Billy Porter speaks from the heart in an exclusive interview at EPIC. As an outspoken activist since his early days in theatre and working on Broadway, Porter’s rise to stardom has offered him an even bigger platform to share his views on race, politics, gender equality, and more. Art and artists can change the world […]
Touch Compass’s Artistic Direction Panel highlights the presence of disabled artists on our stages and increasing disabled representation across the industry. Alongside examples of Touch Compass’s existing works, this conversation illustrates how to shift the narrative to celebrate and honor diverse disabled voices in live art. Watch this Session below. The Entertainment & Performing Arts […]
In this fascinating EPIC mainstage session, Samantha Robison (USA), Founder of Awareness and Prevention through ART (AptART), together with Safen Muhammad (Kurdish Region of Iraq), share an incredible photo and video retrospective of their vital and inspiring projects dedicated to creating art and artistic experiences with marginalized, war and conflict-affected youth throughout the world. Awareness […]
In the closing session of the EPIC Conference, EPIC Co-Founder, Anna Robb speaks with Michael Ferguson and Benton Delinger from Theatre DNA. Together they discuss theatre spaces, how they are created, why they are created and how they will evolve in the future. Watch this Session below. The Entertainment & Performing Arts Industry Conference took […]
As our society evolves, it is critical that our theatrical and artistic expression of that society evolve and change. We have been far behind representing the true nature of our humanity in how we tell stories in the theatre. How do we move past entrenched conventions that shroud this nature? In this session, we are […]
There’s not a person in the entertainment and performing arts world that has not heard of Cirque du Soleil. Founded in 1984, the Canadian circus company from Quebec, Canada, changed the face of theatrical and contemporary circus across the world and forged the entry of a new cultural register which endures until today. But people […]
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