When is your workshop Ebony? On 4/19/10 1:29 AM, "Ebony Noelle Golden" <furiousflower@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Awesome. I will also be there facilitating a performance workshop with > playwrights nina angela mercer and sybil roberts, it's called safe spaces. > Hope to see everyone! > > E. > > > > Bettys Daughter Arts Collaborative > Creating Radical Expressiveness in Community > www.bettysdaughterarts.com > Sent from my Palm Pre > > > On Apr 19, 2010 1:05 AM, FreeLists Mailing List Manager > <ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > rsc Digest Sun, 18 Apr 2010 Volume: 04 Issue: 031 > > In This Issue: > [rsc] DC/MD Folks: Amnesty International Human Rights Arts F > [rsc] Re: DC/MD Folks: Amnesty International Human Rights Ar > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:24:37 -0400 > Subject: [rsc] DC/MD Folks: Amnesty International Human Rights Arts Festival > From: "Melanie St. Ours" <melaniest.ours@xxxxxxxxx> > > Dear RSC, > I'm very much looking forward to seeing many of you in Atlanta! > > If you live in MD/DC and have some time next weekend, please come check out > the Amnesty International Human Rights Arts Festival, happening in downtown > Silver Spring. Marietta Hedges, a new ROOTS member, will be presenting, as > will I---not to mention scores of other artists from a wide variety of > disciplines. All events are free and open to the public. Check out the full > festival program here: http://www.humanrightsartfestival.com/ > > The announcement for the workshop I'm giving is below. It's given in > conjunction with my current project, *How to be a Human*, a devised play > built through inter-generational collaboration and dialogue. Check out our > blog at http://www.forhumansbyhumans.wordpress.com . > > Please forward this to any local artists, change-makers, or community member > who might like to come play with us on Sunday. > > Workshop Title: Our Histories: Story-gathering and Performance > > Time: Sunday, April 25 from 2:30-4pm > > Location: Dance Recital Studio (2nd Floor), Montgomery College Performing > Arts Center > > Workshop Description: As artists, activists, and peace-builders, how do we > cultivate oral histories of resistance, learn from our elders, and celebrate > our identities? Using community-based theater and oral history processes, > this workshop will create space for participants to learn theater and oral > history techniques for use in community settings and to have a deep > experience of the power of collectively co-creating original theater. > Techniques to be used will include story circles, interview, Theater of the > Oppressed, and group devising, culminating in new pieces of theatrical > expression to be shared with the group. The workshop is given in conjunction > with a larger playbuilding process that is currently ongoing in the > Northwest One neighborhood of Washington DC entitled *How to be a > Human*that will be presented at the Capital Fringe Festival 2010. > There is space > for up to 25 participants. Free and open to the public. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:31:55 -0400 > Subject: [rsc] Re: DC/MD Folks: Amnesty International Human Rights Arts > From: Laura Schandelmeier <laura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Content-type: text/plain; > charset="ISO-8859-1" > Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable > Hey Melanie, > > Thanks so much for your e-mail. We had no idea that this festival was goin= > g > on! We would love to sign up for your workshop on Sunday. Can we do this > through you or must we go to the web site? > > Looking forward, > > Laura and Stephen > > > On 4/18/10 9:24 PM, "Melanie St. Ours" <melaniest.ours@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > Dear RSC, >> >=20 >> > I'm very much looking forward to seeing many of you in Atlanta!=A0 >> >=20 >> > If you live in MD/DC and have some time next weekend, please come check o= > ut >> > the Amnesty International Human Rights Arts Festival, happening in downto= > wn >> > Silver Spring. Marietta Hedges, a new ROOTS member, will be presenting, a= > s >> > will I---not to mention scores of other artists from a wide variety of >> > disciplines. All events are free and open to the public. Check out the fu= > ll >> > festival program here: http://www.humanrightsartfestival.com/ >> >=20 >> > The announcement for the workshop I'm giving is below. It's given in >> > conjunction with my current project, How to be a Human, a devised play bu= > ilt >> > through inter-generational collaboration and dialogue. Check out our blog= > at >> > http://www.forhumansbyhumans.wordpress.com=A0 . >> >=20 >> > Please forward this to any local artists, change-makers, or community mem= > ber >> > who might like to come play with us on Sunday. >> >=20 >> >=20 >> > Workshop Title: Our Histories: Story-gathering and Performance >> >=20 >> > Time: Sunday, April 25 from 2:30-4pm >> >=20 >> > Location: Dance Recital Studio (2nd Floor), Montgomery College Performing= > Arts >> > Center >> >=20 >> > Workshop Description: As artists, activists, and peace-builders, how do w= > e >> > cultivate oral histories of resistance, learn from our elders, and celeb= > rate >> > our identities? Using community-based theater and oral history processes= > , >> > this workshop will create space for participants to learn theater and or= > al >> > history techniques for use in community settings and to have a deep >> > experience of the power of collectively co-creating original theater. >> > Techniques to be used will include story circles, interview, Theater of = > the >> > Oppressed, and group devising, culminating in new pieces of theatrical >> > expression to be shared with the group. The workshop is given in conjunc= > tion >> > with a larger playbuilding process that is currently ongoing in the Nort= > hwest >> > One neighborhood of Washington DC entitled How to be a Human that will b= > e >> > presented at the Capital Fringe Festival 2010. There is space for up to = > 25 >> > participants. Free and open to the public. >> >=20 >> >=20 > > > > --- > Laura Schandelmeier & Stephen Clapp > Co-Artistic Directors > Dance Box Theater, Inc. > 3311 Rhode Island Avenue, #305 > Mount Rainier, MD 20712 > > http://www.danceboxtheater.org > (301) 779-6383 > > laura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > End of rsc Digest V4 #31 > ************************ > > --- Laura Schandelmeier & Stephen Clapp Co-Artistic Directors Dance Box Theater, Inc. 3311 Rhode Island Avenue, #305 Mount Rainier, MD 20712 http://www.danceboxtheater.org (301) 779-6383 laura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx