Episode 36: Dialogue Arts Project
Rachel Zucker speaks with Adam Falkner, Lauren Whitehead and Carlos Andrés Gómez about their involvement with the Dialogue Arts Project, a non-profit, arts-based organization in which artist-facilitators help schools, businesses and organizations communicate more effectively across lines of social identity and difference. These three amazing artists talk about how working with DAP has affected their creative work, their teaching, their lives and their priorities. They talk about how a workshop model can be used in schools, offices, and organizations to reimagine and revitalize diversity education, the power of performance and first-person narratives, guidelines for encouraging openness and risk taking, how to invite vulnerability into the classroom in responsible ways, culture-based intentionality, the permission to start with the self, how and why to step out onto the vulnerable edge in order to dismantle the master’s house, coming out, seasonal personal and political grief, and visions for expanding the DAP’s reach.
The Dialogue Arts Project is:
Books by Dialogue Arts Project Fellows
Geoff Kagan Trenchard’s Murder Stay Murder (Penmanship Books, 2012)
Aziza Barnes’ i be, but i ain’t (YesYes Books, 2016), me Aunt Jemima and the nailgun (Button Poetry)
Carlos Andres Gomez’s Man Up: Reimagining Modern Manhood (Gotham Books, 2012)
Jon Sands’ The New Clean (Write Bloody Publishing, 2011)
Nate Marshall’s Wild Hundreds (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015)
Other Writers, Books and Artists Mentioned in the Episode
BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop, edited by Nate Marshall (Haymarket, 2015)
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