Name: From Archive to Estuary: Intergenerational Appllied Theatre to Re-Imagining "Growing Up Roxbury, 1880-2075"
Start: 2025-03-22T09:15:00-0400
End: 2025-03-22T10:30:00-0400

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

* * * *

Create your personalized schedule or click HERE to be directed back to the 2025 homepage.

If you wish to purchase a ticket to our Saturday Evening Events (Limited Tickets Available!): CLICK HERE

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.

Saturday March 22, 2025 9:15am - 10:30am EDT

Elma Lewis Center

Session Evaluation

Directions to the Elma Lewis Center (It is located on the same block as the Little Building.)
The Elma Lewis Center (ELC) is located at 148 Boylston Street, next to Piano Row. Look for large windows with plants and orange walls.

We propose to invite participants into the Elma Lewis Center to breath and imagine together with us, a group of community archivists and elder community members, about ways to meaningfully re-connect our Growing Up Roxbury (GUR) art and history installation with the flow of everyday life among the intergenerational communities the ancestors created them for, decades and centuries ago. Currrently being tenderly and strategically cultivated by neighborhood and campus community members inside the Elma Lewis Center at Emerson, this GUR project involves the personal family archives of more than 150 elders. Many of them worked directly with Melnea Cass, Elma Lewis, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, James Baldwin, Nina Simone, Alvin Ailey, Talley Beatty and more. We will also facilitate discussions around what these archival practices offer community art practitioners, and what opportunities they present for the field of applied theatre. Participants are invited to bring their own ancestral memory or object to engage in an artistic memorializing activity, honoring people in their communities and/or their individual artistic and scholarly lineage. This pilot portal installation of more than 1,000 archival pieces, including photographs, sculptures, written word diaries, family albums, music recordings, paintings, essays and letters, itself is intended to be a three-dimensional experimental point of departure where families who are also in the photographs, community members who knew them most, and campus members can come together and concretely name meaning(s), what they want us to learn from the ancestors through these memories, and, what next?

Speakers

Tamera Marko

Elma Lewis Center (Emerson College)

I am a story doula. I work with individuals and communities to cultivate the power of what stories can do. I grew up en la linea, the Tijuana-San Diego border region. My consciousness of the need for people to share our own stories in our own words and images began here. My first... Read More →

Saturday March 22, 2025 9:15am - 10:30am EDT
Elma Lewis Center

Workshops/Discussions

Amplify & Ignite: Creative Practice in and With Communities

Tamera Marko

Log in to save this to your schedule, view media, leave feedback and see who's attending!