Forum Theatre is thrilled to host the DC Theatre community “watch party” and discussion as part of the American Voices New Play Institute at Arena Stage national convening, entitled “From Scarcity to Abundance: Capturing the Moment for the New Work Sector.”
The event will be held on Saturday, January 29 from 9am to 1:45pm at the Silver Spring Civic Building, just a block from the Round House Theatre Silver Spring Black Box where Forum is the company-in-residence.
The national convening will focus on the following: identifying the rich and vital activity that already exists in the new play sector, exploring the gaps and challenges facing the field and strategizing the means of continued and closer collaboration to advance the new work infrastructure moving forward. This convening will build upon the outcomes and initiatives that grew out of last year’s convenings: Defining Diversity, Black Playwrights: the Stories We Tell and Devised Work.
The Forum-hosted event will be a combination of livestreamviewing of the national convening and DC theatre community-specific conversations about the state of new plays in our area. The DC gathering of theatremakers will be part of at least 8 others events, nation-wide, that will all be a part of a cumulative report put out by the New Play Institute. The discussion will be led by Artistic Director Michael Dove and company member Hannah Hessel.
The watch party event is free to attend, but please RSVP to tickets@forumtheatredc.org as space is limited.
You can also follow the entire week’s discussion via Twitter under #NewPlay as well as livestreamed portions at #Newplay TV and coved on the 2AMt blog. Forum Theatre will be live-tweeting the event on the 29th via @forumtheatre.
For more information on the entire convening, visit http://www.arenastage.org/new-play-institute/convenings/new-work/
Where:
One Veteran’s Place, Civic Building
Silver Spring, MD
(back, side entrance)
Directions here
