This workshop will invite participants to explore how identity, history, and artifacts expose the feelings/sounds/images/philosophies of our development. The community will be invited to come as they are, honoring their ability/age/heritage/experience/interest to explore the objects and locations of their individual lives and witness how that unfolds within the gathered community in the room.
Shavon Norris is a Philadelphia-based artist, educator, and facilitator. She uses movement along with text, sound and imagery to reveal the stories living in our bodies. She has an MFA in Dance from Temple University. As an artist her work has been presented at venues in NYC and Philadelphia. As a performer, she has performed for Silvana Cardell, Leah Stein, Merian Soto, Jumatatu Poe, and toured internationally and nationally with Pig Iron Theatre Company. As a facilitator, she works with corporate organizations, educational institutions, and artistic communities, offering learning on topics of Creativity, Movement, Mindfulness, Inclusivity and Healing Centered/Trauma Informed Practices. Most days she loves the arting and the doing.
This workshop is being offered as part of the 2022 Cannonball Festival. Visit cannonballfestival.org to see all that the festival has to offer!
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This is a 2-hour workshop capped at 15 participants. All attendees must show proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 and must remain masked for the duration of the workshop.
Free admission to this workshop is available to those who can provide proof of purchase for their ticket(s) to Me and Jesus and Prince and Captain Jean-Luc Picard in a One Bedroom apartment in the Bronx by Shavon Norris, or any other BIPOC New Work Track show at Cannonball. For more information about our BIPOC NWT, or to purchase tickets to a show, please visit this link.
Additionally, in order to make this event as accessible as possible while still supporting the artist(s) and staff that make this possible admission is made available through 3 different Pay-What-You-Can tiers. We ask that you fully consider your ability to support the artist and the festival while purchasing tickets.