Blog - Long Distance / Online Collaboration

Through NET's Summer 2021 NET/TEN Virtual Exploration Grants, NET has provided support to a breadth of their members to build relationships across distance and further community healing, reflection, and learning. NET awarded $100,000 in funding to 118 ensembles and individual artists across 25 states and Puerto Rico.

With obstacles to gathering, NET was able to adapt our NET/TEN travel grants in Spring 2020 and Winter 2020/21 to micro-grants supporting virtual relationship building and artistic exploration among artists sheltering-in-place.  Here are our NET/TEN Winter 2020/21 Remote Connection recipients. 

Marcella Trowbridge, Artistic Director of ARTFARM (Middletown, CT), traveled to Sri Lanka to work with artists and Sri Lankan natives, Ruwanthie de Chikera, Jayampathi Guruge, and Stages Theatre Group. Together they researched and explored the development of new works in communities with minority/majority dynamics utilizing physical theater techniques that cross verbal barriers.