Meet Jennifer Sherman
Just about two weeks since #WAMEmilie closed, we still have so much more to talk about. Since the last time we posted a blog, girls from Flying Cloud and ROPE were able to join us for a night of theatre and we were able to present a check of $3400 to our beneficiary. Before we […]
Organization Spotlight: Multicultural BRIDGE
Organization Spotlight: Multicultural BRIDGE (Picture- Real Talk and Girls Inc participants with the cast of Emilie. Photo by Enrico Spada) To support female empowerment, and the education of young women about history, BRIDGE is one of five Berkshire County, MA, based non-profit organizations partnering with WAM Theatre as a part of the Mass Humanities Education Outreach project surrounding […]
The Berkshire Forums – Enlightenment in the Berkshires
Written by Kaitlyn Squires, WAM Theatre’s Marketing Associate. The blog, with photos taken by Kaitlyn at the Forum, can also be found on her website: http://eideticberkshire.com/2010/09/the-berkshire-forums-enlightenment-in-the-berkshires/ Today I spent day 3 at the very first Berkshire Forums that is being held at the Colonial Theatre on South Street in Pittsfield. When I had first heard […]
How to raise kids who choose to give back: A guest blog
Kristen met with Joanna Krotz, author and advocate, entrepeneur and speaker, earlier in July. Joanna agreed to have two of her blogs reprinted on our WAM Website. We hope you enjoy them. HOW TO RAISE KIDS WHO CHOOSE TO GIVE BACK I’ve been doing some research to talk about raising kids amid abundance and it’s […]
Surprise, Surprise: Education Men is Key to Gender Equality: A Guest Blog
Kristen met with Joanna Krotz, author and advocate, entrepeneur and speaker, earlier in July. Joanna agreed to have two of her blogs reprinted on our WAM Website. We hope you enjoy them. SURPRISE, SURPRISE: EDUCATING MEN IS KEY TO GENDER EQUALITY A bevy of research projects into how public policies can enlist men and boys […]
Women of Influence
At Russell Sage College, we like to use the term “Women of Influence” for the students. It describes the kind of women we want to graduate from this small women’s college in Troy, New York. The term gets me thinking about who the women of influence have been in my life, the ones who got […]
Thoughts on ‘Mirror, Mirror’ pre-‘A WAM Welcome’-Guest Blog
The MIRROR, MIRROR cast has had 4 performances this week, from March 31- April 2. Here are some thoughts from Kyrie Ellison, one of our cast members: At Russell Sage College, we are all told daily that we are “women of influence”. I can personally attest to the power and truth of that statement after […]
Thoughts from Leigh on ‘Mirror, Mirror’ and ‘I’M NOT A FEMINIST, BUT….’
‘Mirror, Mirror’ will be performed as part of ‘A WAM Welcome’, April 9-11, 2010 at the Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, MA. Go to www.wamtheatre.com for more information and to purchase tickets. Right now I’m working on a piece called I’M NOT A FEMINIST, BUT…. we’re just showed about a half an hour of material […]
The girls of Heroic Girlz-A Guest Blog
The four fabulous young ladies below were all part of ‘Heroic Girlz’, which started as a stage play. It is now a narrative short film. In it, the girls journey to the past to explore their futures by becoming four historical American women heroes: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Amelia Bloomer, Louisa May Alcott, and Amelia Earhart. […]
Faith- Guest Blog
Written by Annie Kee, theatre education graduate student at Emerson College and author of the blog, [clever title] . I would never call myself a faithful person. In fact, I’ve lived long enough and changed enough that I’m beginning to realize most things in life are not constant and few things are to be strongly […]