Valerie David: Celebrating Differences
My mission is to keep culture alive; to sustain that culture because we don't want history repeating itself. And to educate - we are all the same people. We are…
My mission is to keep culture alive; to sustain that culture because we don't want history repeating itself. And to educate - we are all the same people. We are…
Even though is comical it's an opportunity to change thoughts about who we are, and they can see us as normal people with disabilities. There should be no barriers between…
Karen use of the play happens in a most amazing and in a structurally brilliant way. She puts two goddesses that appear to teach us a lesson about how lives…
Getting my Masters at Harvard at age sixty-nine, I hope that I'm inspiring other women that there are no limits. There's absolutely no limits except for those you place on…
Theatre is the one area, aside from religion, where people are presented with stories; they can hear them, they can see vicariously what can happen. They have a conversation with…
I don't know all the answers. I mean I'm not some Great Guru. I just know what I know. I just know what has transpired in my life. You have…
We can heal. I think it's really important to be in control of what we're taking in so that we don't feel that we have to worry...that we can feel…
We're in a time where we are seeing new voices, new types of voices telling their stories and people create their identity through seeing themselves reflected in work, in all…
Learning through The Arts being one of the most transformative vehicles in which we really get to a person's soul and to realize they're not alone in their feelings and…
I am encouraging my students to be students of the world: to look around them, to see what's happening, see how their lives are affected by world events and the…
I had to tell my story. I needed to be able to say, 'Look, I grew up in a time period in Brooklyn where racism was horrific and it was…
Theatre is a way to bring people together in a non-confrontational way. You could do theatre as a political act and say it's a political act; you can do theatre…
In the moment we're in, I myself, as an individual, have developed certain habits in ways of being where ... if I am misgendered like it happened at the beginning…
In the moment we're in, I myself, as an individual, have developed certain habits in ways of being where ... if I am misgendered like it happened at the beginning…
The immigrant stories that are here. . . when they see in us the possibility that it's real. That's why I focus on a specific community because we know the…
The immigrant stories that are here. . . when they see in us the possibility that it's real. That's why I focus on a specific community because we know the…
The Greeks believed that theatre was threefold: to entertain, to educate, and exalt the human spirit. And if we're going to exalt the human spirit we're gonna have to understand…
Actors Equity is opening its doors. I think this is one of the most exciting things that's happening in my almost two decades as a Union member. It shifts the…