Lean in but don’t forget to step back. We can build an accepting and inclusive relationship with communities and student populations alike regardless of race, gender ,religion, sexual orientation and class.

Giovanni  Ortega has traveled around the world teaming up with various cultural organizations to observe how the arts and culture are used to decimate discrimination and enhance acceptance.

Through stories; written, physical, narrative, poetic, and visual, these unique and shared experiences are the basis for conversation and inclusion.  Giovanni has performed on hundreds of campuses.  He currently is the Artistic Director of FilAm Arts Teatro, a professorship in theater arts at AMDA, and the Acting Studio of Los Angeles.  He has keynoted the SEACON (Southeast Asian Conference) at UCLA and is a senior facilitator with Playfair Inc.  His degrees are from Univ. of Illinois – Chicago and a Masters from Univ. of Southern California. He has taught at The Claremont College, and will be a visiting professor at Colorado College .

His keynote and workshop will include:

Write to be read, Speak up to be heard, Stand up to be seen.

A spoken work poem

The 1.5 immigrant experience- Don’t forget about me (Part 1)

Who inspired you (interactive)

How you define yourself as a college student, a team member, in your neighborohood, city, country and diaspora.

Don’t forget about me (part2)

3 defining words about yourself

Pandemic impact

Belonging

Global Work

Theatre Without Borders – https://theatrewithoutborders.com/

National

DNA Works 

The Secret Sharer – The narrator from Borneo

https://www.dnaworks.org/secretsharer

Local

East West Players – Local

Sama Sama: Solidarity in the Fields – https://eastwestplayers.org/season-57/

Diasporic

Vocation – Performative Arts, Community, Culture & Education (PACCE)

Filam Arts Artistic Director

https://www.filamartsla.org/

a. Vocation– Performative Arts, Community, Culture & Education (PACCE)

b. Stance– Art, Advocacy, Activism and Academia

c. Action –Engage, Enrage, Enhance, and Educate

9. Shared experience/ Intersectional work (interactive)