Over the past year and a half, TCG’s Theatre for Activism series has sought to build knowledge around care, advocacy, and solidarity. Theatre for Activism’s three-part series will conclude with Rise Up, a hybrid megaLAB that will bring our attention to accountability practices with the shared understanding that we have all messed up and will continue to mess up. How we clean up our mess is a choice that we must make within ourselves, aided by the support of the people around us. We can build our capacity for living through the mess, invite curiosity where discomfort might arise, and rehearse the steps we might actually take to repair. This session will be guided by four facilitators (Hope Chávez, Meena Malik, Alex Meda, Rad Pereira) who support arts workers through conflict and support healing justice praxis in arts organizations and in their communities.

The session will begin with a panel, where we will hear from our peers including Miranda Gonzalez (Urban Theater Company Chicago),  Deadria Harrington (The Movement Theatre Company & ARTNY), Tara Moses (Groundwater Arts), Lauren Turner-Hines (Andrew Cailloux Center & No Dream Deferred), examples of different accountability processes such as internal organizational repair; public accountability; shifting organizational policy; and community healing. From there, we’ll share learnings, challenges, and questions with each other to strategize how we might deepen our commitment to messing up with integrity. This space is for everyone who’s interested in breaking cycles and patterns of harm, and building true relationships of accountability and abundance—including those who are familiar with the language of accountability but struggle with the praxis.

This session is an active practice in holding ourselves and each other accountable and building our repair practices.

If you're a conference attendee, please register for Rise Up as an Add-On to your conference registration. If you're a non-conference attendee planning to attend Rise Up virtually, please register on this page. 

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