Los Angeles, California 6-10 November 2014 The Latino Theater Company, in association with the Latina/o (later renamed Latinx) Theatre Commons, presented the 2014 LATC Encuentro: A National Latina/o Theatre Festival, from October 12 to November 10, 2014. Encuentro translates to “an encounter,” a theme that was a core component of this groundbreaking festival, which was...

https://youtu.be/F3eN1GoNbig?si=qykYrMadDcQ3oMCe Watch the full video from the convening here Boston, Massachusetts 31 October—2 November 2013 With the support of HowlRound, the first large-scale formal gathering of the Latinx theatre community since 1986 took place October 31-November 2, 2013 at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. The Latina/o Theatre Commons, or LTC, (later renamed the Latinx Theatre...

Boston, Massachusetts, 22-23 March 2013 The first gathering of the newly formed Latinx Theatre Commons Steering Committee took place 22–23 March 2013. Born out of a meeting in Washington, DC the previous year, this committee met with the express purpose to plan a national convening of 70-90 Latinx theatre artists in the fall of 2013....

Washington, DC, 18 May 2012 In 2012, eight Latinx theatremakers gathered in Washington, DC at the invitation of Karen Zacarías, then playwright in residence at the American Voices New Play Institute at Arena Stage (the precursor to HowlRound) with the intention of discussing the opportunities and challenges facing Latinx theatremakers and Latinx Theatre in the American...