about
The Forum Collective produces work exploring political moments that represent universal human experiences. While analyzing work through this lens, we create projects blending live performance, gallery curation, and journalistic reporting. The end result is a multi-layered exploration of sociopolitics.
Focused on shared governance, The Forum’s Artistic Board is composed of multidisciplinary producers and curators. Its members analyze a central piece of work in relation to a political, social, or historic trend while deciding on actions as a group. This structure allows us to:
Redefine the definition of journalism theatre while responding directly to current social and political events.
Detach from traditional hierarchies that have previously excluded marginalized communities.
mission
The Forum Collective creates spaces in which artists and audiences can contextualize the issues and questions raised by the project in terms of their real-world impacts.
Our projects are multidisciplinary and include live performance, visual & audio art, written articles, and digital data compositions. The end result relates to different types of people and learning styles while deeply exploring a central topic.
Our projects utilize interviewing and researching the communities or topics that are central to the work. While this forces our Artistic Board to consider respectful representation, this allows us to showcase the nuances in the narratives of marginalized groups.
Our projects focus on community outreach by including experts and advocates from relevant communities to lead or participate in panels and discussions.
The Forum Collective blends live performance, gallery curation and journalistic reporting to contextualize current events and emotionally engage with audiences. This unique mix of structure and intention leads to work that speaks for, to, and with audiences.
new works
Through our New Works Program, we highlight emerging artists through unique staged readings, focus groups, and workshops to deepen conversations around development. Despite the medium, each project in this program is provided a dramaturg or mediator to facilitate discussions around the work.
artistic council
Kieran Beccia*
literary development and casting director
Marisa Gabriela Ramos
development and media director
Julius Rea*
artistic and editorial director
Leigh Rondon-Davis
producing director
Ryan Takemiya*
audience engagement director
staff members
Regina León
marketing coordinator
previous members
Katharine Hada*
Jesse Suterley*
*founding member
a commitment to supporting indigenous peoples
We encourage organizations and individuals to contribute to the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust in the form of an annual voluntary land tax to support re-matriation, cultural revitalization, and land restoration projects. If you would like to learn more or to incorporate this into your practices, please click on the button below.