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Voices HEaRd WorkshopsSaturday, June 6 at the Pam Miller Downtown Arts Center
Donation Based ( $15 suggested donation per workshop)
Taca Hollis: Reclaiming Us
We will work to reclaim the parts us that we have lost along the way. Mommas are nurturing everyone but themselves. ..Losing identity in a job or people pleasing.. We will share stories and identify the disconnect. Through poetry we will express the desired outcome and maybe some steps that lead us in that direction.
Taca Born in Elizabethtown, KY began writing poetry at the age of 14. Taca’s poetry was a way of escape from pain due to trauma. Her alchemical approach and transparency is an invitation to join her on a journey toward wholeness in Mind, and Spirit. She is heavily influenced by the wordsmiths Maya Angelou, Mos Def, Saul Williams, Jasmine Mans, and Divine Carama. Going to her very first open mic in 2011, Divine Carama encouraged her to use the voice that had been silenced for most of her life.
Edie Moon: Make Your Voices Heard Through Devising
In the Spirit of "Voices HEaRd", explore the power of your voice and playwriting skills by devising material together from the ground up beginning with provocative starting points and continuing through the inspiration of physical theatre, contemporary women playwrights, and Moment Work.
Edie Moon is an IB Certified educator, director, and workshop instructor. She has lived most of her life overseas teaching and directing in an American international school in Seoul, Korea-Seoul Foreign School. There, she developed a schoolwide theatre program (K-12) which provided large scale performances, theatre training, an annual Actor in Residence program, and Theatre Festivals for schools throughout Asia. Over the past 17 years, she taught the two year IB Theatre course. She also directed 80 shows which included musical theatre, comedy, drama, devised performances, Shakespeare, physical theatre, immersive theatre, theatre of the Oppressed, and Asian Theatre. Her study of theatre has taken her to NYC, London, Bali, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Vietnam and of course, South Korea. One claim to fame is that during Covid when all activities in the school were shut down, she found creative ways for students to KEEP performing! Ask her about that!!! Care for her aging parents brought her back to the US 3 years ago and she has now settled in the Lexington, Kentucky area. Her focus presently is providing Theatre workshops in the US and abroad as well as finding opportunities to direct in found spaces and beyond while always encouraging activism through art.
Patricia Mullins: Sketchy Ladies
Learn the basics of turning life's absurdities into written comedy in this 90 minute session! Patricia Mullins, Artistic Director of Lex Comedy Co. leads participants on an interactive journey to getting your ideas from your head and to the paper. Discover how to begin using your thoughts and experiences to craft jokes and scenes within the formula of sketch comedy
Patricia is a theater artist with more than 15 years of acting, writing, directing, and teaching experience. She's the Artistic Director of Lexington's only dedicated improv school, Lex Comedy Co. Patricia is a graduate of the competitive Second City Chicago Conservatory. With her all-female identifying company, Alphas Comedy, she directed dozens of sketch shows in Cincinnati. Her works have been featured at the Cincy Fringe festival, including "Velma & Clarice: The AMAZING Amazing Race"
Email Voices HEaRd Associate Producer Rylie Sudduth to register: [email protected]
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Pam Miller Downtown Arts Center, 120 N Limestone, Lexington, KY 40507-1152, United States
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