FOR  TEACHING ARTISTS, EDUCATORS AND SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY WORKERS:

Cultural Competency in Practice
For teaching artists who want instruction and practice in dealing with the “sticky” situations that always arise when working with diverse populations.  This workshop will give you tools to help you bridge the gap between you and the populations you serve, as well as enable you to foster an environment in which your students feel safe enough to “dig deep” and deliver the creative goods every teaching artists desires.  What do you do when a racial slur is used in your class?  What do you do when a student confesses to being abused or molested?  What do you do when your entire class rebels and refuses to cooperate with you?  What do you do when a parent becomes a problem?  In the tradition of Augusto Boal’s Forum Theatre, participants in this workshop will have the opportunity to practice their newly-acquired skills through role plays of real-life situations encountered by participants in their experience as teaching artists.

Creative Curriculum
Learn how to translate your art form into dynamic curriculum that will engage and inspire your future students.  This workshop will help you with picking topics, planning activities, and give you tools to aide you in your face-to-face interaction with students.  Participants are encouraged to bring along questions and lesson plans for workshopping.

Improvisational Teaching
For teaching artists as well as teachers who are frustrated with the constraints of “No Child Left Behind.”  Have your lesson plans become stale?  Have you forgotten why you love teaching?  Does it wear you out to think about facing your students another day?  In this workshop, you will learn how to use improvisational teaching to ignite your students’ creativity as well as your own.  Learn how the creative arts can be used to engage students in any topic imaginable.  Participants will also have the opportunity to bring in their curriculum and lesson plans for workshopping.

Playback Theatre for Teaching Artist, Social Service and Teachers
In this workshop, participants will learn how to perform and teach a number of forms of Playback Theater. Participants will also process and explore how the techniques of Playback Theatre can be used in educational settings, as a tool in “regular” theatre classes, as well as for creating social change.

All workshops can be adjusted/tailor made to fit the needs of the specific community. For costs, availability, or additional information, click here.

FOR WORKING ACTORS AND THEATRE STUDENTS:

Playback Theatre for Actors
Having trouble remembering why you love being an actor?  Does your acting feel a little “stale”? This is a workshop for working actors and/or college level acting students interested in learning an innovative form of improvisational theatre that reinvigorates creativity, spontaneity, and honesty in scripted work.  Playback Theatre quite literally asks you to put on the shoes of someone else by using true stories from participants as the prompt for an improvised theatre piece.

All workshops can be adjusted/tailor made to fit the needs of the specific community. For costs, availability, or additional information, click here.