5:00-6:30pm PDT / 7:00-8:30pm CDT / 8:00-9:30pm EDT
Open to all current and past NET members; FREE registration.
Optional Community Feedback Survey
Attendees will be provided with an online survey after the event. NETneXt is designed as a community-led and iterative process: participant feedback will help to identify key learning, new questions, and emergent themes, and will inform responsive refinements to NETneXt as our collaborative research and development (Co-R&D) work continues.
Co-led by Meena Malik (NETneXt Phase 1 Facilitator) and NETneXt Bridge Ensemble members: Severin Blake, Todd London, Alexandra Meda, Denise Uyehara, Nicole Shero
This Circle-Up session invites NET members to engage in crucial conversations around harm, healing, reckoning, repair, and reimagining. We will focus on how to both celebrate and critically examine our history as a field. Through case studies, panel discussions, and interactive dialogue, this peer-based knowledge exchange will delve into real-world applications, challenges, and breakthroughs in incorporating Transformative Justice and harm reduction principles within ensemble practices. Come help us forge a path toward a more equitable and sustainable future for arts ensembles and the NET community.
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!