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hi all,

This is a kind of follow up to those of you out there who were looking to
fill a session panel about actors/ live theater, but there are other things
in here, too.

1) I have another life, outside of museums, as a working actor and director
of a small theater company. I have used my performance training throughout
my informal education work, not simply as it relates to live interpretation
or teaching, but in helping me create a structure for programs. For me,
a good program or curriculum, like a good show, follows some basic rules I
get from my acting background, like "have a beginning, middle and end," or,
a little more abstract, "move then speak." This last one directly relates to
inquiry for me in that, well...a good actor does an action, then talks about
it, just like in a good inquiry experience, a learner does/experiences an
action, then talks about it. Anyway, I could go on, but what I'm trying to
say is that if any of you are interested in doing a session about these kind
of relationships between live performance and informal science or art and
informal science, I'd love to offer my help. A performance would HAVE to be
part of the session! Not to be too personally gratuitous, but I have spent
my career trying to marry art and science, or at least, help people see the
marriage that exists already, so I'd love to be a part of a session that
addresses that. It's tough though. Often, these art/ science connection
things don't do justice to either art or science. But now I blab....

2) Getting away from art and science...is anyone out there proposing or
interested in a session about the decentralized, community-based,
guerrilla-type, don't-really-have-a-name-yet kind of programs like the
Science Club I started this summer? This seems like a good topic, especially
for an ASTC with community as one of its focal points. Contact me if you
need my help. Or please tell if sessions like this have been proposed so
that I can attend them.

I realize this post might ramble a bit, but I don't post that often (thank
goodness for you, eh?).

Thanks,
Ben

Ben Dickow
310-614-6048
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Blog 1: edprogramdevelopmentprocess.blogspot.com

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