"One Vision, Many Voices: First Year Diversity Initiative" featuring the Cornell Interactive Theater Ensemble's presentation of "Being Antigone."

Abstract

This video documents "One Vision, Many Voices", Cornell's annual orientation program for first year students, which augments the Provost's First Year Reading Project. CITE's interactive scenario, "Being Antigone", contemporizes themes and relationships from Sophocles' Antigone, the text for the '03 Reading Project. The interactive theatre medium stimulates dialogue from multiple points of view about how to listen to and learn from one another when we profoundly disagree. All first year students attend the program during the first three weeks of the semester. For more information about the scenario and the program's "learning points", see the attached document "Introduction_to_CITE"... About CITE: www.arts.cornell.edu/cite ... PRESENTERS: Opening Speaker: Erica Kagan; CITE Facilitator: Vivian Relta; CITE Actors: Patrick Reynolds, Kimberly Brown, Martha Dewey, Dane Cruz. CITE Stage Director: Greg Bostwick; Closing Speaker: Robert L. Harris, Jr. ... SPONSORS of "One Vision, Many Voices": Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education: Isaac Kramnick; Vice Provost for Diversity and Faculty Development: Robert L. Harris, Jr.; Dean of Students: Kent Hubbell; Vice President of Student and Academic Services: Susan Murphy ... COORDINATORS of "One Vision, Many Voices": Dean of Students Office: Ednita Wright, Lynn Delles; Community Development: Don King, Anu Lyons, Beth O'Neill; Robert Purcell Community Center: William Horning ... VIDEO PRODUCTION: Cornell Information Technologies [CIT] Distributed Learning Services ... CONTACT: CITE Administrative Director: Dane Cruz Telephone: 607- 254-8851 Email: dcc16@cornell.edu