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Ticket Prices for Performances
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~~~ Thursday - Oct 4 ~~~ FREE WORKSHOPS 1:30pm-3:30pm – at Goucher College Meyerhoff Arts Center -- Dunnock Theatre Alternate ROOTS:Resources for Social Change - Exploring principles for partnerships between Artists and communities. Resources for Social Change (RSC) is a training program developed by Alternate ROOTS that teaches ideas and techniques to develop sustained social change through art. This workshop will focus on five principles as a model for artists working with community: Shared Power; Equitable Partnership, Open Dialogue, Individual and Community Transformation, Aesthetic including Beauty and Justice 4:00pm-6:00pm - at Goucher College Todd Dance Studio Kip Lee: Building Inclusive Community through Dance In this workshop participants will create original ensemble dance theater in a way that is inclusive and welcoming of people with “different” physicalities and physical limitations. We will practice inclusive modern dance technique, use improvisation as choreographic research, and create moments of shimmering dance art together. The workshop invites participants to consider questions such as: What is a dancer? What is dance? What makes a dance theater piece good? Who could not dance? How do limitations become opportunities and doorways rather than obstacles to creativity? There will be time for performing for and with each other, as well as discussion at the end of the workshop.
~~~ Friday - Oct 5 ~~~ FREE WORKSHOPS 4:00-6:00pm - at University of Baltimore Business Center Room BC003 (Business Center at the south western corner of Charles and Mount Royal) The Collective: Community Building through Improvisation. This workshop will address the strength of community building to accomplish seemingly impossible goals. Through various trust building exercises and dance demonstrations, the workshop participants will accomplish a community goal of creating a new dance through improvisation. 6:00 pm Artist and Activist Cocktail Hour at Baltimore Theatre Project This networking cocktail hour will provide a space for Activists, Organizers, and Artists to discuss their current projects and potential future partnerships.
~~~ Saturday - Oct 6 ~~~ FREE WORKSHOPS 9:30-11am - at Maryland Institute College of Art Main Building Room 222 Art on Purpose: Speaking of Silence The “Speaking of Silence” workshop will address the rich and layered meanings of silence. In this workshop, participants will listen to audio recordings taken from an ongoing interview project conducted by Art on Purpose to collect individuals stories. Participants will reflect on the audio, view and respond to photographic portraits, engage in discussion around the topic and create their own piece of artwork expressing the significance of silence in their own lives 11:30am-1pm - at Maryland Institute College of Art Main Building Room 222 American Friends Service Committee: Policing US The workshop is intended to demonstrate the relationship between policing, prisons and political repression in U.S. communities of color. The workshop will provide a historical timeline that draws the connections between slavery and the advent of urban police forces as well as law enforcement initiatives such as the FBI’s infamous Counter-Intelligence Program and its impact on the Black Panther Party. 11:30am-1pm – at University of Baltimore Business Center Room BC003 Ioana Stoica: Mythic Journeys - Engaging the Hero Within Recognizing that social justice begins with personal transformation, this workshop will draw upon myth as the source and inspiration for that process. The goal is for each participant to identify and embody an inner hero whose power for action is reinforced by a personal story and a symbol that can serve as a source of strength and meaning in daily life. 2:00-3:30pm - Maryland Institute College of Art Main Building Room 222 Maggie Cleland: Empowering Adult Immigrant Communities through Theatre In this dynamic workshop, participants will investigate the challenges and benefits of theatre-making across socioeconomic, educational, and ethnic boundaries. Through discussion as well as theatre games and activities, participants will explore ways of using theatre for community-building, language learning, and lifeskills development. 2:00-3:30pm - at University of Baltimore Business Center Room BC003 Quest: Poetry in Motion Participants will gain a greater understanding of Physical theatre; the role physical theatre can take in enhancing literacy; and the role physical theatre can play in developing acting and communication skills. 4:30-6:00pm - Maryland Institute College of Art Main Building Room 222 Wide Angle Youth Media: Flip It - Exploring & Creating Youth Media Members of the Mentoring Video Project, who produce the “for youth, by youth” television show BeMore TV, will share their knowledge and teach other young people how to explore and produce media that gives them their own platform to speak out about issues that are important to them. In this workshop, we will analyze contemporary media and discuss how youth are represented. Intended for youth and open to all. 4:30-6:00pm - at University of Baltimore Business Center Room BC003 Plunge Cabaret: Power Struggles and the Call for Creativity We will work with one definition of power as “the ability to make choices,” and, through that lens, explore how the struggle to feel powerful is a central issue in most any social, cultural, or developmental issue facing us today.
~~~ Sunday - Oct 7 ~~~ FREE WORKSHOPS 10:00am - Sunday Brunch at Creative Alliance This brunch is designed to provide artists and activists in the region with an opportunity to network and discuss community-based art-making in Baltimore. How can cultural workers deal with their own needs as well as forge head in building partnerships that contribute to making long term social change? Through small group discussion and Q and A with Panelists we will be exploring that answer. 1:30-4:00pm - at Red Emma’s 2640 Theatre Action Group: Embracing Discomfort In this workshop, Theater Action Group (TAG) asks how this festival can serve us as artists and activists to identify, explore and address the contradictions in our work? TAG is open to working with festival participants and leaders to identify and respond to an emerging concern, theme or need that arises during the festival. 4:30-6:00pm - at Red Emma’s Brave Soul Collective: Embracing Your Truth Through the use of group discussion, BSC will conduct their "Brave Soul" gathering with a specific focus on the power (and/or) importance of embracing one's truth in order to increase self esteem, dispel stereotypes, and reduce the risk factors generally associated with HIV infections. BSC has found that the ability to identify & demonstrate one's truth openly is extremely beneficial not only to individuals, but to larger groups of people who may not otherwise take the time to understand, acknowledge and accept one another.
For more information, please call: (540) 558-8744 Creative Convergence Festival is made possible through the generous support of:
Creative Convergence is co-presented by Alternate ROOTS, Baltimore Theatre Project and ClancyWorks Dance Company. About Alternate ROOTS:
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