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Projects2008-2009 Academic YearJan 2009 - Listen to the Silence Workshop On January 24, 2009, O.T. presents a special workshop entitled "The Voice Within" at the 13th annual Listen to the Silence Conference (hosted by Stanford's Asian American Student Association). O.T. members and alum lead the group in an exploration of the role that creative writing can play in investigating personal identity by means of a roundtable discussion, a Q&A session, and a series of collaborative exercises. Nov 2008 - Craft Seminar + Monologue Slam in Collaboration with the Asian American Theatre Project On November 13, 2008, O.T. and the AATP co-host a special craft seminar in anticipation of the AATP's first annual monologue slam competition, which takes place on November 20th and features a performative showdown between students who have written original, 2-minute dramatic monologues. 2007-2008 Academic YearMay 2008 - Playwriting Workshop in Collaboration with the Asian American Theatre Project The AATP collaborates with O.T. to help us revise two dramatic scenes that we have written in an earlier craft seminar on playwriting. The four visiting AATP members do a table reading of our scripts, and then offer feedback from their perspectives as actors. April 2008 - Public Exquisite Corpse Poetry
During April of 2008, OT members table at three separate events (SOCA's An Art Affair, the Admit Weekend Activities Fair, and the English Department Open House). Inspired by a craft seminar on collaborative poetry, we decide to introduce a public poetry-writing element to our booth setup. At each event, we recruit both visitors to our table and hapless passers-by to help us create collaborative poems by adding a few words, exquisite-corpse style, to a large poster board on which a number of formal "rules" (such as line length, syllable count etc) have been written. Our visitors have fun being included in the creative process, and we have fun watching their words unfold line by line. |