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“One Day We’ll Realize Our Shoulders Aren’t Raised to Our Ears”
In this essay, Nia Farrell shares their vision of the future — one that exists now, on this very Earth, and that begins with the declaration: “I am adamant that Blk people exist in the future.”
It's 2021 and we're amid multiple pandemics that are revealing the structural failures, challenges, and opportunities facing the nonprofit theatre. Where do we go from here? What are we bringing with us through the portal, and what are we making anew? HowlRound Theatre Commons’ Devising Our Future series asks theatremakers to consider a future theatre field where resources and power are shared equitably in all directions, contributing to a more just and sustainable world.
Pull the cord. It'll work out.
This is Episode 7 of Pep Talks For A New World, written and performed by Nia Farrell, presented by PlayCo, and curated by William Burke. In this podcast, seven artists dare to address the question: Is it possible to have pep right now? Can we at least rally around the things that humanity needs?
Presented by PlayCo and William Burke (2021)
Pep Talks for a New World: Ep. 7
“Creating Curricular Partnerships: Nine Muses Lab”
A panel with the facilitators of the Nine Muses Lab (Bryce Dallas Howard, Nia Farrell, and Rachel Friendman), a course at NYU for multi-hyphenate students about what it takes to “make it” and master their craft. In this session, each panelist shares the unique opportunities this curricular partnership presents for professional artists, education institutions, and students. Presented by SXSW EDU 2021.
Welcome to NBT @ Home: Part Four, featuring artist-essayist-playwright Daniel Alexander Jones, creator and Afrofuturist Nia Farrell and performer, choreographer, director, playwright and activist nicHi douglas.
In this roundtable conversation, these artists discuss pleasure activism and the work of author adrienne maree brown; how embracing one’s own joy is a method of creating liberation in a system of oppression. Moderated by National Black Theatre co-curator, ChelseaDee.