The Department of Theatre Arts & Performance Studies produces several festivals and conferences each year. Details of upcoming festival and conference events can be found below. All events listed are open to the public. Most events are ticketed and booking in advance is recommended.

Tickets are available at tickets.brown.edu

Further booking and registration details are listed under individual events.

(Please note: information on the annual Writing is Live festival can be found here.)

UPCOMING EVENTS

• Un/Commoning Pedagogies Symposia: Anti-Racist Pedagogy and Embodied Practices

  

  Un/Commoning Pedagogies Symposia: Anti-Racist Pedagogy and Embodied Practices
  Various Dates: February 24 – March 10

  Un/Commoning Pedagogies Collective —Dasha A. Chapman, J Dellecave, Adanna Kai Jones, Sharon Kivenko, Mario LaMothe, Lailye Weidman, Queen Mecca Zabriskie —are a cohort of artist-educators committed to centering dance, embodiment, and social justice via our pedagogical work. We teach across the intersections of diverse fields: Anthropology, Sociology, Black and Africana Studies, Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, Dance, and Performance Studies.

  Registration Required
  Event links will be included in your confirmation email
  http://brown.edu/go/UnCommoning

  SCHEDULE
  
  March 10: 11AM – 12:00 PM EST
  Un/Commoning Pedagogies Symposia
  As a collective, we critically position movement and embodiment as a method for forging anti-racism and collectivity in our classrooms and beyond. We assert that anti-racism is something that must happen collectively, as opposed to as individuals or proclaimed experts. We practice anti-racism together, in dialogue, in critique, and with commitment to both embodiment and care. Rooted in our ongoing collaborations and experimentations, we invite you to co- generate knowledge about the shared possibilities and tensions of teaching and learning, via our full-bodied selves.

  
  March 29: 4PM – 6PM EST
  Queering Collaborations with J Delllecave and Mario LaMothe

  This project has been made possible, in part, by the Brown Arts Initiative.

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• Writing is Live 2023

  WRITING IS LIVE 2023

  

  – Part 1 –
  The Readings
  February 9 – 12, 2023

  Beautiful Princess Disorder by Kathy Ng ’25 (reading)	Penguin Sex With Mr. Morgan: A Cabaret for an Apocalypse by Dhari Noel (reading)
  Cold War Choir Play by Ro Reddick ’24 (staged reading)	Wall of Death by Harley Elias ’24 (staged reading)

  – Part 2 –
  The Thesis Shows
  March 15 – 19, 2023

  Play House by Alexa Derman

  Spread by Jesús I. Valles \

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