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PTW -- at the heart of a global community of performance activists -- is an international gathering to explore & celebrate performance as a catalyst for human and community development.

05/28/2026

When we feel pressure, frightened, or attacked, we’ve been taught that play is a luxury we can’t afford.

Carrie Lobman says the opposite.

Play may be “the most important thing we have” — not because it’s light or easy, but because it is “the engine of all creativity.”

Carrie challenges us to see play as rigorous, necessary, and deeply human — especially for those of us working with people, emotions, education, community, and social change.

What have we thrown out when we throw out play?

Join Carrie for her workshop, "The Imperative of Play: Beyond Existing Maps" and explore how play can help you create something new when the old ways aren’t enough.

Learn more and register 👉 https://ow.ly/Ktvr50Z4Sjb

When the old scripts stop working and old roadmaps lead us to the same place, what do we do?Carrie Lobman, nationally re...
05/22/2026

When the old scripts stop working and old roadmaps lead us to the same place, what do we do?

Carrie Lobman, nationally recognized advocate for play and creativity, says: we play!

Not as escape. Not as entertainment. But as a serious human capacity for creating with others under conditions of uncertainty, conflict, fear, and not-knowing.

In moments like this — when we are polarized, pressured to take sides, and pulled toward certainty and reaction — play is often the first thing we lose.

And yet, it may be exactly what we need most.

Because without the capacity to play, our responses to crisis can collapse into repetition, opposition, and certainty — reproducing the very world we are trying to change.

Join Carrie Lobman Sat, June 20th 👉 https://ow.ly/p4BZ50Z2Thm

05/21/2026

Join David Naggenda, founder of Let the Girl Be-Uganda (LEGIBE). Performing the World is proud to be a sponsor of their online 4th birthday celebration, where they will show all what they've achieved and the development of the girls in their programs.

Founded in May 2022, LEGIBE-Uganda, is an organization aiming to empower vulnerable girls and teenage mothers in Mukono District around the shores of Lake Victoria, and has helped more than 70 girls in this community.

Many of the girls in our program are unable to come up with tuition for school and are vulnerable to forced marriages, as well as sexual and labor exploitation.

Together, we create new possibilities for their lives through mental health sessions, sewing lessons, community outreach, and music, dance, and drama performances.

The program will include performances and presentations from the girls showing how our work has helped them develop.

Here is the Zoom Link to attend:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88114174727

04/21/2026

From Performing The World 2025: Breakdance Project Uganda

Breakdance Project Uganda, led by founder Abraham “Abramz” Tekya, shows what it means to create leadership by creating space. In this powerful clip, young girls don’t just participate—they lead public speaking sessions not only for other children, but for adults as well. It’s a vivid example of how performance, hip hop, and community can help transform culture.

02/11/2026

From the Stage to the Streets

PTW 2025 presenter Pandies theatre (India) reminds us that performance can be liberation. In this clip, they share their work with women—survivors of abuse—who step onstage, hold their heads high, and perform their truth: no longer victims or statistics, but storytellers, witnesses, and creators. Audiences cry and clap as strangers truly see each other across class, pain, and trauma. “No hierarchy of pain,” they say—“only the shared act of becoming.”

Watch the full session here, and host a watch party with your friends, family, community: https://ow.ly/hwsK50Yav21

When Theatre Is Collective OrganizingThis Drama Review article grew out of a Let’s Learn class and features Daniel Mapos...
02/10/2026

When Theatre Is Collective Organizing
This Drama Review article grew out of a Let’s Learn class and features Daniel Maposa, founder and executive director of Savanna Trust, whose work has mobilized communities across Zimbabwe through participatory theatre, often under political repression. In dialogue with Dan Friedman, Maposa explores theatre as a communal practice that erases the line between audience and performer.
Read it here 👉 https://ow.ly/xmEO50Y8Aws

HOW are you feeling about freedom these days?In The Illusion of Freedom and the Power of Performance, Jim Martinez, Ph.D...
02/09/2026

HOW are you feeling about freedom these days?
In The Illusion of Freedom and the Power of Performance, Jim Martinez, Ph.D. (International Class graduate)—human intelligence researcher, and interdisciplinary professor—asks what freedom feels like now, and how we might create more of it together. Drawing on social therapeutics and the idea that everyday activities are performances, Jim argues that development—not certainty or control—is a source of real power. Read the article, then explore more on his Substack, including Beyond the AI Tutors, Injustice and My Social Therapeutic Practice and Don't Worry, We Can Get Along Without Truth.
Read it here 👉 https://ow.ly/YNAt50Y8Aqe

02/08/2026

Don’t Know How to Build Your Life? Nobody Does!

Elyse Mendel + Lea Cikos invite you to build Life Teams—support for getting unstuck around health, relationships, work, friendship (and more).

We’ll play with improv skills and Social Therapeutic tools to:
• ask for help (and offer it)
• “deprivatize” what you’re dealing with
• build community you can actually lean on

🗓 Sundays, March 1–22
🕥 10:30 AM–12:00 PM ET (US)
🎥 Watch the invite + join us.

👉 Register: https://ow.ly/eEU950YaGgI

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