"Goodbye to All That!" Ethnodrama & Social Justice Dialogue

Philadelphia, PA  March 26, 2014  —  Inquiry Theatre
presents "Goodbye to All That!", an Ethnodrama by Charles Vanover,
featuring performances by Alexandra Miletta, Brandi Weekley, Vasey Coman and an electronic score created by Andrew Babson, on Saturday
April 5, 2014 at 8:30 PM at Asian Arts Initiative, 1219 Vine Street,
Philadelphia.  Admission is $15, $10 for teachers, students and
seniors. 

"Goodbye to All That!" is a unique,
verbatim play about teaching in the Chicago Public Schools. The ethnodrama
shares the story of an accomplished, National Board Certified teacher’s last
year in the system.  The play shares
stories of the relationships she created with the Mexican immigrants in her
high poverty school and the lessons she was proud to teach.  Opportunities for dialogue and interaction
are structured throughout the performance. Attendees will be encouraged to
order dinner from one of two local restaurants, which will deliver dinner at
intermission.  Audience members will discuss
the issues raised by the play with members of the American Educational Research
Association conference who are in Philadelphia, including Sarah Reed Hobson,
SUNY Cortland University, K. Nicola Williams, Johns Hopkins University, and Audra
Slocum of West Virginia University.   

"Goodbye to All That!" premiered as
part of the juried program of the 35th Annual Ethnography in
Education Forum of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.
This performance is planned to complement the American Educational Research
Association’s 2014 Conference.

Playwright Charles Vanover taught in the
Chicago Public Schools for eight years and is currently an Assistant
Professor at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. 
Vanover's ethnodramas have been performed as part of the juried program
for the American Educational Research Association, the Ethnography in Education
Research Forum at the University of Pennsylvania, CUNY's New Educator
Conference, the Qualitative Interest Group at the University of Georgia,
The International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry at the University of
Illinois, and the Qualitative Report Conference at Nova Southeastern University.
They have been performed at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School
of Public Policy, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Arizona
State University, the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, and the
Studio @ 620 in Saint Petersburg, Florida.

Composer Andrew
Babson is an educational anthropologist and a lecturer at the University of
Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. His research with high school
graduates in Mankweng, Limpopo Province, South Africa, explores the ways
education can position youth from historically disadvantaged communities to be
agents of sociocultural change. Andrew has also been an electronic music
artist, radio DJ, and mixer since 1996.

Notes: This event will
be at Asian Arts Initiative, but it is not part of their programming.

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Contact: Dr. Charles Vanover

Assistant Professor,
Educational Leadership

University of South
Florida St. Petersburg

Inquiry Theatre

727-873-4620

Email: vanover@mail.usf.edu

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