The Cultural Agents Initiative and the Harvard Graduate School of
Education's Arts in Education Program are pleased to invite you to the
Cultural Agents Exponential Arts Workshop:
“Breaking the Shell”
April 26 and 28, 2007
Lecture and workshop with
Kurt Wootton, Director of Arts Literacy,
and Daniel Soares, Founder of the OLY School in Inhumas, Brazil.
This lecture and workshop will explore the theory and practice behind
the ArtsLiteracy Project's Performance Cycle, the model that guides all
ArtsLiteracy work with teachers and students. The Performance Cycle is a
dynamic framework that includes such inter-connected concepts as:
Building Community, Comprehending Text, Creating Text, Performing Text,
and Reflecting. We will look at examples of the Cycle in action in
transcultural environments including an extensive project in Brazil
where students filled their town square with stories and poetry.
Lecture: “Breaking the Shell: Community, Culture, and Learning”
Thursday, April 26th
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Tsai Auditorium, Room 010
CGIS Building South
1730 Cambridge St.; Cambridge, MA 02138
* Reception to follow
Workshop: “Breaking the Shell: An Arts and Literacy Toolkit”
Saturday, April 28th
10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Gutman Conference Center, Area 1
Gutman Library, Ground Floor
6 Appian Way; Cambridge, MA 02138
* Lunch will be provided
** Registration is required for the workshop. To register, please contact the
Cultural Agents Initiative at cultagen(a)fas.harvard.edu.
ABOUT KURT WOOTTON AND DANIEL SOARES:
As director and co-founder of the ArtsLiteracy Project in the Education
Department at Brown University, KURT WOOTTON leads all aspects of the
organization’s development including fostering collaborative relationships
between Brown University and arts and education institutions nationally and
internationally. He is the director of the ArtsLiteracy Project’s “lab
schools” in the United States and Brazil where artists, teachers, college
students, and youth gather from around the world to explore ways to connect
performance and other art forms with literacy development. He has worked with
the Boston, St. Paul, Providence, and Central Falls school systems on
multi-year, district-wide initiatives. Currently he is developing a new lab
school in Mérida, Mexico called HABLA: The Center for Culture and Language.
HABLA will serve as an international hub for developing arts-based approaches
for teaching language and literacy.
DANIEL SOARES is a pioneer of both literature and second language learning
instructions. He is currently a the director of teacher education programs at
the University of Goias, Brazil and he is the founder and director of a new
year-round ArtsLiteracy school (OLY) in Inhumas, Brazil. With nearly 600
students, OLY incorporates ArtsLiteracy practices into all content areas. His
ability to transform classrooms into inviting environments where students share
their stories is unparalleled. Daniel has been recognized nationally in Brazil
for his teaching and has influenced both the theories and methods of the
ArtsLiteracy Project through partnerships with ArtsLit teachers and artists
both at Brown and in Brazil, as well as through his independent work with
English language learners and Portuguese literature students in Brazil.
ABOUT THE ARTS LITERACY PROJECT:
The ArtsLiteracy Project (ArtsLit) is dedicated to developing the literacy of
youth through the performing and visual arts. Based in the Education Department
at Brown University, ArtsLit gathers an international community of artists,
teachers, youth, college students, and professors with the goal of
collaboratively creating innovative approaches to literacy development through
the arts. Although ArtsLit has a local focus, through such venues as an
international teaching lab school for teachers and artists; summer and weekend
workshops; international publications and presentations; and undergraduate and
graduate course work, the ArtsLiteracy Project aspires to broaden definitions
of and approaches to literacy development both nationally and internationally.
--
Catalina Ocampo
Initiative Coordinator
Cultural Agents Initiative
CGIS Building South, Room 222
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617)384-5349
cultagen(a)fas.harvard.edu
http://www.culturalagents.org
The Cultural Agents Initiative’s mission is to activate art as a social resource
by fostering creative and scholarly practices that make measurable contributions
to the education and development of communities worldwide. We advance our
mission by identifying creative agents of change, reflecting on best practices,
and inspiring their replication in underserved communities through training,
research, and public forums. We value creativity as vital to the health of
democracies and are committed to developing moral imagination and
resourcefulness in citizens. For more information, visit our website at:
http://www.culturalagents.org.