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Event
2012 Sojourn Theatre Summer Workshop: Washington DC
2012 Sojourn Theatre Summer Workshop: Washington DC
for Adults working in Theatre, Education & Community settings
(offered in partnership with The Center for Performance & Civic Practice, and Forum Theatre)
Workshop Leader: Michael Rohd
August 4-6, 2012
Silver Spring, MD
Forum Theatre @ Round House Theatre
Fee: $160
Register through this website; fee is non-refundable, your payment reserves your spot in the workshop.
**Limited to 30 participants -- please register ASAP if interested.**
If you have questions and need to connect with someone prior to registering, please email sojourntheatre@aol.com
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DEVISING CIVIC THEATRE: PERFORMANCE, SOCIAL PRACTICE & DIALOGUE
This two-and-a-half-day workshop/training offers participants an opportunity to explore the techniques and strategies Sojourn Theatre Artistic Director Michael Rohd uses in collaborative work with groups in a variety of settings to:
- devise performance material;
- build partnerships with non-arts-sector civic collaborators;
- examine the potential of site-specific and participatory activity; and
- explore social and political issues through collaborative conceptual, improvisational, and physical investigations.
WORKSHOP LEADER BIO: MICHAEL ROHD
Michael Rohd is founding artistic director of Sojourn Theatre, an ensemble-based company that has made 24 major works around the nation over the last 12 years, many with non-arts sector partners such as State Legislatures, Regional Planning Commissions, a Subaru dealership, a State Department of Education, a City Council, a long term care facility, and Mayor's Offices. Sojourn was a 2005 recipient of Americans for the Arts' Animating Democracy Exemplar Award. From 1991 through 2000, Rohd founded and ran Hope Is Vital, an international theatre and community dialogue resource through which he trained and facilitated more than 100 ensembles of youth and adults in practices of performance and democracy within rural, suburban and urban communities. His widely translated book, Theatre for Community, Conflict & Dialogue (Heinemann, 15th printing), chronicles that work.
Rohd's current projects include: an adaptation of a Sojourn process for three Counties in rural Southwestern Virginia to be used as a public engagement tool for community planning; a partnership with Imagining America on a national collaboration between Sojourn and Universities around the nation using a Sojourn process to create arts-based civic discourse on the local level; preparing Sojourn Theatre to be Artists-in-Residence at the 2012 Catholic Charities USA National Poverty Reduction Summit where the company will perform and offer workshops on community collaboration around difficult issues through arts-based strategies; and leading the newly formed Center for Performance and Civic Practice. Rohd is on faculty at Northwestern University's School of Communication.
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LocationForum Theatre at Round House Theatre (View)
8641 Colesville Road
Silver Spring, MD 20910
United States
Categories
| Minimum Age: 18 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
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