The Third Bohemia
Founded in 2011 by Todd London, The Third Bohemia is a series of national gatherings of independent theatre artists, along with artists and thinkers from other fields, focused on sharing, teaching, and making work. The goals of these working sessions—or mini-camps, include:
1) To inspire and energize the participants, in hopes of fueling their ongoing work;
2) To incite cross-disciplinary thinking and creation;
3) To explore the potential of peer-artist-to-peer-artist teaching;
4) To seed the national theatre’s native creativity by connecting its artists outside of existing institutional structures;
5) To create a fluid, self-determining national theatre of artists.
1) To inspire and energize the participants, in hopes of fueling their ongoing work;
2) To incite cross-disciplinary thinking and creation;
3) To explore the potential of peer-artist-to-peer-artist teaching;
4) To seed the national theatre’s native creativity by connecting its artists outside of existing institutional structures;
5) To create a fluid, self-determining national theatre of artists.
The inhabitants of the third [Bohemia] seldom know where they live; they are too busy making beautiful things, which they give to one another for they have no money. They have, however, wealth and health, for the deeps which surround their shores are rich with treasure of many colours and the tides are strong and their tang savoury. They are fisher-folk, those inhabitants, fishers of men and of their own hearts, and dredge jewels from uncharted seas.
—Maurice Browne, Chicago Little Theatre (1912)