Queer [Re]public Festival: Theater of Union ~ Open Table Talk & Workshop
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Born from The Theater Offensive’s OUT In Your Neighborhood Festival in 2017, the QUEER [RE]PUBLIC FESTIVAL is a vital part of TTO’s next lifecycle and mission, presenting liberating art by, for, and about queer and trans people of color that transcends artistic boundaries, celebrates cultural abundance, and dismantles oppression. This inaugural 4-day festival serves as the culmination of our first 22-month long Emergent Artist Residency and True Colors Residency programs, featuring a series of workshops, staged readings, and dance performances.
In this talk, River invites audiences into a presentation and open discussion of Theater of Union in praxis and pedagogy. The first half of this offering is a presentation of the work that transitions into an open discussion of the intricacies of a love ethic as cultural transformation: what are the stakes and costs of choosing love in a culture of domination? How do we choose love, again and again, especially when we don't have to?
Theater of Union is a life-sustaining, world-building pedagogy and praxis that seeks to dismantle systems and our culture of domination with theater as its vehicle. Drawing on anthropological theories and indigenous ways of knowing, this praxis utilizes interconnectedness as survival, a love ethic, and community-based healing as core values for social change to build worlds that are life sustaining through an original theatrical praxis. Theater of Union includes an original thesis that explores the founding texts from which the work is grounded in, a love ethic as pedagogy, an exploration of aesthetics that draw from our natural world, as well as reflections of this work in the past that together encompass Theater of Union as a possibility of life in our current reality of ruin. This work explores the question, "in what ways can our stories bring us together for our collective liberation?
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In this talk, River invites audiences into a presentation and open discussion of Theater of Union in praxis and pedagogy. The first half of this offering is a presentation of the work that transitions into an open discussion of the intricacies of a love ethic as cultural transformation: what are the stakes and costs of choosing love in a culture of domination? How do we choose love, again and again, especially when we don't have to?
Theater of Union is a life-sustaining, world-building pedagogy and praxis that seeks to dismantle systems and our culture of domination with theater as its vehicle. Drawing on anthropological theories and indigenous ways of knowing, this praxis utilizes interconnectedness as survival, a love ethic, and community-based healing as core values for social change to build worlds that are life sustaining through an original theatrical praxis. Theater of Union includes an original thesis that explores the founding texts from which the work is grounded in, a love ethic as pedagogy, an exploration of aesthetics that draw from our natural world, as well as reflections of this work in the past that together encompass Theater of Union as a possibility of life in our current reality of ruin. This work explores the question, "in what ways can our stories bring us together for our collective liberation?
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