The Pan African Theatre Ensemble

08/03/2023

Last week, I participated in the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) 2023 conference in Accra, Ghana. I connected with the great Carla Springer-Hunte from UWI, Cave Hill and Jamie Philbert, a fabulous Trinidad/Tobagonian theatre artist/scholar. (far right)- Happy to be part of the African and Caribbean Working Group in IFTR.
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04/17/2023

The PATE performed "A Dramatic Reading" at the Toledo Museum of Art in the Glass Pavilion on the weekend, Sat. April 15, 2023. Special recognition to performers Afolasade Ola. Annase Raji, Kuhle Mbawu, Samson Akanni for their dedication, commitment and
talents. Thanks to the staff at the Toledo Museum of Art for making this event possible.
We all went to the Jamaican Restaurant, "Jamaican Spice," in Toledo, Ohio afterwards. Big up "Jamaican Spice" for oxtail, curry goat, and ting.
Akwaaba!
(“Welcome” in Twi language from the Akan people in Ghana)
The Pan-African Theatre Ensemble is dedicated to Black theatre in
the United States and around the world, including traditional, contemporary, and experimental genres and styles from Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and in solidarity with Indigenous peoples.
The PATE is a collaborative, practiced-based research group open to all persons interested in theatre education and knowledge about
Africana performances on stage, and in technical theatre.
For more information, contact Dr. D. A-R. Forbes-Erickson

04/17/2023

The PATE performed "A Dramatic Reading" at the Toledo Museum of Art in the Glass Pavilion on the weekend, Sat. April 15, 2023. Special recognition to performers Afolasade Ola. Annase Raji, Kuhle Mbawu, Samson Akanni for their dedication, commitment and
talents. Thanks to the staff at the Toledo Museum of Art for making this event possible.
We all went to the Jamaican Restaurant, "Jamaican Spice," in Toledo, Ohio afterwards. Big up "Jamaican Spice" for oxtail, curry goat, and ting.
Akwaaba!
(“Welcome” in Twi language from the Akan people in Ghana)
The Pan-African Theatre Ensemble is dedicated to Black theatre in
the United States and around the world, including traditional, contemporary, and experimental genres and styles from Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and in solidarity with Indigenous peoples.
The PATE is a collaborative, practiced-based research group open to all persons interested in theatre education and knowledge about
Africana performances on stage, and in technical theatre.
For more information, contact Dr. D. A-R. Forbes-Erickson,

04/08/2023

A Dramatic Reading by The Pan-African Theatre Ensemble

Toledo Museum of Art in the GlasSalon - Glass Pavilion
2445 Monroe Street, Toledo, OH 43620
Date: Saturday, April 15, 2023 at 1:00pm
Admission: By invitation Only Through Sign-Up Genius
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E44AEAD23A3FEC07-adramatic

Optional Donation – A Minimum of $5.00

Donations Towards a BGSU Education Abroad Course for Performance at the Fringe Theatre Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland - Summer 2024

Park in lot 6. Validate lot 6 tickets at the Glass Pavilion Information Desk, Toledo Museum of Art.
Thank you!

04/05/2023

10/01/2022

"The Pan-African Theatre Ensemble Presents ..." last weekend (Sept. 23, 24, 2022) - Wolfe Center, BGSU, Bowling Green, Ohio.
Thanks to everyone for making this event possible.

05/30/2022

Thank you David Dupont for an incisive review of Black Swamp Players' "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992." I directed/designed this piece with digital media. Thanks to the Black Swamp Players (amazing actors, volunteers, and the board) for making this happen. With gratitude...

https://bgindependentmedia.org/players-stage-documentary-play-that-sheds-light-on-the-chaos-that-descended-on-los-angeles-in-1992/

10/15/2021

Greetings. Please see the PATE weblink for auditions next Friday, Oct. 22 from 5:30pm-7:30pm EST in the Eva Marie Saint Theatre, Department of Theatre and Film, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA
Virtual Auditions Welcome for virtual productions, in-person productions. Sign up here.
https://www.the-pate.com/about-5

The Pan-African Theatre Ensemble is holding auditions for a season of short plays: Akan rhythm plays, a short African American play, and a Caribbean mythology play. For more details contact the email and number provided before the audition on October 22, 2021. Click on orange button to sign up on si...

10/07/2021

Thanks to David Dupont at BG Independent News, and Angie Ahlgren.

Forbes-Erickson looks to continue Pan-African Theatre Ensemble at BGSU TOPICS:BGSU Department of Theatre and FilmThe Pan-African Theatre Ensemble The Pan-African Theatre Ensemble performs “Tahinta!: A Rhythm Play for Children” at Kent State. (Photo courtesy of The PATE) Posted By: David Dupont O...

09/02/2021

“Balls at Kingston to the ‘Brown Girls’,”1: A Palimpsest for Bleached-Brown Skins in Jamaican Dancehall
https://anthurium.miami.edu/articles/10.33596/anth.368/

Article: “Balls at Kingston to the ‘Brown Girls’,”1: A Palimpsest for Bleached-Brown Skins in Jamaican Dancehall

08/18/2021

08/18/2021

Introducing all the current members of the National Theatre Arts Company of Trinidad and Tobago. Learn more about them in our previous posts.

08/07/2021

A listing of arts organizations dedicated to producing stage work about the African American and Black experience, and to developing artists and audiences of color.

08/05/2021

In March 2020, Conch Shell Productions - in collaboration with Milton G. Bassin Performing Arts Center at York College (in Jamaica, New York) - will present the second annual HEAR HER CALL CARIBBEAN-AMERICAN WOMEN'S THEATER FESTIVAL. The festival is a celebration of the unique voices of Caribbean Am...

07/29/2021

On 7th September this year, SAST produced Fela and the Kalakuta Queens to live streaming audiences on their YouTube channel.

07/27/2021

The African Theatre Magazine brings the women making waves in African Theatre. Some of these are well known names but others are names you will wish you had read and known about yesterday.

07/27/2021

https://www.theafricantheatremagazine.com/

The African Theatre Magazine is a Source for African theatre news, history, ideas and discussions for artists, scholars, lovers on and off the continent.

07/24/2021

South Africa's theatre of resistance, as penned by the likes of Athol Fugard, roared around the world, bringing pressure to bear on the regime back home, writes Jack Klaff