Reminder: Saturday's TAAM Workshop: Reaching Past the Divide: Finding Ourselves in the Other

[Guest guest]

Therapeutic Arts Alliance Manhattan©

Healing Communities Through Arts and Conversation

Nash, LCAT, Founder/Co-Director     

Wise, ATR-BC, LCAT, Co-Director

 

Reaching Past

the Divide: Finding Ourselves in the Other

An exploration of the power of the arts to open up a holistic

understanding of ourselves and others when working internationally with diverse

cultures.

Facilitated by

nna Houston, MA and Kayhan Irani

The workshop will take a

classic arts exercise and turn it upside down and in doing so –we will be able

to reach deeper and discover more about ourselves. This is the process of

letting go of one’s own comfort zone of control and anticipation while leading

an arts group workshop in a diverse culture---a culture that is entirely

different from your own---and allowing the “newness” of discovery, wonder and

flexibility –and thus true mutual authenticity ---shape the workshop for the

leader.

 

Please join us at

305 7th Ave (between 27th & 28th Street)

11th floor

Saturday May 19, 2012

10-5

Professionals: $100

Full-time Students: $50

 

To

Register

Email therapeuticartsalliance@...

Or call 

 

About the Facilitators:

 

nna Houston, MA is the co-founder and Executive Director of the

International Theatre and Literacy Project ( HYPERLINK " http://www.itlp.org/ "

www.itlp.org ). ITLP

brings top USA teaching artists to developing countries to conduct playwriting

workshops for children—giving them a voice world wide. The program provides,

through the expressive arts of acting, drama and creative writing, a chance to

develop independent thinking, creative self-expression, social interaction and

discipline and, in the end, produces an original play performed by the students

for their community that allows the voice of a new generation of leaders in the

developing world to be heard.

Ms. Houston, from 1994 to 2011, was the founding Director of Education at

Theatre Development Fund in New York City. As Education Director, she ran

comprehensive student outreach programs that served over 6,000 New York City

high school students annually, allowing them to see top Broadway productions

and to participate in classroom workshops with theatre professionals. The TDF

Education Department is an award wining arts education department that has

served as a model for arts education programs nationally.

Ms Houston has performed regionally and wrote a play, Mama Drama, which was

performed off-Broadway and published by French. . She has been published

in the Teaching Theater Journal, Spring 1997 and Fall, 2001. Ms. Houston has

been on the faculty, as a teaching artist, at Lincoln Center Institute,

Manhattan Theatre Club and Westchester Arts Council.

nna was recognized by The Daily News in November, 2006, as one of New York

City's " 50 Unsung New York Heroes. " The article stated that this was

" a tribute to people who make our city a better place to live. "

 

Kayhan Irani is an Emmy award winning writer, a performer and a Theater

of the Oppressed trainer. She directs participatory arts projects with

government agencies, community based organizations, international NGOs and with

the general public. She has led theater for change projects in conflict zones

such as Afghanistan and Iraq. She is a senior trainer at the Theater of the

Oppressed Laboratory N.Y.; the oldest Theater of the Oppressed training center

in the US.

In 2010 she won a New York Emmy award for best writing for " We Are New

York " a 9-episode broadcast TV drama used as an English language and civic

engagement tool for immigrant New Yorkers.

Kayhan’s work has been supported by the BBC World Service Trust, The

Environmental Protection Agency, Bronx Council for the Arts, the New York

Foundation for the Arts, and the American Society for Muslim Advancement. Her

work has been written about in such publications as The New York Times,

Colorlines Magazine and The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. Her

published work includes Telling Stories to Change the World: Global Voices on

the Power of Narrative to Build Community and Make Social Justice Claims”

(Routledge, 2008).

Kayhan is a member of the Dramatists’ Guild. She uses theater to activate

audiences and transform society.

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