Looking to meet someone new? Bring a friend or someone special to Indira’s Speed Matchmaking for wine, refreshments, and rapid fire conversations with everyone in the room! Talk theater, love and life and maybe even meet your match.
Join us between our first Saturday shows to learn more about Organizing in Your Neighborhood from local activists who have done it themselves! Special guests Quinton Zondervan and Bill Cavellini will share their experiences as organizers in the Cambridge community, and discuss what it means to mobilize and make a difference.
Quinton Zondervan is an environmental activist, a biotech entrepreneur and an award-winning software engineer. Quinton is the co-founder and past CEO of Excelimmune, a biopharmaceutical company that develops human antibodies against infectious disease targets. Prior to founding Excelimmune, he served as the CTO of software startup Clickmarks, developing innovative web and mobile software applications. Quinton began his career as a software engineer at IBM where he co-invented the SyncML data synchronization standard. In addition to his work at CABA, he serves as president of Green Cambridge, a non-profit organization that promotes energy conservation, recycling and other sustainability initiatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Quinton holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT and two bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and computer science from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Bill Cavellini has been an organizer his whole adult life. When he was an architecture student, he worked for a better curriculum and put together a team of students to do inspections for the Architects Renewal Committee of Harlem (ARCH)’s rent strike organizing. When he drove a taxi cab for thirty years, he tried to organize drivers and taught at the Cambridge Taxi School. For most of the years that he lived in Cambridge, he organized tenant unions, fought to preserve Rent Control, and carried on an eighteen-year battle with M.I.T over neighborhood priorities for the Simplex land at University Park, in Cambridgeport. Bill now lives in Somerville and is organizing with Union (Square) United to prevent displacement in the wake of the impending Green Line.
Scholar Social with Swami Tyagananda
Join us after the Thursday performance for a Scholar Social with Swami Tyagananda learn more about Hinduism and the role of Ganesha in When January Feels Like Summer!
Swami Tyagananda, a monk of the Ramakrishna Order since 1976, is the head of the Vedanta Society in Boston, and is the Hindu Chaplain at Harvard and MIT. He has written, translated and edited ten books, including his latest, Walking the Walk: A Manual of Karma Yoga (2013). He gives lectures and classes at the Vedanta Society as well as at MIT, Harvard and, on invitation, other colleges and religious groups in North America.
Join us after the show for a Scholar Social with Dr. P. Carl as he discusses the Trans lives in art and media and shares his experiences as a cultivator and creator of art that truly represents the Trans experience.
P. Carl is the the Director and co-founder of HowlRound—a think tank and knowledge commons actively making community among theatre makers worldwide through online resource sharing and in-person gatherings. Carl is also the co-artistic director of ArtsEmerson at Emerson College where he develops, dramaturgs, and presents an eclectic array of theatre from diverse artists from around the globe. Operating from the core belief that theatre is for everyone, Carl seeks to use the power of live performance in concert with opportunities for international dialogue and activism to foster personal and political transformation through the shared experience of art. Carl is a Distinguished Artist in Residence on the Emerson faculty, an Associate Vice President of the college, and a frequent writer and speaker on the evolution of theater practice and theory. He is the former Producing Artistic Director of the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, the former Director of Artistic Development at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, and holds a PhD in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society from the University of Minnesota.