NET's national community gathered in the Sonoran Desert for reflection, conversations, sunsets, workshops, local community highlights, leg-dangling poolside hangouts, panels, performances, networking, and Tucson’s renowned All Souls Procession Weekend (a city-wide series of grassroots, art-infused ceremonies, celebrations, and events culminating in a community ritual Procession & Finale performance, produced by NET member Flam Chen/Many Mouths One Stomach)!
This two-city event in Tempe & Tucson, re:ROUTES explored expansive and emerging definitions, notions, and manifestations of ensemble practice and collaborative creation through the themes/priorities of:
Artistic Disciplines, Forms & Aesthetics
Decolonizing Ensemble Theater: Power, Systems, Culture & Traditions
Civic Applications; Community, Ritual & Collective Resistance
Place: Local, Regional & Indigenous Work, Artists & Ideas
Cultural Pluralism, Equity, Justice & Anti-Oppression.
NET's National Gathering & Symposium events brought together performing artists, co-creators, practitioners, producers, scholars, educators, teaching artists, students, cultural workers, organizers, activists, policy makers, funders, and community partners.
CLICK HERE to download our digital program!
Community/Host Partners:
Borderlands Theater; Childsplay; Flam Chen/Many Mouths One Stomach; Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University, School of Film, Danceand Theatre; Performance in the Borderlands ASU; Tempe Tourism; Visit Tucson
Watch the complete video archive of Gathering events on HowlRound TV!
Check out the tweets from the conference at: #NETreroutes
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