EP 5: Applied Practice

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The Real Work

We Rise Production

8 episodes

8 months ago

The Real Work is a 6-episode audio miniseries exploring transformative justice as a tool for preventing, addressing, and healing harm in Bay Area theater and beyond. Over the course of one year, nearly thirty local theater makers gathered monthly to learn together about transformative justice, under the facilitation of Mia Mingus, co-founder of the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective. This podcast series documents our learnings with an aim to share out and grow our collective capacity to practice transformative justice, especially in our arts and activist spaces.

True to its name, The Real Work reveals the seemingly mundane relational practices we can engage with one another to build cultures of safety and thriving within our communities. From communication skills, giving and receiving feedback, and learning how to make good apologies, to understanding roots of harm, TJ illuminates patterns of violence and abuse and offers dynamic ways of taking accountability to fundamentally shift them.

The Real Work: A Podcast About Theater Culture & Transformative Justice is created & hosted by Tierra Allen, in partnership with We Rise Production.

This project is supported by an Investing in Artists Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation & the City of Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program, and was incubated with initial support from CalShakes.

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EP 5: Applied Practice

The Real Work

1 hour 45 minutes

3 years ago

EP 5: Applied Practice

Last episode, we focused on the accountability part of community accountability. We explored how changing our behavior to live accountably is lifelong work, is violence prevention, takes building skills until they become muscle memory. Fortunately for us, Mia gave us many opportunities to practice.

In this episode, we learn from this practice – and – we focus on the community part of community accountability. Mia emphasized that transformative justice is not about intervening in or saving someone else’s community – TJ is responding to harm, violence, and abuse in our OWN communities. So as we built up fundamental TJ skills, she guided us to envision the changes we’d like to see in Bay Area theater.

Episode transcript: bit.ly/TheRealWork-Episode-5

Sogorea Te’ Land Trust: sogoreate-landtrust.org

Save the West Berkeley Shellmound: shellmound.org

Story F.4. “Surviving and Doing Sexual Harm: A Story of Accountability and Healing” from Section 4.F: Taking Accountability in the Creative Interventions Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Stop Interpersonal Violence: https://www.creative-interventions.org/toolkit/

“What Is Accountability” panel recorded at Building Accountable Communities: A National Gathering on Transforming Harm on April 27, 2019 at Barnard College, NYC featuring Shannon Perez-Darby, Esteban Kelly, RJ Maccani, Mia Mingus, Sonya Shah, and Leah Todd, and moderated by Piper Anderson: bcrw.barnard.edu/videos/building-accountable-communities-what-is-accountability/

Theater-Specific Case Study #1 - Abusive Rehearsal Room

Theater-Specific Case Study #2 - Award-Winning Director + Sexual Violence

BATJC Case Studies: batjc.wordpress.com/resources/case-studies/

Mia Mingus: www.soiltjp.org & leavingevidence.wordpress.com

Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective: batjc.wordpress.com

For additional resources, including this episode’s ASL video: WeRiseProduction.com/TheRealWork

zAnda of DiaspoRADiCAL: @diaspo.radical on Instagram & soundcloud.com/diasporadical

Connect with us at WeRiseProduction@ProtonMail.com, and follow us on Facebook & Instagram at @WeRiseProduction, & on Twitter at @WeRiseProducers.

This project is supported by an Investing in Artists Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation & the City of Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program, and was incubated with initial support from Cal Shakes.