Friday, August 6 -- 8:30am-12:00pm
10 minimum, 25 maximum -- $45*

With hundreds of murals, San Francisco’s public art tells a compelling tale of the city’s rich history.  After touring selected murals in the Mission District, arguably the capital of SF muralism, participants will return to the workshop space to use these images as starting points for devising original theatre.  Through interactive exercises and collective reflection, participants can expect to accumulate a range of devising strategies inspired by visual text.

* Workshop fee includes the cost of the mural tour, as well as transportation to and from the Mission District neighborhood.

A doctoral student in Teacher Education at Stanford University, Lisa Barker has taught acting, improvisation, and devising in a variety of K-12 contexts. In Chicago, she has performed with Barrel of Monkeys and the Neo-Futurists. As Director of Education at Adventure Stage Chicago, she designed and implemented arts-infused curriculum, residencies, and teacher workshops. While managing the Creative Arts Team’s Kaplan Center for Educational Drama, she helped launch the first MA in Applied Theatre in the United States.  Her current research centers on the ways in which improvisational theatre training can influence teacher practice.