Next Steps: Reflection, Action, and Accountability
Join TYA/USA, in partnership with Arts in Color, in a national conversation on addressing the racism and oppression that impacts the entire TYA industry in personal, professional, and systemic ways.
Where do we go from here? Equipped with the tools we’ve developed or deepened over the course of the series, join BIPOC TYA professionals from across the country in a conversation on holding ourselves accountable, creating tangible strategies for change, and collectively moving our field forward.
Over the course of a 11-session webinar series we will explore a variety of issues and perspectives regarding the ways artists and organizations can begin to (or further) embed antiracist practice in Theatre for Young Audiences.
In addition to the 11 webinars, participants will be provided with reading materials, resources, follow up questions to deepen their learning, and a Slack Channel for further dialogue. Join colleagues across the country in actively engaging with ways to dismantle racism and white supremacy in the TYA field, and work toward making (or sustaining) meaningful change in creating a truly equitable landscape for our artists, organizations, and our young audiences.
Event Details
Date: Thursday, December 17, 2020
Time: 1:30 – 2:45 PM ET
Cost: Sliding Scale. Visit www.tyausa.org/antiracism for details.
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Members Non-MembersThis webinar is part of an 11-session series. For more information, visit www.tyausa.org/antiracism.
Speakers
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Khalia Davis
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Khalia Davis (she/her) is a bicoastal multidisciplinary artist splitting her time between the San Francisco/Bay Area and New York. Directed and devised new works with prominent theaters such as Bay Area Children’s Theater, Atlantic Theater Company’s Atlantic for Kids, New York City Children’s Theater, Spellbound Theatre and more. Ms. Davis recently served as the Director of Inclusion and Education with Brooklyn Children’s Theatre restructuring their children’s musical theater programming through an anti-racism lens and taught with New York City Children’s Theater, the Atlantic Acting School, and for Disney Theatrical Group leading music and movement workshops and facilitating audience and community engagement. She also served as an Artistic Associate for the nationally-known arts education organization The Story Pirates. As a performer, she has worked regionally and toured nationally on both coasts. Recently named the Artistic Director of Bay Area Children’s Theatre and awarded the 2019 Emerging Leader Fellowship with TYA/USA and the NYCCT Leader Fellowship for 2019/2020. BA in Theater Arts from the University of Southern California. To learn more about Ms. Davis, check her out at www.khaliadavis.com!
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Shavonne T. Coleman
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Shavonne Coleman (she/her/they) is a teaching & performing artist, writer, and educator who currently resides in Austin, TX by way Detroit, MI. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Grand Valley State University (07’) and a Master of Fine Arts from Eastern Michigan University for Applied Drama/Theatre for the Young (17’) During her time at Eastern she had the amazing opportunity to travel to S. Korea to direct a Youth Theatre performance at the Zoom Theatre in Seoul. In recent years, Ms. Coleman was the Assistant Director of Acting at Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit, Visiting Faculty in the Theatre and Dance department at Grand Valley State University, was awarded the 2018 Emerging Leader in Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) Fellowship and remains part of TYA’s Equity Diversity Inclusion task-force. Shavonne is currently the Theatre for Dialogue Specialist at the University of Texas at Austin where she is also Lecturer in Theatre and Dance. Shavonne was awarded a 2019/2020 Undergraduate Teaching Grant for her work with the Theatre for Dialogue course & ensemble.
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Tiffany Maltos
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Tiffany Maltos (she/her) is the Associate Director of Education at Seattle Children’s Theatre. Ms. Maltos is an arts administrator, teaching artist, and Trustee of Theatre Puget Sound. She graduated from Bowdoin College in 2011 with a degree in Interdisciplinary English/Theatre and focus on Theatre for Young Audiences. She received her Teaching Certificate in 2012. A native of San Antonio, TX, Ms. Maltos was the Education Manager at The Magik Theatre and a teaching artist for The Classic Theatre before joining the team at SCT.
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Min Kahng
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Min Kahng is an award-winning Bay Area playwright and composer whose world premiere works include The Four Immigrants: An American Musical Manga (recipient of the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards for Original Script and Original Music, the Edgerton New Play Award, and a NAMT Production Grant) and The Song of the Nightingale. His TYA credits include GOLD: The Midas Musical, Inside Out & Back Again, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon: A Musical Adaptation, Bad Kitty On Stage!, and Tales of Olympus. Kahng also wrote the NEA-funded project Story Explorers, an original musical for young audiences with autism. Kahng has participated in the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, a residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s The Ground Floor Summer Lab, and the TheatreWorks New Works Festival. He has been invited as a Guest Lecturer/Artist at Harvard University, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, San Jose State University and The San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Kahng is a Jonathan Larson Grant Finalist, a Richard Rodgers Award Finalist, a Resident Playwright at Playwrights Foundation, and a proud member of the Dramatists Guild. www.minkahng.com
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Val Ramirez
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Val Ramirez (they/them) is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist, director, deviser, and arts educator. An Arizona State University alumnus, Val’s first artistic home was at Childsplay in Tempe, AZ, where they served as an ensemble member and teaching artist for a number of seasons. Some of their favorite Childsplay projects include The Yellow Boat, Tomas & the Library Lady (national tour), and The Smartest Girl in the World. Val then moved on to the east coast, where they began working as a teaching artist with a focus on devised work with young people that explores personal identity, origins, and worldview. To that end, they facilitated residencies through Ping Chong + Company’s Secret Histories Education program in New Jersey and New York schools. Additionally, Val created and developed the Devised Theatre program, centering the same social justice themes and explorations, for the New Jersey Performing Arts Center’s YASI: Young Artist Summer Intensive. Most recently, Val served as the Director of Education for The Magik Theatre in San Antonio, TX. Val firmly believes in the transformative power of storytelling, art-making, and theatre for all.
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Marisol Rosa-Shapiro
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Marisol Rosa-Shapiro is a performer, director, teaching artist, clown, group facilitator, and creator of original works of theater. She has recently appeared in THE UP CLOSE FESTIVAL at NYC’s New Ohio Theatre, and in Spellbound Theatre’s SHAKESPEARE’S STARS, WINK, and THE LAST COIN. Marisol is a founding member, performer and writer for ADVENTURE THEATER LIVE!, a company born in March 2020 to create interactive, Zoom-based performances for young people. She is a teaching artist with The New Victory Theater in NYC, and has served in a similar capacity for many theaters and arts orgs across the country, including Seattle Children’s Theater, Seattle Rep, Tectonic Theater Company, TADA! Youth Theater, Arts Impact, CENTRUM, Partners for Youth Empowerment, and Seeds of Peace, among many more. Marisol recently served as Director of Community Engagement for Philadelphia’s Shakespeare in Clark Park, and is a board member for Clowns Without Borders USA, with whom she has completed three projects as a volunteer performer and teacher. She hopes to help build justice, playfulness, imagination, and joy wherever she finds herself. Nuyorican by birth and upbringing. Currently Philadelphia based. She is always learning. www.marisolmakes.com
