Glenis Redmond
GLENIS REDMOND'S NEWS & PROGRAM OFFERINGS
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
For contracts and bookings before May 1, 2014, please contact Peggy Baldwin, 828-683-1997, peggy@loydartists.com.
For booking inquiries for dates after May 1, 2014, please contact Glenis Redmond, 704-219-8607, poetica11@aol.com.
GLENIS REDMOND'S WEBSITE
NEWS from GLENIS
Glenis offers teacher workshops through The Kennedy Center Partners In Education program. Excellent for in-service/CEU requirements. For more info on this innovative and prestigious work:
KENNEDY CTR. PARTNERS IN EDUCATION
Glenis Redmond showcased at the International Performing Arts for Youth conference in Philadelphia,PA in January 2013!
Glenis Redmond is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the The Peace Center in Greenville,SC, and will be joining the Education team to build "Peace Voices", a program to foster creative expression through writing and performing poetry throughout the community. For more information, see the download at the bottom of this page, "Peace Voices" from the 2012 - 2013 Peace Center Residency.
Glenis Redmond's Tributary Community Poetry Project just completed a fourth year of multi-week residencies with the New Jersey State Theater. The Tributary Project is a creative writing initiative that focuses on place-based and regionally-centered poetry, encouraging participants to reflect on the stories, facts and myths of their own family and community. Glenis' poetry projects are transforming communities all over the United States. To explore the possibilities for your town or region, CONTACT US
GLENIS REDMOND PERFORMANCES
Poetic Dialogue: Talking Back- Redmond's performances for both adults and for youth in grades K and up are "poetic community forums" where she draws on the African-American musical tradition of call and response. It is a spontaneous conversation, much like life, as she encourages even the youngest heart to open, allowing a deeper poetic dialogue between the artist and the audience. Glenis offers an age-appropriate performance of her poetry based on her observations and her journey in the world. Throughout, she invites her audience to explore within and then speak in their own words about the music, the individual meaning and the personal metaphor of what they are hearing in this performance/demonstration.
Questions arise...
What is the song, the poetry that sings in your ear, your heart?
What does it mean to you in your life, your development?What is your metaphor, your symbol for your journey?
These "talk back" moments in Glenis' performances allow a meeting ground for both youth and elders in the audience to speak, be heard with respect, and learn from one another. Generational values are often shared as bridges of understanding form- bridges that can serve as teaching tools to transform and expand discussions within personal lives and the greater community.
SPECIAL PRODUCTIONS/COLLABORATIONSSouthern Voices: Black, White and Blues with musician Scott Ainslie
The American South: it is the place - the only place - that could incubate and give birth to the Blues, to Jazz, and Black Gospel music. The South is the common ground where diverse folk have lived together, often uneasily, but intimately. It is the place where the taboos against racial mixing, so ferociously enforced in every other aspect of our lives, never came to be applied to our voices, to our music, our stories, our songs.
Redmond & Ainslie's Southern Voices: Black, White and Blues
WORKSHOPS AND RESIDENCIESTributary Residency
Glenis is well known for her in-depth work in communities with a wide range of people from many different circumstances, ages and backgrounds. The Tributary Poetry Project is a creative writing initiative that focuses on place-based and regionally-centered poetry, encouraging participants to reflect on the stories, facts and myths of their own family and community. The intent of the project is to encourage participants to become their own celebrants of place by creating poems that are offered to the community as a gift. This series of sessions helps bolster individuals who may be learning to act as tributaries in their own communities and benefits the greater society by creating deeper and stronger ties. Length of the residency can vary from 2 days upwards of weeks-long sessions. Often communities invite Glenis back year after year to develop, enhance and expand even more profound ties for the participants.
WORKSHOPS
Glenis offers two teacher workshops developed in conjunction with The Kennedy Center Partnership In Education program. Presenters need not be members of the Kennedy network to host Glenis for one or more of these exhilarating workshops.
Poetry Off the Page For Teachers of Grades 4-12 - Experience poetry coming to life! This two-part workshop is based on the belief that poetry, in addition to being written and read, should be performed.
Workshop 1: Redmond helps teachers learn ways students can use brainstorming, imagery, and layering to write powerful, personal, and effective poems. Clear and easy poetic structures and formats will empower students to expand their imaginations and cross creative boundaries in the general curriculum.
Workshop 2: Redmond leads teacher participants in examining deeper ways to involve students by teaching them to memorize and perform their own poems, furthering communication of the written word. Teachers learn appropriate voice projection, physical stance, and gesture for students.
Glenis also leads student workshops and classroom visits in poetry writing and performance for 4th grade to university-level students, professional writers and other adult participants. Please contact Loyd Artists for details.
CONTACT US
For booking inquiries for dates after May 1, 2014, please contact Glenis Redmond, 704-219-8607, poetica11@aol.com.
GLENIS REDMOND'S WEBSITE
NEWS from GLENIS
Glenis offers teacher workshops through The Kennedy Center Partners In Education program. Excellent for in-service/CEU requirements. For more info on this innovative and prestigious work:
KENNEDY CTR. PARTNERS IN EDUCATION
Glenis Redmond showcased at the International Performing Arts for Youth conference in Philadelphia,PA in January 2013!
Glenis Redmond is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the The Peace Center in Greenville,SC, and will be joining the Education team to build "Peace Voices", a program to foster creative expression through writing and performing poetry throughout the community. For more information, see the download at the bottom of this page, "Peace Voices" from the 2012 - 2013 Peace Center Residency.
Glenis Redmond's Tributary Community Poetry Project just completed a fourth year of multi-week residencies with the New Jersey State Theater. The Tributary Project is a creative writing initiative that focuses on place-based and regionally-centered poetry, encouraging participants to reflect on the stories, facts and myths of their own family and community. Glenis' poetry projects are transforming communities all over the United States. To explore the possibilities for your town or region, CONTACT US
GLENIS REDMOND PERFORMANCES
Poetic Dialogue: Talking Back- Redmond's performances for both adults and for youth in grades K and up are "poetic community forums" where she draws on the African-American musical tradition of call and response. It is a spontaneous conversation, much like life, as she encourages even the youngest heart to open, allowing a deeper poetic dialogue between the artist and the audience. Glenis offers an age-appropriate performance of her poetry based on her observations and her journey in the world. Throughout, she invites her audience to explore within and then speak in their own words about the music, the individual meaning and the personal metaphor of what they are hearing in this performance/demonstration.
Questions arise...
What is the song, the poetry that sings in your ear, your heart?
What does it mean to you in your life, your development?What is your metaphor, your symbol for your journey?
These "talk back" moments in Glenis' performances allow a meeting ground for both youth and elders in the audience to speak, be heard with respect, and learn from one another. Generational values are often shared as bridges of understanding form- bridges that can serve as teaching tools to transform and expand discussions within personal lives and the greater community.
SPECIAL PRODUCTIONS/COLLABORATIONSSouthern Voices: Black, White and Blues with musician Scott Ainslie
The American South: it is the place - the only place - that could incubate and give birth to the Blues, to Jazz, and Black Gospel music. The South is the common ground where diverse folk have lived together, often uneasily, but intimately. It is the place where the taboos against racial mixing, so ferociously enforced in every other aspect of our lives, never came to be applied to our voices, to our music, our stories, our songs.
Redmond & Ainslie's Southern Voices: Black, White and Blues
WORKSHOPS AND RESIDENCIESTributary Residency
Glenis is well known for her in-depth work in communities with a wide range of people from many different circumstances, ages and backgrounds. The Tributary Poetry Project is a creative writing initiative that focuses on place-based and regionally-centered poetry, encouraging participants to reflect on the stories, facts and myths of their own family and community. The intent of the project is to encourage participants to become their own celebrants of place by creating poems that are offered to the community as a gift. This series of sessions helps bolster individuals who may be learning to act as tributaries in their own communities and benefits the greater society by creating deeper and stronger ties. Length of the residency can vary from 2 days upwards of weeks-long sessions. Often communities invite Glenis back year after year to develop, enhance and expand even more profound ties for the participants.
WORKSHOPS
Glenis offers two teacher workshops developed in conjunction with The Kennedy Center Partnership In Education program. Presenters need not be members of the Kennedy network to host Glenis for one or more of these exhilarating workshops.
Poetry Off the Page For Teachers of Grades 4-12 - Experience poetry coming to life! This two-part workshop is based on the belief that poetry, in addition to being written and read, should be performed.
Workshop 1: Redmond helps teachers learn ways students can use brainstorming, imagery, and layering to write powerful, personal, and effective poems. Clear and easy poetic structures and formats will empower students to expand their imaginations and cross creative boundaries in the general curriculum.
Workshop 2: Redmond leads teacher participants in examining deeper ways to involve students by teaching them to memorize and perform their own poems, furthering communication of the written word. Teachers learn appropriate voice projection, physical stance, and gesture for students.
Glenis also leads student workshops and classroom visits in poetry writing and performance for 4th grade to university-level students, professional writers and other adult participants. Please contact Loyd Artists for details.
CONTACT US