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Hearts & Minds Facilitators

 

Stories that Change Us

This workshop explores the tension between the personal and the political and uses the art of storytelling to uncover and activate individual and collective power. Kat Evasco will lead participants through a process of inquiry and self-reflection to lift urgent stories and public narratives that reflect the story of now, of us, and of self.

Kat EvasCo

Kat is an award-winning playwright and director committed to honoring and celebrating the experiences of immigrants, women and LGBTQ communities. In 2020, Kat was awarded the Kenneth Rainin New & Experimental Works (NEW) Program Grant towards the premiere of her new play Be Like Water produced by Brava Theater. Kat’s current solo theater projects include directing Prieto by Yosimar Reyes, and Not My First Pandemic by César Cadabes which received Best One Man Show and All About Solo Critics Award at United Solo Festival 2021. She is a 2018 Lambda Literary Fellow in Playwriting. Kat currently serves as the Director of Artist Leadership at the Center for Cultural Power.

Spoken Us

Working with previously written autobiographical work this three-part all-level workshop, translates works from the page to the stage. Facilitator Joel B. Tan will introduce foundational elements of the spoken word grounded in three questions.

  • What happens when your monologue is translated to dialogue? 

  • What is spoken word in the everyday and ordinary? 

  • What happens when I become you?

Joel B. Tan

Joel aka Sister Baba Ganesh of the SF Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is a cultural activist, executive coach, and the Director of Social Impact for Touching the Earth LLC in Hawaiʻi Island. Tan is the author of three collections of poetry with essays, stories, performances, and visual works published and produced by diverse academic and commercial venues. Tanʻs 30+ years promoting Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) in Public Health, the Arts, Education, and Holistic Centers includes co-founding LAʻs Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team Health Center. He is currently in training for family therapy and lives in Kapaʻau Hawai'i with his husband, three cats, and lively ancestors.