Does the Audience Need to Know? The Role of Narrative and Meaning-Making

This is going to be a terrific conversation, and the audience will be sitting on stage with the panel and there will be a lot of backing and forthing and please come!

http://theclarice.umd.edu/events/2014/does-audience-need-know-role-narrative-and-meaning-making

Presented in partnership with UMD Jiménez-Porter Writers’ House

Monday, Sept. 22, 2014 at 7.30pm

Location: Dekelboum Concert Hall Stage at The Clarice

Liz Lerman, choreographer, speaker, author

Doug Fitch, multimedia artist, director

Mark Hairston, actor, director

Faedra Carpenter, dramaturg, performance scholar, Associate Professor, UMD faculty, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Moderator: Lawrence Weschler, reporter, speaker, former New Yorker staff writer, author

What is narrative for you, in your practice? How can stories or story-telling be of use to a design process? Where do your narratives come from? Are they important to the success of your project? What makes a narrative a narrative? What is narrative strategy? How much information is revealed about subject matter when using narrative as a creative structure? How much is enough? Or not enough? Join this cross-disciplinary group for a conversation that will put the audience on stage with the artists so we all experience a sense of what the audience does, or doesn’t need to know.