To support Bridges, a series that uses art to respond to issues of race, culture and artistic expression. Bridges will be a series of performances events, panels and workshops designed to create passageways across art forms, cultures, aesthetics, classes, borders and traditions leading to a freedom of expression. Pangea World Theater was founded with a vision of bringing people from different backgrounds and traditions together through theater. Since its inception, Pangea has committed itself to international works, styles and traditions that illuminate the human condition, end divisiveness and celebrate differences. All of the theater's works employ a cross-ethnic vision of tolerance and human rights through excellence in the arts. This program will be designed and produced by artists from immigrant and minority communities across the Midwest who use art as a means of gaining voice in arenas where there is limited or no access for their work. Community dialogue will form a critical factor of Bridgesand these dialogues will be conducted in collaboration with the Minnesota Advocates of Human Rights, Amnesty International and the Center for Victims of Torture.