{it is in you}: Health Justice Performance in Tanzania

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	NPR / WUNC Interview The State of Things with Frank Stasio Director Joseph Megel and Playwright Marie Garlock, September 25, 2008 Press play button below to listen to interview:
	pictures by Ken Crossen.
Nov. 2009:	Performance at National Communication Association. Chair Dr. Della Pollock, Respondent Dr. E. Patrick Johnson (Dr. D. Soyini Madison) of Northwestern University, Dr. Devendra Sharma (performance of traditional singing, Behar, India) of UC-Fresno, PhD Candidate Chief/Kashif Powell (Spoken Word/Poetry performance) of UNC. November 12-15, Chicago, IL.
Oct. 2009:	Featured Evening Performance, Oral History Association National Conference, October 16, Louisville, KY. Introduction by Dr. Della Pollock. Performance Assistance from Rob Stephens, Hudson Vaughn (Jackson Center for Making & Saving History), Michelle Randall, Liz Pearson (UT Austin).
Aug. - Oct. 2009:	Performances in collaboration with Peer Educators, Health Activists, Performers in Dar es Salaam and Moshi, Tanzania, September 2009. Invited as opening performance for Global Health and Human Rights Conference, University of Dar es Salaam, October 2009. Partners for community performances include: White Orange Youth Centre, Kilimanjaro Wizard Arts Group, Moshi; University of Dar es Salaam/Fine Performing Arts. Invited to TA UNC Chapel Hill's Comparative Globalization Program at the University of Dar es Salaam, with Dr. Eunice Sahle, Dr. Altha Cravey, 15 UNC students, August-October, 2009. Joint research with Dr. Sahle; bringing {it is in you} full circle for reflection, expansion with original collaborators, inspiring Tanzanian friends.
Aug. 2009:	Upward Bound Youth Presentation Drama, Social Change and HIV/Sexuality Excerpts for 9th-11th graders, Kimberly Hardy's (PhD Candidate, Curriculum, Culture and Change) summer classroom at UNC Chapel Hill.
July 2009:	Community Fundraiser Performance, Montague Lake Original Music by singer/songwriter Jocelyn Arem Dance by choreographer, movement practitioner Graciela Seila Drumming by Jamie Eggleston and Friends Poetry by Sean McKeithan and Jocelyn Arem Sponsoring 501c3 HeartSpace Spiritual Resources and Stacy Grove Partners Compass Rose Healing Arts and Kimberly Korb, UNC Center for AIDS Research, St. Francis United Methodist Church, Whole Foods, Fresh Market, Trader Joe’s, Andrew Synowiez Photography
May 2009:	Performance at Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed global conference, Minneapolis, MN, May 22-24, 2009. Director Joseph Megel, co-dancer Graciela Seila and actor Gabriel Graetz of NC. Collaborating with: Master Drummer Papis Job of Plymouth MN/Senegal, Master Storyteller Auntie Beverly Cottman of Minneapolis, and featured dancers, leaders-learners from TALL University, 5th-10th Graders from Central Falls, RI (Dora Rivas, Luis Rodriguez, John Valdez, Elizabeth Obdeus, Samuel Versailles, Leonaldo Severino, Wilson Castro, Nicaury Nunez, led by Elizabeth Keiser, Eddy, Nancy, Cathy, Erminio). Special thanks to Mari Ann Graham! Tjornhom Nelson Theater, St. Augsberg College, May 23 (Aud. approx 80).
May 2009:	African Studies Graduation May 10th Excerpts for UNC Chapel Hill African and Afro-American Studies Departmental Graduation Ceremony, invited by Chair Dr. Julius Nyang'oro
April 2009:	Invited to Duke University Global Health Capstone Seminar with Dr. Kim Chapman, to perform excerpts of "It is In You: Health Justice Performance in Tanzania." Interactive presentation on politics of development/creative models in health education. 10 senior students, April 6.
Feb. 2009:	Invited to Carolina Friends School, Advanced Dance Collaborations Ensemble with Annie Dwyer. Performance of excerpts, interactive lecture on art, movement/dance as change-maker, the means to stand up against forces of colonizing/colonized minds, role of the body, peer-education in empowerment. 15 upper-level students February 10.
Dec. 2008:	Invited to Creative Campus Initiative, National Symposium in Washington, DC, with Emil Kang, Reed Colver, Joseph Jordan and Carolina Performing Arts. Representing "artist's perspective" and excerpts of "It is In You," presentation as choreographer, performer of critical ethnography, on cultural performance, interdisciplinary work and dialogue, the motivation of the body and collected presence. Multi-year collaboration between Doris Duke Foundation and APAP/Assoc. of Performing Arts Presenters from 8 major Universities. Joined by literary, visual, performing artists from across US.
Sept. 2008:	Process Series: New Works in Development, through Office of the Executive Director of the Arts / Carolina Performing Arts. Evenings of September 26-27, 2008, Gerrard Hall, UNC. Nominated to open year long six-work series devoted to "illuminating the ways in which artistic ideas take form, and to following artists and performers bringing new and significant works in the performing arts to the public." Collaboration from UNC's School of Public Health, African Studies Center, Department of Communication Studies, Office of Global Health, Center for International and Area Studies, Department of African/Afro-American Studies, Center for Global Initiatives. (Aud. 90/120), shared East African Feast and discussion, facilitated by Director Joseph Megel, joined by Dr. Sahle, Dr. Pollock. Dancers/Poets Kimberly Hardy, Graciela Seila, Valerie Brock; Drummer Habib Yazdi.
Sept. 2008:	PR2 Keynote Respondents Panel for 'In the Continuum' Panel respondent on intersections of health, domestic/global HIV issues and performance; following 2-woman Playmakers’ repertory play on living with HIV in Harare, Zimbabwe and Los Angeles, CA
April 2008:	Evening-length Thesis Performance, April 17 Debut. Beginning development 2007 at UDSM/UNC-CH, Performance created Spring 2008, Director Joseph Megel. Black box theatre (audience approx 60). Small African feast, open circle discussion following, facilitated by Dr. Della Pollock, thesis mentor. Committee: Dr. Renee Alexander Craft, Dr. Eunice Sahle. Dancer/Poets Jerin Jones, Graciela Seila, Drummer Habib Yazdi. Communication Studies Awards Ceremony, excerpts for inaugural ceremony performance, Sherrill Pence Award.