We are excited to bring you a free panel discussion of what Inclusion, Equity, and Justice can look like in Pedagogy, Curriculum, and Creative Practice!
The second in our series of discussions on how we can create change in the arts!
Where: Google Meet. Please register using the form below to receive the link.
When: Monday, July 13 at 7pm ET
The Panelists (in alphabetical order by last name):
Sharai Bohannon is a playwright who has had work produced in Arkansas, California, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Texas, and London, England. In addition to writing plays Sharai is also a film and pop culture critic for various online magazines including The Everygirl and Book and Film Globe, and her own Medium page. She is the founder of Punching LaBute, Director of Production at The Rachel Lynett Theatre Company, and an occasional theatre reviewer for Scapi Magazine and Picture This Post. She currently resides in Bloomington, Indiana. Sharai pronouns are she/her. Venmo @Sharai-nae-OConnor
Christopher Scott Caldwell is the founder of Ovations Global Network INC, a not – for- profit 501(c) (3) an alliance of artists, art makers, investors, and activists have devoted to their platform to mobilizing the unifying qualities of dance to positively affect the public quality of life for all. His clients include: • Grammy lifetime achievement award winners • So You Think You Can Dance • founders of major Fitness Brands • performers on network TV and from stages across the globe • internationally accredited dance pioneers • TED X speakers. Christopher is a certified practitioner of the Simonson Method of Teacher Training and is board certified in 12 Dances via Fred Astaire International. In addition to being an educator, Christopher creates dances and shows. His choreography has been performed across the US, Japan, Jamaica, and on major TV networks. He has worked with some of the industri’s most acclaimed choreographers and entertainers including: The Whispers, Bill T Jones, Mia Michaels, Kumari Suraj, Viktor Manoel, and Tyrone "The Bone" Proctor. To learn more or donate, visit www.ovationsglobalnetwork.org
A native of Miami, FL, Kunya C. Rowley is an alum of New World School of the Arts College’s opera program, but often traverses the worlds of various genres. His artistic credits include performances with Magic City Opera, Slow Burn Theatre, Opera Naples, Florida Grand Opera, Orchestra Miami, Nu Deco Ensemble, Illuminarts, Klezmer Orchestra, and M Ensemble and he is a national reviewer for the National YoungArts Foundation voice division. Kunya is a 2017 Knight Arts Challenge recipient for "Hued Songs”, a performance series that explores and celebrates black history through the lens of black music and artists. Through his work he seeks to be a conduit for accessible arts across a multi-cultural platform. Donations can be made on the Hued Songs website.
Brian Anthony Wilson is a Philadelphia-based actor. Recent Theatre Credits: Looking Over The President's Shoulder (Act II Playhouse), The Resistible Rise of Artuo Ui (Lantern Theatre), Gem Of The Ocean (Arden Theatre * Barrymore Award for 'Outstanding Supporting Performance In A Play') & Thurgood (Olney Theatre Center). Film/TV selected Credits : Glass, Oceans 8, Creed, The Arrangement, Limitless, The Postman / Mare Of Easttown, Dispatches From Elsewhere, Wu-Tang: An American Saga, Siren, Bloodline, Gotham, Blue Bloods,The Sopranos & The Wire. PayPal info : detholley@yahoo.com
JP Viernes (he/they) is a dancer, choreographer, and scholar hailing from Half Moon Bay, CA. A former child actor, JP trained in multiple dance styles and performed for two years as Billy on the national tour of Billy Elliot the Musical. In San Francisco, he attended the School of the Arts and went on to complete a bachelor’s in physics and dance at Columbia University. JP has performed works by Lucinda Childs, Molissa Fenley, Colleen Thomas, and David Thomson, and he currently dances with The Chase Brock Experience and General Mischief Dance Theatre. He has also made works for Current Showcase and Bridge For Dance’s Uptown Rising series, often in collaboration with his sister, Lexi. JP has an ongoing investment in issues of representation in the dance and performing arts world. In 2019, he presented his undergraduate thesis, “Loose Taps: Finding Queer Orientations in Tap Dance Performance,” with the Dance Studies Association. JP is also a current member of the DSA Percussive Dance working group. For donations, JP would like to direct folks to the Transgender, Gender-Variant, & Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP), which supports trans and gender non-conforming folks in prison, particularly women of color.
Elizabeth Wislar is a mix-blood Choctaw/Lenape member of the Cherokee Nation, a multi award-winning Costume Professional, a large scale textile Artist, a wage equity Warrior, and Instructor. Elizabeth has asked that donations support Momentum Stage to continue to offer these conversations. PayPal info: momentumstage@gmail.com
Made possible with support by New City Players
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