Lynn Hoare is a facilitator, educator, and director working in the field of applied theatre and arts education with regional, national, and international partners. She was the senior director of school-based programs at Creative Action, the largest arts and education nonprofit in central Texas. She is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin, a co-founder of the Center for Imagining and Performing Justice, and the co-director of the Performing Justice Project which devises original theatre with young people about gender and racial justice. Her co-authored book, Devising Critically Engaged Theatre with Youth: The Performing Justice Project, won the distinguished book award from the American Alliance of Theatre and Education in 2021. Hoare collaborates with others to use theatre as a tool for imagining justice, building connection and community, and fostering critical dialogue.
This workshop will use a variety of arts-based strategies to explore belonging in the classroom. Strategies include “Story of my Name”, “Alphabet Relay”, “Object as Metaphor”, and “Yes, Let’s!” This session will include discussion about using and adapting strategies to other areas of the curriculum.
This session will use arts-based strategies to explore connections to the natural world. Participants will practice descriptive language, seeing and naming patterns, weather patterns as metaphor for self, visual description, and sociometrics. This session will include discussion about using and adapting strategies to other areas of the curriculum.
