Contributed by Brad Burgess
It is time for artists to come together. It is time for everyone to understand how important art is for communities of people. It is time for everyone to realize their own art in life and how they can participate in the communities of which they are a part.
undergroundzero festival, and the direction it has taken into being a coalition/cooperative/collective/community of theatre groups and theatre artists is one of the strongest and most unique recognitions of this timing. There are exponential benefits to sharing resources, connecting networks and finding perspective within the industry...amidst the new worldwide economic understanding about the instability of the monetary system...especially its utter failure to support the arts across the globe...undergroundzero festival, and other efforts like it are the way to sustainability. It is the avant garde of what is being done on the national level like at TCG or NET, and on the local level in nyc, including NYIT, ART NY, LIT, LoMAL, and FAB.
It is indescribable, the feeling of going from handling the toughest challenges and questions, alone, to sharing responsibilities. The feeling of sharing your best ideas to turn them into better ones, and finding new possibilities, together with others, is even more transcendent. The experience of all that when art and theatre is at the center point...you'll have to come find that one out in July.
undergroundzero festival, and the direction it has taken into being a coalition/cooperative/collective/community of theatre groups and theatre artists is one of the strongest and most unique recognitions of this timing. There are exponential benefits to sharing resources, connecting networks and finding perspective within the industry...amidst the new worldwide economic understanding about the instability of the monetary system...especially its utter failure to support the arts across the globe...undergroundzero festival, and other efforts like it are the way to sustainability. It is the avant garde of what is being done on the national level like at TCG or NET, and on the local level in nyc, including NYIT, ART NY, LIT, LoMAL, and FAB.
It is indescribable, the feeling of going from handling the toughest challenges and questions, alone, to sharing responsibilities. The feeling of sharing your best ideas to turn them into better ones, and finding new possibilities, together with others, is even more transcendent. The experience of all that when art and theatre is at the center point...you'll have to come find that one out in July.
Brad Burgess is the Executive Producer of The Living Theatre
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