4:30-6:30pm PDT / 6:30-8:30pm CDT / 7:30-9:30pm EDT
Open to all current and past NET members; FREE registration.
Oct 13 - Optional Community Feedback Session:
12:30-1:30pm PDT / 2:30-3:30pm CDT / 4:30-5:30pm EDT
Attendees from the Oct 11 event are invited to join the NETneXt Bridge Ensemble and NET staff on Oct 13 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-led by Rad Pereira (NETneXt Bridge Ensemble member) and TBA
A community learning panel on the intersection of Solidarity Economy frameworks and “Ensemble Practice.” Using a peer-based “popular education” approach, we’ll build a shared understanding of Solidarity Economy principles, tools, and practices, as they align with the NET membership’s ensemble values, collaborative processes, and shared leadership structures. We will explore together how the Solidarity Economy model can activate our collective power and help ensembles and NET to thrive.
About the NETneXt National Circle-Up Series
Join us online and in New Orleans for Fall 2023 NETneXt National Circle-Up events!
Click here for the Sept-Oct 2023 series schedule, additional registration links, and more information.
The national ensemble arts community is uniquely poised to navigate this moment of cultural change. NOW is our moment 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 an 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!