FREEDOM TRAIN PRESENTS:
WEDNESDAY, JULY 8TH @ 730PM:
Families Now!
Working class and LGBT Families Surviving The Great Recession.
Brecht Forum
451 West Street in Manhattan
Facebook RSVP
*Light Dinner Provided
As if it wasn't hard enough already to raise a family--the economy tanks. How are non-traditional, LGBT, and working class families surviving and thriving in these times? Co-sponsored by Freedom Train Productions, Mothers on the Move [www.mothersonthemove.org], and Regeneración Childcare Collective [www.childcarenyc.org], and Queers for Economic Justice's Welfare Project [www.q4ej.org] this forum brings together folks who are raising families outside of the white picket fence paradigm to dialogue, share, and affirm their stories with our audience community.
Families Now! takes its inspiration from Resident Playwright Patricia Ione Lloyd's new work in development: Dirty Little Black Girls, a new play about rebel nannies who put their Park Slope employers on notice, and precedes its performance at Fire! New Play Festival in August. Audience community members are encouraged to bring their own item of inspiration or "playwright's gift" to share with Ione!
HIGHLIGHTED VOICES:
Pilar Maschi, Mother & Community Organizer
Jamie Munkatchy, Mother & Educator
Members of Mothers on the Move and Regeneración Childcare Collective
+ You!
Childcare will be provided by Regeneración Childcare Collective. If you'd like childcare assistance, please RSVP to give us a heads up: childcare[at]freedomtrainproductions.org. The last programming of Offstage Forums 2009 will be Post Apocalyptic: New Freedoms, New Communities on July 22nd.
3 PRINCIPLES OF OFFSTAGE FORUMS:
Offstage Forums gather our audience community together to explore the broader implications of the political theatre on which our resident playwrights are working.
Freedom Train Productions programs these conversations ahead of Fire! New Play Festival in order to foster a true dialectic with our audience community and our artists as they are creating their new work.
Offstage Forums are panel-free conversations that happen in the round in order to encourage dialogue and equal participation across race, gender, sexuality, class, and education.
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