Category: Arts

• IPTN: Our Workshop

  Our workshop provided an opportunity for directors, and individual performers, to think with us about disability, inclusion, and aesthetics. The time allotted to the workshop passed much too quickly as we engaged in a deep conversation about these difficult topics. One  of the most challenging aspects of any conversation about theater and disability is making…

  Michael Watson PhD

  July 23, 2015

  Arts, Disability, Stories, Teaching, Travel

  disability, IPTN, Playback Theatre, teaching, theatre

• From Lived Experience Springs Hope

  

  After another wet day, the sun is again shining, the sky clear and blue. Over the past few days I’ve found myself in several conversations about the interweaving of the experience of being other, creativity, and social issues. These discussions have proven inspiring and hopeful. This morning I was going through the blogs I follow,…

  Michael Watson PhD

  June 24, 2015

  Arts, First Nations, Social issues, Stories

  Arts, healing, Indigenous, stories

• Teaching Across Borders

  This morning I have been considering the challenges of teaching. Now, as I look out my window I can see that most of the snow is gone from our front yard. Hopefully this means early spring flowers will soon appear on our south-facing neighbors’ lawns. Given our house is north facing, our flowers usually appear…

  Michael Watson PhD

  March 25, 2015

  Arts, First Nations, Teaching

  borders, Native American, stories, teaching

• The Hope In a Grief Quilt

  Giving the impacts of violence a human face.

  Michael Watson PhD

  May 5, 2014

  Arts, First Nations, Healing

  Arts, genocide, healing, Native American, stories, trauma