Interview with Sisters for Peace Founder, Caroline Wheeler – Co-Beneficiary for “Holy Laughter”
WAM Theatre: Like WAM, Sisters for Peace (SFP) also started in response to reading Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn. When did you become aware of WAM Theatre and the similarity in your goals? Caroline Wheeler: To be honest I can’t remember but I think we met because we travel in the […]
Interview with Hands In Outreach Director, Ricky Bernstein – Co-Beneficiary for “Holy Laughter”
WAM Theatre: When did you become aware of WAM Theatre and the similarity in your goals? Ricky Bernstein: I first met Kristen van Ginhoven when she was just forming WAM, around the time Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn was published. I actually met with Caroline Wheeler, founder of our co-beneficiary Sisters […]
Meet Susie Weekes – Our Connection to Mother of Peace, Illovo
In keeping with WAM Theatre’s double philanthropic mission, twenty-five percent of the profits from In Darfur will go directly to the Housemothers of Mother of Peace Orphanage in Illovo, South Africa. What is the connection between a Berkshire theatre company and a South African orphanage? Susie Weekes! Read the story of how she became involved […]
My Highlights-End of Year Blog Post-Kristen
It’s the end of our inaugural year. Wow. It is incredibly difficult for me to really comprehend that in the past year, WAM Theatre has produced two successful professional theatrical events, collaborated with over 40 theatre artists, (over 80% of whom were female), raised over $15,000 in monetary and in-kind donations from over 150 donors […]
SHOW WEEK!
Well, it sure has been awhile since we blogged……… But-this week deserves a quick entry! Over the past weeks we have spent hours in the theatre preparing for our production of ‘Melancholy Play’. It is amazing to me that exactly a year ago I was attending the Women’s Fund of Western MA annual dinner. The […]
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 […]
The Last Standing Protestor-A Guest Blog
Brenny Rabine, actor, writer, improviser, trainer and new WAM Theatre board member, wrote the following blog about her experience being part of WAM’s first event, ‘A WAM Welcome’ in April 2010. The short play, THE LAST STANDING PROTESTER, finds a woman standing in protest without picket signs, without slogans, and without anthems. During the course […]
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 […]