Conference Calendar
Here, you will find all of the events you can join over the course of the Conference! We recommend that you take time ahead of the Conference to select your sessions, RSVP, and add them to your own personal calendar.
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- PRE-CONFERENCE White Affinity Group: Racial Harm – An exploration of how to avoid doing it, how to disrupt it, how to take responsibility for it when called on it.
Virtual Event
PRE-CONFERENCE White Affinity Group: Racial Harm – An exploration of how to avoid doing it, how to disrupt it, how to take responsibility for it when called on it.
This workshop for White (European descent) identified PNA Conference participants will feature Playback Theatre, Theatre of the Oppressed, as well as some didactic/informational training. Participants will engage in self-reflection and […]
$5.00 – $250.00
Virtual Event
- PRE-CONFERENCE Moving Mindfulness for BIPOC Folx: Breath, Motion & Embodied Listening
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PRE-CONFERENCE Moving Mindfulness for BIPOC Folx: Breath, Motion & Embodied Listening
ZOOM LINK: https://uuma.zoom.us/j/93884963937?pwd=WG9kWjRNa0ZWWnRZM0lSbjNzUGRSUT09 *This workshop is a BIPOC-centered version of the one presented during the PNA Conference*This is a guided movement improvisation workshop incorporating mindful movement in a way that […]
Free
1 event,
Hybrid Event
- Opening Gathering
Hybrid Event
Opening Gathering
In this welcome session, we will celebrate, connect, and get acclimated to the Conference setup. Help us kick off Playback in Community: Reaching Toward the Futures We Want with some energy!
Free
4 events,
Virtual Event
- Voice and Singing in Playback: What About Joy?
Virtual Event
Voice and Singing in Playback: What About Joy?
Does the idea of singing as a Playback actor or musician fill you with curiosity and excitement, or anxiety and dread? When you hear compelling vocal offers from the music […]
Free
Virtual Event
- Moving Mindfulness: Breath, Motion & Embodied Listening with Wayne Smith
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Moving Mindfulness: Breath, Motion & Embodied Listening with Wayne Smith
This is a guided movement improvisation workshop incorporating mindful movement in a way that fosters mindfulness & embodied listening (to self & to partners), sharing personal truths, and kinesthetic responsiveness. […]
Free
Virtual Event
- White Identites Affinity Space
Virtual Event
White Identites Affinity Space
A space for people who share white identities to support each other in doing our work to develop our understanding of racism, liberate our hearts, and focus on steps we […]
Free
Virtual Event
- BIPOC Open Space
Virtual Event
BIPOC Open Space
A place for Black, Indigenous, People of Color to be together, share authentically, and have a safe place to bring our full selves to explore our inner and outer lives […]
Free
3 events,
Virtual Event
- TransFORMation: A Canadian Playbacker Affinity Space
Virtual Event
TransFORMation: A Canadian Playbacker Affinity Space
TransFORM your PB shows! Given the current divisive environment in Canada, how can we use PB to bring us together regardless of differences in our beliefs, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, etc. […]
Free
Virtual Event
- Improving Troupe Artistry: using constructive feedback and Zoom recordings
Virtual Event
Improving Troupe Artistry: using constructive feedback and Zoom recordings
Is your Playback troupe rehearsing or performing online? If yes, you now have an unprecedented opportunity to grow as performers: with no extra effort, you can record your rehearsals and […]
Free
Virtual Event
- Multiracial Playback Affinity Space
Virtual Event
Multiracial Playback Affinity Space
Welcoming all multiracial people who self identify and/or are identified as ‘other’ in society in relationship to race and ethnicity. This welcoming creative space is specifically for multiracial people who […]
Free
4 events,
Virtual Event
- The Disabled Experience in Playback Theatre Affinity Group
Virtual Event
The Disabled Experience in Playback Theatre Affinity Group
Join us in this affinity group for an action-based conversation about disability/neurodiversity as practitioners in the Playback Theatre world. What is it like? How do we manage? Jennie Kristel, MA, […]
Free
Virtual Event
- Partnerships: Building Ongoing Community Partners and Conducting Stronger Community Shows
Virtual Event
Partnerships: Building Ongoing Community Partners and Conducting Stronger Community Shows
Practical session for troupe leaders and conductors. We’ll address goals, common challenges, opportunities, raising funds, and addressing sensitive community issues in shows. Christopher Ellinger founded True Story Theater in 2001. […]
Free
Virtual Event
- The Playback Monologue
Virtual Event
The Playback Monologue
In many Playback forms, including 3 Part Story, Perspectives, Monologues and Dialogues and others, monologues play a key role. Many forms are built around monologues while others including Open Story […]
Free
Virtual Event
- Building Troupe Leadership: Support & Sustainability
Virtual Event
Building Troupe Leadership: Support & Sustainability
In this session, the directors of the Chicago Playback Theatre Ensemble (Darrick Jackson, Allison Sokolowski, and Clarissa Worcester) will come together with former leaders of the Asheville Playback theatre troupe […]
Free
3 events,
Virtual Event
- CANCELLED: Unfolding Ancestral Stories
Virtual Event
CANCELLED: Unfolding Ancestral Stories
THIS SESSION HAS BEEN CANCELLED – apologies for any inconvenience and/or disappointment. In this experiential workshop, participants will be invited to explore how to use playback theatre to unfold, uproot […]
Free
Virtual Event
- Understanding JABSS in Playback and in Life.
Virtual Event
Understanding JABSS in Playback and in Life.
How do JABSS – Judgments, Assumptions, Beliefs, Spells and Secrets – affect troupe culture and cohesion, and contribute to interpersonal conflicts and misunderstandings? JABSS are mental tools that are constantly […]
Free
Virtual Event
- For those of us not in a troupe…
Virtual Event
For those of us not in a troupe…
In this session we will share the feelings, insights, and experiences that arise for those of us not currently in a Playback Theater troupe . How do we engage in […]
Free
3 events,
Virtual Event
- One-on-One “Coffee Hour”
Virtual Event
One-on-One “Coffee Hour”
The best part of many conferences is getting to know people, hanging out one-on-one with a potential new friend. We’ll do our best to replicate it with a series of […]
Free
Virtual Event
- Stories of Rising Strength in Solidarity with the People of Ukraine – A Show with the Thunders & the Heartsparkle Players
Virtual Event
Stories of Rising Strength in Solidarity with the People of Ukraine – A Show with the Thunders & the Heartsparkle Players
It takes strength to be yourself and to build community. It takes strength to right wrongs and claim your voice. It takes strength to not know and ask for help. […]
Free
Virtual Event
- People to Remember: A People’s Playback Show
Virtual Event
People to Remember: A People’s Playback Show
Participants are invited to join us in celebrating the incredible people they have encountered throughout the journey of life. To bring tales of every day heroes and folks who inspire, […]
Free – $30.00
3 events,
Virtual Event
- Getting and Giving Support: Past, Present and Future – a Living Mirror Playback Theater Show
Virtual Event
Getting and Giving Support: Past, Present and Future – a Living Mirror Playback Theater Show
The chaos and uncertainty of the past couple years have forced us to meet unanticipated challenges and reach for help from unexpected places. Living Mirror Playback Theater invites you to […]
Free – $30.00
Virtual Event
- Reaching Across Ideological Differences: Why Try and What You Might Gain – a True Story Theater Show
Virtual Event
Reaching Across Ideological Differences: Why Try and What You Might Gain – a True Story Theater Show
Have you ever tried to talk with someone you care about whose views are clearly different from yours–say, about Covid vaccinations, or whom to vote for, or abortion, or which […]
Free
Virtual Event
- Trauma and Resilience – A World Playback Theater Show in Solidarity with Ukraine
Virtual Event
Trauma and Resilience – A World Playback Theater Show in Solidarity with Ukraine
World Playback Theater invites you to share stories of trauma and resilience. In difficult moments, there is light. We need to remind ourselves to connect with this light. The world […]
Free
3 events,
Virtual Event
- Missing Peaces… Personal Stories About Peace, Conflict and Reconciliation – a Perspektives Show
Virtual Event
Missing Peaces… Personal Stories About Peace, Conflict and Reconciliation – a Perspektives Show
Perspektives invites you to share (and listen to) stories about those smaller and bigger conflicts we all experience. Those battles within ourselves, disputes with others, struggles with different situations, conflicts […]
Free – $30.00
Virtual Event
- Connections Between All Beings – A Thursday Zoomers Show
Virtual Event
Connections Between All Beings – A Thursday Zoomers Show
Our lives are defined by interconnection. None of us can make it on our own. Cultivating and deepening connections creates a richer life. Come share stories of how connections with […]
Free – $30.00
Virtual Event
- Breaking Out of the Box: Creating Change in Ourselves and Our Communities – a Bay Area Playback Theater Show
Virtual Event
Breaking Out of the Box: Creating Change in Ourselves and Our Communities – a Bay Area Playback Theater Show
There are so many systemic issues that have been highlighted by Covid, including inequities of race & class, climate change, environmental degradation, partisanship, etc. … At the same time, people […]
Free – $30.00
5 events,
Virtual Event
- The International Playback Theatre Network Shares Africa Connect: Connecting Playback in Africa
Virtual Event
The International Playback Theatre Network Shares Africa Connect: Connecting Playback in Africa
The AFRICA CONNECT Group is a small, but growing, online Africa Playback group of practitioners with lived experience of Africa. We use playback as a tool for sharing our stories […]
Free
Virtual Event
- Creating Verbal Engagement Among Actors Online
Virtual Event
Creating Verbal Engagement Among Actors Online
How to create online interactive scenes with two or more actors? How to invite another actor to your scene? How to invite all actors to your offer? How to play […]
Free
Virtual Event
- Performance of Trauma in Playback Theater (2 parts)
Virtual Event
Performance of Trauma in Playback Theater (2 parts)
Session 1 out of 2 workshops — must plan to attend both! March 14 & March 15 at 6pm ET. In this workshop participants will receive tools to craft a […]
Free
Virtual Event
- BIPOC Open Space
Virtual Event
BIPOC Open Space
A place for Black, Indigenous, People of Color to be together, share authentically, and have a safe place to bring our full selves to explore our inner and outer lives […]
Free
Virtual Event
- White Identites Affinity Space
Virtual Event
White Identites Affinity Space
A space for people who share white identities to support each other in doing our work to develop our understanding of racism, liberate our hearts, and focus on steps we […]
Free
3 events,
Virtual Event
- Secrets of a Long Life: an Elder Affinity Space
Virtual Event
Secrets of a Long Life: an Elder Affinity Space
This will be a space for elder Playback Practitioners to gather, practice and celebrate together. In a time when youth is culturally fetishized and physical aging tends to be regarded […]
Free
Virtual Event
- Performance of Trauma in Playback Theater (2 parts)
Virtual Event
Performance of Trauma in Playback Theater (2 parts)
Session 2 out of 2 workshops — must plan to attend both! March 14 & 15 at 6:00pm ET. Click here to RSVP for both workshops. In this workshop participants […]
Virtual Event
- Envision the Future and Expose the Present: Bring Social Forces Into Your Playback (With a Focus on Patriarchy)
Virtual Event
Envision the Future and Expose the Present: Bring Social Forces Into Your Playback (With a Focus on Patriarchy)
Use Playback for social impact by discerning in tellers’ stories the (generally unnamed) cultural, institutional and systemic messages arising out of the patriarchal culture that permeates our lives. We can […]
Free
3 events,
Virtual Event
- New Troupes & New Playbackers
Virtual Event
New Troupes & New Playbackers
Are you a new Playbacker or have you recently started a new Playback Troupe? We will be exploring topics such as: How to give constructive feedback, starting a new Playback […]
Free
Virtual Event
- Hosting a Playback Workshop
Virtual Event
Hosting a Playback Workshop
Hosting a Playback workshop can be an important part of your practice for many reasons: to share the tool of playback in community settings, for generating interest in your troupe’s […]
Free
Virtual Event
- Under the Splashless Moon: Metaphors for What’s Emerging in Your Life: A Creative Writing & Playback Workshop
Virtual Event
Under the Splashless Moon: Metaphors for What’s Emerging in Your Life: A Creative Writing & Playback Workshop
A playback enactment is ephemeral––we witness the gorgeous, fleeting moment, and then it’s gone. A beautiful poem or piece of prose is also a gorgeous enactment, and yet, writing extends […]
Free
3 events,
Virtual Event
- Embodiment on Stage: Vozdukh Center Approach
Virtual Event
Embodiment on Stage: Vozdukh Center Approach
Vozdukh Center (VC) was one of the team in the world who experiment with embodiment in playback theatre and created their own approach to play on stage. I would like […]
Free
Virtual Event
- Adapting Playback in Work With Vulnerable Communities
Virtual Event
Adapting Playback in Work With Vulnerable Communities
Our work with vulnerable communities has been primarily with adults with developmental challenges. In past years, we have also worked with children in a variety of settings, adolescents, recently released […]
Free
Virtual Event
- Queering Playback: an LGBTQQIP2SAA+ Affinity Space
Virtual Event
Queering Playback: an LGBTQQIP2SAA+ Affinity Space
A space for LGBTQQIP2SAA+ people to gather and connect. The group will collaboratively determine the groups’ priorities, but the session will include: Using Playback to honor each others’ queer stories […]
Free
3 events,
Virtual Event
- One-on-One “Coffee Hour”
Virtual Event
One-on-One “Coffee Hour”
The best part of many conferences is getting to know people, hanging out one-on-one with a potential new friend. We’ll do our best to replicate it with a series of […]
Free
Virtual Event
- Unpacking Treasure: PNA’s Books
Virtual Event
Unpacking Treasure: PNA’s Books
The best part of many conferences is getting to know people, hanging out one-on-one with a potential As a PNA member, you can download free copies of PNA’s four publications. Have you […]
Free
Hybrid Event
- Closing Gathering
Hybrid Event
Closing Gathering
In this closing session, we will celebrate, connect, and harvest insights from our time at the conference. We would love you to join us as we integrate this Playback in […]
Free