Using Clowning as a Tool for Upstanding Against Sexual Harassment with Emma Kaywin and Ania Upstill
Join us as we welcome Emma Kaywin (they/them) and Ania Upstill (they/them) for Using Clowning as a Tool for Upstanding Against Sexual Harassment on Wednesday, October 5th at 7 pm EST over Zoom!
**Please note this workshop won't be recorded**
In this interactive and fun (it’s clowning after all!) training, you’ll learn some easy clowning tools you can use to interrupt and upstand against sexual harassment or harm you see in the world. Because anyone can be a clown, and anyone can stand up against sexual harassment! Join Emma (trauma-informed sex educator) and Ania (professional clown) as we explore some best practices in being a great upstander and how clowning can be a great upstanding tool. This is an extremely interactive workshop, so jump on and get ready to be silly for a cause!
By the end of this workshop, participants will:
learn best practices in upstanding generally;
be given some clowning-based skills that can support these best practices (and given a fun opportunity to practice);
have more tools in your toolbox that you can use if you want to check up on someone who you think is being harassed.
This workshop is expected to run between 60 and 90 minutes.
Accessibility Info:
Closed captions will be provided through Zoom.
About Emma Kaywin:
Emma (they/them/theirs) is a sexual health educator, consultant, writer, and activist based in Brooklyn, NY. They are the Consent Co-Director at House of Yes (NYC) and co-lead the Safer Spaces team at Meso Creso (DC). They consult for a number of nightlife communities and radical arts organizations across the East Coast, where they develop trauma-informed policies and procedures and train staff. They further deliver tailored workshops and trainings on topics of consent, trauma, and sexuality to party collectives and young scientist groups internationally. They are currently working towards a doctorate in health education (EdD) at Teachers College, where they are researching what supports queer and gender-diverse individuals in feeling sexually safer in nightlife spaces. Learn more: www.emmakaywin.com
About Ania Upstill:
Ania (they/them) is a queer and non binary performer, director, theatre maker, teaching artist and clown.
A graduate of the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre (Professional Training Program), Ania’s recent work celebrates LGBTQIA+ artists with a focus on gender diversity. In 2021 they have worked in New York and in New Zealand. They co-created the Queer ballet Sapphic Late (BATS); Into the Bush, a queer circus-theatre project (TAPAC) and Proud Voices, an audio festival that played internationally in three major cities. Ania also performed the role of Reza in a sold-out run of Once (Court Theatre). Learn more: https://www.aniaupstill.com/
To Register:
Tickets are available on a sliding scale ($3-$50) to ensure folx of varying economic backgrounds are able to access the sex education they deserve. We ask those who have the financial means to help "spread the wealth" by contributing to the community pool so that we can offer a limited number of sponsored free tickets to those who need it.
We kindly ask that those who have the financial means to purchase a ticket do so, and save our sponsored free tickets to those who do not.
To access this workshop for free, please enter the code SHIP-FREE when registering.
After you register, we will send you an email with the event login information (be sure to check your spam folder!). If you haven't already, make sure you download Zoom before we all log on: https://zoom.us/
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If you have any questions, or experience any issues registering, please reach out to learn@weknowship.org