Author:
Christina Katopodis
Subject:
Literature, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, English Language Arts, Ethnic Studies, Linguistics, Political Science, Psychology, Social Work, Sociology, Women's Studies
Material Type:
Lesson
Level:
Community College / Lower Division, College / Upper Division, Graduate / Professional, Career / Technical, Adult Education
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Creative Commons Attribution
Language:
English

Flipping the Script

Flipping the Script

Overview

The "Flipping the Script: Challenging Our Perceptions about Race”  Lesson Plan provides a step by step plan on how to conduct this workshop. Also, the Lesson Plan provides a link to an After Event Toolbox that was designed to allow participants to continue the conversation after the workshop is completed. 

Lesson Plan

“Flipping the Script: Challenging Our Perceptions about Race is a workshop designed to cultivate awareness and communication skills that are essential for all of us during this time of racial reckoning. During this interactive session, participants will investigate their racial “scripts” by engaging in activities to help them relate to their thoughts with greater skill: discussion of images and film clips, mindful journaling, and pair-share exercises. 

The "Flipping the Script: Challenging Our Perceptions about Race”  Lesson Plan provides a step by step plan on how to conduct this workshop. Also, the Lesson Plan provides a link to an After Event Toolbox that was designed to allow participants to continue the conversation after the workshop is completed. 

 

 

AGUSTIN McCARTHY 

Agustin McCarthy is a mindfulness instructor, award-winning independent filmmaker and Assistant Professor of Media Arts at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. Selected as a “Filmmaker of Tomorrow” at the Telluride Film Festival, they are currently working to make tomorrow happen today through creating thought-provoking projects that tap into the hilarity and heartbreak of being human. Current projects include writing VISIBLE, a psychological thriller about a trans woman fighting to save her job in a call center when she starts to lose her grip on reality; and directing PINK, WHITE & BLUE, an autobiographical documentary exploring gender identity and what it means to be queer and non-binary. 

 

MELANIE WILLIAMS ORAM 

While at HBO Sports, Melanie earned an Emmy for Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel and a Peabody for the documentary Dare to Compete: The Struggle of Women in Sports. Under the Bajan Brownstone Productions banner, she wrote and directed SHOOK a short film that aired on Showtime and won several festival awards. She directed the short play NMA that was part of a short play collection called The R-Word which did a short off-Broadway run. While helming Bajan Brownstone Productions she also created content for Harlem Stage, Women's Project Theater, and Rattlestick Theater in New York City. Currently she is working on a documentary called Run like a G.U.R.L. (Galvanized Unapologetic Real Leader) about extraordinary female candidates who persist in their goal to secure a political office and the pink wave of female grassroots activists who are determined to change the world. Melanie earned a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude from Harvard University and a MFA from Columbia University -School of the Arts -Filmmaking Division.