Blog - Long Distance / Online Collaboration

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. 

On Friday, January 22nd, NET hosted a Community Forum: Beginning to Heal Through Connection. We heard from a group of our Spring 2020 NET/TEN Remote Connection Mini-Grants recipients about the activities they embarked on last year and then opened up the discussion to dialogue with one another.

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.