Residency Samples

Memory & Meaning: The Stories We Tell About Ourselves

Larchmont Temple, Larchmont NY

Larchmont Temple brought Inquiry Arts in to help strengthen an already strong community through creative experiences that help temple members learn more of the stories underlying one another’s  perspectives, choices and some of what each person holds most dear. 

Larchmont Temple also gave Inquiry Arts a challenge: What might it look like to invite a large group into the intimacy and candor normally reserved for one-on-one conversations?

Reframing Risk & the Relevance of the Arts to Entrepreneurship

BabsonARTS, Babson College, Wellesley MA

Thanks to BabsonARTS, 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.

The residency also marked the world premiere of the complete, multimedia production, The Forgotten Kingdom.

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

In StoryFire residencies, it is our responsibility to listen to young people, to prove that some adults will indeed do just that, and to provide tools to blur the boundaries between their stories and those of others.

In phases I & II of this residency, fifth graders from the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston, Sumner Club in Roslindale, MA wrote lyrics about the meaning of ‘home.’ Upon learning that the Boys & Girls Club hoped to start its own recording program, we took advantage of the Club’s proximity to Futura Productions Recording Studio, down the street. We adapted the residency to bring students to the studio to kickstart enthusiasm about studio work by producing a recording of their lyrics.

In phase III, their recording was interpreted and animated by fifth and sixth graders at the Lesley Ellis School in Arlington, MA.