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The Latina|O Theatre Commons 2013 National Convening a Narrative Report The Latina|o Theatre Commons 2013 National Convening A Narrative Report By Brian Eugenio Herrera A PUBLICATION OF HOWLROUND A COMMONS BY AND FOR PEOPLE WHO MAKE PERFORMANCE The Latina|o Theatre Commons 2013 National Convening A Narrative Report By Brian Eugenio Herrera Edited by Jayne Benjulian and Jamie Gahlon A PUBLICATION OF HOWLROUND A COMMONS BY AND FOR PEOPLE WHO MAKE PERFORMANCE This work is made freely available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Copyright © 2015 by Brian Eugenio Herrera. We want you to cite, share, copy, distribute, transmit, remix, and adapt this book. Attribute Brian Eugenio Herrera as the original author and HowlRound.com as the original publisher. ISBN: 978-1-939006-04-2 (paperback) ISBN: 978-1-939006-05-9 (e-book) Library of Congress Control Number: 2014958227 Center for the Theater Commons/HowlRound.com Emerson College, c/o Office of the Arts 120 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02116 USA For inquiries, e-mail [email protected] or call +1 617-824-3017 Printed in the United States of America Book Design: Michael Quanci quancidesign.com Cover Image: Lucy Gram 1 Foreword Karen Zacarías 5 Introduction Anne García-Romero 9 Author’s Note Brian Eugenio Herrera 15 DAY 1 15 Welcoming and Blessing 23 The Opening Ceremony 30 Circles within Circles 35 DAY 2 38 Listening Session 1: The Creators 49 Listening Session 2: The Translators 58 Listening Session 3: The Pillars 69 The Conocimiento Groups 60 Group 1: Regional Theaters 74 Group 2: Community-Based and Culturally-Specific Groups 77 Group 3: Scholars 81 Group 4: Artists 83 Group 5: Independent Artists TABLE OF CONTENTS OF CONTENTS TABLE 87 Group 6: International Partnerships & Exchanges 91 Group 7: Ensembles 97 Friday Closing 101 DAY 3 103 Plenary Panel: Expanding Our Environmental Analysis 106 Big Ideas from the Wisdom Groups 110 Voices from the Regions 115 Choosing Strategic Directions 124 The Mentorship Tree Exercise 128 Strategy Selection 135 Closing the Circle 138 List of Figures 139 Appendix 1: Convening Participants 146 Appendix 2: Resources Derived from the Wisdom Groups 153 Appendix 3: A Theater for New America(n)s 154 About the Author Karen Zacarías FORWARD It was time for Latina/o artists to discuss and design a viable, energetic, sustainable, inclusive “something” that would serve a wide band of Latina/o artists nationally. IN MAY OF 2012, under the auspices of my residency with the American Voices New Play Institute and HowlRound at Arena Stage, I convened a small group of geographically diverse and mostly inde- pendent Latina/o artists to talk candidly at calzón quitado about the challenges and the hopes of being a theater artist in this country. A series of national events, some in my hometown of Washington D.C., had galvanized several Latina/o artists to organize and speak out over the Internet. I realized that many of my virtual compadres and comadres had never been in one room altogether. I didn’t want the energy to fade, because it was energy at the most important level: the grassroots. My instinct was that it was time for Latina/o artists to discuss and design a viable, energetic, sustainable, inclusive “something” that would serve a wide band of Latina/o artists nationally. Eight of us showed up. Many of us did not know each other. There were sandwiches, but we had no formal agenda. As the day progressed, 1 and we ate, and shared, and dreamed, every one of the participants expressed a deep de- sire to bring together a larger group of artists to form a concrete action plan. We knew Our mission is from past experiences that the group had to to listen to each be large enough to include a variety of per- spectives, but small enough to be responsive other, find common and effective in building a solid platform for something larger. goals, and pursue The candid discussion moved into a con- sensus and plan for sustainable action. Our our shared dreams hopes and dreams embrace the recognition of a canon of Latina/o drama; an ongoing with equanimity, national and regional arena for conversation transparency, live and online; and the production of more powerful, diverse Latina/o voices in the Amer- and purpose. ican Theater. HowlRound, now based at Emerson Col- lege’s Office of the Arts, agreed to serve as our fiscal and organizational agent during this phase. We were all aware that this would in- volve a strong work commitment from a small planning committee and that we would need the advice and support of a Steering Committee. Thus began the foundation and the fundraising for the Latina/o Theatre Commons (LTC): a fluid national platform that serves and connects diverse Latina/o theater artists throughout the United States. The original eight reached out to more than a dozen key mem- bers of the Latina/o theater community and formed a diverse Steering Committee of experienced, nationally recognized leaders. Together, the twenty-five became the LTC. The first item on the agenda: organize a 2 national meeting to connect the many vibrant conversations happening all over the nation and set the stage for what Latina/o artists want and need in the American Theater. The first conference of the LTC was held in Boston in October of 2013. It was the largest reunion of Latina/o artists in over twenty-five years. At that meeting the almost eighty delegates and several dozen on- line participants in five different cities discussed, shared, and dreamed. Together, these representatives plus their delegations from home became the LTC. The conference was unique; the results, as you will read here, are inspiring. At its core, the LTC is about taking sustainable dramatic “action.” There are two ideas behind the LTC: first, its growth is concentric, like the trunk of a strong oak that grows systematically wider and deeper with each iteration; second, the goal is to have a diverse band of regional representatives—large enough to spread the work, but small enough for each member to be accountable and effective. Our mission is to listen to each other, find common goals, and pursue our shared dreams with equanimity, transparency, and purpose. At the 2013 conference, the LTC created an ambitious national agenda. The only way to sustain our momentum is to work in waves: with members sprinting and passing the baton as they complete proj- ects and conceive new ideas. We are a collective; everybody on board is a busy individual; one person need not shoulder the organization; participation is fluid and flexible, but participation and accountability are key. We work as a collective, each one of us doing a small part, with the belief and knowledge that large changes can and will happen if we 3 capitalize on the values of inclusivity, sustainability, creativity, transpar- ency, and momentum. We are all artists, scholars, producers. At its core, the LTC is about taking sustainable dramatic “action.” At the end of the day, our purpose is to provide different modes of connectivity, support, and inspiration to help us all (not just artists of Latina/o heritage) grow and deepen individually and collectively as theater artists. ¡Bienvenidos todos! Karen Zacarías Playwright 4 Anne García-Romero INTRODUCTION IN MARCH 2013, the Latina/o Theatre Commons (LTC) held a meeting of our newly formed Steering Committee in Boston, hosted by HowlRound, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. We’d received a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to fund our Fall 2013 Convening. Our Steering Committee of twenty-five Latina/o theater artists and scholars met for two days on the campus of Emerson College to brainstorm, plan, discuss, strategize, and continue to expand our circle. We formed three sub-committees: Programming, Outreach, and Fundraising and began to plan our Convening in earnest. We forged ahead with the continuing guidance of HowlRound and the considerable expertise of Jamie Gahlon, HowlRound’s Associate Director. Clyde Valentín, Former Executive Director of the New York City- Based Hip-Hop Theater Festival and newly appointed to the Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts Staff in Dallas, TX, 5 chaired our Outreach sub-committee. Clyde contributed his substantial experience as an arts organizer and innovator to galvanize our outreach efforts. This initial Convening could only include around seventy-five participants, due to our funding parameters, as our budget covered travel, lodging, and meals for each participant. We wanted the widest range of participation possible with diverse representation of gender, artistic discipline, region, and career stage. Our entire Steering Com- mittee recommended individuals, and we began the process of inviting Convening participants. While we could only include a limited number, we worked to establish satellite sites in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, and New York City, where other people might participate in the Convening via Skype conferencing, and we engaged HowlRound TV to livestream most of the events. We also hired an official Convening Tweeter and Blogger. In preparation for the Convening, our Outreach sub-committee created a series of surveys in which participants provided reflections on the state of the field. The Outreach sub-committee -in cluded Christopher Acebo, Jacob Padrón, Richard Perez, Tlaloc Rivas, Anthony Rodriguez, Olga Sanchez, Patricia Ybarra, and Karen Zacarías. Kinan Valdez, Artistic Director of El Teatro Campesino in San Juan Bautista, California, chaired our Programming sub-committee. Kinan had spent the previous two years traveling across the country, connect- ing with Latina/o theater artists who have organized coalitions in Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, and Oregon.
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