Public Dialogues
Dialogue is a form of creative practice.
Bridge Live Arts public dialogues bring artists and activists together for equity-driven cultural conversations. These events make space for cross-sector learning, exchange, and inspiration.
2023
Re-imagining Business Models in the Arts
Photo (L to R): Janesta Edmonds, Melissa Lewis-Wong, Tammy Johnson, Rebecca Fitton, Andrea Rodriguez, Andréa Spearman, by Felicitas Fischer
Photo Credits from L to R: 1) Photo of Onye Ozuzu by William Frederking. Alt text: Onye Ozuzu looks directly at the camera with a smile. She is wearing gold earrings and necklace and brown leather jacket. 2) Photo of amara tabor smith by Jean Melesaine.
Revolutionizing Sites Through Integrative Performance
A conversation between choreographers Onye Ozuzu and amara tabor smith about their creative approaches to organizing movement of the body in relationship to buildings and experiences of space and time.
2023
2023
Photo of visual recoding by Far Ali documented on March 10th at the Equitable Artist Pay conversation at CAST, San Francisco.
Money in the Arts: Pathways to Equity
A series of practices and conversations to address and advance equity in the arts through collective financial empowerment.
2022
Photo (clockwise from top left corner): Sustainable Economies Law Center staff members Alejandra Cruz, Erika Sato, Alex Sanchez, and Hope Williams.
2021
Photo (clockwise from top left corner): Karma Munez; Amya Jackson by Jay West Seven/ Jay Garcon; Dhee Lacy; Jocquese Whitfield, featured artists in Dance on the Frontline: BLM.
Photo (clockwise from top left): Jamie Cortez, Paloma McGregor, Michael Orange, & Liz Lerman, featured artists in Power Shift's conversation on Aesthetic Equity.
Power Shift:
Interview & Dialogues
Trainings and dialogues for artists, social workers, educators, activists, and nonprofit professionals that offer practical and theoretical tools for connecting embodiment to social justice work, legal advocacy, teaching, strategic visioning, and more.
2020
Inherited Bodies
How do movement artists in different traditions contend with, honor, and resist the past? A series of lecture demonstrations and moderated conversation unpacking the influence of the past and tradition on artmaking.
2019
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Photos (clockwise from top left): Nadhi Thekkek, Jarrel Phillips, Snowflake Calvert, and Sara Shelton Mann.
Are You For Sale?
A discussion about philanthropy, art making, and ethics between Edgar Villanueva, author of Decolonizing Wealth, and Miguel Gutierrez, choreographer, music maker, and writer.
2018
Photo Credit: Miguel Gutierrez (left) by Marley Trigg Stewart;
Edgar Villanueva (right) courtesy of the author