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How have activists such as bell hooks and Sojurner Truth campaigned for prevalent problems relating to the black experience?
Created by Zahrah Ali
How has where you’ve been defined who you are? Drawing inspiration from American poet Terrance Hayes and places that you’ve lived, we will work together to create our own monologues.
Beginning with the main lecture video, you will be introduced to the poet Terrance Hayes and his work “Wind in a Box,” from which we will be creating out of. Next, the activity below will guide you as you begin writing your own monologue of your chosen location.
Monologue/Hayes Lecture
Activity: Textual Response
1. Choose a location in your life/somewhere you are familiar with (Example: my grandpa's garden)
2. Following the structure of “Wind in a Box,” write a monologue from that location/reveal your location with your writing (let that location guide you) (Do not feel pressured to have a “good” piece of writing! Take about ten minutes and write from your experiences and memories and see what comes out. The purpose is to start exercising your voice from a specific place so have fun with it!
EXAMPLE: This softness. This noise. This skin. This becoming shy. This steady walk. This subsoil. This fable / stretching / catlike / fingers searching This hope for just ripened fruit. This is where I peered over/ over grown fences / with streamed sun beating down / Just enough above the grasses / in to grown lives / behind the kitchen noises.
3. Sharing and developing:
- Choose three lines of your monologue.
- Speak it aloud to yourself
- Try speaking these lines in different ways! (loudly, quietly, walking, lying down, with your eyes closed, to another person) See the different ways in which you sound and see if you can see the place you’ve chosen in what you’ve written. Remember the questions: Where is the speaker? What are they feeling?
Created by Allison Ko
What does representation mean to you? Begin to unpack the meaning of this word and its importance with this short introduction to Media Representation!
The video links below will take you to a talk by Stuart Hall on Media Representation. The PDF link is a transcript of this talk. Please watch BOTH videos or read the PDF (pages 6-9) before continuing the presentation.
Video 1- https://youtu.be/aTzMsPqssOY?t=162
Video 2- https://youtu.be/HXdqV6cjHqs?t=263
Link to PDF - https://www.mediaed.org/transcripts/Stuart-Hall-Representation-and-the-Media-Transcript.pdf
Created by Rianne Wharton
What if you could take Shakespeare’s words and tell a completely new story? Check out our adaptation session on how to create drama using classic texts as a tool.
The below videos will introduce you to how adaptation is a tool for writing color, femininity, and a way to express and fight taboos in society. You will explore texts and can begin to follow guidelines as a writer for how to get started adapting yourselves.
- RSC Richard II (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UHaMJEE0MM&feature=emb_logo) (1:14-3:45)
- Mawa Theatre Richard II (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHrXAJ93hRU&t=4734s) (1:55:50-1:57:55)
Questions
- What similarities did you catch from the two versions of the play? What differences?
- How does the message/the story change as a result of these differences?
Meet the directors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB_tL_--ccU
By definition of the United Nations, diamonds defined as conflict/blood diamonds are those extracted in conflicted states and sold to fund military action against legitimate, internationally recognised government of a country. Blood diamonds have contributed to funding/financing violence back to the 50s, its exposure came to light in the 1980s.
This session will:
- Provide an alternative perspective on our traditional Cold War beliefs
- Allow students to understand that history isn't written in stone, and that it must be continuously reviewed
- Provide an understanding of why the Horn of Africa is important within Cold War literature.
At the end of the lesson, you will be able to:
- Understand the difference between Law, Morals and Ethics.
- Recognize Bias in Britain’s law system.
- Have an extensive knowledge of police powers in the UK.