Summer Workshop:
We plan to work within the community of Rutland, VT, to provide a summer feminist arts workshop to local adolescent girls, with a curricular focus on the visual, performance, and literary arts. Over the course of four weeks, we will lead the girls in ensemble-building, improvisation, participatory theatre, and storytelling, safely engaging adolescent girls in otherwise risky conv
ersations while making theoretical issues tangible and active. Through this process, we will help the group practice living conversations, asking questions, and interrupting negative influences. At the end of the workshop, the girls will write and stage short pieces based on their own experience. The Rutland Project:
For our first artistic collaboration, we were interested in creating a large-scale multi-media project capturing the collective experience. Using our various backgrounds in sound production, writing, playwriting, visual arts, and documentation, we wanted to capture the unique process of becoming a female collective, this moment in our lives as we learn how to be artists in the world, and the many ideas and artistic projects it inspires. Collective Members:
Claire Redfield is a performer, director, and current teacher at the Tony Award-winning Lookingglass Theatre (http://lookingglasstheatre.org) who has previously trained with SITI Company, British American Drama Academy, and the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Amanda Faraone is a creative writer, with grassroots non-profit experience working for Shining Hope for Communities, who has recently been published in THE2NDHAND txt, redlight bulbs and the deadline. Alice Quinlan is an independent radio producer, documentarian and storyteller, currently working with Marfa Public Radio in Marfa, Texas, with whom she was a lead producer finalist for the Association of Independents in Radio Localore Project. EllaRose Chary is a writer, performer, dramaturg and activist who has worked with Playwrights Horizons, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, TheatreWorks, and holds an M.F.A. in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU. EllaRose currently serves as the Literary Associate at The Civilians (NYC) .
