Conspire Theatre

Mission and Vision

Our mission is to offer incarcerated women and their allies a healing and empowering experience through theatre and creative writing.

Our vision is that every woman realizes her potential as a creative, worthy being.

History

Conspire Theatre is a sponsored project of the Austin Creative Alliance, a 501(c)3 nonprofit. Our first project was a five week theatre workshop in Travis County Correctional Facility (Del Valle, Texas) with women inmates. We played games, created scenes, wrote poems and monologues, and ended the project with a performance for other inmates and staff. Katherine Craft and Meg Brooker were the co-facilitators. Katherine Craft was so inspired by the project that she founded Conspire Theatre and will continue to work with incarcerated and marginalized women, both at Travis County Correctional Facility and elsewhere.

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Thank you!

May 21, 2013

NeonBall

Fundraising efforts helped us reach and exceed our goal! At press time, card swipes are still being tallied, cash counted and donations recorded – safe to say, the Banger’s Pub Quiz went off with a BANG! **Much appreciation to Banger’s cast and crew, who were amazingly friendly and accommodating from start to finish.** The evening began with volunteers, board members, friends and family of Conspire advocates happily crafting away on the picnic tables at the outdoor venue. A list of raffle prizes and Conspire’s mission statement were cut and pasted onto fun colored scrap booking paper, and gold duct taped to tables to save them from the fantastic breeze. The giant pecan trees protected the crowd from the late day sun. Conspire’s welcome table was set up - complete with a pink caboodle for a money box - we were ready to accept donations! Stephanie, with her cute-retro-cat-eyed specs, came out on behalf of Geeks Who Drink to act as … Continue reading

It’s go time y’all

May 20, 2013

Conspire Theatre Pub Quiz

Hope to see you tonight at Banger’s 7-9pm!! Great fun, prizes and people – cheers! http://bangersaustin.com/

Spread the word!

April 24, 2013

Everything in moderation

Conspire is working hard to make our big May event happen! Super sweet prizes are pouring in from generous donors and teams are amping up their best fundraising cat calls – find them on Razoo!. Or check out our sweet FB page to saddle up with your favorite team, donate funds or just post a kind comment to boost morale! A little birdie should be tweeting more Pub Quiz updates as we get closer to this very important date: MAY 20TH * BANGER’S * 7-9PM Hope you enjoyed Lauren’s writing. We have more! As promised, we’ll be switching from prose to poetry, and begin posting submissions penned by incarcerated women from all over Texas. We couldn’t be more honored that women are allowing us to share their writing on Conspire’s blog. It proves that our mission is worth pursuing and our efforts are being felt! Thanks you for supporting a great non-profit. Help us keep going - keep our classes … Continue reading

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