First Things First

During the past year, a colleague and I were asked to develop and mentor a series of workshops for administrators of a school district concerned with public perceptions of a lack of sensitivity to multicultural issues. One of the hypotheses that we returned to regularly was that cultural stereotypes derive from a lack of intimacy; when we open ourselves in the at tempt to experience as others experience, stereotypes lose their objectifying power. Over the course of those workshops, all administrators (from superintendent to building-level assistant principals) demonstrated an incredible willingness to take some significant risks — to share personal insights and values with each other, to open themselves to peer-critique, to grapple with troubling aspects of the images and discourse that emerged at several points

Review: The Newsletter of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, volume 16, issue 2

Contents include: Driving, LMDA Conference 2006: Think Dramaturgically, Act Locally, Words of Welcome from the Conference Committee, Developing a Sense of Community: Reflections on the Balance of a Community Engagement and Artistic Integrity while Creating a Dramaturg-Driven Documentary Play, In Print: The Seattle Public Library Introduction, The Seattle Public Library: A Conversation, Dramaturgy as Catalyst: A Rockies Dramaturg Driven Project, and American Playwrights and Playwriting. Issue editors: D.J. Hopkins, Shelley Orr, Madeleine Oldhamhttps://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/lmdareview/1033/thumbnail.jp