{"id":1436,"date":"2018-10-11T17:55:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T17:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ecg\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2018-10-24T16:22:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T16:22:10","slug":"visceral-viewing-decoding-images-through-movement-and-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ecg\/visceral-viewing-decoding-images-through-movement-and-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Visceral Viewing: Decoding Images Through Movement and Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Poetry Workshop with Magdalena\u00a0G\u00f3mez<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

In this writing workshop, participants will view and interpret a self-selected image from Pablo Delano\u2019s installation\u00a0The Museum of the Old Colony<\/em>. The intention of the workshop is to provide tools with which to interrogate, decode and respond to an image through the written word, to heighten critical viewing, and self awareness in how one approaches viewing. Do we look or do we see? Do we accept the superficial first glance, or look and think again?<\/span><\/p>\n

We will begin with self and group trust building theater based activities, preparing the body and mind, to enter into engagement with the image. We will explore how the immediate state of our bodies can influence how we see and respond to an image, and how we can open ourselves to a deeper experience and understanding of what is before us. We will move to music, vocalize, and learn techniques for a visceral viewing experience, followed by creative writing time activating an Ekphrastic response through poetic monologue.<\/p>\n

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Wednesday, October 17th<\/strong>
\n6:30-9pm
\nHampshire College Art Gallery<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

This event is co-sponsored by Hampshire College Art Gallery and Ethics & the Common Good.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Magdalena G\u00f3mez<\/strong>\u00a0is the author of\u00a0Shameless Woman<\/em>, a memoir in poems, published by Red Sugarcane Press, NYC. She is a cultural organizer, vanguard Nuyorican performance poet since 1971, playwright and the co-founder and artistic director of Teatro V!da, the first Latin@ theater in Springfield, MA.<\/p>\n

In 2010, NYC\u2019s Pregones Theater named Ms. G\u00f3mez a National Endowment for the Arts Master Artist and produced her selected poems and monologues,\u00a0Dancing in My Cockroach Killers<\/em>\u00a0as a musical. After multiple successful runs since 2013 Off-Broadway; in Los Angeles, and\u00a0Washington, D.C. in 2018 at the renowned Gala Theater, it returns for another\u00a0Off-Broadway run at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in NYC, this November.\u00a0As a poet, Magdalena performed nationally with the late composer and baritone saxophonist, Fred Ho. This year, Teatro V!da was invited to become the Theater in Residence at the Bing Arts Center in Springfield, Massachusetts. Magdalena\u2019s archives are housed at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Her poems have been widely published and anthologized in publications such as:\u00a0The Progressive<\/em>;\u00a0Berkshire Journal<\/em>;\u00a0L.A. Times<\/em>; and\u00a0Palabra,\u00a0<\/em>among many others.\u00a0<\/em>Magdalena is a monthly contributer to the AfAm Point of View newspaper based in Springfield, MA.<\/p>\n

She has written 24 poems in response to\u00a0The Museum of the Old Colony<\/em>, and tells us \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019m done yet. Every image holds endless possibilities for the thoughtful and informed viewer. As the oldest extant colony in the world, the study of the histories and cultures of Puerto Rico should be required in all U.S. curricula. In the meantime, Pablo Delano\u2019s installation gives us an opportunity to deepen our insights, self-education and humanity.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, October 17th from 6:30-9pm, Hampshire Art Gallery<\/b>
\nJoin poet and playwright Magdalena G\u00f3mez in a writing workshop interpreting a self-selected image from Pablo Delano\u2019s installation The Museum of the Old Colony. The intention of the workshop is to provide tools with which to interrogate, decode and respond to an image through the written word, to heighten critical viewing, and self awareness in how one approaches viewing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1439,"featured_media":1440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36293],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-workshops-and-trainings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ecg\/files\/2018\/10\/magdalena-Gomez1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ecg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ecg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ecg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ecg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ecg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ecg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ecg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions\/1443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ecg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ecg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ecg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ecg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}