RSVP for Wisconsin Arts Integration Symposium

media release: Teachers, teaching artists, and community educators are all invited to PLAY, EXPERIENCE, AND CONNECT in community at the 2023 Wisconsin Arts Integration Symposium.

This year's symposium, which focuses on fully integrating social emotional learning in the arts, will offer workshops featuring practices, routines, and learning objectives that center identity, agency, and belonging for student and educator empowerment.

Offered in person at the beautiful MYArts Center, the 2023 Wisconsin Arts Integration Symposium (WAIS) will help educators connect with peers through art-making. WAIS centers the values that drive our collective work – developing the minds and spirits of young people. Participants will engage in hands-on learning experiences and leave the symposium with strategies and activities to implement immediately in classrooms and community settings.

We'd love you to join us as we play, experience, and connect TOGETHER! 

Arts Educators Save the World podcast recording! This special episode will feature hip-hop education trailblazers Toni Blackman and Purple Norris. Get ready to be inspired by how these educators empower young artists who change our worlds! 

Keynote & Signature Workshops: Youth Empowerment Through the Arts: Facilitated by our co-directors, arts practitioners, educators, and researchers, Dr. Erica Halverson and Dr. Yorel Lashley, these workshops explore practices, priorities, and research as shared experiences of joy and youth empowerment. Experience Drum Power and Whoopensocker hands-on to explore connection, collaboration, and empowerment through drumming, dancing, writing, and performing.

Additional workshops include:

• Art and Cultural Education: Experience traditional Mexican culture through Aztec music, song and dance; Henry Cervantes
• Artmaking and Adaptive Instruction; Jennie Mullins
• Filling the Empty Cup - Artmaking as a Care, Sustainability, & Reflection Practice; Emily Nott & Jalessa Bryant
• Fostering Connections and Collaboration through Improvisation; Lisa Barker
• Tapping into Immigrant/Refugee/Migrant Backgrounds: Arts-Based Storytelling for Belonging; Chundou Her & Alejandro Punguil Bravo

Where: MYArts Center | 1055 E. Mifflin St., Madison, WI 53703

When: October 7, 9:00am - 4:00pm

Registration Fee: $25 full day | $15 morning only. Registration deadline extended to 5 pm, 10/6.