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Welcome to Amplify & Ignite 2025

Thank you to our generous Donors -
Emerson College:
  • Academic Affairs
  • School of the Arts
  • Social Justice Collaborative
  • Department of Performing Arts 
  • Graduate Studies
  • Elma Lewis Center
  • Theatre Education Graduate Association
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Sustainability Invitation
Emerson Sustainability is currently preparing for the annual Campus Race to Zero Waste competition that runs from February through the end of March. It’s a friendly competition between universities in North America to reduce waste on campuses and raise awareness about waste-related behaviors. In celebration of Campus Race to Zero Waste, we are participating in the Green Event Certification program and we hope you will join us in this challenge. In advance of your travel to Boston, we encourage you to bring a reusable water bottle and/or hot thermos and utensils to reduce the need for single use products.
Friday March 21, 2025 9:00am - 11:30am EDT
Welcome Remarks:
  • Alexandra Socarides, Emerson Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs 
  • Alexis Truitt, Executive Director, American Alliance for Theatre & Education
Framing and Goal Setting, Symposium Co-Chairs Lizzy Cooper Davis and Dana Edell
Community Grounding and Activation: Elisa Hamilton and Gillian Epstein

Re-Emerging Together
Elisa Hamilton and Gillian Epstein created "Re-Emerging Together" in the Summer of 2021, funded by the Sketch Model program at Olin College of Engineering. After experiencing prolonged social isolation due to the pandemic, Elisa and Gillian felt that reconnecting in groups was particularly meaningful. They wondered if there was a way to mindfully come back together, as a way to honor the significance of the moment, peel a few layers past small talk, and get to know one another in new ways. "Re-Emerging Together: An Activity" was designed as a mode for activating conversations, as well as a way for participants to share what they wondered, learned, and celebrated in the course of their isolation and re-emergence. Four years later, Elisa and Gillian have adapted this model to speak to our current moment. While the original activity asked participants to look back and consider their internal experiences of the pandemic, the updated activity has a more outward focus on the present. We ask participants to consider and share what they question, embrace, and imagine in our current time of uncertainty. In this playful workshop, participants will ponder timely questions, share, listen, learn, and leave with a tool to engage others in meaningful conversation in the classroom and beyond.
Speakers
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Alexis Truitt

Alexis Truitt is going on her 13th year as the Executive Director of the American Alliance for Theatre of Education (AATE). Prior to AATE she was the Program Coordinator for the Changing Education Through the Arts (CETA) Program at the Kennedy Center. She holds her Masters in Arts... Read More →
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Elisa H. Hamilton and Gillian Epstein

Elisa H. Hamilton is a socially engaged multimedia artist who creates artworks and community-centered projects that emphasize shared spaces and the hopeful examination of our everyday places, objects, and experiences.  She holds a BFA in Painting from Massachusetts College of Art... Read More →
Friday March 21, 2025 9:00am - 11:30am EDT
Bordy Auditorium

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