KCACTF Region 1 Conference 57: Full Schedule

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9:15am EST

Graceful Feedback

Thursday January 30, 2025 9:15am - 10:45am EST

General, open to all. How do you offer feedback with specificity that empowers the other? How do you stay open and available to listen on the receiving end? Our requirement to give feedback should never be clouded by one's own sense of agenda. In this workshop you’ll cultivate conscious communication skills to develop grace in your feedback. Gain clarity on how you can reinforce your listening to authentically support your scene partner, director, students, friends, loved ones, and yourself by using the gift of words. If you can change your language, you can change your story. Please bring a journal with an open mind and heart. Be prepared to gain a new sense of community!

Speakers

Malia'Kekia Nicolini

B4 The Other Creations Co-Founder, B4 The Other Creations

Malia’Kekia Nicolini (‘O ia/she/they) is kanaka maoli (Native Hawaiian), they received their inoa (name) traditionally from an inoa po (mothers dream) that held both an inoa ho’ailona (symbol) and their inoa ulaleo (ancestors voice). Malia’Kekia is an internationally... Read More →

Thursday January 30, 2025 9:15am - 10:45am EST
FA 109 Maloney Hall

Workshop

4:00pm EST

Making Friends with Your Character

Thursday January 30, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm EST

FA 109

General, open to all. No person exists solely in stereotypes or emotional values. While it is easy to write off a stranger, coworker or acquaintance as being just a jerk, a sociopath, psycho, idiot, racist, control freak, from the perspective of a theater maker it makes for a boring, surfaced level rehearsal process. What makes our characters who they are? Why do they do the things they do? What do they want? What is getting in their way? How do they move thru the world? In this workshop, participants will be given a scene from a play and asked to unpack who the people in that scene are? We will look at objectives, obstacles and tactics to decipher how these characters navigate the world to get what they want.

Speakers

Bridget O'Leary

NPP Respondent, Independent Artist

Bridget Kathleen O'Leary is a freelance director, dramaturg and theater educator. Since 2022 she has been the Director of New Play Development for Moonbox Productions where she curates and oversees the annual Boston New Works Festival. From 2008-2018 she served as the Associate artistic... Read More →

Thursday January 30, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm EST
FA 109 Maloney Hall

Workshop