The Empathy Project at Brown School: Connection Through Chaos
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THE EMPATHY PROJECT: Connection Through Chaos
From The Outer Loop and Brown School, comes a LIVE virtual collaboration and devised theatrical response to the moment of crisis, we as a global community, currently find ourselves in. These are strange and uncertain times... ones simultaneously abundant and lacking in connection and hope. Can we, through theater, inspire empathy and reconnect to our shared humanity?
Our process was two-fold; first we gathered stories from Brown School students and faculty. Then, through words, music, dance, poetry, film and visual art, we curated, devised and assembled this live theatrical experience. The production includes both live and pre-recorded performances of stories from students and faculty, all surrounding their experiences of the crises we've faced together throughout 2020.
As the project is a devised piece, we're not sure exactly what it will look like, but we are sure it will have an impact; the project's purpose stemming from The Outer Loop's greater purpose and mission: to create art that matters. We hope by bringing together voices, stories and experiences from all walks of life and artists from all mediums, both participants and audience alike will engage in the greater conversation of what it means to be human ... right now. And that together, we might discover while our experiences or views of these crises differ, that our feelings of fear, joy, disappointment, hope, anger, and love are all the same.
With this, the fourth Empathy Project volume, we once again turn the mirror back on ourselves and ask, “what place do artists, theater and empathy have within our current experience and how can we create art that reflects that experience?”
*This event is "donate what you can." We suggest a donation of $10 per person, but are happy to receive more, and grateful to receive any amount you can afford. ALL donations will go to support the Schenectady Community Action Program. SCAP, in partnership with the community, develops and implements lasting solutions for people of all ages to move out of poverty.
