine selves can be seen, celebrated, and advanced, even and especially if they do not already exist.

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performingbordersLIVE: Our Bodies in the Commons
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performingbordersLIVE: Our Bodies in the Commons

Reading Karaoke Led by Youngsook Choi

Saturday 29 April 2023
London, United Kingdom

After three years of digital only, transnational collaborations, performingborders is opening a space for movement, sharing, and conversation, to re-center our bodies in the explorations of borders, live art, community, and resistance. This event features live captioning and closed captioning for the video archive.

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Parenting, Care, and Cultural Mobility
Video

Parenting, Care, and Cultural Mobility

Webinar Exploring the Tensions Between Cultural Mobility and Parental Responsibility in the EU and Internationally

Tuesday 7 March 2023
European Union

For this third Mobility Webinar, On the Move will explore the tensions between cultural mobility and parental responsibility in the EU and internationally. Discussing how our ecosystem considers and manages parenthood, particularly for women, at the different stages of the creative value chain.

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Animating Democracy Session Three
Video

Animating Democracy Session Three

Artistic Imagination as a Force for Change

Friday 18 November 2022
United States

Art2Action and Animating Democracy presented Artistic Imagination as a Force for Change, the third event in the series Animating Democracy: REFLECTING FORWARD, livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 18 November 2022 at 1 p.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 3 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 4 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).

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Everything Everywhere: Perspectives from “Third-Culture” Theatremakers in the Sinophone Community
Essay

Everything Everywhere: Perspectives from “Third-Culture” Theatremakers in the Sinophone Community

8 September 2022

Writer and translator Livian Yeh examines the complexities of Asian identity within American theatre and gives her take on what it means to be a “third-culture” theatremaker.

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Under the Radar Symposium 2024
Series

Under the Radar Symposium 2024

This series combines content from and about the 2024 Under the Radar Symposium, produced by the Under the Radar Festival and ArkType in partnership with the International Producing Commons (IPC), Creative and Independent Producer Alliance (CIPA), and HowlRound Theatre Commons. 

ART/New York Fall Forum
Series

ART/New York Fall Forum

ART/New York convenes their first Fall Forum to foster community, support collaboration, and encourage resource sharing among their members.

Arts, Culture, and Commoning
Series

Arts, Culture, and Commoning

This week-long series of essays and conversations uplifts approaches to theatremaking that find confluence with the framework of the commons. Curated by Jamie Gahlon and Matthew Glassman, with members of the Arts, Culture, and Commoning working group, this week-long series amplifies artists and culture workers who activate collectivism, interdependence, and the role of imagination to catalyze systems change. These artists parse the ways their work opens up possibilities for theatre—and culture more broadly—to turn away from the market economy and toward collective liberation.