Spring 2025 Open Rehearsals ✨ 🌱 Train with NYC Queer Playback Theater in one of our upcoming Open Rehearsals! About this event Experience Playback Theater—a unique, improvisational form where real stories are shared by audience members and brought to life through movement, metaphor, music, and dialogue. This is your chance to witness and engage in a powerful, interactive storytelling process that fosters deep connection and community. Since 2016, NYC Queer Playback Theater has ‘held space’ (Cynthia & Ariana style 💖💚) to honor the stories of our LGBTQ+ community and allies. Originating in 1975 in upstate New York, Playback Theater is a story-based interactive theatre practice where audience members tell personal stories, then watch them enacted on the spot by a trained team of actors and a musician. A facilitator, called the conductor, guides the process. As one teller follows another a dialogue emerges between the images and themes of these spontaneously told stories. Playback Theater is now practiced in over 70 countries as a tool for community building and social change. At this Open Playback Rehearsal, you’ll have the opportunity to: ✨ Witness and learn the power of Playback Theater in action ✨ Share your own stories (if you choose) ✨ Connect with a welcoming, Queer-centered community No prior theater experience is needed—just bring your curiosity and an open heart! 📍 RSVP to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spring-2025-open-rehearsals-tickets-1257624471649?aff=oddtdtcreator to receive the Manhattan rehearsal location. 📩 For questions, email info@alighttheater.org (fb)

Pride month may be ending, but the work continues. For our latest episode of 🌳 Tree Speech, we were so happy to speak with Jonathon Stalls, @jstallz a multidisciplinary walking artist who spent 242 days walking across the U.S. in 2010, and who continues to move alongside a wide variety of people and landscapes for days, weeks, or months at a time. All his projects center around themes of human connection, personal and planetary healing, racial and environmental justice, LGBTQIA2S+ belonging, and nature wisdom, and he is an inspiration. His first book, WALK - Slow Down, Wake Up & Connect at 1-3 Miles Per Hour, was released in 2022 and is available nearly everywhere books and audiobooks are sold. We hope you enjoy this episode, and wish you a Happy Pride! 🌳❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🏳️‍🌈🌳 (fb)