Applied Theatre and Racial Justice

Lisa Biggs is an associate professor in the Department of Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre at Brown University, U.S.A., where she teaches theatre and performance studies. She is an actor, playwright, and the recipient of the 2023 Lila A. Heston Award from the National Communications Association and the Errol Hill Award from the American Society for Theatre Research.Eunice S. Ferreira is an associate professor in the Theater Department at Skidmore College, U.S.A., where she teaches Black theatre, theatre history, mixed race performance, translation, and theatre for social justice and change. She is a director, dramaturg, actor, and a leading scholar on theatre of Cabo Verde, West Africa.

• Offering 1: Contemplating Liberatory Practices 1. Contemplative Practices for Theatrical Interventions and Living 2. Cyphers and Verse: A Hiphopography of bkSOUL 3. Activating the Ancestral Body: Embodied Performance and Self-Development 4. Dance of the Orcas: Narrative Medicine for Undrowning Offering 2: Changing the Center in Teaching and Learning 5. Indigenous Youth: Performance, Identity, and Cultural Reclamation 6. Liberating the Classroom: Academic Theatre and Calls for Change 7. Transcultural Playwriting: What Happens When We Meet? 8. Changing the Center: Utilizing Black Pedagogy to Prioritize Cultural Competency in Theatre Training Offering 3: Building Community with Care 9. Anti-Racist Theatre: A Directorial Practice of Healing in Fires in the Mirror 10. Role Play, Embodiment, and Our Histories 11. Embodied Truth: Finding Ways to Move Together 12. The Minor Aesthetics of Falling: Reframing “Left-Behind” Children in Rural China Offering 4: Performing Black Feminisms 13. Embodying the Headlines: Performing Sandra Bland 14. Performing Black Feminist Abolition 15. Making Colors: A Black Queer Feminist Experiment in Solo Performance Offering 5: Reckoning with History 16. Planting “Seeds of Freedom”: Drama and Youth Activism in Mississippi 1964 17. The American Slavery Project: Performance and Education 18. Building the Next Black Wall Street: Michelle Brown-Burdex and the Tulsa Greenwood Summer Arts Entrepreneur Camp 19. Chicago’s Free Street Theater and The Radically Ordinary Art of Showing Up Offering 6: Gathering ‘Round the Table Roundtable 1. Contemplating Liberatory Practices Roundtable 2. Changing the Center in Teaching and Learning Roundtable 3. Building Community with Care Roundtable 4. Performing Black Feminisms Roundtable 5. Reckoning with History