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Beyond “The Surgery”: A Trans Storytelling and Creative Workshop
On November 5, I had the chance to lead a creative workshop as part of the 2022 Trans in the CLE Symposium, hosted by the LGBT Center of Greater Cleveland. THE WORKSHOP The main purpose of this storytelling workshop was to provide an opportunity for trans and nonbinary participants to connect with one another through…
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Navigating my queerness in the youth performance workshop space
Nicolas Shannon Savard April 23, 2019 Over the past two years, Be the Street has been a place where I’ve navigated across a wide spectrum of how “public” I am about my queer identity. Although in my first year as a facilitator I was “out” at the University, I was hesitant to make my transness…
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A Look into Performance Workshops at the Hilltop Library
Nicolas Shannon Savard March 1, 2019 **All participants have been given pseudonyms in the following workshop description. We had a relatively large group including some returners as well as some new faces. As usual, we began the session with our check-in “Bam, Pow!” Martin took the lead in explaining how the check-in worked to the…