 Hearing kind of the most salient resident pieces that emerged in each of the four breakout groups and each final reflections from the anchors of each group. So I'm gonna just start by asking either just one or both of the anchors of each of the groups to share. Share what was most resonant for you about your conversation that you wanna share with everybody. I'm wondering if Cole, you all wanna start? We've delegated that responsibility to Maura, who will be speaking on behalf of our group. Thank you Maura. Thank you Maura. She totally got called and told by me. Absolutely by Maura. Oh, I'm told that's my favorite group. Oh, I'm told. Oh, I'm told. Oh, I'm told. Well, let me be where I was in a group with some very profound thinkers. So it's not hard to offer you incredible gems that were shared. So I wanna start with Ebony. We heard from Ebony and Nicole about their practices and Ebony went first. Ebony, and I happen to have them also give just having spent a little time with Ebony a couple of weeks ago at Duke in another kind of conference. So I've gotten a couple of angles on your work. And the foundation, and actually I think it would apply to our conversation in general is about emancipation. And this, I mean like the grounding that you have in notions of emancipation just really blow me away. And that sort of everything comes from there. And I feel like I can really relate that in that this moment, but to this notion of the comments as well and that the comments depends on a kind of emancipation first of all. And that what we find in ourselves when we are emancipated is this deep, I think you had that wonderful slide, like the deep, there was a mouth and like yeah. Like that's what becomes available to us when we find this emancipation. And that was the link to Nicole's work, particularly around the ceremony. She did lead us through a ceremony with each other where we empowered and encouraged our own heroism. And that was very moving. And for each other's heroism I should say. And so Nicole's work is also very deep and very inspiring around creating revolutionary practices slash ceremonies to, I would say, lead to this emancipation or contribute to this emancipation. So that was, we also heard about Lenny Reifersdahl which was interesting and a very interesting sort of intersection to the thinking about danger, I would say, or dangerous practices within that. Anyway, that's what I got. Nice to have you on. Thank you so much, thank you so much. Morgan, would you or somebody else from your group wanna share or reflect on your conversation? Well I feel like kind of like through a wrench into my group a little bit. Okay. So I would love someone else to talk about what they got. I mean basically what we were really talking about. Claudia, like Claudia talked a lot about specific things that she did at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. That a lot of it was about how people contribute, how events happen around specific issues or actions. But we talked about magnetic centers and involvement of community, talked about extraction of stories. But I'd really love someone else to respond. What do you do Daniel wanna respond? Or just share any reflection? Any reflection on what? What was resonant for you from that conversation? What stays with you? Sure. So one of the question was, yeah forgive me. You just done this to me again where you changed the formative score and then trying to rise to the challenge. No, it's okay, it's okay just give me a second. So one of the things we talked about was or if there's a sentence that I crafted was because you gave us a beautiful challenge of hey can you sum up in a sentence what your death charge is? What's your one thing you're doing to change the world? And I was like well I'm crafting self-generating sustaining performance for communities to do healthy practices. That was a beautiful sentence that you helped me to write. We all told a lot of stories about the work that we're doing. So there's people at the table who are doing work or they're trying to help communities to create their own performances. So there's a lot of co-creation models that we talked about. And one of the examples that I talked about was the Martin Luther King Day celebration which is a show where we had to have a long-term strategy of getting institutions to buy in to the project and then it can become self-sustaining and it's a co-creation model where everyone writes the show and everyone is in the show. And then we also talked about dangers of extraction in communities. We talked about New Orleans, St. Louis, Ferguson. We talked about capitalism in the market and again forgive me, my notes are all cloudy and they weren't reflective of the conversation. They were reflective of the things Claudia was thinking about as everyone was sharing beautiful stories. So the market resists social justice. So how do you work beyond that? Can we, how do we share infrastructure? So you talked, you shared some beautiful stories about HowlRound and shared infrastructure on HowlRound TV. And then how do you share mission? Can you share values? And then you shared something beautiful about you can occupy the same landscape and that might not mean that you have the same values but you're occupying the same landscape which brought me back to my concept of the radical middle. That's where we all have to work because that's where we are. Thank you Claudia. Thank you. Mark, how about you and our others from your group? Why don't you join me? Great. Now why don't we do this? Only time to go first and then I'll fill in the information on it. Oh. So. How do you prepare, how do we prepare? One of the questions I think kind of was for me was just this idea of it. How do we prepare to imagine equity? What's needed just to do that, imagine it and you know, obviously it's something you notice. There's a kind of privilege that lets you imagine and the bankers say that until this equity, how can we collectively imagine that there's equity because we're all imagining from very different places, you know and so that notion very much kind of resonating in my brain. One of the other things that we noted here was neighborhood conversations and local transformation. How do we just start to transform kind of on local levels? You have a community conversation that can happen pretty informally that just gets people talking together if it's something about grounding first in a local neighborhood place. I'm not sure about the network theory. I think so. Sure, I think folks were talking about power of some kind of artist activist networks and roots and some of the other ones that are out there that, you know we're really moving from this kind of I spoke in a hub approach to these kind of networks and working together equally and that's been a near and non-independent artsy culture but within movements in the country and technology is allowed to do that even more but it's still being replicated just in our home communities also. We talked about the power of art and cultural practice to around neural networks that it reaches a different place than facts and figures do. There was a, that we all are capable of that but artists had a special role and kind of creating that creating that pathway and holding that. Some folks we asked, we had a brief conversation about popular culture kind of the Kool-Aid levels in the ocean and how we're swimming in it and how do we affect that from all the messages that are kind of coming into us all the time and we talked about culture having the power to act on culture Thank you so much. Vijay, I'm wondering if you might be willing to Oh I thought you would do it. I wasn't thinking in an orderly way either at all. Does anybody else from our group want to share some resonant bear maybe or Todd? I can share some thoughts. I'm not going to talk about getting a sense of what HowlRound does and how they're functioning and how they've sort of opened up space in the performance world for people to be operating in a more sort of common space model and anybody feel free to jump in at any point and we talked about, I loved your question Havia, about the role of remembering in terms of imagining so what do we have to remember backwards in order to be able to imagine forward into the future and we talked around that and we kind of talked on all kinds of different things those are the things that are sticking with me right now And you also shared some about the project you're working on which do you want to just say just name it so that people can ask you about it So I talked a little bit about the Dijkvar project which is the oral industry and theater project happening in New Orleans where after the last lesbian bar in New Orleans closed a few years ago we started taking oral industries of the people who had sort of come of age in those spaces and so it was just like really resonant with what you had shared about this idea of remembering in order to imagine so going back and learning these queer histories that are often really sort of sublimated and underground and hidden for a good reason but often aren't sort of transmitted in the same way that other women just are and so going back to learn that history in order to empower ourselves to be able to envision a queer future forward Yeah And I'd say we also spent a fair amount of time wrestling with what David had presented and the challenges really of living in capitalism and dealing with the market and the institutions we've inherited and trying to make you know make a way out of that and sort of really thinking about I mean you were sort of taught we talked some about the need to really create enough of an alternative that you're giving people a viable option for meeting their needs that is really separate from these institutions that are creating so much harm and damage so you know we talked some about that and what those might look like I think also Vijay in sharing about how around really talked about how in creating this commons online you've really begun to shift the culture of the theater community from one that at once was very you know competitive to one that's much more collaborative willing to share and come together in new and different ways which seemed really really powerful and promising I'd say for me it was very inspiring That came up with us too the whole idea of like sharing resources organizing around not necessarily shared value but you know an intentionality that can embrace different approaches So I'm wondering if there's any other just reflections that folks that have bubbled up in these conversations that anyone really wants to share with a larger group in preparation to close the conversation for today and knowing that we're going to come back to this tomorrow and I think make more sense and meaning of how these three conversations that we've had throughout the day are connected and what it means for us going forward Inspired and excited about your presentation and just allowing me to get a little bit more in depth of a subject that has been kind of on the periphery of my mind but at the same time I'm also so conscious and this is true with Hall around too that there have been communities and cultures and you know non-dominant communities that have had these practices and had these shared you know metallic ethos for you know centuries and so whenever I'm in a group of like contemporary performance makers I sometimes want to remind us that it's not so contemporary you know A and B like that that honor that existence that's already has been in place so easy to think we're revolutionizing when in fact it's something else I think that the injustice that we speak of thrives on amnesia thrives on amnesia at the memory over here the memory is the great innovator you know you don't have to keep making the memory is the innovator amnesia and anemone the lack of bias I think another suggestion would be that for a change if people of color write history for one year and the dominant narrative just reads it I wonder you know what that would be because we have never articulated you know publicly our own histories our history has always been framed where we are the subjects of the gaze we never really have the agency in the center and in this group I'm hoping that I'm not I don't have to add the disclaimer what I mean is allies are you know I mean I'm just assuming that this is a group where we don't have to say disclaimers yeah and anything else that folks want to bring into this space before we close reflections that are bubbling I just want to say how profoundly grateful I feel to be part of a convening like this and that that is bubbling up almost more than anything the power that this kind of space holding, invitation and space sharing can offer us and I hope to think about ways to replicate this I'm thinking about my classroom actually based on this experience this weekend thank you thank you so much Todd did you want to I don't know I feel like I talked so much I guess there's this sense that we were talking about in our group that I feel here too in response to what Daniel said is that there is a way in which and this goes back I think also to something Kerry was saying before it's like you spend a lot of your life in the fight against what is and then at a certain point you make a different world you make alternative world and I feel like what you guys have done or invited us into this weekend is kind of a picture of that kind of alternate world and it is sufficient and it is abundant and we've seen and even in our group talking about the HowlRound example the way it can suddenly everybody in that other world is scrambling to have some of what the alternate has because it has a life because it is alive it's vital and it's bubbling up and then the other thing which is a thought that goes back to a median HowlRound and Matthew was there and we were talking about it is this book the Sebastian Junger book tribe which is about PTSD but this goes to this goes to the point of Morris Point which is that communal cultures because they embrace returning warriors don't have the same struggles with PTSD that our advanced capitalist system does where we reject that part of ourselves and outsource it to other people and then reject them and so there is that thing that so it is that thing about the liberation of memory it's like remembering who we are and where we come from is also a way of finding our own alternative systems that are even deeper than the present from which is which is old and dominant but not as old so I think with that we're going to close and Matthew do you want to do you want to instruct us or lead us say something about tonight and tomorrow and this transition time and well one thing that occurs to me from all three of these conversations and David's wonderful talk that reaffirms the what's it called the same that the map is not the territory but with that in mind I think that there's something about tomorrow's conversation that has to do with what is the territory and what is the map so that we can use both to our advantage in concrete ways as well thinking about constellations and how do we use these bridges that get built in a short period of time going forward what are things that are very specific that we'd like to see change in the collective imagination and then how do we help each other yes that we're going to have a very quick transition now and I need to ask that it be efficient and I forgive that for this day but it will be helpful because we're transitioning from having our performance so you know I won't be able to empathize a little bit so tonight there's a dinner of the Ashford Lake House