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Emilio led our class in mediation to calm our minds and bodies amidst the end of the quarter.

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WEEK 8: Guest Speaker -- Matthew Richter, Office of Arts & Culture

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WEEK 8: Guest Speaker -- Matthew Richter, Office of Arts & Culture

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"The bank shot" and "unintended consequences" Matthew Richter spoke about this long varied career in Seattle, including as at The Stranger, as head of Consolidated Works, an arts space in South Lake Union, and now as Cultural Space Liaison at the City of Seattle, Office of Arts & Culture.

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Anneke led us to recite a "Big 'Ol Sentence." What strategies did you use to remember the previous sentence and come up with a new idea? How did the practice engage with policymaking?

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WEEK 7: Guest Speaker -- Lara Davis & Tina LaPadula, City of Seattle Office and Arts & Culture

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WEEK 7: Guest Speaker -- Lara Davis & Tina LaPadula, City of Seattle Office and Arts & Culture

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Lara and Tina began their session with a "four corners activity" -- what was your first experience with the arts? In the home, private lesson, community center, or school? They then narrated their experience at Arts Corps and how deep engagement in the arts -- committed to risk taking, critical self-reflection, collaboration, helping to create spaces for others to have access to the arts, and making the invisible visible -- influences their commitment to equity in the Office of Arts & Culture.

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Isabel led us to "Shake Out" our arms and legs, counting down from 8.

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WEEK 7: Guest Speaker -- Manny Cawaling, Cultural Access Washington

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WEEK 7: Guest Speaker -- Manny Cawaling, Cultural Access Washington

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"Local policy is specific to place." Manny Cawaling narrated his history in Seattle, his work leading Youth Theatre Northwest for a decade, and his work now at Cultural Access Washington. He described successes and failures of the Access for All Prop 1 Initiative that lost by 1%. How might you devise policy or advocacy to better engage all King County residents around the arts?

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Hunter had folks "pass around the squeeze." How did you use multiple senses to anticipate and communicate the squeeze?

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Sofia led us in making and untying a "Human Knot." How did you move together to work to untie the knot?

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WEEK 4: Guest Speaker -- Tamar Benzikry, 4Culture

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WEEK 4: Guest Speaker -- Tamar Benzikry, 4Culture

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Tamar Benzikry engaged our class about how 4Culture works on arts, heritage, preservation, and public art -- and the breath and possibilities of public art work in King County

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Becca led us in the game "Who Killed King John?"

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Sammy led us in a game of "Zip Zap Zop."

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WEEK 4: Summarizing Seattle Municipal Code Title 20, Chapter 20.32 on Public Art

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WEEK 4: Summarizing Seattle Municipal Code Title 20, Chapter 20.32 on Public Art

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Zoe led the class in a floor slapping exercise where players would be "out" if they made two errors.

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Natalie led the class in two dancing activites -- dancing to La Macarena by Los Del Rio and "I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar" by Johnathan Richman

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WEEK 2: Defining Arts, Policy, and Advocacy

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WEEK 2: Defining Arts, Policy, and Advocacy

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WEEK 1: Discussion on the value of the arts: Oskar Eustis and Jill Dolan

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WEEK 1: Discussion on the value of the arts: Oskar Eustis and Jill Dolan

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Professor Jasmine Mahmoud shared "Name & Gestures" from Augusto Boal's Arsenal of Games & Exercises (more here: https://organizingforpower.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/games-theater-of-oppressed.pdf) AND Rainstorm