Tigermedia - Peacebuilding Through Awareness & Improvisation, Part 1
Peacebuilding Through Awareness & Improvisation, Part 1
Date: March 12th, 2021
Duration:
1h:30m:18s
This program is a celebration of a participatory action research methodology known as Social Presencing Theater (SPT), a body-based approach for sensing and enacting change. Because SPT is practiced in community, it positions our relational spaces, and the distinct cultures that emerge from them, as worthy of reflection and development. The “theater” in SPT refers to a shared place where something of significance is made visible. This event comes out of a workshop on “empathy to action” which Queensborough Community College (QCC) students developed in partnership with the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center in 2019.
Facilitators are Arawana Hayashi, creator of Social Presencing Theater; Uri Noy Meir, an artist-facilitator co-creating social art across borders; QCC faculty members Heather Huggins, advanced practitioner of SPT and Assistant Professor of Theatre, and Aviva Geismar, Associate Professor of Dance; as well as members of QCC’s student and alumni practice group. This event is co-sponsored by Transformative Learning in the Humanities at the City University of New York (CUNY) as well as QCC’s Mindfulness Club, Office of Student Activities, and Visual and Performing Arts Academy. For more information about the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College, please visit: http://khc.qcc.cuny.edu/