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[Yvonne Mendez]

We are holding a conference in early April here at UMass. I am pasting 
the info below. Can you send it out on your list? We are hoping to 
attract a national audience for it as well.

Thanks. And please if you need to edit it down, go ahead! And visit the 
website for more info and some graphics :-)

Thank you
Yvonne Mendez
New WORLD Theater

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REGISTER NOW! EARLY REGISTRATION EXTENDED THRU MARCH 13TH!

New WORLD Theater’s INTERSECTION IV:  Re/Generations Conference and 
Play Festival takes place at the University of MA Amherst campus, April 
7-9!

Intersection is New WORLD Theater’s biennial conference and festival 
examining new work practices by artists of color and showcasing 
multidisciplinary theater pieces on the cutting edge of new aesthetics. 
Begun in 1998, the conference is a diverse national gathering of 
cultural workers: artists, educators, administrators, presenters, 
funders, and activists. As an organization that bridges the worlds of 
creativity and scholarship, community activism and professional 
art-making, New WORLD Theater is committed to furthering national 
conversations on cultural equity, emerging aesthetics and activism 
through the arts.


As the title INTERSECTION IV:  Re/Generations suggests, this year's 
conference bridges the gap between the generations, convening a truly 
intergenerational, cross-cultural gathering, to examine historical 
models, investigate new aesthetics, and present new directions in 
multicultural performing arts and activism. The conference will include 
panels, roundtable discussions, artist-led workshops and organizational 
case studies with the aim of investigating the many aspects of arts and 
activism, creating new alliances and strengthening connections among a 
growing national network of concerned and committed artists, 
organizers, educators, cultural workers, and the organizations they 
represent.

The three-day convening will begin with a Pre-Conference for youth, and 
artists/organizers who work with youth, hosted by NWT’s Project 2050.  
The conference features Keynote Addresses by Palestinian-American poet 
Suheir Hammad and New Orleans-based activist Curtis Muhammad. Scheduled 
performances include NWT’s youth program Project 2050, William O’Neal 
of Junebug Productions, olive Dance Theatre, Mango Tribe, Kinding 
Sindaw, FOMMA, a Future Aesthetics Showcase and an Indigenous Artists 
Showcase, in collaboration with the Josephine White Eagle Cultural 
Center, and more. The conference will also include a special session on 
the archiving of artworks and organizational histories, featuring NWT’s 
Asian-American Women Playwrights Archive. For a conference schedule, 
please visit our website www.newworldtheater.org

Please join us in this opportunity to come together as a community 
working towards positive change globally and locally!
Early Registration has been extended through March 13th, so register 
now at www.newworldtheater.org (Click on Registration Information) or 
call NWT at 413-545-1972.

ABOUT NEW WORLD THEATER
Founded in 1979, New WORLD Theater is a regional arts leader with a 
national and international reputation as a visionary cultural 
institution dedicated to producing and presenting theatrical works by 
artists of color. We present high-quality theater that serves to 
educate, enliven and empower our diverse, broad-based audience and to 
foster a creative network of professional and community participants.
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