Here you can find the replays of the first South Sound Town Hall we hosted yesterday! I just wanted to say thank you to all those who showed up and had the conversation. We welcome you to share your noticing's, questions, comments and feedback from last night as well. Feel free to make a post or comment below. Here’s Mickie's outline of what community discussions and conversations took place: 6:50pm-7:10pm: Introduction of panelist. Each panelist shared their background and skills they possess. We also shared what made us fall in love with theatre and asked for audience participation and heard from 3 peoples who shared their love for theatre. 7:10pm-7:43pm: We posed the questions “What does representation look/feel like?” and “What does safety look/feel like in theatre?” Followed by break for Town Hall 7:58pm-8:37pm: The second video Aleeza presents her PowerPoint presentation on White Supremacy in theatre, biases in theatre and the cast process, data showing what work still needs to be done in our community at Tacoma Little Theatre, Lakewood Playhouse, Tacoma Musical Playhouse, and Evergreen Playhouse, and deconstructing racism in the artistic atmosphere. Half way through this presentation, a conversation is started about putting Black actors in roles that are traditionally white and stories that are typically centered around whiteness and how that changes the story, the work that goes into that process, minstreling Black actors verses empowering Black actors, and how conversations are vital in the artistic and rehearsal process to set your POC up for success instead of fitting them into a box. 8:37pm-8:49pm: Community members were given time to share their joys, concerns, or speak freely on what they want to see in theatre, how they feel in theatre spaces, and to give thanks. 8:49pm-9:07pm: Action items were created. Now that we’ve had community discussions, shared what our thoughts and feelings are, how do we enact the change? What are our action items? Which, we came to the conclusion there needs to be more Town Halls, in fact, a Town Hall dedicated to the Artistic Directors and Board Members showing up and being asked questions and hearing community voices in person, Town Halls for designers, neurodivergent artists, free community workshops, and alliance of theatre’s being shown and taking action and making change together. People strongly wanted more community conversations. Town Halls was the biggest feedback we got for making change happen. More conversations.

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