Inspired by the stories, characters, events, and themes within the 10,000 Books Banned across the USA (such as Wicked, 1984, The Handmaid’s Tale, and more), join Level Forward’s Anthem award-winning conversation series for an urgent conversation traversing the past, present, and future of story censorship, examining why and how books get banned, and uplifting the desperate importance of libraries. Hosted by Andrea Ambam and featuring special guests (such as Banned book Authors) to be announced.

Following the Jan 16 performance of ROMEO + JULIET, join Level Forward’s Anthem Award-Winning More To Talk About for a timely conversation with Tommy Dorfman (The Nurse/Tybalt & The Ali Forney Center Board Member), Taheen Modak (Benvolio), and Louie Ortiz-Fonseca (Advocates for Youth) exploring what revivals can offer a new generation, building intergenerational solidarity, and charting a path to reject erasure, protect our undeniable rights as human beings, and enrich the world we pass down.

At the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, join Level Forward and friends for a night of creative inspiration both amplifying and destigmatizing the narrative fight for bans off of ALL our bodies and reproductive justice.

This multimodal storytelling experience is designed to equip filmmakers, producers, financiers, distributors, agents, and brands with the language, tools, relationships, and tactics for a resurgent cultural force that refuses to obey in advance, declines to go backwards, and will prevail through strategy, bridge-building, resource-sharing, and independent creative voices.

Ignite your inner fire through live performances, a special edition More To Talk About conversation with filmmakers and changemakers, partner activations, testimony, gifts, photo-opps, actionable next steps, and more to be announced. It’s a new dawn for storytelling and we are up for the rising. Come hungry, come thirsty and come eager to build community and conspire with Level Forward, friends, and partners.