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X-WR-CALNAME:Playing with Fire: Bibliodrama as Embodied Storytelling and Re
 -Telling
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DESCRIPTION:No text is innocent. Words and stories etched in black ink crea
 te worlds\, ways of being\, and ways of knowing. Stories\, communicated bo
 th orally and textually\, have historically conceived power and birthed im
 perialist projects which are performed and re-enacted generation after gen
 eration in our bodies\, communities\, and institutions. Yet\, stories are 
 also enactments of rebellion\, pathways of freedom\, and practices of poet
 ic soul memories that enable us to live free(ish) in unfree space\, to hea
 l amid unending violence\, and to love despite alienation.\n\nB/bibliodram
 a is a text-based interpretive method of embodied\, performative storytell
 ing and story-retelling. It is a method that invites participants to colle
 ctively explore the chaos and possibilities that emerge in the relationshi
 p between text\, imagination\, and body\; an opportunity to humbly confron
 t “the scandal and excess of literature\,” as Saidiya Hartman has name
 d it\, as well as seek the medicine and healing nectar that oozes in betwe
 en the lines of texts that dare to speak the unspeakable of those long sil
 enced and disappeared.\n\nThrough a series of bibliodramatic techniques\, 
 derived from psychodrama\, Rabbinical Midrash practices\, and theatre of t
 he oppressed movement\, we will narratively transport (though a short trip
 ) ourselves into a passage from N.K. Jemisin’s “The City We Became.”
  We will consider what makes a text\, “sacred\,” and explore ways to d
 evelop our forms of story-building\, story-breaking\, and witnessing.\n\nT
 his will be a time of PLAY which is not to be confused\, at all\, with bei
 ng unserious. This session is very interactive and participants are invite
 d to engage in activities that will include movement in our bodies and our
  imaginations\, as little or as much as you are able and willing.\n\nSpeak
 er: Jazzy Johnson
GEO:42.253595;-72.574093
LOCATION:Pratt Music Hall\, Warbeke Room
SUMMARY:Playing with Fire: Bibliodrama as Embodied Storytelling and Re-Tell
 ing
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.mtholyoke.edu/event/playing_with_fire_bibliodr
 ama_as_embodied_storytelling_and_re-telling
CATEGORIES:Trainings & Workshops
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