Dear fellow Hanoverians:
The Hanover Unity Council is happy to announce its sponsorship of a series
of 3 educational offerings in conjunction with True Story Theater. Attend
one or all three – please note the varying target audiences. These Zoom
events are made possible in part by a generous grant from Eversource
Energy. The Council wants to again express their gratitude to Eversource
for their generosity and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
(Editor’s note: events extend through October; save this information
and/or register now so you don’t forget! Alternately, it will always be in
the archives at
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From True Story Theater: “True Story Theater is a nonprofit theater
company that offers over 50 improvisational performances and workshops a
year for community groups, businesses, and individuals in New England and
California. We work with hospitals, universities, corporations, religious
communities… for teen leaders, cancer survivors, activists,
philanthropists, business leaders… as well as for weddings, birthdays,
and other important private events.
Our mission is to promote social healing through theatre. We perform and
teach an embodied theatre of empathy, respect, and creativity. Volunteers
from the audience are helped to share what’s important in their lives.
On the spot, actors then portray the heart of what they heard using music,
movement, and dialogue.
Thursday, September 9, 2021, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Story Sharing Performance and Training. Presented by True Story Theater.
Theme: “Visible and Invisible Identities”
A community story sharing performance and introduction to active bystander
skills.
What’s a True Story show like? Our events bring together the delight of
improvisation with the riveting vulnerability of people sharing their
personal truth. The show’s emcee (called “the conductor”) facilitates
brief, spontaneous conversations with volunteers from the audience who
share their own feelings and experiences related to the show’s theme.
Tonight’s sharing will be about the visible or invisible identities we have
that are often not publicly talked about. After each conversation, the
actors and a musician sensitively embody the key feelings and actions they
heard, using movement, music, dialogue, and superb listening. All of it is
improvised on the spot.
Performance Followed by Interactive Introduction to Active Bystander
Skills. Learn how to speak up and interrupt words of bigotry and bias, and
be more open to feedback.
FREE event. Donations to Hanover Unity Council are welcomed and
appreciated.
Register Now:
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Thursday, October 7, 2021, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Active Bystander Skills Training for Adults and High School age youth.
Presented by True Story Theater.
An active bystander is someone who not only witnesses an offensive or
threatening situation, but also speaks up or takes steps to defuse that
situation, or keep it from escalating. Learn how to become a more effective
active bystander.
If you identify as White, Christian, straight, cisgender, and/or
able-bodied, please join the training at 6:30 pm. Affinity group members
please see below for additional pre-training.
6:30 – 8:30 p.m. – 2-hour Active Bystander Skills Training
Whether we’re at work, school, family gatherings, or on social media, we
all witness offensive or threatening situations where we want, but hesitate
to intervene. This is an interactive workshop that explores responding to
everyday bigotry, being open to receiving feedback, and engaging in
constructive dialogue with someone who has engaged in offensive behavior.
We will practice practical strategies for handling specific situations and
discover what tools may work best for you.
Affinity Group Option:
6:00 – 6:30 p.m. – 30-minute Pre-Training Affinity Group for people with
non-dominant identities. If you are a person with one or more non-dominant
identities (e.g., BIPOC, immigrant, Muslim, Queer, living with a physical
or cognitive disability), you are invited to join this pre-training
affinity group from 6:00 – 6:30 p.m. We will greet each other and have the
option to share a synopsis of a personal experience of being disrespected,
marginalized, or feeling unwelcome in Hanover as a resident, student,
visitor, or in your workplace. The Zoom information is the same.
FREE event. Donations to Hanover Unity Council are welcomed and
appreciated.
Register Now:
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Thursday, October 21, 2021, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Working Together for Change: An Active Bystander class for Middle School
age youth and families.
Presented by True Story Theater.
Ages 12+ (Middle schoolers and a parent or adult are encouraged to attend
together.)
An active bystander is someone who not only witnesses an offensive or
threatening situation, but also speaks up or takes steps to defuse that
situation or keep it from escalating.
We all witness situations where we want to do something, but hesitate to
intervene, whether we’re at school, the workplace, family gatherings or
on social media. We’ll focus on looking at our own blind spots as well as
how to address the microaggressions and biases we witness in friends and
family in an effective and non-aggressive way. We will practice practical
strategies for handling specific situations and discover what tools may
work best for you. Leave this class feeling more empowered and better
informed.
FREE event. Donations to Hanover Unity Council are welcomed and
appreciated.
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website at
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, or e-mail them at hanoverunitycouncil@gmail.com .
For “Around Town on the Web”,
Cathy H-B
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