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2012 Sojourn Theatre Summer Institute: Chicago

2012 Sojourn Theatre Summer Institute: Chicago
for Adults working in Theatre, Education & Community settings
(offered in partnership with The Center for Performance & Civic Practice)

Workshop Leader: Michael Rohd

June 17-21, 2012
Chicago, IL @ Adventure Stage

Fee: $325
Register through this website; fee is non-refundable, your payment reserves your spot in the workshop.

**Only 26 slots available -- 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

Now in its 13th summer, this five-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 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 centered in Portland, Oregon that has made 24 major works around the nation over the last eleven years and is a 2005 recipient of Americans for the Arts' Animating Democracy Exemplar Award. Rohd is a recipient of Theatre Communications Group's 2001 New Generations Grant, and their 2002 Extended Collaboration Grant with Atlanta's Alliance Theatre. He is on faculty at Northwestern University's Theater Department with a focus on Devising Performance, Directing & Civic Engagement. From 1991 through 2000, he 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), chronicles that work.

Rohd recently directed his own new play WILSON WANTS IT ALL at The House Theater in Chicago (Winner Chicago Jeff Award 2010 Best New Work) and Oregon Shakespeare Festival's WILLFUL, which he devised with OSF's Acting Company over a three-year period. Residency, collaboration, and/or consultancy work has included partnerships with UNC/Chapel Hill, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Boise Contemporary Theater, University of Maryland, Duke University, Black Ministerial Alliance of Lima, Ohio, Georgetown University, Nike, CUNY, the Orton Family Foundation, The City Council of Molalla, Oregon, The Mayor of Portland's Office, the Connecticut State Legislature, and Health & Education departments across the country. His work has been supported by Americans for the Arts, the Ford Foundation, NEA, MAP Fund, Boeing, and local and state funding councils. Current work includes: co-leading a collaboration between Sojourn Theatre and NYC's The TEAM called WAITING FOR YOU (on the Corner of) that will premiere at Kansas City Rep in February 2013; a commission from Flint Youth Theater about farm-to-food culture and economic change; and leading the newly formed The Center for Performance and Civic Practice, which he founded in 2011.

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Adventure Stage (View)
1012 North Noble
Chicago, IL 60642
United States

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Owner: Sojourn Theatre

On BPT Since: May 08, 2007

Alisha Tonsic, Managing Director

www.sojourntheatre.org

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Question:	Hi Alisha! I am very interested in participating in the Summer Institite. I am a budding community organizer, networker and theater maker living in Chicago. I was wondering what the hours of the institute are. Is it all day? Please respond to caitlyn.ference@gmail.com Thanks!
Answer:	The first day starts at 8:30am -- but otherwise, each day of the institute goes from 9am-4pm, and includes a mid-day lunch break.

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