Sunday, March 06 –
Saturday, March 19 2022
This online Playback North America Conference & Performance Festival will include over 20 conference sessions and 8 performances, hosted & performed by PNA members.
Performance Festival shows are for everyone, whereas Conference sessions are for PNA members only. Wishing you could join a conference session but you aren’t a member? Just add a PNA membership onto your conference ticket! Learn more about PNA here.
Tickets & Pricing
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale.
To support financial accessibility to members who have less money and enable PNA to continue offering peer learning opportunities, we encourage you to pay at the highest recommended rate that you can afford — even to donate extra if you’re able to.
We are also offering PNA members a pay-what-you-can rate for the Conference Pass should a member need to pay below the sliding scale rates. Please do not let cost prohibit you from joining – we are happy to work with you!
For a registration walkthrough, watch this video.
If you need help, email clarissa@playbacknorthamerica.com.
Conference
Pass
All-Inclusive Access - Over 20 Conference Sessions
- 8 Performance Festival Shows
- PNA Members Only
Performance Festival Pass
See All 8 Shows- 8 Performance Festival Shows
- PNA Membership Not Required
Single show Tickets
Choose 1 Show- Choose 1 Performance Festival Show
- 75% of proceeds go to the performing troupe
- PNA Membership Not Required
BIPOC
Pre-Conference
- Moving Mindfulness for BIPOC Folx: Breath, Motion & Embodied Listening
- March 5, 2-3:30pm ET
- PNA Membership Not Required
White Identities Pre-Conference
- White Affinity Group on Racial Harm: exploration of how to avoid doing it, how to disrupt it, how to take responsibility for it when called on it.
- March 5 & 6
- 12-4pm EST
Frequently Asked Questions
For visual help, watch this step-by-step video demonstration.
Conference Pass or Festival Pass
- Go to the registration page: https://playbacknorthamerica.com/conference-pass-festival-pass-registration/
- Create a Conference account
- Select either a Conference Pass or a Festival Pass. Type the price you would like to pay within the price box.
- What’s the difference between the passes?
- A Conference Pass includes Conference Sessions and all 8 Shows. It is for PNA members only. Become a member here.
- A Festival Pass includes 8 Shows — no Conference Sessions. PNA Membership not required.
- What’s the difference between the passes?
- Complete your payment.
- Go to the Conference Calendar to RSVP for specific events.
- This is how you will get the zoom links to attend each Sessions and Shows.
For visual help, watch this step-by-step video demonstration.
Once you have registered for the conference, you will be able to RSVP for events. To do this, you will go to individual events pages (found on this calendar: https://playbacknorthamerica.com/conference-pass-calendar/) and click RSVP.
After you RSVP, you will receive an email with the zoom link. The zoom link will also appear on the event page itself after you RSVP.
You can see a list of all of the events you RSVP’d for on this page: https://playbacknorthamerica.com/account/
We wholeheartedly welcome you to pay what you can afford!
Simply email clarissa@playbacknorthamerica.com and tell them what amount you would like to pay (even $0!). You do not need to give a reason, we will grant you the discount no questions asked.
You will then receive a discount code that will allow you to register at that rate.
There are so many forms of accessibility to consider — this conference has only been able to proactively accommodate a few. Here, we will name these as well as the gaps in accessibility.
What we will have:
- All sessions will be hosted virtually on zoom.
- All sessions will have the live auto-transcription enabled.
- The website was built with the intention to have strong enough color contrast (though it could be improved)
- Sessions are priced on a sliding scale.
What we will not have:
- We will not have live ASL interpretation.
- We have not trained facilitators to use simple language, or to ensure that their materials are shared ahead of time and accessibly made.
- The conference will be conducted in English. There will not be built-in translation to other languages.
If you have questions about any accessibility concerns, you can reach out to clarissa@playbacknorthamerica.com.
It is our intention to further develop our accountability to accessibility. In the mean time, we acknowledge our limitations and regret the impact these missed opportunities may have.
The most likely reason that you cannot see your emails is because they were sorted into your spam folder or your promotions folder.
If you cannot find them, you can contact clarissa@playbacknorthamerica.com for help.
You can easily view the list of events that you have RSVP’d on your account page: https://playbacknorthamerica.com/account/
After you RSVP
- the zoom link will appear on the event page (after you refresh)
- you will also be emailed a confirmation with the zoom link
If you have any issues, contact clarissa@playbacknorthamerica.com or allison@playbacknorthamerica.com
Many of our community are striving to be in solidarity with the people of Ukraine, and specifically the Ukrainian Playback Community. To this end, we uplift the efforts of the PT Responds: Peace Please Solidarity Playback Festival. One show in our festival is also a part of this solidarity festival — you can find it here. The amount raised will be donated to the Playback school in Ukraine.
The following is language taken from the Playback Theatre Around the World Group on Facebook.
“Playback Theatre Festival of Solidarity