Adaptive Arts Is Thrilled to Launch The Openness Project:
 A new program that uses a theatrical lens to begin a dialogue about Invisible Disabilities 

Over the next few years, The Openness Project will take three different shapes:
Connection During Coronavirus:
​A Digital Drama Therapy-Based Support Group for Individuals with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses

Join us for an open, pop In group  dedicated to: 
providing space to share and be witnessed
Exploring art-making as a tool for resiliency

Open to everyone: Sundays beginning April 26th, 2-3:30PM PST Facilitated by Marielle Duke (Drama Therapist Trainee)

Open to students, faculty, and administrators at California Institute of Integral Studies: Wednesdays beginning April 19th from 5-6pm. Co-facilitated by Marielle Duke and Mizi Samuels-Waithe (Drama Therapist Trainees) 

To join us, email Dukedramatherapy@gmail.com
to RSVP and receive zoom link
Drama Therapy Workshops 
Using influences from devised and narrative theatre, participants will be encouraged to share their experience and personal alignment with their diverse identities. Over the course of each three hour workshop, we will collaboratively build a piece of theatre that explores how our identities are both personal and collective. 

Past Workshops: 
New York:
Brooklyn Acting Lab

San Francisco:
California Institute for Integral Studies 
Pop-Up Theater Workshops 
To expand this dialogue beyond our walls, we will be partnering with theatrical, cultural and educational organizations to offer Pop-Up Theater Workshops.  

​These workshops will provide organizations an opportunity to build ensemble while using theater to foster a dialogue of what it means to feel “different” or “outside."

Our in-school workshops use theater as a lens to provide teachers with the tools to  to begin a conversation in their classrooms about disabilities and differences. 

Want to host a pop-up theater workshop where you work/create? Reach out to Marielle Duke to discuss the possibilities!