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Making the Case for Theatre Education: As a Practice
Tuesday, May 12, 2020, 3:00pm (EST)

Presented by: Jeff Poulin, Creative Generation
Dr. Jennifer Katona, Norwalk Public Schools

In the final webinar of the series, participants will examine hands-on tactics to engage in case-making for theatre education in your day-to-day practice. Developing a personal and professional commitment to the work with several touchpoints with other individuals and organizations, attendees will craft a plan to act as a change-maker.
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Registration Fee: Member: Free, Non-Member Student $20, Non-Member $40

Registration Fee: Member: Free, Non-Member Student $10, Non-Member $20

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Are you a practitioner or graduate student looking to publish material? Whether you're in the classroom as a teacher or a student, an administrator or an activist, participants in this workshop will learn techniques for documenting their practice, writing an analysis on reflections from that documentation, and publishing with AATE's Incite/Insight. Incite/Insight editor Alex Ates will lead the hour-long workshop.

Presenter: Alex Ates is a theater educator from New Orleans, LA. He is a member of AATE's board and has written for American Theatre, Backstage, Howlround, and Scalawag. Alex has been the education and engagement director of a non-profit theater company, a K-5 public school theater teacher, a teacher at The University of Alabama, and a visiting artist at Agnes Scott College and Emerson College. His research on theater and education in the South has been published and presented in Theatre Symposium.

Making the Case for Theatre Education: In Your Community

Presented by: Jeff Poulin and Karla E. Rivera
Tuesday, February 11, 2020, 3 pm (EST)

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Registration Fee: Member: Free, Non-Member Student $20, Non-Member $40

Continuing the discussion from "The Basics," this webinar will contextualize case-making to advance theatre education in your own community. How do we connect with local leaders like city officials, school board members, funders, etc.? Together, participants will think about new and innovative ways to connect theatre education to other social causes to leverage grassroots and community-based movements.

Presenter: Karla E. Rivera

As a storyteller, theatre artist, community organizer, and advocate; Karla E. Rivera has leveraged her background to create impact in educational institutions and community-based organizations for over a decade.

From violence prevention outreach initiatives, to her most recent role as the director of public affairs at Ingenuity, Karla is a recognized leader in building collaborative spaces with diverse stakeholders to design and implement programs, advance policy, and foster civic discourse.

At Ingenuity, she works to advance the organization's mission of ensuring equitable access to arts education in Chicago Public Schools. She also serves as part of the writing team for what may become Chicago's first ever Cultural Bill of Rights. At the state level, Karla serves as the co-chair of a state-wide work group which developed the nation's first weighted K-12 arts-focused indicator for the Illinois Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) plan (pending approval from the Illinois State Board of Education).

Karla is also a consultant, and remains an active artist as a company member at 2nd Story and a collaborator with Free Street Theater in Chicago. Recently, she helped make Chicago history as one of the Lead Artists in Free Street's "50 in 50", where the company held fifty performances in all of Chicago's 50 wards in one day. She holds a BA from Columbia College Chicago, has studied at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and is a graduate of the Greater Good Nonprofit Leaders Program at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Making the Case for Theatre Education: With The Government
Tuesday, March 10, 2020, 3:00pm (EST)

Presented by: Jeff Poulin, Creative Generation
Having explore the grassroots case-making for theatre education and social movements, this webinar will explore the advocacy infrastructure in the United States to advance theatre education. Presenters will cover what is happening nationally, examples of state-wide efforts, and envision opportunities for theatre educators to plug in.
SPECIAL EDITION: Making the Case for Theatre Education: Responding in Times of Crisis
Tuesday, April 14, 2020, 3:00pm (EST)

In this special webinar, participants will engage in a structured dialogue in response to the COVID-19 global pandemic. Guests will share their practical, hands-on experiences (and resources) about the impact of the crisis on the theatre education community, including on funding, school/districts, and for teaching artists and community organizations. In this non-recorded session, attendees will learn, process, and connect with peers to focus on opportunities, new innovations, and hope.

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Presenters:
Jeff M. Poulin, Creative Generation
Jennifer Katona, Nowalk Public Schools
Heleya De Barros, Arts Corps / Association of Teaching Artists

This session is intended to unify the community, be offered free-of-charge, be a safe place (read: not recorded), and amplify voices from our communities with practical examples, resources, and actions to take. I have not yet asked Heleya, but we have been collaborating on other items and I believe she would be open to joining.

Heleya de Barros is an actor, teaching artist, and arts education advocate whose work focuses on how to use theatre skills across disciplines. Heleya has served as faculty at The New School for Drama and has taught with such organizations as Lincoln Center Theater, McCarter Theater Center, New York Theatre Workshop, The Center for Arts Education, People's Theatre Project, Young Audiences New York, The Geffen Playhouse, The Los Angeles Music Center, The Orange County Performing Arts Center, Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences, Will & Company, CRE Outreach, and 24th Street Theatre. She is the Executive Director of The Association of Teaching Artists, the oldest organization serving teaching artists in the country and formerly sat on the Board of the NYC Arts in Education Roundtable. She is also the Director of Arts Education for Arts Corps in Seattle,WA. As an actor Heleya earned her Actor's Equity card touring TYA shows to schools and communities. Currently Heleya acts as a performer and researcher with the Verbatim Performance Lab using theatre to examine and uncover unconscious bias. @Heleya_deBarros

Dr. Jennifer Katona, Visual and Performing Arts Sr. Manager for the Norwalk Public Schools. Katona oversees over 80 K-12 arts education staff over 20 schools servicing 12,000 students. Norwalk is a Title 1 district and her work includes curriculum writing, establishment and sustaining quality arts programming K-12 and helping the district move to a stronger arts integration model. Katona is the former director and Founder of the Graduate Program in Educational Theatre at the City College of New York (CCNY), overseeing the certification of pre and in-service Theatre teachers and training of non-certified theatre educators. Through her work at CCNY Jennifer created and oversees the middle school afterschool drama program at PS 161 the neighboring K-8 school in Harlem.

She is the 2015 recipient of the Lin Wright Special Recognition Award given by the American Alliance for Theatre and Educators (AATE) for Outstanding achievement in Theatre education. She is also the 2014 recipient of the Presidents Award for Outstanding Faculty Service at CCNY.

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The Barrow Group remains dedicated to being of service to you in these extraordinary times. To that end, we are offering a number of opportunities to engage during these days of social distancing. W e value you and know that we will get through this together and be stronger for it. Join us for any of the below.

READINGS

Trouble In Mind: A Celebration of Black Playwrights in America from the 1800s to now.

February 20
7pm EST
Free
Click to learn more and to reserve a ticket. Or join us onFacebook Live.

ARTIST CONVERSATIONS
Hosted by Seth Barrish and/or Lee Brock
VIEW UPCOMING ARTIST CONVERSATIONS

Each week a different artist will join either Seth Barrish or Lee Brock for an interview to talk about acting, training, and how they're staying creative and engaged with the arts during these unprecedented times.

Check back frequently to see the list of upcoming guests as they are confirmed.

*Please register prior to the event. Registrants will be sent a Zoom link prior to the start of the event.

FIRST FRIDAYS

First Fridays is a monthly free curated event to offer artists the opportunity to share their work, practice their craft, and connect with fellow artists. The events focus on Works in Progress, in which writers share selections from their work and cast actors on the spot to participate.

RESTORATIVE STORIES PROJECT

Spring 2020 - Restorative Stories - Nonfiction stories that restore, enrich, transform, and inspire.

June 2021 - Stay tuned for our next event!

FREE ACTING WORKSHOP

Join us for a free acting workshop with co-artistic directors Seth Barrish and Lee Brock.
Our next workshop is Thursday, March 11, 6:30pm-9:30pm EST
To participate fill out theapplication. Deadline to apply is 5pm EST on March 5.

If you'd like to observe the workshop, you can sign up here.

TEA WITH TBG

We'll be easing into Mondays with cups of tea and delightful conversation with Lee Brock and Seth Barrish. Each week's Tea with Lee & Seth will focus on a different topic.

Past Teas:

5/4/20 - TBG Approach

5/11/20 - Spontaneity and Ideas

5/18/20 - Ideas: Help or Hindrance?

6/1/20 - Listening Without An Agenda

6/8/20 - Acting Off the Word

6/15/20 - Perfectionism

6/22/20 - The Actor's 5 P's

6/29/20 - Leaving the Emotions Alone

7/13/20 - Be On the Take Not On the Make

7/27/20 - Transformation

8/10/20 - Connecting the Dots

8/24/20 - If It's Physical, It's Fair

*Please register to join a Tea with Lee & Seth. All registrants will be sent a link to a Zoom Meeting prior to the start of the Town Hall. *Registration deadline is 90 minutes prior to the start of the event.

For questions about any of the above, please contact . We will respond as soon as we are able.

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In this book, David Wiles introduces ancient Greek theater to students and enthusiasts interested in knowing how the plays were performed. Theater was a ceremony bound up with fundamental activities in ancient Athenian life and Wiles explores those elements that created the theater of the time. Actors rather than writers are the book's main concern and Wiles examines how the actor used the resources of story-telling, dance, mask, song and visual action to create a large-scale event that would shape the life of the citizen community.

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Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance

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Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance asks a central theoretical question in the study of drama: What is the relationship between the dramatic text and the meanings of performance? W.B. Worthen argues that the text cannot govern the force of its performance. Instead, the text becomes signi…

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This is the first definitive history of African-American theatre. The text embraces a wide geography, investigating companies from coast to coast as well as the anglophone Caribbean and African American companies touring Europe, Australia and Africa. This history represents a catholicity of styles--…

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"Highly recommended." — Library Journal. One of the most comprehensive handbooks available on Kabuki theatre provides readers with all the information they need to understand and appreciate this exciting amalgam of dramatic and musical arts. A clear and thoughtfully written text describes…