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Theater Outreach & Education (TOE)Cheryl L. Kaplan, DirectorUpcoming Events
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TOE is the innovative Theater Outreach and Education Program at UTMB's Institute for the Medical Humanities. TOE uses theater as a tool for education to raise awareness of health science and medical humanities issues within the university and the community. We encourage both youth and adults to learn about what affects their health by means of an enjoyable, imaginative, interactive and, of course, entertaining educational forum. TOE welcomes the opportunity to collaborate with community groups to originate programs that have special relevance to that community. We create site-specific works when an individual, group or organization approaches TOE requesting a program, including theatre productions, videos, workshops, lectures, or classroom sessions, to suit a specific need within the community. If you would like to receive more information about one of our programs, want TOE to present for your organization, have an idea for collaboration or wish to play a part with TOE by getting more involved, please contact Cheryl L. Kaplan at 409/772-9395 or clkaplan@utmb.edu. Programs
2. The Unspeakable Series: Out Loud
3. Ozone Theater: Setting the Stage for Teaching about Air Pollution and Ground Level Ozone
4. Ethics of Scientific Research TOE writes and produces a fictional case study depicting issues with intellectual property rights and plagiarism in scientific research. This presentation is in cooperation with the "Ethics of Scientific Research" class for all graduate and post-doc students at UTMB to illustrate the complexities of authorship rights and precursor efforts in the actual practice of scientific research. Participated with newly scripted cases for 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005. 5. Positive Drama in the Classroom A module in the Texas Summer Teacher Training Institute, "Positive Drama in the Classroom" emphasizes the importance of using as many artistic mediums as possible to teach a subject. Designed to help teachers understand the process of creation and the significance of learning by doing, the workshop is composed of various activities that encourage the exploration of music, art, dance and theater. These theatrical activities aid in developing a myriad of life-essential skills, including the enhancement of cognitive skills, engaging in creative and critical thinking, exploring kinesthetic intelligence, improving oral language skills and reading comprehension, identifying causal elements in thematic games and exercises, and strengthening confidence with positive drama in the classroom. To attend this annual conference please call 512-237-9447 or check out the website at http://k12summerinstitute.mdanderson.org 6. Informed Consent/Consenting Informed TOE produced this educational video about the ethics of obtaining informed consent with human subject research for the Institutional Review Board at UTMB. To find out more about this video, please call the IRB at 409-266-9434. 7. The People Who Disappeared Twice Directed in collaboration with Jean Maria Arrigo, visiting scholar at the Institute for the Medical Humanities, this production investigated early Cold War radiological and psychic warfare experiments on remote indigenous peoples of South America. The play was first performed at Island Etc., Galevston, in April, 2003. 8. The Public Speaking and Workshops TOE speaks to the public and presents workshops for various groups and events including AATE, AAUW, TETA, UTMB's High School Summer Research Program, the Rotary Club, GCAEYC and the National Asthma Conference. To schedule a TOE presentation or workshop in your area, please call 409-772-9395. Theater Outreach & Education brochure in Adobe Acrobat format.
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The UTMB Theater Troupe is a development team of both a core group of artists and a scientific advisory board that focuses on creating health science plays to bring high priority health issues and research from the page to the stage.
Children's health needs to be assertively approached, as certain medical concerns are on the rise, including asthma and respiratory care, lead poisoning, the effects of pesticides and pollution, deficiency of follow-through for vaccines and inoculations, DNA damage and repair, nutrition and exercise, anger management and mental health, and a lack of interest in acquiring the reading and writing skills needed to acquire a basic knowledge of science and health.
With the aim that early introduction will lead to early prevention, the theater troupe has the potential for creating plays and supplemental study guides for grades K-12 on any health science topic where an advisory board may be created through UTMB and community expertise. The Theater Troupe launched the tour to 10 Galveston primary schools with "Till the Whistle Blows" for grades K-3 and "Camp Backyard View" for grades 3-5 in the spring of 2005. These modules serve to raise awareness of environmental health issues and to empower youth to perform simple behaviors that can provide wellness by means of an enjoyable, imaginative and interactive education forum.
Expanding upon the first production in the series, called, The Unspeakables, which content included breast cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, colon cancer, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, STDs and mental illness, the series aim is to
create several mixed genre productions, each with a focused content or theme that our society resists discussing. The series voices the thoughts, facts and perceptions of those touched by illness, not just the disease or biological phenomenon, but also entire scope of illness, including the social and historical impact.
The structure lends itself to include any subject matter into this collage performance project in partnership with a community based organization and the creative collaboration of dancers, musicians, visual artists, poets and theater artists to convey these messages.
TOE and Mothers for Clean Air developed two theatrical classroom activities and an accompanying activity guide to present to elementary students about air pollution and air quality for schools and trains teaching artists and teachers to present these modules for themselves. "Pesky Polluters" targets grades K-2 and "GOBO - Good Ozone, Bad Ozone" targets grades 3-5.
Launched at West University Elementary in Houston on May 13, 2003, "Ozone Theater" is currently on tour with funding from the Environmental Protection Agency throughout the Houston/Galveston area.