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Leaders of a New Stage
Video
Leaders of a New Stage
10 Weeks In Jamaica: Theater Conversations from Jamaica to The World!
Sunday 27 December 2020
Jamaica
Afro-Futurism and the Jamaican Stage
Video
Afro-Futurism and the Jamaican Stage
10 Weeks In Jamaica: Theater Conversations from Jamaica to The World!
Sunday 3 January 2021
Jamaica
Queer Narratives from the Jamaican Stage
Video
Queer Narratives from the Jamaican Stage
10 Weeks In Jamaica: Theater Conversations from Jamaica to The World!
Sunday 20 December 2020
Jamaica
Afro-Futurism and the Jamaican Stage
Video

Afro-Futurism and the Jamaican Stage

10 Weeks In Jamaica: Theater Conversations from Jamaica to The World!

Sunday 3 January 2021
Jamaica

Akiba Abaka Arts presented the conversation Afro-Futurism and the Jamaican Stage as a part of the 10 Weeks in Jamaica series livestreamed on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 3 January 2021 at 1 p.m. PST (San Francisco, UTC -8) / 3 p.m. CST (Chicago, UTC -6) / 4 p.m. EST (Kingston, UTC -5).

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Leaders of a New Stage
Video

Leaders of a New Stage

10 Weeks In Jamaica: Theater Conversations from Jamaica to The World!

Sunday 27 December 2020
Jamaica

Akiba Abaka Arts presented the conversation Leaders of a New Stage as a part of the 10 Weeks in Jamaica series livestreamed on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 27 December 2020 at 1 p.m. PST (San Francisco, UTC -8) / 3 p.m. CST (Chicago, UTC -6) / 4 p.m. EST (Kingston, UTC -5).

Text with details of the livestream and headshots of the speakers. The background is a rainbow in the shape of Jamaica.
Queer Narratives from the Jamaican Stage
Video

Queer Narratives from the Jamaican Stage

10 Weeks In Jamaica: Theater Conversations from Jamaica to The World!

Sunday 20 December 2020
Jamaica

Akiba Abaka Arts presented the conversation Queer Narratives from the Jamaican Stage as a part of the 10 Weeks in Jamaica series livestreamed on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 20 December 2020 at 1 p.m. PST (San Francisco, UTC -8) / 3 p.m. CST (Chicago, UTC -6) / 4 p.m. EST (Kingston, UTC -5).

Livestreaming a Conversation: Jamaican playwrights answer George Bernard Shaw (Part 2)
Video

Livestreaming a Conversation: Jamaican playwrights answer George Bernard Shaw (Part 2)

10 Weeks In Jamaica: Theater Conversations from Jamaica to The World!

Sunday 13 December 2020
Jamaica

Akiba Abaka Arts presented the conversation Jamaican Playwrights Answer George Bernard Shaw (Part 2) as a part of the 10 Weeks in Jamaica series livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 13 December 2020 at 1 p.m. PST (San Francisco, UTC -8) / 3 p.m. CST (Chicago, UTC -6) / 4 p.m. EST (Kingston, UTC -5).

Jamaican Playwrights Answer George Bernard Shaw (Part 1)
Video

Jamaican Playwrights Answer George Bernard Shaw (Part 1)

10 Weeks In Jamaica: Theater Conversations from Jamaica to The World!

Sunday 6 December 2020
Jamaica

Akiba Abaka Arts presented the conversation Jamaican Playwrights Answer George Bernard Shaw (Part 1) as a part of the 10 Weeks in Jamaica series livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 6 December 2020 at 1 p.m. PST (San Francisco, UTC -8) / 3 p.m. CST (Chicago, UTC -6) / 4 p.m. EST (Kingston, UTC -5).

Dancehall Reggae and the Nettleford Effect
Video

Dancehall Reggae and the Nettleford Effect

10 Weeks In Jamaica: Theater Conversations from Jamaica to The World!

Sunday 29 November 2020
United States

Akiba Abaka Arts presented the conversation Dancehall Reggae and the Nettleford Effect as a part of the 10 Weeks in Jamaica series livestreamed on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 29 November 2020 at 1 p.m. PST (San Francisco, UTC -8) / 3 p.m. CST (Chicago, UTC -6) / 4 p.m. EST (Kingston, UTC -5).

The Business of the Jamaican Stage (Jambiz and Whirlwind Entertainment)
Video

The Business of the Jamaican Stage (Jambiz and Whirlwind Entertainment)

10 Weeks In Jamaica: Theater Conversations from Jamaica to The World!

Sunday 22 November 2020
Jamaica

Akiba Abaka Arts presented the conversation The Business of the Jamaican Stage (Jambiz and Whirlwind Entertainment) as a part of the 10 Weeks in Jamaica series livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 22 November 2020 at 1 p.m. PST (San Francisco, UTC -8) / 3 p.m. CST (Chicago, UTC -6) / 4 p.m. EST (Kingston, UTC -5).

Jamaican Roots Theatre, Then and Now
Video

Jamaican Roots Theatre, Then and Now

10 Weeks In Jamaica: Theater Conversations from Jamaica to The World!

Sunday 15 November 2020
Jamaica

Akiba Abaka Arts presented the conversation Decolonizing Pantomime: The Little Theatre Movement and Miss Lou as a part of the 10 Weeks in Jamaica series livestreamed on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 15 November 2020 at 1 p.m. PST (San Francisco, UTC -8) / 3 p.m. CST (Chicago, UTC -6) / 4 p.m. EST (Kingston, UTC -5).

Decolonizing Pantomime: The Little Theatre Movement and Miss Lou
Video

Decolonizing Pantomime: The Little Theatre Movement and Miss Lou

10 Weeks In Jamaica: Theater Conversations from Jamaica to The World!

Sunday 8 November 2020
Jamaica

Akiba Abaka Arts presented the conversation Decolonizing Pantomime: The Little Theatre Movement and Miss Lou as a part of the 10 Weeks in Jamaica series livestreamed on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 8 November 2020 at 1 p.m. PST (San Francisco, UTC -8) / 3 p.m. CST (Chicago, UTC -6) / 4 p.m. EST (Kingston, UTC -5).

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Whatever happened to the Ward Theatre?
Video

Whatever happened to the Ward Theatre?

10 Weeks In Jamaica: Theater Conversations from Jamaica to The World!

Sunday 1 November 2020
Jamaica

Akiba Abaka Arts presented the conversation Whatever happened to the Ward Theatre? as a part of 10 Weeks in Jamaica livestreamed on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 1 November 2020 at 1 p.m. PST (San Francisco, UTC -8) / 3 p.m. CST (Chicago, UTC -6) / 4 p.m. EST (Kingston, UTC -5).

How Post-Colonial Imagination Can Make Theatre into an Agent of Revolution
Essay

How Post-Colonial Imagination Can Make Theatre into an Agent of Revolution

16 August 2018

Using three different plays—M. Butterfly, Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell That Was Once Her Heart, and QPH—playwright Massi Monfiletto examines theatre’s revolutionary potential.

Text: 10 weeks in Jamaica. Theatre conversations from Jamaica to the world.
10 Weeks In Jamaica: Theatre Conversations from Jamaica to The World!
Series

10 Weeks In Jamaica: Theatre Conversations from Jamaica to The World!

Ten weekly conversations with Jamaica's leading theatre artists exploring the histories, memories and remedies of the Jamaican stage.

As the world focuses on achieving racial equity, the rich history and contemporary narratives of the Jamaican stage provides valuable learnings for theatre practitioners and audiences in search of models and memories of progressive community building through the arts.