This residency is being facilitated and co-designed by Theatre Adventure educators Laura Lawson Tucker and Darlene Jenson. Theatre Adventure is a non-profit organization offering year-round theater arts programming. Theatre Adventure’s mission is to provide a caring and creative community for artists with disabilities to claim the stage with distinction. Belief in everyone’s ability to express self in a variety of ways runs deep at Theatre Adventure, and they are dedicated to helping their students advocate for themselves and others.
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In 2023, Sandglass is facilitating a series of Voices of Community workshops focusing on the role of arts education as a tool for social change. The 2023 series began in May, when Sandglass facilitated a residency with Tanya Nixon-Silberg and Bonnie Duncan of Play for Change at the Green Street School in Brattleboro. The residency included workshops for grades K-2 called “We Move Together,” celebrating the power of social organizing.
In September 2023, Sandglass is thrilled to welcome back Tarish Pipkins, a.k.a. Jeghetto Entertainment, to lead a series of Cardboard Sculpting Workshops with Theatre Adventure of Brattleboro. Theatre Adventure is dedicated to empowering youth and adults with disabilities through the experience of the performing arts. Jeghetto Entertainment will lead a series of puppetry workshops at Theatre Adventure and in schools associated with their participant actors.
Jeghetto residency with Theatre Adventure
Facilitated by Sandglass Theater
Monday, September 11 - Thursday, September 14, 2023
At Theatre Adventure and participating schools in Brattleboro, VT
Tarish Pipkins is teaming up with Theatre Adventure, an inclusive theater dedicated to programming that empowers students and adults with disabilities, for a week of workshops at their home theater and in their associated school classrooms. Jeghetto will be sharing his techniques on how to manipulate and sculpt with cardboard and paper in Jeghetto’s signature Cardboard Sculpting Workshop. The participants in the workshop will also learn mask making as well as puppet building and puppet manipulation. In 2001, Sandglass helped facilitate a virtual workshop with Jeghetto and Theatre Adventure, and we are delighted to offer this in-person opportunity.
This project was funded in part by a Vermont Arts Council Arts Impact Grant and by the New England States Touring program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies.