COURSES
CRAFT Courses are FREE courses, classes, and YouTube rebroadcasts that examine what’s happening in our pressing social, cultural, historic realities as it intersects with performance and performance training. Rooted in the long standing movement towards a new way of being and learning together, these are talks that are meant to innovate, educate and expand our practice, reach all factions of society, and are for everyone that identifies with or expresses curiosity about the Diaspora and its history.
What is the blueprint is for creating art that extends from our cultural sensibility? What is art’s relationship to repair?
Innovative Diasporic-centered Learning
CURRENT SEMESTER: SPRING 2022
RSVP for individual classes by clicking their titles below.
Please note that not all classes are yet available for registration.
Feb 12th 12PM EST
March 5th 3PM EST
March 19th 12PM EST
April 9th 12PM EST
April 23 12pm EST
May 7th 12pm EST
TBD
CRAFT Course + CRAFT Rebroadcast DOUBLE FEATURE!
CRAFT Course: Outsmarting the Outline (12PM EST - Zoom)
CRAFT Rebroadcast: Craft Multidimensional Characters For Your Screenplay or TV Pilot (2:30PM - Youtube)
with Craig T. Williams
CRAFT Course: Dancing on the Slash: Crafting Your Life as a Black Artist-Scholar
with Lisa B. Thompson with Isaiah Wooden
CRAFT Rebroadcast: Creating a Culturally Specific Arts Institution
with Ekundayo Bandele
CRAFT Rebroadcast: Digging Into Black Life and the Black Archive: Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel
with Dr. Marta Effinger-Crichlow
CRAFT Course based in Political Analysis for Artists
with Chris Myers
CRAFT Rebroadcast: Convince! Anchoring the Argument
with Stephen Buescher
CRAFT Course based in Anti Racist Theatre
with Nicole Brewer
FALL 2021:
Sept 11th 11am EDT
Sept 25th 12pm EST
Oct 9th 12pm EST
Oct 16th 12pm EST
Oct 30th 12pm EDT
Nov 13th 12pm EST
Nov 20th 12pm EST
CRAFT Rebroadcasts: Word Play (Class 1/4)
CRAFT Course: Crafting Multidimensional Characters For Your Screenplay or TV Pilot
with Craig T. Williams
CRAFT Rebroadcasts: Word Play (Class 2/4)
with nicHi douglas
with Dr. Maisha Akbar
CRAFT Rebroadcast: Word Play (Class 3/4)
with nicHi douglas
CRAFT Rebroadcast: Word Play (Class 4/4) Interview!
with nicHi douglas. an interview facilitated by Mauricio Tafur Salgado
and Dr. Monica Ndounou
CRAFT Course: Wholeness is No Trifling Matter: Creating New Worlds Through Community Care & Play
with Nissy Aya
SPRING 2021 SEMESTER:
Feb 6th 12pm EST
Feb 20th 12pm EST
March 6th 12pm EST
March 20th 1pm EST
April 3rd 12pm EDT
May 1st 2pm EDT
May 15th 12pm EDT
CRAFT Course: Creating a Culturally Specific Arts Institution
with Michael Bobbitt
CRAFT Course: Negotiating: Getting Paid What You Are Worth
with Stephen Buescher
CRAFT Course: Convince! Anchoring the Argument
with Stephen Buescher
CRAFT Rebroadcast: Emotional Justice: Truth & Accountability Session
with Esther Armah
CRAFT Rebroadcast: Painting the Stage with Light: My Design Process
with Kathy Perkins
CRAFT Course: LoveCraft Country - Acting & Directing as Social Justice Work
with Nicole Hodges
PAST CRAFT COURSES:
FALL 2020 SEMESTER:
Oct 17th 12pm EST
Oct 24th 12pm EST
Oct 25th 12pm EST
Oct 31st 12pm EST
Nov 7th 12pm EST
Nov 8th 3pm EST
Nov 21st 12pm EST
Dec 5th 12pm EST
Dec 19th 12pm EST
CRAFT Course: Word Play (Class 1/4)
CRAFT Course: Word Play (Class 2/4)
with nicHi douglas
CRAFT Course: Emotional Justice: Truth & Accountability Session
with Esther Armah
CRAFT Course: Word Play (Class 3/4)
with nicHi douglas
CRAFT Course: Word Play (Class 4/4)
with nicHi douglas
CRAFT Course: Negotiating: Getting Paid What You Are Worth
with Stephen Buescher
with Michael Bobbitt
CRAFT Course: Digging Into Black Life and the Black Archive: Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel
with Dr. Marta Effinger-Crichlow
CRAFT Course: Painting the Stage with Light: My Design Process
with Kathy Perkins
IN COLLABORATION WITH DARTMOUTH COLLEGE AND HATTILOO THEATRE:
"The Making of 21st Century Exhibits: Curating a National Black Theater Museum/Institution"
Dr. Monica White Ndounou | Dartmouth College Department of Theater and the African and African American Studies Program in collaboration with Hattiloo Theatre's National Black Theatre Museum project
"This class provided seventeen students an opportunity to learn about black theatre history, scholarship and practice in the U.S. and abroad. In the process, students helped develop ideas and curated exhibits that represented a range of formats and platforms. The DCAL-funded course was designed and taught by Ndounou in Spring 2019, which included a collaboration with IBTS Executive Committee member, Ekundayo Bandele, the Founder and CEO of Hattiloo Theatre, who conceived and developed the National Black Theatre Museum (NBTM) project in Memphis, TN. Through the course, the project engaged Dartmouth students in the ever-evolving NBTM curation process. Other experiential learning opportunities included activities with the local community’s regional black theatre, JAG Productions, and events featuring choreographer Camille A. Brown during her spring 2019 Dartmouth residency[. . .] "
Follow the links below to read the articles published by Dartmouth College and the Dartmouth Library,
'Experiencing Black Theater in America'
'Curating a National Black Theater Museum'
NOTE: This video does not include all of the elements of the course
Additional information about the course and collaborators will be shared through The CRAFT Institute