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2020…2021…2022…these past few years have been a WHOLE LOT. When so much has happened to us in the recent past, it can be really hard to think about how we’re doing today, let alone what we want to do tomorrow, next week, or next year. So let’s MAKE IT TOGETHER.
This project is an opportunity to pause and process. We’ll explore the puzzle pieces of our present, past, and future, and experiment with the different ways we can piece them together. How we do it is up to us as an ensemble, but here are some of the questions we might explore:
As artists we are world-builders, reflecting on the world around us and imagining new ways of being. Don’t just change the world, build the world!
WHAT PROGRAM WILL BE LIKE:
Each workshop will consist of a blend of community conversation, storytelling, and multimedia activities, with some digging into local narratives, challenges, and triumphs guided by the interests of participating students. Storytelling will be explored in all its forms - conversation, pen to page, media, and even movement. There will be lots of opportunities to explore different types and styles of art-making, and lots of opportunities to share your work and receive feedback from fellow artists.
The final session of the program will include a Community Sharing, open to friends, family, and the neighborhood. For the sharing, each student will self-select some of their creations for performance or display. Attendees will also be invited to participate in some art-making themselves based on activities and prompts curated by you and your peers!
This project is an opportunity to pause and process. We’ll explore the puzzle pieces of our present, past, and future, and experiment with the different ways we can piece them together. How we do it is up to us as an ensemble, but here are some of the questions we might explore:
- What do we know - and what characters might introduce these ideas to an audience?
- What do we wish we had known - and how can we represent that through movement?
- What would we change - and what would that look like as a sci-fi drama?
- What should we do next - and what stories can we write to light the way?
As artists we are world-builders, reflecting on the world around us and imagining new ways of being. Don’t just change the world, build the world!
WHAT PROGRAM WILL BE LIKE:
Each workshop will consist of a blend of community conversation, storytelling, and multimedia activities, with some digging into local narratives, challenges, and triumphs guided by the interests of participating students. Storytelling will be explored in all its forms - conversation, pen to page, media, and even movement. There will be lots of opportunities to explore different types and styles of art-making, and lots of opportunities to share your work and receive feedback from fellow artists.
The final session of the program will include a Community Sharing, open to friends, family, and the neighborhood. For the sharing, each student will self-select some of their creations for performance or display. Attendees will also be invited to participate in some art-making themselves based on activities and prompts curated by you and your peers!
This program for grades 9 - 12 will be held at Asian Arts Initiative’s 3rd Floor Event Hall on 1219 Vine Street from 1pm - 4pm each day. Students will have the option to come at noon for lunch and casual art-making, and to stay until 5pm for independent studio time.
On the final day, there will be a Community Sharing at 6pm.
On the final day, there will be a Community Sharing at 6pm.
This program is funded by Art is PHL. There is no cost to participate, all program materials will be provided, and lunch and modest snacks will be provided.
About the Funder:
ART IS PHL is a first of its kind, multi-round program designed to create high-quality, artist-driven and community-informed public art. Artists from across Philadelphia will reimagine how we engage with each other and our communities. This program, made possible with $150,000 of public funds and $150,000 from John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, in conjunction with PHDC, supports local artists who are interested in expanding public art in Philadelphia. Full program details can be found at https://artisphl.com/
About the Funder:
ART IS PHL is a first of its kind, multi-round program designed to create high-quality, artist-driven and community-informed public art. Artists from across Philadelphia will reimagine how we engage with each other and our communities. This program, made possible with $150,000 of public funds and $150,000 from John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, in conjunction with PHDC, supports local artists who are interested in expanding public art in Philadelphia. Full program details can be found at https://artisphl.com/
Please note: proof of vaccination will be required no later than two weeks before the start of the program, and participants will be asked to wear masks outside of eating.
Register here as soon as possible - space is limited to ensure our health and wellness as we create together! The deadline to register is July 11th, or earlier if the program reaches maximum capacity.
Register here as soon as possible - space is limited to ensure our health and wellness as we create together! The deadline to register is July 11th, or earlier if the program reaches maximum capacity.
Maryruth (Mr) Stine is a performer, writer and educator whose community-driven projects center queer, trans*, and neurodivergent perspectives, strike a balance of silly stories and social critique, and put the art in cathartic. maryruthstine.com.
Marissa Kennedy is a theatre artist whose aesthetic is centered around engaging the imagination to inspire, give voice, and to promote healing and positive change. As a playwright, her work was featured in the Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival’s Day of One Acts and produced for the 2019 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. She has been teaching with Philadelphia Young Playwrights since 2018. Marissa received her BA in English from Oberlin College and her MA in Theatre from Villanova University.
Shavon Norris is an artist, educator, and facilitator. She uses movement along with text and sound and imagery to reveal and highlight the stories living in our bodies. Her work explores our relationship to our identities, our experiences, and to each other. An examination and celebration of what we feel, think, and believe. Shavon’s artistic and educational philosophies are rooted in the desire to offer herself, learners, performers, and audiences, opportunities to deepen the understanding of self and the collective. To explore ways to light us up, lift us up and shift what needs transforming. She received a BA in Biology from Manhattanville College and an MFA in Dance and Choreography from Temple University.
Jungwoong Kim was born and raised in South Korea, where he studied traditional Korean dance and martial arts, and now resides in Philadelphia. His most recent choreographic works have been presented at the Asian American Theater Conference at Philadelphia's Asian Arts Initiative, the University of Richmond in Virginia, The Iron Factory, and Conwell Dance Theater. Kim was a member of the Korea, Japan, China Dance Exchange Project 2002, and Trust Dance Company. He has served as an instructor for contact improvisation at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, University of Richmond, Korea National University of the Arts, and Chonbuk National University, among others. With support from a 2015 Center grant, Kim will present salt soul, a multimedia dance theater work integrating his heritage in traditional Korean dance with Western dance, improvisation, music, and found sound.
Marissa Kennedy is a theatre artist whose aesthetic is centered around engaging the imagination to inspire, give voice, and to promote healing and positive change. As a playwright, her work was featured in the Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival’s Day of One Acts and produced for the 2019 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. She has been teaching with Philadelphia Young Playwrights since 2018. Marissa received her BA in English from Oberlin College and her MA in Theatre from Villanova University.
Shavon Norris is an artist, educator, and facilitator. She uses movement along with text and sound and imagery to reveal and highlight the stories living in our bodies. Her work explores our relationship to our identities, our experiences, and to each other. An examination and celebration of what we feel, think, and believe. Shavon’s artistic and educational philosophies are rooted in the desire to offer herself, learners, performers, and audiences, opportunities to deepen the understanding of self and the collective. To explore ways to light us up, lift us up and shift what needs transforming. She received a BA in Biology from Manhattanville College and an MFA in Dance and Choreography from Temple University.
Jungwoong Kim was born and raised in South Korea, where he studied traditional Korean dance and martial arts, and now resides in Philadelphia. His most recent choreographic works have been presented at the Asian American Theater Conference at Philadelphia's Asian Arts Initiative, the University of Richmond in Virginia, The Iron Factory, and Conwell Dance Theater. Kim was a member of the Korea, Japan, China Dance Exchange Project 2002, and Trust Dance Company. He has served as an instructor for contact improvisation at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, University of Richmond, Korea National University of the Arts, and Chonbuk National University, among others. With support from a 2015 Center grant, Kim will present salt soul, a multimedia dance theater work integrating his heritage in traditional Korean dance with Western dance, improvisation, music, and found sound.
