Contact information
Name:
Bob Kurt
Phone:
5681
Email:
kurtr@lafayette.edu
When:
Thursday, September 20, 2018 - 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Where:
Marlo Room
Presenter:
Univ. of New Hampshire PowerPlay
Price:
Free
What happens when our differences make things uncomfortable in the classroom? How do we navigate these moments as teachers and as students? PowerPlay Interactive Development will demonstrate a unique interactive theatre model focused on issues of classroom diversity, inclusion, and equity. Student Actor-Improvisers will present prepared scenarios based actual student experiences. The audience will then have a chance to ask the characters questions about their experiences in the scene and experiment with different strategies to achieve a more desirable outcome; from the perspective of a faculty member bystander. After gathering suggestions about how the characters might approach these difficult situations differently, the actors “rewind” the scene and examine in real time how effective those strategies might be. The result is a lively, interactive way of learning directed at improving college life for students, faculty, and staff of richly diverse backgrounds.
Dinner Provided
Sponsored by:
President's Office, Office of the Provost, Chief Diversity Officer, Campus Life, Human Resources