Arts Learning
Arts Learning
zAmya Theater Project: Performance Skills Training.
Lynne Bertalmio: Retired Director Stillwater Public Library; Cristeta Boarini: Mid-Continent Oceanographic Institute Program Director; Tricia Heuring: Public Functionary Executive Director; Alejandra Iannone: Sparkle Theatricals Creative Co-Director; Wu Chen Khoo: Technical Tools of the Trade Stage Technical Designer and Director; Wendy Lane: Retired Human Resources Consultant; Dayna Martinez: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts; Donna Saul Millen: TPT-Twin Cities PBS Events Director; Christal Moose: Native Pride Productions Inc Manager; Adaobi Okolue: Twin Cities Media Alliance Executive Director; Andrea Sjogren: Hopkins Community Education Adult and Youth Programs Coordinator; Deanna StandingCloud: New Native Theatre; Sara Wilson: Gislason and Hunter LLP Attorney.
Chavonn Williams Shen: Artistic, Youth Programming, Education; Cross: Youth Programming, Education, Community Education; Jon Rees: Education, Artistic, Audience Development / Marketing; Kealoha (Kea) Ferreira: Community Education, Artistic, Organizational Development; Mailee Vue: Education, Youth Programming, Organizational Development; Stephani Atkins: Youth Programming, Volunteerism, Artistic; Susan Tarnowski: General Administration, Education, Organizational Development; Val Lockhart: Audience Development / Marketing, Computer Systems / Web Design, General Administration.
ACHF Arts Education
Twenty people who are currently homeless or formerly homeless will complete the eight-week Performance Skills Training. Participants will indicate that their daily lives were enhanced by theater arts and that the experience helped restore dignity. Ten current zAmya Troupe members will deepen their facilitation skills as co-facilitators of the Performance Skills Training. Audience feedback will indicate that short performances were thought-provoking. In addition to tracking participation and audience size, zAmya Theater Project will evaluate the Performance Training Sessions based on participant and audience experiences. Every Friday session will end with a brief reflection in which participants state what they are taking away. Tuesday’s performances will include a half-hour lunch and debrief where participants will share learning. After each short performance, we will ask audience members what they are taking away. We will capture some of this on video and share it on social media.
192 participants signed into a workshop. While participation ranged from engaging in one exercise to sticking around for the full training - all had the experience of being invited and encouraged to participate in an arts activity that advocated for housing justice. thirteen actors who've experienced homelessness were trained in facilitation and given an opportunity to serve as peer facilitators.
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