These five pieces provide entryways into many different ways of thinking about abolition and theatre. Workshopping Intervention is a report where two writers attempt to share the voices of a dozen theatre artists as they grapple with what abolition means for theatre. Theatre as Healing for Formerly Incarcerated Women reflects on the present role of art in treating the wounds of the prison industrial complex. Two short films, Somatic Abolition and Land and Abolition: A Love Story each consider the ways in which our bodies and the land carry knowledge about care, healing, and community justice. In her lyrical essay On Turtle Island, I learned to be as alive as possible, writer and scholar Yasmine Espert ruminates on what it means to bring abolitionist praxis into creative work.
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Land and Abolition: A Love Story
Land and Abolition: A Love Story
Multimedia artist Raven Davis joined the Stages of Transformation Creative Cohort retreat in fall 2022, and while there created this short film,… Multimedia artist Raven Davis joined the Stages of Transformation… Multimedia artist Raven Davis joined the Stages of Transformation Creative Cohort retreat in fall 2022, and while there created this short film, reflecting on what the land can teach us about abolition.
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reportWorkshopping Intervention: A Duet of Reports
Workshopping Intervention: A Duet of Reports
In June 2021, a group of socially-engaged theatre artists came together to discuss what theatre can learn from abolition movements. Makram Ayache… In June 2021, a group of socially-engaged theatre artists… In June 2021, a group of socially-engaged theatre artists came together to discuss what theatre can learn from abolition movements. Makram Ayache and Marilo Nuñez share their accounts of the conversation.
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Somatic Abolition in Theatre
Somatic Abolition in Theatre
Co-curator Mpoe Mogale and dancer Pam Tzeng reflect on what it means to bring abolition into the body – the embodied connection being… Co-curator Mpoe Mogale and dancer Pam Tzeng reflect… Co-curator Mpoe Mogale and dancer Pam Tzeng reflect on what it means to bring abolition into the body – the embodied connection being a fundamental piece of abolition in addition to, of course, theatre.
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interviewTheatre as Healing for Formerly Incarcerated Women
Theatre as Healing for Formerly Incarcerated Women
A conversation on the roles art can play as healing for women with lived experience of incarceration. With Amina Mohamed, Charlene Chapman, April… A conversation on the roles art can play as healing for women… A conversation on the roles art can play as healing for women with lived experience of incarceration. With Amina Mohamed, Charlene Chapman, April Labine and Laverne Malcolm.
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EssayOn Turtle Island, I learned to be as alive as possible
On Turtle Island, I learned to be as alive as possible
Yasmine Espert ruminates on what it means to bring abolitionist praxis into creative work, reflecting on her time with the Stages of Transformation… Yasmine Espert ruminates on what it means to bring abolitionist… Yasmine Espert ruminates on what it means to bring abolitionist praxis into creative work, reflecting on her time with the Stages of Transformation Creative Cohort.
