This month BIPOC and white educators offer their experiences and suggestions to decenter whiteness in your curricula and bring decolonial practices to your classroom.
If you have questions you would like our panelists to answer, please submit them via email. We will try to incorporate them into our discussion.
We are doing registration a little differently this time, through Eventbrite. The conversation is, as always, free. There is an option to include a donation for these timely and important conversations. Suggested donation for this event is $10.
We are grateful to have New City Players as a partner on this event.
Panelists:
Brian Edgecomb is an actor, director, and teacher based in South Florida. He is currently the Chair of the Theatre Department at G-Star School of the Arts in West Palm Beach Fl. He earned a B.F.A. from Florida Atlantic University and an M.F.A. from Purdue University. His professional acting credits include: Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Take Heed Theatre Company, and more.
Annie Jansen is a secondary drama and social studies educator based in Washington state. The bulk of her experience is in devising new work and facilitating devising with students. She centers her classroom practice and theatrical direction around elevating historically underrepresented voices and promoting a culture of consent. Venmo: @Anne-Jansen-3
Waylon Lenk (Karuk, he/him/his) is a Ph.D. candidate in Theatre at the University of Oregon. He has taught acting at the University of Oregon for four years. His dissertation looks at settler-colonial structures in west coast theatre. As an arts practitioner, he has worked with Yvette Nolan (Algonquian) on her English-to-English translations of Shakespeare’s Henry IV and with Randy Reinholz (Choctaw) on his Off the Rails at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Lenk has also presented work at the Many Nations Longhouse at the University of Oregon, the Native American Longhouse Eena Haws at Oregon State University, Portland Public Schools, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, and the Piggyback Fringe Festival. Paypal.me/WaylonLenk
Alicia Mullikin is a Seattle based Chicana dancer, choreographer, and educator who strives to serve her community through activism in the arts. As an artist, Alicia believes that inclusive representation of cultures in dance can be used to close the equity gap between oppressive systems and historically marginalized communities. As an educator she engages in community dialogue and curriculum development to create more culturally relevant and equitable educational systems. Alicia was recently a featured artist on the TASTEMADE series Uncharted: Seattle for her work as a Latina artist and in 2018 Alicia was featured on the PBS Emmy-winning episode of BORDERS & HERITAGE: Los Artistas; which recently screened at the Museum of Chicano & Latino Culture. For more about her work check out ALICIAMULLIKIN.COM
Also, register now for the follow up on September 14 as students share their experiences on representation in dance and theatre classrooms.