Submitted by sseigel on Thu, 03/04/2010 - 14:48
This interactive, theater based workshop, will provide participants with an opportunity to enhance their communication and active listening skills. Participants will learn and experience basic techniques of voice, gesture, body language, movement, improvisation, intentional presence and creative risk-taking as tools for engaging and retaining the interest of their audience. Reaching an audience demands that they must trust our authenticity of voice, presence and being. We must be fully engaged with those we work beside, understanding the roles of empathy, humor, compassion and the essence of our shared humanity, regardless of our origins, self-identifiers, social identifiers, or beliefs.
In order to create sustainable social change, we must first create sustainable personal change, with clear vision and plan of purpose, intentional choices and action, and a commitment to personal accountability that places priority on creating win-win interactions for the good of all. Participants will explore how improvisation plays a role in our daily lives, allowing us to interact with a diversity of people, and take hold of challenges, frustration and adversity, as we creatively transform them into opportunities for personal growth and social engagement that is healing, transformative, and sustainable.
Magdalena Gómez is an award winning, prominent figure of the Puerto Rican Literary movement, known as a playwright, teaching artist, essayist and performance poet. Her work is featured in curriculums throughout the U.S. and abroad. Ms. Gómez has performed in venues which include: Lincoln Center, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Smith College, Boston University, The Massachusetts State House, New WORLD Theater, and Vanderbilt University, among many others. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications and anthologies, such as The Los Angeles times, Tea Party Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, Latino Boom, the Berkshire Review, upstreet Journal,among many others. Her plays have been produced off-Broadway, as well as other venues. In 2008 she was the recipient of a national award from the Black Women Playwright’s group in Washington, D.C. for her life-long contributions to the U.S. theater. She is a regular performer with this year’s Harvard Arts Medal recipient, composer and musician, Fred Ho. Magdalena is currently the Co-founder and Artistic Director of Teatro V!da, the first latin@ theater in the history of Springfield, Massachusetts.
www.latinapoet.net
www.teatrovida.com
In order to create sustainable social change, we must first create sustainable personal change, with clear vision and plan of purpose, intentional choices and action, and a commitment to personal accountability that places priority on creating win-win interactions for the good of all. Participants will explore how improvisation plays a role in our daily lives, allowing us to interact with a diversity of people, and take hold of challenges, frustration and adversity, as we creatively transform them into opportunities for personal growth and social engagement that is healing, transformative, and sustainable.
Magdalena Gómez is an award winning, prominent figure of the Puerto Rican Literary movement, known as a playwright, teaching artist, essayist and performance poet. Her work is featured in curriculums throughout the U.S. and abroad. Ms. Gómez has performed in venues which include: Lincoln Center, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Smith College, Boston University, The Massachusetts State House, New WORLD Theater, and Vanderbilt University, among many others. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications and anthologies, such as The Los Angeles times, Tea Party Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, Latino Boom, the Berkshire Review, upstreet Journal,among many others. Her plays have been produced off-Broadway, as well as other venues. In 2008 she was the recipient of a national award from the Black Women Playwright’s group in Washington, D.C. for her life-long contributions to the U.S. theater. She is a regular performer with this year’s Harvard Arts Medal recipient, composer and musician, Fred Ho. Magdalena is currently the Co-founder and Artistic Director of Teatro V!da, the first latin@ theater in the history of Springfield, Massachusetts.
www.latinapoet.net
www.teatrovida.com
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Thu, 03/04/2010 - 13:40 - Sat, 04/10/2010 - 13:40