Details for May TAAM Workshop - Reaching Past the Divide

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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

While leading an arts group workshop in a

culture different from your own the process of moving past one’s comfort zone

and releasing control allows for discovery, wonder and flexibility--true mutual

authenticity. The workshop will take classic arts exercises and turn them

upside down and in doing so we will be able to reach deeper and discover more

about ourselves as learner-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. 

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

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