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Online registration required
June 5, 2026
12:00pm - 1:00pm PT
A brief webinar for those exhibiting at this year's conference. This specialized webinar is about the timeline for utilizing decorator services, WAA exhibitor restrictions and guidelines, as well as information on drayage and materials handling.
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Online registration required
May 15, 2026
12:00pm - 1:15pm PT
The World of WAA is our annual session with insider information about how members do business and connect at the conference. Hosted by WAA staff as well as both a Presenter and an Agent/Manager. If you have any questions or want the scoop on making the most of your conference, you won't want to miss it.
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Recorded Friday, March 20
A brief informational webinar about exhibiting at this year's conference! Including the exhibitor's agreement, schedule, and meeting space options.
This fall, we tried something new! A salon series to reflect about the state of the field to connect us and understand the current ground we’re standing on. Our conversations revealed a field at an inflection point, grappling with fundamental questions about risk, sustainability, and what it means to build an authentic performing arts ecosystem, not only beyond WAA, but nationally.
We're doing what the performing arts community does best: gathering close, sharing resources, and building collective solutions together. Whether you're an artist ready to showcase your work, a producer wanting to provide more opportunities onsite, or an industry professional with insights to share, this is your moment!
The performing arts field is a highly rhizomatic ecosystem supporting a wide array of convenings for presenters, artists, agents, managers, producers, and more. Each year, a high concentration of professionals (nearing 45,000, if not more) intersect in New York City for a wide array of convenings, independently sprouting around the anchor of the APAP (Association of Performing Arts Professionals) conference in Midtown New York City.
Earlier this year, we lost a dear friend and colleague in Marcelo Avilés. In his memory, WAA has established the Marcelo Avilés Scholarship Fund to support talented young arts professionals in attending the WAA Annual Conference. It is a fitting tribute because Marcelo’s career was shaped in part by this community. He was also a WAA scholarship recipient, which helped bring him to our 2022 conference in Calgary. Afterward, he wrote to us:
“Thank you for creating an event that brings the industry together in a thoughtful way that leaves us inspired to go out and make a better world.”
— Marcelo Avilés