FOOLSFURY THEATER PRESENTS:
BUILD FORWARD: ADVOCACY, ARTISTRY AND ADAPTABILITY
CONVENING DIGITALLY OCTOBER 15 & 16, 2021
What does resilience look like for us and the world around us in a time of ongoing inequity, grief and trauma?
ABOUT BUILD FORWARD
Under the leadership of Artistic Director, Debórah Eliezer, partnered with the TGNC Trans Advocacy Collective, LMDA and alongside Guest Facilitators Claudia Alick of Calling Up Justice, and Pamela Capalad and MC Dyalekt of Brunch & Budget, foolsFURY Theater is gathering the field of ensemble theater makers in its second field-wide digital convening. This year’s sessions will focus on trans advocacy and organizational adaptability. Returning Art Share format brings 12 new performances that negotiate the nature of digital liveness responding to the theme “Uprooted” with Curation Coordinator, Anita Holland of Philadelphia-based theatre company Applied Mechanics.
FOOLSFURY IS CREATING BOLD NEW ART, CULTIVATING ARTISTS, AND BREAKING THE MODEL OF ENSEMBLE THEATER TO CREATE A BETTER, MORE EQUITABLE FUTURE
introducIng The TGNC Advocacy Collective
TGNC= The Trans Gender Non-Conforming Advocacy Collective.
This collective is one way foolsFURY is answering the question “How do we break the model?” Producing the TGNC Advocacy Collective (TAC) is to interrogate oppressive practices, center human relationships and empower those least heard.
TAC is a cohort of trans and queer theatermakers working to create safer spaces for the queer and trans theater community. The project will consist of a series of townhalls and an interactive webpage that documents the experiences and stories of the trans community in theater spaces. The project will culminate with a digital resource guide and policies for the Bay Area Theater Community to integrate in their EDI work.
Nicky Martinez will be joined by a cohort of Queer and Trans theatermakers including Kieran Beccia, Leigh Rondon-Davis, Jesse Annette Koehn, Nikki Meñez, Richard Mosqueda, and Chris Steele.
We want to thank and credit Ely Sonny Orquiza and the Living Document Collective for their activism and labor, and for inspiring us to drive this work forward. We are continuously learning from our peers and our own process in order to evolve these models and resources. We hope our work continues to move positive change within our queer and artistic communities.
OUR Anti-racist AccountabilIty Measures
FoolsFURY is committed to the ongoing process of undoing systemic racism, anti-Blackness and discrimination. We understand that trust is earned through actions that match our words. We are reckoning with the privilege and agency that our historically white-led organization has enjoyed for the last two decades and interrogating the oppressive systems this organization supported.
Lasting change is a long term process of transformation. To do that, we are committed to working towards a theater ecosystem in which racial justice is woven into all facets of our organization. We are implementing antiracist accountability measures that go beyond a statement of solidarity and outline achievable actions that can be measured by our artists, board,and audiences, (that means you.)