LINKAGES
LINKAGES
current projects
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cultivating cultural resilience
cultivating cultural resilience
A workshop series coordinated by CITD and Georgetown's Laboratory for Global Performance & Politics.
How can artists change cultures of fear and harm while working under those systems? This is a series in cultural strategizing designed for artists, visionaries, and cultural leaders. Join us in person and online to connect and learn from lived experiences with authoritarianism, corruption, fear tactics, etc. What tools and strategies do we have in our skill sets? Movement, music, allegory, humor, metaphor… how have they been applied successfully elsewhere to sustain humanity? Let’s identify our super powers together and put them to good use.
This is the first of a two-part series. In the Spring series, we hear from storytellers, dancers, writers, and diplomats from Palestine, India, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Mexico, Serbia, Russia, Hungary, Vietnam, and the US. Stay tuned for details on the Fall Series including artists from China, Egypt, Poland, Ukraine and more. Join us to fill your heart, nourish your soul, and build your creative toolbox for the times to come.
HUNGARY
Nézz Körül:
tHE Philip Arnoult Mobility Grant
Small travel grants for Hungarian artists recently graduated from university to travel within Europe to experience festivals, workshops, rehearsals, and artistic development.
Hungarian Letter of News is a publication that offers a duel focus on both contemporary Hungarian performances and the cultural/political scenes.
Produced in collaboration with Színház Magazine in Budapest, our correspondents are Andrea Tompa, Támas Jászay, and Noémi Herczog—all well respected critics and journalists in Hungary and abroad.
poland
A multi-year initiative designed to forge long-term, artist-to-artist connections between a new generation of theatre artists/leaders in the US and Poland. Since it's conception, our initiative has united a diverse cohort of over 30 artists, facilitating carefully curated zoom conversations and immersive cross-border exchanges in Poland and the US.
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Polish Artists to the US
ukraine
Drawing from the successful models of CITD's LINKAGES programs in Poland and Hungary, LINKAGES: Ukraine is a multi-year initiative that builds lasting connections between US and Ukrainian artists. Our initiative will assemble a diverse cohort of US and Ukrainian artists, who will initially connect through intimate Zoom conversations in carefully curated pods of three to four artists.These virtual exchanges will serve as a precursor to in-person meetings abroad, where participants will have the opportunity to experience each other's work and engage in theatre festivals or workshops.
The Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings is a global initiative launched by John Freedman in the wake of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The project initiates the translation of new works by Ukrainian playwrights, often reflecting firsthand experiences of the invasion, and facilitates the readings of these plays in hundreds of theaters worldwide. These readings delve into Ukrainian national identity, foster international support, and crucially, serve as fundraising events for Ukrainian charities.
Theatre of Playwrights (ToP) is a collective of Ukrainian playwrights who joined together to establish a new theater dedicated to supporting and promoting original Ukrainian plays and playwrights in the heart of Kyiv. Amidst Russia’s ongoing large-scale invasion, CITD has supported the playwrights through multiple commissioning grants, contributed to a new theatre space, and underwrote a week-long festival for the theatre’s grant opening.
A weekly blog post by Blair A. Ruble highlighting the ways in which Ukrainians have long explored the meaning of their country and culture through the arts, and how the arts and their creators have empowered Ukrainians to confront the Russian invaders. These developments also offer intriguing clues about the culture, society, and politics of a post-war Ukraine.
Programs are run by affiliated nonprofit public charity, International Theatre Development. All donations are tax deductible.