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Sunday Nov 20, 2:00-3:30pm: (online) Cultivating Creative Rituals for Resilience with Vidhu Singh and Lindsay L. Barr
Cultivate your unique creative expression through poetry, art and mindful breath. All are welcome, no experience necessary. Suggested Materials: a notebook and pen, blank paper to draw on, coloring pencils/markers or whatever is easily accessible.
Meet the Facilitators!
Vidhu Singh, Artist and Board Member (She/Her)
Vidhu is a theater artist and Social Emotional Arts Facilitator (trained at UCLArts & Healing), who is on track to become a Registered Expressive Arts Consultant/Educator. A lifelong learner, she values the innate benefits of using multi-modal expressive arts for creative expression and wellness.
Vidhu holds a Masters degree in Dramatic Art from UC Santa Barbara and a doctorate in Asian Theatre from UH Manoa. A graduate of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors’ Lab, Vidhu is a core member of Theatre without Borders; a founding member of World Wide Lab; the founder of RasaNova Theater and a resident artist at Brava Theater.
Throughout her career to date, Vidhu’s fluency in a variety of cultural and aesthetic forms, her dramaturgy training, her scholarship and her advocacy for South Asian theater have made her contribution to the American theater truly unique. Cal Shakes recognized this uniqueness by honoring Vidhu with the 2020 Luminary Award in dramaturgy. Recent dramaturgy highlights include Burning Wild with Aviva Arts/3GirlsTheatre Company and Berkeley Rep’s 2021 Ground Floor Summer Residency Lab, Third Eye Moonwalk by Jon Bernson with Playwrights Foundation in 2021 and House of Joy by Madhuri Shekar with Cal Shakes in 2019 and Bay Area Playwrights Festival in 2018.
Lindsay L. Barr, Webmaster and Board Member (She/Her)
Lindsay L. Barr is a dramaturg, arts administrator, and director. Now Pittsburgh, PA based, she is a Coordinator for the Carnegie Museum of Art Gallery Associate Department which reframes the gallery experience with dramaturgical sensibility. A graduate from Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, B.F.A. '20, with a concentration on Dramaturgy, some of her favorite projects included: co-writing and directing a new musical Cruessical: The Crucible, a Seussical-Like Musical, and serving as dramaturg for the educational English language premiere of Aya Ogawa’s 100 Years Stray. In 2019, Lindsay presented at the ATHE conference as a part of the Dramaturgy Debut Panel, with a case study of her work on The Way Out West by Liza Birkenmeier. She is also an active member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. lindsayturgy.wixsite.com/home