COMMUNITY-BASED PROJECTS
PROGRAMS, Workshops, & Trainings
Customized Trainings; Program Design; Audience Dialogue & Facilitation;
"Guide" ART Magazine, Aug. - Dec. 2016-17. p.3
Educator's Institute participants standing with a ranger in front of Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site.
NPS Photo.
ANNA DEAVERE SMITH PIPELINE PROJECT
Designed and implemented all aspects of a participatory theater and dialogue process for the Cambridge, MA production of Notes from the Field at the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University. Act II asked the audience to move from their seats in the theater to one of 23 different small group conversation circles, led by a facilitator, to discuss the issues the play raised.
I guided the methodology of the dialogue process to align with the playwright’s approach to her work and her vision. Successfully engaged approximately 17,000 people in dialogue around race, education, incarceration, and equity over the run of 30 shows.
MUSLIM WOMEN'S STORY LAB
The Muslim Women's Story Lab was a partnership with Women in Islam, Inc which built women's capacity to lead creative, culturally resonant community engagement projects using strategies that harness and reclaim Islam's empowerment of women. Over the course of 5 months, twelve participants came together in bi-weekly workshops to nurture seeds of projects and generate networks for change.
CIVIL RIGHTS EDUCATOR INSTITUTE
CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE - LITTLE ROCK, AR
The Little Rock Civil Rights Educator Institute brings together educators, community workers, and cultural activists from around the country to exchange knowledge and experiences, and to learn with and from each other in an intensive week-long learning community. By visiting important civil rights and human rights sites such as Central High School and Rowher Japanese American Internment Camp, we critically look at race and resistance and bring these themes into clasroom discussions to look back at our history in order to understand our present. Click here for application.
THEATER IN AFGHANISTAN: FOSTERING LOCAL DIALOGUE THROUGH THE ARTS
From 2010 – 2012 Kayhan trained over 12 theater troupes working in various provinces of Afghanistan – from Kandahar to Kunduz. Theater troupes engaged in a 10-day intensive training and development of Forum Theater process culminating in the creation of original Forum Theater plays performed in their home towns for local audiences.
She also worked to create a radio drama with a focus on youth and justice. Supported by the U.S. Institute of Peace and their Afghan media partner, Equal Access, Kayhan helped to create a storytelling for social justice framework for the scripts and a structure for post-show audience dialogues between callers at home and issue experts in the studio.
Design: Luba Lukova
THEATER OF THE OPPRESSED AND POPULAR EDUCATION WORKSHOPS
We facilitate Theater of the Oppressed workshops and training for community organizations, social and activist organizations, schools, universities, places of worship, international development and aid organizations, and cultural institutions to grow leaders and heal from hurts.
Since 2003 we have partnered with The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB), the oldest Theater of the Oppressed training and education group in North America. We offer storytelling laboratories, daylong or half-day workshops, as well as intensive training.
