ALL WE DO IS PLAY: INTRO TO WRITING FOR STAGE

Free 4-Part Workshop for Aspiring Playwrights facilitated by Kristiana Rae Colón

Workshop Application: http://bit.ly/writeKRC

Toni Cade Bambara tells us that the job of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible. This workshop asks participants to consider their solutions to the most urgent social concerns of our time, create dramatic interventions that provoke and inspire, and find pleasure in transformative self-expression.

Through discussion, generative writing prompts, and collective critique, writers will be invited to begin exploring new projects through monologue, dialogue, short drama, and collaborative writing.

All We Do Is Play is facilitated by award winning playwright and Chicago activist Kristiana Rae Colón. Kristiana’s writing, producing, and organizing work to radically reimagine power structures, our complicity in them, and visions for liberation. Her current work explores Afrofuturist drama as a catalyst for social change. A foundational premise of her pedagogy is that artists are the vanguard of revolution, that it is the social duty of creatives to envision, imagine, rehearse, design, and embody our liberated future; we cannot achieve alternatives to the existing harmful, violent systems and institutions if we can’t first imagine them. Liberation is a curatorial act, a creative act; revolution is inherently speculative in nature. Through science fiction, Afrofuturism, and speculative media, we create opportunities to rehearse the future together.

Please note: It is ideal for participants to commit to all 4 dates, but if interested participants have a date conflict, they will still be considered.