Conversations Across Borders: Black Theatre in the US and Canada

One-day symposium bridging the divide among Black Theatre in Canada and the US by bringing together thinkers, artists, & performers

Hosted by May 8 by the Black Theatre Lab, this symposium brings together thinkers and artists of Black theatre in North America to consider the productive tensions and possibilities that performance offers in conditions of social and political strife. What is opened up in these cross-border and trans- or extra-national conversations? What rehearsals for an otherwise can be imagined? How does Black theatre play a critical role in combating dystopia and building trust?

The symposium will include two panel sessions, a dual keynote, a catered networking lunch event, and a staged reading produced by the seminal theatre company BCurrent, and is free and open to the general public.