[Uosenate] Save the date: Senate rehearsals for life

[Theodora Ko Thompson]

My thanks to Abigail Leeder for her leadership with Rehearsals for Life whose performances I value!  My thanks too, to  the Senate Antiracism Academy for their work; I am delighted to hear of Rehearsals for Life interactive event that is being scheduled.

The first experience of Rehearsals for Life was their opening performance at the Martin Luther King Jr event I attended in 2012 https://uonews.uoregon.edu/archive/news-release/2012/1/uo-marks-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-legacy-week-events  I was excited that we had invited Dr Lawrence Bobo https://scholar.harvard.edu/bobo/home whose works were included in my grad research to learn and understand issues around racism, the sociology of racial prejudices.

The Rehearsals for Life’s performance ignited my imagination!! In sharing how wonderful Rehearsals for Life’s performance was with BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ folx in the committees I served on,  we were inspired and saw opportunity how we too could present snippets of our own stories/experiences in a meaningful way to bring critical awareness and spark “courageous” conversations around structural racism and gender inequality experiences vis-à-vis societal inequalities and inequities. I’ve known a few graduate students who’ve been part of Rehearsals for Life who valued being part of the program for the social consciousness these performances bring to the community.

Thank you!!
Theodora

Theodora Ko Thompson, UO BA '04, MS '07
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From: uosenate-bounces at lists.uoregon.edu <uosenate-bounces at lists.uoregon.edu> On Behalf Of Senate Pres Elliot Berkman
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2021 9:33 AM
To: uosenate at lists.uoregon.edu; uosenateexec at lists.uoregon.edu
Subject: [Uosenate] Save the date: Senate rehearsals for life

Greetings, Senators and members of the Senate Executive,

The Senate Antiracism Academy is hosting an interactive event with Rehearsals for Life<https://dos.uoregon.edu/rfl> and each of you is invited to attend. In case you’re not familiar, Rehearsals for Life is a joint project between the Grad School and the Office of the Dean of Students that teaches attendees to step in and diffuse tricky situations. A key component of the training is that audience members also have an opportunity to practice their new skills.

More details including an RSVP are forthcoming. But, for now, please save the date: Wednesday, May 26, 3-5pm.

Please join us in imagining a more inclusive campus for all.

- Ell

Elliot Berkman
Senate President
Professor, Department of Psychology & Center for Translational Neuroscience
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