Residency Portraits

Memory & Meaning: The Stories We Tell About Ourselves

Larchmont Temple, Larchmont NY

This was the origin of In Our Words: Community Portrait Live Documentaries. Initially, Larchmont Temple requested a “show.” But, listening closely, it became apparent that what was actually needed was to bolster community post-pandemic. Gathering in person was key, as was crafting a space for Larchmont members to tell their own stories. Yet many did not consider themselves storytellers, freezing before crowds. How, then, to share such stories, with relaxed ease, intimacy and immediacy, with an audience of 400?

Note: We were still called Inquiry Arts back then!

Reframing Risk & the Relevance of the Arts to Entrepreneurship

BabsonARTS, Babson College, Wellesley MA

Thanks to BabsonARTS, ASC (then called Inquiry Arts) worked together with faculty and students in this leading business school’s Entrepreneurship, Marketing, and Practice in Organizational Behavior departments to explore the roles of failure/risk in complex and often challenging environments. The residency also aimed to cultivate curiosity about questions raised by The Forgotten Kingdom in terms of story and the relationships between iterative processes for designing, testing, revising and launching a multimedia production and entrepreneurialism.

StoryFIRE

Elementary & Middle School Students from the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Boston, Roslindale MA & Lesley Ellis School, Arlington, MA.
Sponsored by Celebrity Series of Boston

StoryFIRE aims to strengthen student leadership by honing storytelling skills. In phases I & II of this residency, fifth graders from the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston, Sumner Club in Roslindale, Massachusetts wrote lyrics that they later recorded at Futura Productions Recording Studio in Roslindale, Massachusetts. Their audio was then animated by fifth and sixth graders at the Lesley Ellis School in Arlington, Massachusetts.