At the heart of each culture and person is lived experience. The ability to share
in that experience is central to successful cross-cultural dialogue and conflict
resolution. Drama is the only medium that truly allows one to step into another's
experience, to "walk a mile in their shoes".
In this interactive and experiential workshop, participants will be guided through exercises designed by internationally renowned leaders in the field of drama-in-education. Using the tools of this growing field, participants will explore techniques for expressing their own complex identities, taking in those that are foreign to them and exploring the integral connections between the two.
After experiencing the work first-hand, participants will be given structures for leading these exercises as a tool for engagement, discussion and dialogue in a variety of fields, including business, community organizing and all levels of education from pre-school through college. All work will be adapted to the needs, interests and comfort level of the group.
NO
PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE NECESSARY. Drama in education is not about acting, movement
or vocal skill; it is about engaging in structured interaction to explore the
boundaries of experience that shape us, divide us and bring us together.
Workshop Facilitator: Leila Buck
Leila Buck is the Education Director for Nibras Arab-American Theater Collective and a teaching artist with Creative Arts Team at the City University of New York. In addition to working in dozens of schools with hundreds of four-to-12-year old students and their teachers, she frequently leads professional developments for teachers in drama as a tool for literacy, social awareness, and conflict resolution. Her award-winning one-woman show, ISite, an educational piece about her Arab-American experience, has toured schools, universities and conferences all over the United States and in Belgium, France, Switzerland and China.
A graduate of Wesleyan University, Leila recently returned to school to pursue her Master's in Educational Theatre and Middle East Studies at NYU, where she has worked training law students to handle issues of race and sexual orientation in mediation. Her latest projects included a performance for high school students on Israeli/Palestinian identity, performing in Arabic for Christmas and Ramadan, teaching playwriting at Miami Dade Writer's Institute and developing a puppet show with Arab children for the Children's Museum of Manhattan. The daughter of a Lebanese mother and American diplomat father, Leila is conversationally fluent in Spanish, French and Arabic and has lived in Kuwait, Oman, Iraq and Lebanon, visited Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan and traveled extensively in both China and Europe.
Who
should come to this workshop?
Anyone,
from any level and from any professional area, who works with groups (external),
or works within a specific group or team inside an organization.
Register now
Wednesday, 21 September 09.00-12.30, 13.30-16.15
Price per participant will be €150. This includes two coffee breaks and lunch.
Communicate your questions and expectations directly to Leila.
Register for this workshop now.
To book accommodation for your workshop, please fill in your personal information and the 'daily lodging' part of the main congress registration form.