For the past couple days the other volunteer artists and I have been brainstorming, planning and creating the objectives and lessons for this summer’s arts camp at Shanti Bhavan. We are all approaching this program from different disciplines, experience levels and perspectives and the result so far has been an incredible melding of ideas into new super ideas. Our process has been electric; musicians, actors, dancers and visual artists all bouncing ideas off each other and feeding on the collective energy as we work to create a program that will leave a lasting impact on the students at Shanti Bhavan. As I reflect purely on the time spent in program development with my fellow volunteers artists, I am struck by the fact that we are able to collaborate so effectively due to the traits learned from training in our art forms. It is exciting to be confident in the fact that we personify the very life skills - such as collaboration and team work - that research so often shows accompany the study of the arts.
With that, here's to an amazing team.
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| ASTEP Team at Shanti Bhavan Fall 2014 |
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