Christine Jones is a Tony Award winning scenographer and the creator of Theatre for One. Jones, along with director Tamilla Woodard, and actor Shyla Lefner, will lead a conversation to discuss the Theater for One theatrical experience and how it evolved over the last year in response to Covid and the BLM movement.

Shaun Nanavati is a neuroscience researcher, professor, and clinician with an interest in Eastern philosophy. His research interest is in Mindfulness and its impact on the autonomic nervous system, with special emphasis on the parasympathetic nervous system.

Morning in our World: Mourning, Memorial & Thriving Beyond the Pandemic - Clal President and Columbia University Rabbi Irwin Kula, tech industry leader and artist Kristina Libby and TWIN Global Co-founder and Chair Professor Rob Wolcott explore how we can move forward by looking back with courage, compassion and love.

Vallejo Gantner is the co-founder of hoovie.movie, hireartists.org, and partner in mkrs.family. Former Artistic Director of PS122 and the Onassis Foundation USA. Vallejo will host a live arts panel with Kristy Edmunds, Sadah Espii Proctor and Theo Triantafyllidis.

Bringing their music from Carnegie Hall to the basement of Mt Sinai Hospital during COVID-19 surge; EMBC artists Jacob Marshall and Tim Fain discuss the emerging renaissance as artists, technologists, designers and neuroscientists collaborate to bring relief to exhausted front line hospital workers.

Egyptian-American Orchestrator, Music Director, & Copyist Macy Schmidt will discuss her experience in founding The Broadway Sinfonietta, an all female-identifying, BIPOC orchestral collective. She is joined by friends Sammi Cannold, & Daniel J Mertzlufft.

Toronto-based photographer and educator who will lead this workshop inspired by his pandemic project, Portraits in Isolation, which documented lockdowns all over the world through remote photography. This workshop will cover the technology, tools, and techniques used to make authentic portraits virtually.

Rockstar and wellness innovator Leah Siegel introduces her pandemic product Spar Cards, a framework and philosophy to help relationships, now needed more than ever.

Are you depressed about the climate emergency? Enraged? Terrified? Come share your experience in small groups, facilitated by Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD, Clinical psychologist and climate activist. Participants in these conversations report feeling connected, relieved, and motivated for action.

The Feast + Art Plus People hosting experiences and games that explore potential through art and rebuilding our humanity online.

Athena Demos, Co Founder of Big Rock Creative who created https://brcvr.org/ an official virtual version of Burning Man, Michael Mikel a.k.a. “Danger Ranger”, Founding Board Member, Burning Man Project; and Damian Madray, Founder of Presence, gather to discuss the virtualification of the 2020 Burning Man experience.

A conversation about the future of live performance, looking especially at hybrid in-person/digital modes. Join us in conversation with past and potential future artists, and let us know about your ideas and proposals around our 2021 themes, HUMANITY and INTERSPECITALITY.

Group.BR, NYC's only Brazilian Theater Company, will host a conversation about the importance of new platforms for performing arts and present excerpts of an immersive theater piece that has been performed live in NYC and adapted for the virtual world during the pandemic.

How did all these indie venues join together so quickly? How did NIVA get Congress to pass the $15 billion Save Our Stages Act? NIVA members discuss the formation of NIVA, the SOS Act, the SOS Fest on YouTube, and what the group is doing now.

Making Radio Remotely Possible: NPR in the pandemic Panel with NPR Broadcasters Scott Simon and Robert Siegel exploring how NPR news has functioned during the pandemic, how different, it has been from “normal“ times, and what is gained or lost in the experience of remote work.

Tiny museums for everyone, everywhere (even nowhere). YOU are a museum designer. Everyone can be. We will show you how. Charles and Dan are part of MICRO. They make tiny museums with communities in order to create big change in society.

Built out of a necessity to connect with one another & inspired by TV games shows, QM is interactive trivia, customized and curated around it’s contestants & our new normal. Join QM for The Nowhere Special, a mixed bag of the most popular QM Q’s and fan favorites from the hundreds of games produced over the last year.

A conversation with House of Yes and Elsewhere founders.

Andrew McMahon is a singer-songwriter who has released 3 albums as Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness and many others with his previous bands Jack's Mannequin and Something Corporate. At the festival he will be sharing his experiences around touring in the time of Covid and his “Drive-In through a Dream Tour.

Internationally renowned dancer and choreographer, will share her latest solo titled Harbour; a reflection on our elders we've loved and lost, who've departed but who we keep close. This was piece was created through Covid-19 while in residency at The Dance Deck, a local outdoor studio space in Vancouver, Canada.

Sylvain Souklaye is a French multimodal artist. His methods characteristically involve intense physical acts and unsettling intimacy.Ceci n’est pas un masque is a performance about the mundane abstraction of reality. Fashion, fiction and function are the triumvirate articulating this experiment.

Bar and restaurant in Brooklyn/Queens border that has pivoted to create Helping Hearts and provide aid to those affected the most during the pandemic, and to those on the front line saving lives. More than 30.000 meals distributed! Deep End will curate DJ's and will speak about their experience through the past year.