AcademicArtistry

spark imagination & build empathy through theater in education

[edwardian-masquerade]

"And then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?"

-Vincent van Gogh

[flowerytale]

Louise Glück, from “Quince Tree”, The Seven Ages

[threeamserif]

took a little trip to Wincaester today 🤎

photos are my own, do not repost/reupload, reblogs fine

[academicartistry]

“I prefer winter and fall, when you can feel the bone structure in the landscape---the lonliness of it---the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it---the whole story dosen't show.”

- Andrew Wyeth

[birthdaygirlpdf]

october will heal us. fall descends to bring heaven to earth. there is only peace and autumn chill. october will heal us.

an excerpt from october by anvita bhogadi

[academicartistry]

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” — L. M. Montgomery

[academicartistry]

'The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that

your very existence is an act of rebellion."

-Albert Camus

[metamorphesque]

Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami

[academicartistry]

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”

-Vincent Van Gogh

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When Augusto Boals said that feelings as well as intellect were critical to the development of people’s perceptions and understandings

[academicartistry]

Because his education won't see the humanity

sitting in the rows of desks

neither will he

Because instead of as whole human beings

They're being treated as tests

And then thrust into the world with no empathy.

[academicartistry]

By having students study theater, educators can achieve both humanistic goals of changing perspectives and deepening understanding as well as an instrumentalist approach to building specific capacities, improving skills and changing targeted behaviours.

[a-poets-darling]

I belong to quick, futile moments of intense feeling. Yes, I belong to moments. Not to people.

Virginia Woolf, A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals

(picture credit 1: Pinterest

picture credit 2: original)

 

[shakespearenews]

ProTactile Romeo and Juliet: Theatre by/for the DeafBlind

Video transcript and image descriptions can be found at this link.

[academicartistry]

“It’s essential for teachers to ‘see that kids come to school as whole human beings.’”

The Familiar and the New: Teaching Black Plays in Jewish High Schools

How a plan to teach ‘Pipeline’ and ‘School Girls’ grew into a curriculum stressing both the plays’ universality and specificity on issues of

[academicartistry]

How can we expect emotional intelligence from students when we dehumanize them (and the material they’re learning) by teaching for the sake of tests?

[academicartistry]

It seems so very clear to me, that communities who have little to no relationship with the arts are very much the communities that generate people who lack understanding and empathy for others.