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HEAR YE! HEAR YE! 📜 Let it be known that episode 8 of "Better Know Cincy's Arts," featuring the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, has arrived! In this episode, we chat with Candice Handy, Director of Education, about the importance of arts education for students in the region. Check it out below! #CincyArts #betterknowcincysarts

🍎📖 NEW AUTUMN TRAINING DATES Do you want to enhance your theatre facilitation practice? Or learn from our years of work at the intersection of the women’s sector, theatre, and the criminal justice system? Whether you’re looking to develop a trauma-informed practice or refine your facilitation skills, we have plenty of training opportunities to choose from: 🤗Leading with Kindness – 3 Oct ✏️Rewriting Justice – 10 Oct 🎭Introduction to Theatre in Criminal Justice Settings – 17 oct 🤝Creative Facilitation – 24 Oct bit.ly/4brRoez

Arts Education: A Journey Beyond Validation In a recent surge of inspiration, Sir Ian McKellen has championed the cause of engaging more deeply with the arts. His advocacy for singing, acting, dancing, and writing is not just a call to action but a gentle reminder of the arts' intrinsic value in nurturing the human spirit. The arts are not merely subjects to be graded or critiqued; they are gateways to self-discovery and personal growth. While the pursuit of excellence through arts education is commendable, an overemphasis on external validation through exams can overshadow the true essence of artistic endeavors. The joy found in the creative process, the insights gained from expressing oneself, and the personal satisfaction of artistic exploration are the real treasures that enrich our lives. As we reflect on Sir Ian's words, let us shift our focus from seeking approval to fostering a genuine connection with our creative cores. Let us encourage arts education that prioritizes individual expression over standardized assessment, ensuring that the journey through the arts remains a personal and enriching experience for all. Join the conversation and share how the arts have impacted your life beyond the accolades. https://lnkd.in/gXGGQXTM

If we consider the range of human emotions expressible in a human life. Who expresses themselves the most comprehensively and feels the very most? Surely by now we can collectively agree that women feel more and are more sensitive? Science tells us that their olfactory receptors are more active so they certainly taste and smell more. If you talk to the women in your life, you'll immediately recognise the fact that women feel a great deal more than it even seems we as men have the capacity to. This is how I feel and why I always and forever will seek the valuable counsel of women when faced with life's challenges. And with my own emotional oversights and biases. My emotions simply aren't as refined as my female friends and that's OK. It's good for a leader to know, acknowledge, and learn and earn based on the knowledge of. To put it crudely in this Linkedin sphere. And yet. Of all women, who expresses themselves and the human soul more eloquently than a woman on the stage of a theatre? This is the question. Female playwrights, actors, dancers, bards and singers, songwriters, poets, orators, and all manner of performance artists... They simply have no competition. Not that art is a competition. No teamwork ever is. What I do mean to say is this. If men can confidently say they'd rather learn from whoever was best at something? I'd be learning a lot of my emotional regulation and self-expression from women. And if you want to understand where the English language came from? And what it's worth that British actors have the very most exquisite theatrical traditions? Through all time and evidenced in the legacy of Shakespeare? A society doesn't simply produce a Shakespeare. It takes a village to raise a so and so. But it takes..... many thousands of years to raise and train, and nurture, and educate, and facilitate, and collaborate with, and allow - a single Shakespeare. How he didn't burn down Europe or get shot? I'll never know. But we can learn from it all. And we must. Elocution, articulation, poise, enunciation. How to intone and command your meaning. HOW TO USE YOUR DIAPHRAGM! How and why you should raise your voice only when you mean to and never ever ever when you don't. Or do you pick up your office phone and scream into it before dialing numbers? Confidence is the ultimate goal. Confidence expressing ourselves in all settings. Interviews, phone calls, meetings. But, this will help you at home too. With your spouse, your buddies, your gal pals, your guy friends. It will socialise you better than you ever have been. There is no coincidence that The Charisma Myth was written by a woman. And yet if you want to learn it for real? Hire as many lovely ladies from the theatre as you can. Sit down with them all and help them help you. Work on training programs together. Collaborate on curriculums. Simplify the terms of what you do. So they can simplify their terms. And you can collaborate and succeed together. To be endlessly brilliant.

Review: Powerful writing and great performances, but its 3-part structure underserves the material: Three Acts of Love at Live Theatre: https://lnkd.in/e7DpA-8Y

🎭Each issue of D&T we bring you a page-to-stage focus on a play for performing with your students. This issue, Aimee McGoldrick introduces The Wolves of Willoughby Chase ⬇️

Have you ever used an element of drama or plays in your classroom? 🎭 How did your students like it? Let us know in the comments!! ⁠ ⁠ It can be hard to find ways to incorporate fluency practice for your students, but Reader’s Theater is the perfect solution! It allows students to work on reading but also build community too!⁠ ⁠ Check out this video to learn more about the benefits of using Reader’s Theater in your classroom! If you're an administrator or other school leader, be sure to share this video with your K-2 teachers. https://lnkd.in/e5WcgxNZ

After spending time learning and planning, MESA leaders are gearing up for action and implementation. Lesson learned: Building collective community-led work requires a collective vision, trust, discernment and long term commitment!  • • #collectivehealing #cooperatives #coops #develop #restorative #economies #education #coopedcenter 

Censorship in education is on the rise - and the impact is much bigger than canceled shows. As Jordan Stovall put it in our conversation “the whole concept and idea behind theatre is that it shines a mirror and allows us to have complex conversations around society, culture, structures of power, and ways that we interact with the world and each other.” My latest for EdTA.

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