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DNAWORKS is proud to offer THE WELCOME TABLE INITIATIVE to arts, educational, and community organizations!
DNAWORKS is proud to offer THE WELCOME TABLE INITIATIVE to arts, educational, and community organizations!
The Welcome Table
Initiative
Who is
it for?
Theatres, Schools, Academic Programs, and
Community Organizations—any institution or group working to create a more
welcoming environment for all people.
How long
does it take?
We design it to fit your needs. Recommended is
half or full year.
How does
it work?
DNAWORKS’ Welcome Table Initiative (WTI) encourages
productive and honest dialogue about key issues of identity, equity, access,
opportunity, and representation. It begins with a 3-day Listening Project, in which DNAWORKS sits one-on-one and in small
groups with community members to hear about their experiences, perspectives,
hopes, and dreams regarding the state of their community/ organization and ways
in which it can be more welcoming to all people.
We then lead the Crowdsourcing
Change workshop, exploring the language that surrounds these issues and
what different words mean to each of us. The workshop moves from open and
courageous conversation into identifying personal and community-wide action
steps in the form of Community Change
Projects as a way to expand Welcome
Table activities and values.
During the course of WTI, community
“Change-makers” are invited to connect with each other and DNAWORKS via
video-conference to be in action around their Change Projects. The guiding
principle is that collective,
incremental change leads to cumulative, measurable, and sustainable change.
At the end of the WTI process, we gather to
discuss the results of these change initiatives. We take the project
information and participant experiences into We
the Griot, a devised performance workshop in which we work
as an ensemble to stage the multiple voices, perspectives, and stories of the
members of the community. The results of the Change Projects and the devising
workshop are then presented to the community in a celebratory event followed by
a community dialogue.
At the end of WTI, DNAWORKS delivers a report
complete with documentation of community voices, Change Projects, and the
measurable change that occurred during the WTI time-frame. We use an arts and
community-based assessment model. We will also include suggestions for future
action.
Ultimately, the Welcome Table Initiative
is set up to be a collective, creative process of listening, learning,
self-expression and action, with ideas and performance generated by the
community for the community.
Thus far the Welcome Table Initiative has visited UNC-Chapel Hill/Playmakers Rep, Skidmore College, and Tufts University, and will soon be at San Diego State University.
For more
information: Info@dnaworks.org
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