Stories of Bravery

Join us for an intergenerational workshop focused on community-building, leadership, and using theatre for social change. Includes a showcase for family and friends with an invitation to donate and support the program. Come celebrate the final event in our Stories of Bravery series!

WHEN

• WORKSHOP: SUNDAY, MAY 26TH, 12 P.M. to 3:30 P.M.*
• PERFORMANCE: *Community Showcase at 3 p.m.

WHERE

• ASHHO Cultural Community & Job Training Center, 5757 Littlerock Rd SW #4, Tumwater, WA 98512, across from Costco in Tumwater
• Delicious snacks provided by ASHHO
• FREE and by donation

*Come for both the workshop and performance or just the performance! Workshop participants have the opportunity to perform for our audience of family and friends alongside Brave Practice members after learning Playback Theatre fundamentals. No one is required to perform if they want to just participate in the workshop. Feel free to make a note in your ticket registration if you are registering for the workshop, performance, or both.

Whether you are looking to practice courage on-stage or off, we're excited to listen deeply, share true stories, lean into community wisdom, and take some brave risks with you! No previous theatre experience is necessary to participate!

Let's explore: What does bravery mean to you? When have you practiced bravery in your everyday life, in big and small ways? How can you cultivate the vulnerability necessary to do hard things like lead, learn, make mistakes, and maintain integrity and community accountability?

Brave Practice Playback Theatre Collective is a community resource for storytelling and deep listening. Founded in 2021 as a community engagement program through Window Seat, we are a collective of theatre artists who use Playback Theatre and other theatre-based techniques to foster connection, inclusion, and belonging locally. We serve a beautiful, diverse, intergenerational, and multicultural community within and connected to the South Sound region. With us, you'll practice empathy, express yourself, collaborate with others, and explore your own gifts and potential. Become familiar with techniques in Playback Theatre, a kind of improv theatre where people share true moments from their lives and others play them back on the spot.

This opportunity is open to community members who can actively participate and benefit from this experience in a community setting. Email us if you have questions about whether this workshop will be a good fit for you.

COST

This workshop is supported by an Arts in Education grant from ArtsWA, with the goal of enriching local arts offerings and accessible community programming. Community donations are gladly accepted to support the continuation of this program. We encourage those who are able to make a contribution to support our ability to make this offering accessible to all. Anyone can donate through this event link at any time by clicking the "DONATE" button.

Please register ahead of time if you are able so that we can determine how much food is needed. 

Questions? Accommodation requests? Email meg@windowseatmedia.org.

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More about Window Seat Media

Window Seat's mission is to use oral history and storytelling to spark conversation, connection, and social change in the South Sound and beyond. We are a local nonprofit in Olympia, WA committed to gathering people together to share stories that have been forgotten, silenced, or ignored throughout history. Oral history and personal narrative are at the center of our work. We experiment with many formats. Since 2016, we have worked alongside service providers, activists, organizers, and artists to tell nuanced and inclusive stories—people’s histories—of who we are in this homeplace. Through live storytelling, theatre, community conversations, artistic collaborations, podcasts, film screenings, and exhibits, we amplify local knowledge, share powerful stories and ideas, and ask what is possible. We believe the future is written with the stories we narrate, and we want to co-create a more inclusive, connected, and just world. We envision a local community that honors, seeks out, and is shaped by the many histories, identities, and stories that reflect the people we are in this place.

More about ASHHO Cultural Community Center

‍ASHHO’s Mission/Acronyms:

• Advocate for survivors, communities of color, under-served, marginalized people.
• Serve our communities with kindness, compassion, and professional services
• Honor Humanity in all that we do because all people matter
• Organize community resources, education, gatherings, trainings & events.

ASHHO means to instruct or call someone to “COME JOIN” in the Bengali language from Bangladesh where Khurshida and Rubel are from. Chef Khurshida Begum is the founder and visionary behind ASHHO, where everyone can have access to inspirational programs and services that focus on real-life skills, cultural and identity exploration, and connections.

Window Seat and ASHHO have partnered to bring this offering to the community. We are so grateful to have an opportunity for our two organizations to live out our shared values.