Leaders of Color Institute (LOCI) 2021 Recordings
Friday, November 5th:
Welcome and Opening Keynote
Chil Kong is the Artistic Director of Adventure Theatre MTC in Glen Echo Maryland. Alvaro Saar Rios teaches playwriting at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is Playwright-In-Residence at Milwaukee's First Stage.
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Saturday, November 6th:
Mentor/Mentee Meeting
The goal of The American Alliance for Theatre & Education (AATE) Leaders of Color Mentorship program is to create a cohort of Mentors and Mentees that will be a professional support system and resource for each other in their careers.
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Is Theatre Becoming a Place for the Elite and How Do We Break It? (Presenter: Miguel Salazar)
This session is a conversation with Miguel Salazar where he discusses his experiences as an educator, a designer and a technical director at an university theatre program in the Rio Grande Valley and the intersections he found working at a summer stock theatre program in Montana. His experiences have led him to question how we can break the current theatre model which limits access, education, and financial sustainability to a few with the resources and support to pursue a career in the field. His questioning comes from his life and educational experiences and what he sees occurring with his students at a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI).
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Community Performance and Care (Presenter: Lisa Biggs)
Communities that have experienced large-scale natural and/or human-made disasters regularly turn to the arts to develop and stage public acts of self-repair. As human beings, we fundamentally understand that it is through performance that we make, unmake and remake our world. In this workshop, Dr. Lisa Biggs will share some examples of theatre as a practice of community self-repair, and invite participants to investigate how the skills of theatre artists might be used to address and redress some of the inequities and needs laid bare during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Closing Keynote Panel with Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Lisa Biggs, and Toya Lillard
Omi Osun Joni L. Jones' work is committed to exploring strategies for promoting healthy communities through personal and communal joy. Dr. Lisa Biggs currently serves as the John Atwater and Diana Nelson Assistant Professor of the Arts and Africana Studies at Brown University. Toya Lillard is Executive Director of viBe Theater Experience who has directed plays, developed curricula, led advocacy efforts, and implemented innovative teaching artist training programs both in and out of NYC schools.
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