Wokshop and Schedule Proposal

Community/Student Engagement

The company consists of eight visiting artists who will lead the engagment activites outlined below:

  1. Alex Oliszewski: Co-Deviser, Co-Producer, Co-Media Designer, Performer

  2. Daniel Fine: Co-Deviser, Co-Producer, Co-Media Designer

  3. Julie Rada: Co-Deviser, Co-Director, Community Engagement

  4. Brian Foley: Co-Deviser, Co-Director, Movement Specialist

  5. Dana Keeton: Art Therapist and Licensed Mental Health Counselor

  6. TBD: Sound Designer

  7. TBD: Production Designer

  8. TBD: Production/Stage Manager



Embedded Student Experiences in the Performances

  • Two student performers will be cast in the show in non-speaking, movement-based roles. 

  • Two-four student technicians participate in backstage roles.

Potential Campus Partners:

Potential Off-Campus Partners or Community Invitations:

General:

FLC Theatre Department

La Plata Family Centers Coalition

Restorative Justice:

Resilience & Healing from Trauma:

Mental Health:

Violence Survivors/Victims:

Veterans:


Journalism and Multi-Media Studies Department

  • Veteran Student Organization (campus webpage only, student-led organization in Student Life)

  • Dr. Christopher Webb/Anthropology (violence/war/trauma/healing)

  • Dean of Students/Student Engagement/Conduct Office (sometimes restorative justice-focused) (campus webpage only)

  • List of faculty for Sociology & Human Services where the Criminology & Justice Studies Major lives (lots of people with backgrounds in Literature, Creative Writing, Film, Participatory Research)

  • Student Well-Being (wellness, mental health, community of care)

  • Gender & Sexuality Studies (focus on masculinities)

Off-Campus Partners or Community Invitations:

General:

La Plata Family Centers Coalition

KDUR

KSUT

Restorative Justice:

La Plata Youth Services

La Plata County District Attorney’s Office (they have an RJ and diversion program for youth and adults)

Resilience & Healing from Trauma:

Resilient Colorado

Mental Health:

Juniper Tree Mental Health (wrote an op-ed in Durango newspaper about trauma and RJ)

Alternative Horizons (advocacy for domestic violence)

The Grief Center of Southwest Colorado

Axis Health Systems

Family Systems therapy practices in Durango

Violence Survivors/Victims:

6th Judicial District Victim Services

  • Contact name: Carol Little

  • Address: 1060 East 2nd Avenue, Ste 10, Durango, CO 81301

  • Phone: 970-247-8850

  • Email: clittle@lpcgov.org

Veterans:

Veterans Services Office of La Plata County

Proposed Schedule

Proposed Schedule