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On the Road with Ashley Hanson
The language often used to describe rural America includes words like divided, dying, aging and isolated. In this workshop, theater and social practice artist, Ashley Hanson, challenges these stereotypes by sharing her approach to working with rural-based artists and local residents across the country to transform their community narratives.
She will talk about how her work creating site-specific musical theater productions where audiences bike, paddle and dance from scene to scene increases connectivity and civic participation. She will share insight from her cross-country, multi-media documentary project where she interviewed artists in towns of 10,000 or less from a little yellow school bus named GUS. And, she will explain how she is collaborating with rural artists and small town leadership to develop the first Small Town City Artist in Residence program, explore new approaches to Main Street creative economic development, and connect people / places across the perceived urban-rural divide.
- Date:
- Thursday, March 28, 2019
- Time:
- 7:00pm - 8:30pm
- Location:
- Shakopee Large Meeting Room
- Branch:
- Shakopee Library
- Audience:
- Adult
- Categories:
- Arts/Entertainment Legacy Amendment