Category: Blog Post

Category: Blog Post

Image of a large group of people sitting on the ground in the wilderness, surrounded by trees and sand. Text beside the image asks the user to "hunt" for things within the picture, like a coffee pot.

Festival of Forbidden Life

On the day of the festival, I arrive with the children – a busload of exuberance and anticipation. The bus climbs slowly up a rocky dirt road. I can see the years,MORE

Clusters of attendees socializing and chatting during an event for the Lab

The Lab celebrates the 2022/2023 Year and New Office

The walls of Fillmore echoed with joyful laughter, enthusiastic conversations, and soft background jazz music as The Lab opened its doors to current and alumni student fellows , donors, friends and partners of The Lab.MORE

Exterior photo of a glass greenhouse on the rooftop of an old brick building with elaborate reliefs and a sign over the door that reads "Milbank Hall"

The Lab’s New Greenhouse

In fall 2020, the last thing we all needed was another Zoom call. Then, the Laboratory for Global Performance & Politics put out a call for proposals that was too intriguing to pass up.MORE

Young, dark haired woman in a blue dress and black blazer smiling into the camera while sitting on a stone wall on a college campus

I Pledge Allegiance: Making a Performance

When I moved to the United States, the first thing I learned was the pledge of allegiance; and before I even knew English, I could recite that this nation was “indivisible,MORE

One performer on a stage stands while four others kneel and squat around them, all lit by a strange gold light in the center of the picture

Paying Attention to the Girl

Storytelling, for theatremaker Caitlin Cassidy, is ultimately about justice. And justice arrives out of truth. Today, she understands the task of storytelling to be more difficult and important than ever.MORE