• Priscila Chu presenting on her performance work to bring together the warring factions in Hong King and Peter Harris on similar work with Palestinian and Israeli students in Haifa.

• Rita Ezenwa-Okoro of Nigeria and Laura Chacón Echeverría of Costa Rica on their developmental performance work with impoverished and marginalized youth.

• Mana Mukaiyachi of Japan will perform a dance drama and Steven Licardi of the United States will perform a spoken word show, both exploring the creative process of “Performing Our Mental Health.”

• David Diamond the founder of Theatre for Living in Canada, Mohammad Waseem, director of the Interactive Resource Center in Pakistan, and Daniel Maposa, founder artistic director of the Savannah Trust in Zimbabwe, all pioneering performance activists, will share work in a conversation moderated by Dan Friedman, artistic director of the Castillo Theatre in New York.

• Dr. Omar Ali, dean of Lloyd International Honors College at University of North Carolina-Greensboro, will lead eight faculty, students and staff from the college in a discussion and demonstration of the play, improv and performance they have brought to higher education over the last five years.

• From the Amazon, Dan Baron-Cohen and Manoela Souza will lead an interactive workshop with youth from their Rivers of Meeting program and lead a conversation about the ecological and political situation in Brazil --and the world.

• Carlos López of Magicians Without Borders will show how and why they organize and teach magic to youth in poor communities and young people from the slums of Bogotá will delight the world with a magic show.

• Cathy Salit and others will report on the work of the newly formed Global Play Brigade, which is using the internet to bring play, performance and improvisation to people all over the world in the grip of the pandemic.