Each January American The theater focuses on theatrical trainingAnd Jacqueline E. Lawton round table With five professionals and theater educators cover the realities and difficulties of their work. This also gives us a window on their first personal memories of politics and how they helped to shape them. They share adolescent experiences that gave them an overview of the complexities of power, race and politics, which in turn evolves in a base for the way they work with young people. We build the future generations of theaters and the chiefs of theater by teaching and mentorship. A key element in education is to encourage students to think about building the world and the change in the world and the development of their own sense of emerging leadership.
You may already know Invincible YoungAn organization launched by a group of students in the summer of 2009, who believed in the ability of their generation to get up and be heard. They were impatient to organize friends, educate the public on new health insurance options and develop real solutions with challenges they face. Young people are a historically under-represented district, and invincible young people focus on the guarantee of young communities with the least access to political and economic power. They build a community of young leaders to act for social change, sharing the stories of young adults and providing tools to their generation to make intelligent economic choices and embarking on mission -based social enterprises. The work shared by the most affected by health care, higher education, labor and financial policies are also a source of collective care.
At the end of the year, I also had the chance to see The art of careDesigned and produced by Derek Goldman, developed with performers / storytellers, and produced at Mosaic theater in Washington, DC as We live in CairoIt was an overall piece with music. The central theme is the construction of the world, in which the management of others is an antidote to feelings of isolation and loneliness. While I left the theater that evening, a thought of the play remained with me: what if interdependence is even more important than independence? Our practice as theater people is the construction of the world. But the construction of the world and change in the world can only succeed with connectivity and collaboration.
I have a quote calendar on my desk, and as I write this, today is appropriate by Albert Camus: “In the middle of winter, I finally discovered that there was an invincible summer in me.” Camus was attached to the value of individual human life, believing that even in the most difficult and difficult moments, like winter, there is a resilient and lasting hope or force in us, like the heat of summer, which cannot be defeated – which in us is an inner resilience to overcome adversity. May your summer be always invincible!
Emilia Cachapero is the Co-Executive Director of TCG, national and global programming.
