#25DaysFor25Years Week 4: The Art of Sustainability Today is the final day of our #25DaysFor25Years campaign, and we are so honored to have looked back through our history and dreamed of the future over this past month with all of you. We dream of a sustainable future full of art, joy, friendship, and abundance… and that world is possible with our community by our side. Join us tonight for the final live event of our 25-day celebration– The Art of Sustainability: Braiding Art

#25DaysFor25Years Week 4: The Art of Sustainability Like we mentioned last week, the National Institute for Directing and Ensemble Creation is a collaboration between Pangea World Theater and Art2Action Inc. It’s a place for theater artists to collaborate and share methodologies of directing and ensemble creation in an environment with special emphasis on non-Western techniques and social justice. Over the years, there have been countless breathtaking pieces of art created an

#25DaysFor25Years Week 4: The Art of Sustainability “Right now, we need to make something future generations can be proud of.” — Meena Natarajan, Minnesota Women’s Press Sustainability is a core value of Pangea that guides our work artistically, and as we work towards rebuilding on Lake Street. It is central to our vision of a better world. To truly embody the value of sustainability, we believe there must be connection to Indigenous practices and communities. Recognizing tha

#25DaysFor25Years Week 3: Re-Imagining Our Future(s) The brutal murder of Mr. George Floyd on May 25th by the Minneapolis police had a profound effect on our community. The wounds in our cities have created broad recognition that racism is a public health epidemic impacting everyone. In the burning of the former third police precinct, many businesses of the surrounding area such as Gandhi Mahal, Minnehaha Lake Wine and Spirits, MIGIZI and El Nuevo Rodeo were also destroyed in

#25DaysFor25Years Week 3: Re-Imagining Our Future(s) After over a year of processing, we are excited to share our new Mission Statement with you! Pangea World Theater strives to build a just world by creating multi-disciplinary theater that embodies decolonizing practices of solidarity, sustainability and equity. As we move forward as an organization, it is crucial to re-examine our principles, goals, and ways of being and working together. This mission statement was informed

#25DaysFor25Years Week 3: Re-Imagining Our Future(s) Our future is in peril as we experience multiple intersecting crises: rampant inequality, discrimination, war and environmental destruction. For years, the Pangea World Theater team has dreamed of creating an international multigenerational summit to build a vision of the future based on equity, justice, solidarity, creativity and joy. For this program to be a success, we need young peoples’ voices and visions to be central

#25DaysFor25Years Week 3: Re-Imagining Our Future(s) “This is what we know to be true: we need to acknowledge that land belonged to the First Peoples. Black Lives Matter. Representation Matters. Colonization pulls us apart from each other and ourselves. And racism and white supremacy are the greatest threat to our shared humanity. We carry these values with us as we explore a new future, centering love, empathy, and relationality. Join us as we build a new reality together.”

#25DaysFor25Years Week 3: Re-Imagining Our Future(s) “Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.” — Franz Fanon What do we mean at Pangea by decolonization? It means we work with an awareness of the land and the First Nations Peoples, the Dakota and Ojibwe, who stewarded this land before colonization. It means we honor and partner with First Nations, and we stand for Indigenous sovereignty. And w

#25DaysFor25Years Week 3: Re-Imagining Our Future(s) The National Institute for Directing and Ensemble Creation is a collaboration between Pangea World Theater and Art2Action Inc. The Institute provides a unique experience for theater artists to collaborate and share methodologies of directing and ensemble creation in an environment with special emphasis on non-Western techniques and social justice. The Institute is committed to supporting the professional development and exc

#25DaysFor25Years Week 3: Re-Imagining Our Future(s) For many people in the US, and even in Minneapolis, the destruction on Lake Street during the George Floyd Uprising, was their introduction to our beautiful street. But for us at Pangea, we have lived and worked on Lake Street for 25 years. Through Our program Lake Street Arts!, Pangea has been expressly serving the Lake Street community for nearly a decade. The central stretch of Lake Street, known as East Lake, has long b