International Human Rights Art Festival Workshop: School of Making Thinking The School of Making Thinking

About This Show

Moving Together: a Meisner and Movement workshop on Compassionate Listening

On behalf of The School of Making Thinking, Sophie Traub will lead a workshop focused on relating compassionately through embodied performative and movement techniques. Participants will move through a basic warm up, basic training in Meisner’s repetition exercise, and basic exercises in contact improv, culminating in a discussion group centered around a relevant text. The workshop will aim to explore the modes in which we move, listen to, sense, and feel one another.

The School of Making Thinking (SMT) is simultaneously an artist/thinker residency program, an experimental college, and a nomadic investigation in intentional living.  Their mission is to create a unique environment where participants are able to develop a creative practice that challenges disciplinary conventions of art-making, thinking and living. Their program asks: How does art deepen thought and provoke questioning? How is thinking enacted through creative mediums? And how can an environment be structured (or resist structuring) in such a way that these questions can not only be asked, but be lived as well?

About the Festival

Dixon Place and the Institute of Prophetic Activist Art present: The International Human Rights Art Festival, produced, March 3-5, 2017 at Dixon Place. This is the first human rights art festival in the long and vibrant history of New York City’s cultural scene. The Festival is produced by Tom Block, long-time artist-activist, author of Prophetic Activist Art: Handbook for a Spiritual Revolution, and founder of the Institute of Prophetic Activist Art, an art-activist incubator housed at Dixon Place. Playwright and Director Julia Levine is the Assistant Producer.

The 2017 Festival will involve more than 70 artists presenting 40+ advocacy art events over the weekend, including theatre, visual art, music, dance, installations, workshops, panels, performance, films and KidsFest, to introduce children to the importance of art-advocacy work through hands-on activities. Join us for a weekend of art, advocacy, and celebration, with a happy hour featuring tasty human-rights themed concoctions, human rights trivia, prizes, t-shirts and much more.

Sunday, March 5 at 12:30pm

General Admission

$5 in advance

$10 at the door

Included in Sunday Day Pass

Estimated Runtime
75 minutes

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