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Surrounding the In the Bricks Festival, NYTW Education & Engagement has curated a variety of events for our For the Culture series in collaboration with community partners and the Festival’s presenting partners, as well as an event for our Mind the Gap program alumni. We invite you to join us and get to know these organizations during a post-show conversation or community gathering, and to learn more about them below in the meantime!
About Our Community Partners
Founded in 1967, The Fortune Society’s vision is to foster a world where those who are incarcerated or formerly incarcerated will thrive as positive, contributing members of society. We do this through a holistic, one-stop model of service provision. Our continuum of care is informed and implemented by professionals with cultural backgrounds and life experiences similar to those of our participants. We serve thousands of individuals annually via our expanding New York locations: our service centers in Long Island City, Queens and Morrisania, the Bronx, as well as several housing residences throughout the city. Our program models are recognized both nationally and internationally for their quality and innovation.
Re-Entry Theater of Harlem is an arts-based program designed by returning citizens to help people heal from the trauma of incarceration. Guided by teaching artists, peer facilitators and social workers, participants support each other in learning to tell their stories in many ways. RTH culminates in a public threshold crossing that is transformative and healing for individuals, families and for the wider community.
Join us on May 7th after the 7PM performance of The Peculiar Patriot for our Open Salon: Liberation, Art, & Story, featuring performers from The Fortune Society & Re-Entry Theatre of Harlem!
Armenian General Benevolent Union
The Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) is the world’s largest Armenian non-profit organization celebrating its 120th year uplifting Armenian lives through educational, cultural, socio-economic, and humanitarian programs. Since 1906, AGBU has remained true to its overarching goal: to create a foundation for the prosperity of all Armenians.
AGBU understands that perpetuating and promoting the vibrant Armenian creative spirit includes offering fresh perspectives on Armenian themes, based on generation, location, and regional influences. To that end, AGBU supports a host of local community arts initiatives, from theatre groups, dance troupes, choral and music ensembles to visual arts exhibitions and more—often collaborating with likeminded cultural institutions and arts organizations. To learn more, go to agbu.org/arts.
About Our Presenting Partners
National Black Theatre is a Tony Award and Emmy Award-nominated institution founded in 1968 by the late visionary artist Dr. Barbara Ann Teer. The nation’s first revenue-generating Black arts complex, NBT is the longest-running Black theatre in New York City, one of the oldest theatres founded and consistently operated by a woman of color in the nation, and has been included in the permanent collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. NBT produces transformational theatre that uplifts authentic stories of Black life, while serving as a hub for innovation, education, and social change. Under the leadership of Sade Lythcott, Chief Executive Officer, and Jonathan McCrory, Executive Artistic Director, NBT helps re-shape a more inclusive American theatre field by providing an artistically rigorous and culturally sensitive space for artists of color to experiment, develop and present new work.
PlayCo (Kate Loewald, Founding Producer, and Robert G. Bradshaw, Executive Producer) is the creative home for an always expanding, uniquely global community of theatre artists, reaching across borders of all kinds. We commission, develop and produce adventurous new works by artists in the U.S. and around the world, to advance an inclusive, innovative and relevant American theatre ecosystem. Community building is the very work of our theatre making. We weave this engagement throughout our practice to nurture dialogue, ignite creative sharing, and foster mutual support, standing with artists to invite people into experiences that create space for grace, bring opportunities to learn, move us to feel, and spark us to act for justice and peace. Since 2001, PlayCo has produced 46 new plays from the United States, Central and South America, Europe, Russia, South and East Asia, and the Middle East, including Adil Mansoor’s Amm(i)gone, Adrian Einspanier’s Lunch Bunch, Ebru Nihan Celkan’s Will You Come With Me?, Amir Nizar Zuabi’s Oh My Sweet Land, Christopher Chen’s Caught, debbie tucker green’s generations, Aya Ogawa’s Ludic Proxy, Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s Invasion!, Toshiki Okada’s Enjoy, Brooke Berman’s Smashing and Leslie Ayvazian’s High Dive. Our organization, artists and shows have been honored with Obie, Lucille Lortel, American Theatre Wing, Drama Desk, and Drama League awards and nominations, including a 2007 Obie for PlayCo’s “unique contribution to the Off-Broadway community.” PlayCo’s offices in Manhattan, and the rehearsal and performance spaces we use throughout New York City, are located in Lenapehoking, homeland of the Lenape people.
Check out our full line-up of For the Culture events, including talkbacks curated by National Black Theatre and community events co-presented by PlayCo!
About Mind the Gap
Mind the Gap, our intergenerational theatre program, connects young people and elders through the power of storytelling. This free workshop matches New Yorkers age 60 and up with teens ages 14 to 19. Participants interview each other over the course of 12 sessions, learning about their partners’ lives and dreams. They write or devise short plays based on the material they gather and in a culminating celebration, hear their scripts read aloud by professional actors or perform their own work.
Once a season, NYTW Education & Engagement hosts a reunion for Mind the Gap alumni to gather and reconnect before seeing a show at the Workshop. This year, we are excited to see The Unexpected 3rd with our Mind the Gap alumni and to celebrate the show’s intergenerational themes together.
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Categories: 2025/26 Season and For The Culture. Tags: Community Partners, Education & Engagement, For The Culture, and In the Bricks.
