Lesson Plan : Human Rights
0I recently started back teaching a course called, “Arts and Social Change” for a group of 7th grade students at an after school program in the Bronx, New York. Our current topic of discussion is Human Rights and the students absolutely LOVE the documentary that [...]
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Breaking the Food Chains | A Movement for Food Justice
Every year more than 10 million children die of hunger and preventable diseases – that’s over 30,000 per day and one every 3 seconds. Many think malnutrition is not having enough to eat, but for many of the world’s one billion hungry people the problem [...]
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Featured Artist : Genesis Tramaine
Genesis Tramaine | Born and bred in bed-stuy, lives the bustling life of a visual artist, high school math teacher, and co-founder of bklyn boihood. Art, by Genesis’ own admission, is “the only thing she’s ever been really really good at.” So between teaching and [...]
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Theatre for the Free People Artist Residency | Amsterdam
Theatre for the Free People International Arts Exchange Program Artist Residency Amsterdam, Netherlands Heesterveld Heesterveld (H-SPOT) is the new cultural hotspot in Amsterdam Zuidoost (Southeast) where artists and creative entrepreneurs live and work. In partnership with Artchitect the Future, Heesterveld and the H23426 initiative, Theatre [...]
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Hotel The Exchange | Amsterdam
On my last day in Amsterdam I was invited to take a tour of the new Exchange Hotel that just opened up in the city center. If my obsession with innovative hotel concepts wasn’t enough, I was thrilled to discover that The [...]
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Artist : Activist in Residence | Kitchell Samuel
Name: Kitchell Samuel Platform: Architect the Future Age: 25 Birthdate: November 30, 1986 Birth Place: Paramaribo, Suriname Current Location: Amsterdam, NL Astrology: (Sun/Moon/Rising Sign) Sagittarius/Scorpio/Capricorn Numerology: 11 Fact: Fluent in three languages Sranan Togo, Dutch and English. www.architectthefuture.tv Theatre for the Free People [...]
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xCHANGE = amsterdam x new york
xCHANGE = an opportunity for artists, activists and creative minds to exchange ideas, experiences, thoughts, feelings, opinions and most of all their ART in a supportive and collaborative environment. Join us for a night of poetry, spoken word, music, theatre and film featuring some of [...]
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My time left in Amsterdam is running short and I’m sitting here in the quiet solitude of the Heesterveld HARTT Apartment, reflecting on the incredible experiences I have had this year. I wanted to take the time and highlight some of the amazing artists that [...]
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Featured Artist : Olga Nunnink
Name : Olga Nunnink Age : 24 Sign : Gemini Location : Amsterdam, NL Not only is Olga one of the most stylish people I have ever met, she is the ultimate sweetheart and an amazing visual artist as well. Her style is creative, innovative [...]
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Try Poetry x Museum Nacht
Valery Levant “Outspoken & Relevant” “Try Poetry” Museum Nacht November 5. 2011 Try Poetry hosts an inspiring evening of poetry, spoken word and music for Museum Nacht, one of Amsterdam’s most unique annual events at De Brakke Grond. Poet AF Black x Kid Kemuel [...]
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About Us | Joi M. Sears
Joi M. Sears is an artist : activist and the Executive Director of Theatre for the Free People, an organization which is dedicated to using the arts as a vehicle for social change.
An Internationalist, she has traveled around the world discovering the innate ability of the arts to transform lives and mobilize communities; from studying the Theatre of the Oppressed technique with August Boal in Rio de Janeiro Brazil, to mask making in Puerto Rico, filming a documentary about a medical missionary trip to Haiti, exploring Girls Empowerment with young women in Ghana to most recently spending six months living and working at an artist collective called Heesterveld in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
She is an educator, currently teaching courses in poetry, dramatic writing and arts and social change for students in New York City public schools and offers workshops for schools, universities, businesses and community based organizations across the globe. She has earned her Masters degree in “Arts and Social Change” from New York University’s Gallatin School of the Arts.
theatreforthefreepeople@gmail.com
