How did The Real Work come to be? What were the conditions that set the stage (pun intended) for theater workers to come together to study & practice transformative justice? Let's find out...
Episode transcript: https://bit.ly/TheRealWork-EP1
Sogorea Te’ Land Trust: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/
Save the West Berkeley Shellmound: https://shellmound.org/
Anti Police-Terror Project: https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/
The Village in Oakland #feedthepeople: @villageoakland, https://www.facebook.com/TheVillageInOakland
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment: https://www.acceaction.org/
East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative: https://ebprec.org/
Washington Post, “Chicago theaters said ‘Not in Our House’ to sexual abuse and harassment”: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/chicago-theaters-say-not-in-our-house-to-sexual-abuse/2017/12/14/e2db9c30-e014-11e7-8679-a9728984779c_story.html
Howlround, “What Playwrights Can Learn from Intimacy Directors: A Conversation with Gaby Labotka“: https://howlround.com/what-playwrights-can-learn-intimacy-directors
Coalition of Black Women Professional Theatre Makers in the Bay Area, California: https://blackwomenbayareatheatre.wordpress.com/
The New York Times, “Long Wharf Theater Leader is Accused of Sexual Harassment”: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/theater/gordon-edelstein-long-wharf-theater-sexual-misconduct.html
Kim Tran: https://www.kimtranphd.com/
Kyra Jones: https://www.kyrajones.me/
Adrienne Skye Roberts: http://therapywithadrienneskye.com/
Resources for Addressing Sexual Harassment & Violence (compiled for It’s Time: Bay Area Town Hall on Sexual Harassment in Our Theatre Community): https://www.theatrebayarea.org/general/custom.asp?page=itstimeresources
Mia Mingus: https://www.soiltjp.org & https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com
Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective: https://batjc.wordpress.com/
Liberation Spring: https://liberationspring.com/
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