TYA/USA and Catherine Wheels are partnering to offer a range of resources to the Catherine Wheels team toward building an anti-racist, anti-oppressive future for Theatre for Young Audiences.

Welcome to this bespoke page for the Catherine Wheels team. This content has been curated from TYA/USA’s recent programming focused on Anti-Racism in the TYA sector.

Anti-Racist & Anti-Oppressive Futures for Theatre for Young Audiences: An Interactive Guide contains a collection of non-negotiable demands for change, “thought questions,” anonymous anecdotes from BIPOC TYA practitioners, external resources, an interactive glossary, and exercises that require active engagement in community with others.

The guide was created by BIPOC in TYA, a grassroots group of Black, Indigenous & People of Color TYA professionals.

Published in partnership with TYA/USA.

Explore the Guide

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Antiracism in TYA Webinars

The webinar recordings below were part of two recent TYA/USA series offerings:

Listen, Learn, Lead (Fall 2020), co-hosted and co-curated by Shavanna Calder and Jonathan Shmidt Chapman

Recalibrate TYA (Spring 2021), co-hosted and co-curated by Shavanna Calder and Rudy Ramirez

Click on the links below to learn more about each session, and view the recording. We’ve put the webinars in the order we recommend for viewing, but you are able to watch them in any order you choose.

1. Laying the Groundwork

Talking about Race and Racism in Our Field & Our Communities (Part I)
2. Laying the Groundwork

Talking about Race and Racism in Our Field & Our Communities (Part II)
3. Racism and the Need for Diversity in the Canon of Stories for Children
4. Anti-Racist Casting Practices
5. The Activist Teaching Artist
6. Decentering Whiteness in Touring & Presenting TYA

Presented in association with IPAY
7. Next Steps

Reflection, Action, and Accountability
8. Recalibrate TYA #1

Deep Dive: Internal Accountability
9. Recalibrate TYA #2

Deep Dive: External Accountability
10. Recalibrate TYA #3

Revisiting “Anti-Racist and Anti-Oppressive Futures for TYA: An Interactive Guide”: Where Are We Now?
11. Recalibrate TYA #4

Looking Back & Looking Ahead: Where Are We Going?

Antiracism in TYA: Catherine Wheels & TYA/USA