4:30-6:00 pm PDT / 6:30-8:00 pm CDT / 7:30-9:00 pm EDT
Open to all current and past NET members; FREE registration.
Sept 21 - Optional Community Feedback Session (Zoom)
11:00am-12:00pm PDT / 1:00-2:00pm CDT / 2:00-3:00pm EDT
Attendees from the Sept 20 event are invited to join the NETneXt Bridge Ensemble and NET staff the following day for a participatory debrief. NETneXt is designed as a community-led and iterative process. Feedback Sessions will identify key learning, new questions, and emergent themes, and help us refine NETneXt as our collaborative research and development (Co-R&D) continues.
Co-facilitated by NETneXt Bridge Ensemble members: Severin Blake, Todd London, Alexandra Meda, Dan Pruksarnukul, Nicole Shero, Alisha Tonsic
This first virtual Circle-Up event is an interactive storytelling, listening, and dreaming session to explore what binds us as a national ensemble arts community, what we gain by coming together, and how we are uniquely positioned to navigate this moment of cultural change.
About the NETneXt National Circle-Up Series
Join us online and in New Orleans for the Fall 2023 NETneXt National Circle-Up events!
Click here for the Sept-Oct 2023 series schedule, additional registration links, and more information.
NOW is the moment for the national ensemble to come together to dream, plan, and actualize an evolutionary pivot to ensure a vital future for ensemble companies and artists, and for NET. Help turn the transformational practices of ensemble creation on NET itself to ignite our collective imagination and co-create what’s NEXT!
Designed and led by the NETneXt Bridge Ensemble (a transitional team drawn from the NET membership), the NETneXt National Circle-Up events are a call to action. The Fall 2023 series invites all current and past NET members into the community engagement phase of NETneXt, our collaborative process to devise and plan the future of NET.
This second phase of NETneXt is organized as a series of participatory community investigations that will “circle up” the NET membership for collaborative research and development (Co-R&D). To start, six online sessions (Sept 20-Oct 16) will lead up to a weekend-long, in-person/hybrid national gathering in New Orleans (Oct 20-22) with regional and online options for remote participation. Following these Fall 2023 events, we will continue this work through additional online NETneXt Co-Creation Circle sessions (through the end of 2023) with our national membership, colleagues from the broader arts field, and natural allies beyond our sector. We will then synthesize our learning into a formal operational plan (Winter/Spring 2024) to chart our path forward to what’s NEXT for NET.
Want to know more? Click here for additional details, or connect with us at netnext@ensembletheaters.net!