Day 1 Defining community and peace with mindfulness and history Thursday January 18 (Arts Block Period 2:00 – 4:15) Description: Participants will utilize contemplative education strategies and participant generated review protocols to generate ideal Community and Peace statements. The collaborative exercises from this highly interactive workshop will be the foundations of the entire “Building Community, Making History Collaborative Project” featured in the National Portrait Gallery’s “Portraiture Now: Framing History” exhibition and at Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Aims: A.) Have participants learn and model some basic concepts of Collaboration. B.) Learn to create a rubric to illustrate assessment and use as a guide for observation and awareness. C.) Use a rubric for both the evaluation of collaborative work and the fabrication of a collective project where the outcome is communally determined. D.) Expand our definition of Community through dialogue. E.) Document each other with Digital Cameras. F.) Practice Mindfulness – which is the practice of peace. Theme: Looking at history with mindfulness, we can create community and peace. Materials: Raisins Digital Projector Lesson plan to distribute 30 Packets Mirrored paper with COMMUNITY and PEACE for rubric/List Opening evaluation handout Digital Camera Colored Paint pens Methods: A.) Mindfulness Exercise w/Raisins and Introductions 35 minutes B.) Introduce rubric using participant’s contributions 5 minutes C.) Community and Peace Presentation/ handout packets 60 minutes D.) Have everyone Contribute to Rubric, highlighting qualities from the raisin exercise for background, encouraging mindfulness 5 minutes E.) Digital Camera Pass Around/Opening Evaluation 15 minutes G.) Closing reflections 10 minutes
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Thursday January 18, 2007 Building Community, Making History Collaborative Project Duke Ellington School for the Arts and the National Portrait Gallery Washington D.C.