This free training is a chance for Fringe artists and audiences to come together in solidarity in the face of such an ugly "Big Beautiful Bill" and its cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.

Ann Bacharach of Pennsylvania Health Access Network (PHAN) will educate participants on the timeline and rollout of the changes to Medicaid eligibility and train creative 1099 workers on how to document their work for the new work requirements.

Liberation through our moving, performing, art-sharing bodies – so then hell no, we won't stand by and watch the systematic dismantling of our healthcare. We will arm ourselves with education and go together into the weeds of the policies' changes.

There will be an invitation to those who attend to continue in shared organizing of other events post-Fringe that are specifically about the intersection of performing artists and their labor AND the fight for access to healthcare for all and the validity of embodied experience.