Announcing The Knot

11 May 2022

A Week of Fearless Conversations About the Future of Independent Theatre.

One year from reopening and starting the road to recovery for thousands of artists at NDT Broadgate, we're setting a new agenda for what's next.

For a week this summer from 8-24 June at NDT Broadgate, we're presenting The Knot: a programme of big-thinking panel discussions, game-changing workshops and mind-expanding speakers.

All available in person or online, and completely free.

www.the-knot.co.uk

The Knot is a partnership between New Diorama Theatre, Bunny, Uproot and Culture Mile. All kindly supported by National Lottery funding awarded by Arts Council England.

What to expect

Headline panels include 'Social Media Activism – the future of institutional accountability?' including the Royal Court's Vicky Featherstone and artist-campaigner Adam Lenson, Barbican chair Tom Slade, chaired by playwright Vinay Patel.

ThisEgg’s Josie Dale Jones joins to discuss censorship and reactionary responses following The Family Sex Show.

And London’s hottest playwright Ryan Calais Cameron (For Black Boys) features in a panel about Black-led work targeting commercial success amidst a white critical and audience gaze.

The workshop programme tackles the stuff they don’t teach on the average artist development course and the skills artists need right now, from How To Fire People Well (And Other Interpersonal Skills) to managing Creative Mental Health challenges, and Financial Planning for Freelancers.

A speaker programme provokes artists’ curiosity with expert insights from the wider world – big questions that have nothing to do with art, but everything to do with the world in which art is made.

Speakers range from UN climate change negotiation expert Brianna Craft to venture capitalist Fabio La Franca on the big bets being placed on future-shaping metaverse technologies.

To wrap up The Knot we’re hosting the spiciest theatre quiz this side of Covid.

Do you know your Royal Court from your Nightingale Court? Could you win a round of Cultural Recovery Fund recipients “higher or lower”, or public-apology buzz-word bingo?

Get your team together, let your hair down, and join us for some fun. All in the spirit of merriment and mischief, as we spend the last of our CRF on free drinks for everyone. (Just don’t tell Nadine).

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