July 1, 2014 - 15:18
Quita Woodward Room, Identity Matters Getting Acquainted,
3:40-5:00, Tuesday, May 6, 2014
SNACKS...
I. 3:40-4:10—Anne:
getting acquainted, via wagon wheel/carousel/microlab….
pair up in two concentric circles, across from someone you don't know
tell one another:
1) if you were an imaginary (literary, filmic, gaming) character, who would you be?
if you were a life form other than human, what might it be?
if you were a (non-organic) structure, what might that be?
(for example, if you were an institution what might that be?)
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2) what is your name and preferred pronoun?
(tell each other all the pronouns you’ve ever heard of)
--how do you identify yourself racially and/or ethnically?
(how have others identified you racially and/or ethnically?)
--what age are you? Who is your favorite person YOUNGER than you?
who is your favorite person OLDER than you?
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3) describe the building and the room you lived in
when you started kindergarten; then…
describe the building and the room you live in now
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4) describe a time when you
---felt excluded
--excluded someone else
--chose not to participate
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5) describe your favorite photograph of yourself: how are you represented?
describe a photo of yourself that you don’t like, or one that “misrepresents” you
6) is there anything that you are afraid to talk about/
are you worried/concerned about our talking about in this cluster?
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7) what get-acquainted question should we have asked, but didn't?
4:10-4:25—Kristin:
Reflecting on what emerged, as our wagon wheel "turned…."
what did you learn? what surprised you, about yourself or others?
4:25-4:45
-- Sara: on our field trips to Camphill Village during fall break
(four overnights, perhaps Sun-Wed, Oct 12-15,
with departure during the day on Thursday, 10/16?)
a full day trip to see a range of portraits @ the Barnes/PMA/PAFA
another ½ day trip to the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia
and another during-class-time-trip to a home for the aging
-- Kristin: on Riva Lehrer’s creative residency
the week of Sept. 15, she will come to guide us through a “ listening project,”
the week of Oct. 13, she will join us again for our time @ Camphill Village,
the week of Nov. 17, she will join us again to help with “layered self-portraits,”
and to give a public lecture on The Ethics of Portraiture;
and return in early December for a culminating event: exhibition of our work and conversation
-- Anne: on Monsoon and Benaifer’s “Two Women Talking”;
performance, Friday night Oct. 25;
and a 6-hour workshop on Sat to learn their methodology for “listening”
(this is during Family Weekend….will this work?)
using Serendip to begin co-creating the course—
and as a site for on-going public discussion
/exchange/courses/postinginstructions
4:45-5:00--Sara: Wrap-up
What questions remain/are emerging/do we bring to this cluster?
What particular issues might we want to address in the fall?
What ideas do we have now, about how we might go about having these conversations?