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Coming out of our Camp Ensemble LA Regional Gathering, the energy, insights, and connections sparked that weekend have been powerful - and we're ready to build on it. We are keeping the momentum going and launching a NET Regional Meetup Tour!

These are simple, one-off gatherings - happy hours or dinners tailored to each city's vibe and needs - where Ensemble leaders, practitioners, culture workers, and movement builders can come together for connection, celebration, and purpose. We'll share updates on strategic priorities, membership opportunities, and plant the seeds of THE NET FEDERATION PROJECT.

Pull up and sit down with us to build community and #StayInTheNET.

☀️ SUMMER 2025 MEETUPS:

Boston | July 25th - 26th

Philly | August 3rd - 4th

Portland | Late August

Chicago | September 28th - 29th

New Orleans | October 8th-9th

NYC | TBD

Minneapolis | TBD

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Drop off Catering is available for university and center city Philadelphia for your event or business meeting.

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Drinks, good food, live music, and more. We are a unique outdoor venue and event space located in West Philadelphia.

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Black-Owned Restaurants to Check Out in Philadelphia

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Some of the top Black-owned eateries, cafes and coffee shops in the city…

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Bartram's Garden is a 50-acre free public park and National Historic Landmark on the Tidal Schuylkill River in Southwest Philadelphia, operated by the non-profit John Bartram Association in partnership with Philadelphia Parks and Recreation.

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Boston Ujima Project

Building a cooperative business, arts, and investment ecosystem by and for Boston’s working-class Black, Indigenous, and communities of color. Their RE/STRUCTURE: TRANSFORMATION THROUGH COOPERATION series is happening in July. They also have a Ujima WIRE, a digital publication that runs on their newsletter and Medium. They also run, print, and publish a digital magazine. Fortunately.

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Help Us Meet Your City Like You Know It

As we get ready to gather, we’re calling on NET members, supporters, and extended community to #DropTheLink and help us tap into the local culture you love.

Share your favorite:

🍽️ Artists, ensembles, and community leaders

🍸 Local BIPOC-owned restaurants or bars

🎭 Performance spaces or studios doin' it right

🪴 Community hangouts, bookstores, or parks

🧭 Hidden gems only locals would know

Whether it’s your go-to spot for a post-show drink, a neighborhood gallery with soul, or the artist you need us to know about — we want it all.

We're curating the Meetups around you - your rhythms, your relationships, your recs. Help us make this gathering rich with local love and community connection.

Drop your links, names, and places here!

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Nestled in Upham's Corner Dorchester, we're an intimate and lively restaurant serving brunch on the weekend and dinner at night with a full bar and outdoor patio. Our food is a celebration of the ingredients and flavors of the African diaspora connected from Asia to the Americas, global comfort food.

This is a BIPOC-owned restaurant that mixes history with cultural fusion and taste!

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Located in Upham’s Corner, Dorchester, Comfort Kitchen is a cafe by day, a restaurant by night with a full bar, celebrating the flavors and ingredients of the African diaspora — global comfort food — connected from Asia to the Americas. We are a Black-owned, immigrant-owned, and woman-owned business

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Design Studio 4 Social Intervention (DS4SI)

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Design Studio 4 Social Intervention (DS4SI)

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DS4SI is an artistic research and development outfit for the improvement of civil society and everyday life. The Design Studio for Social Intervention (DS4SI)  partners with communities, artists, and social justice practitioners to imagine, demonstrate, and collectively rebuild places to be more just and vibrant.

At the heart of it, DS4SI re-imagines & Re-designs public life

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The people behind the Design Studio for Social Intervention make up a constellation of activists, artists, academics, designers, dreamers, tricksters, organizations and foundations.

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The people behind the Design Studio for Social Intervention make up a constellation of activists, artists, academics, designers, dreamers, tricksters, organizations and foundations.

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100 Lives Repertory is a bold new theatre company in Portland worth sharing. They’re creating stripped-down, intimate, character-driven stories that are messy and real. With a woman-led majority at the helm, this company is prioritizing work for women over 40. 

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100 Lives Repertory is a bold new theatre company in Portland worth sharing. They’re creating stripped-down, intimate, character-driven stories that are messy and real. With a woman-led majority at the helm, this company is prioritizing work for women over 40. 

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100 LIVES is a repertory company of actors and directors dedicated to digging deep. Our work is messy and real, rooted in character, and alive with craft. We create theatre that’s emotional and deeply human—raw nerves and open hearts.

We play in a small space to maximize intimacy, bringing audiences close enough to feel every shift, every breath. Our storytelling focus is on relationship.

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➡️ Find your city’s column

Scroll across the Padlet to locate the city of the upcoming NET Meetup (Boston, Philly, Portland, etc.).

➕ Click the plus sign (+) at the top of that city’s column

This will open a new post where you can drop your recs!

📝 Fill in your recommendation

Include:

Name of the artist, place, or group

A brief note about why you’re recommending it and any relevant info

Website, Instagram, or any other link

🚀 Post as many times as you want!

Know a great neighborhood bar and a brilliant local ensemble? Drop them both!

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NETWeek Chicago — Network of Ensemble Theaters

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There is a conversation happening across Chicago right now between Black women who direct, devise, and lead. It’s happening in text threads, over coffee, after rehearsal. Behind closed doors. About what it actually takes to make work and lead in one of the most important theater cities in the country. The brilliance they bring. The glass ceilings they hit. The future they are building anyway.

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While you're in town, please join About Face Theatre for the world premiere production of Modern Gentleman, the queer and trans romcom you've been waiting for. Pay-what-you-can tickets are available for all performances. Details through link above. Thanks for your support.

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Written by Preston Max Allen Directed by Landree Fleming March 19 – April 18, 2026

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We're also looking for local co-hosts to help kick off planning for future Regional Gatherings. Are we coming to your city? Are you interested in hosting a table? Let us know! Email us at info@ensembletheaters.net.

Here are cities NET wants to come to if we get additional co-hosts. Let us know which one you'd like to co-host, feel free to #DropTheLink if there are any reccs you have in these areas, or add new cities to the list below!

San Antonio

Austin

Knoxville

Birmingham

DC

Honolulu

Seattle

Savannah

Charleston

Detroit

Santa Fe

Tuscuon

San, Juan, PR

Mexico City

Vancouver

Paris