Read DAP facilitator Caroline Rothstein’s powerful essay on Israel and Palestine — and more of her brilliant work on family, inheritance & identity also on Narratively.
Aaron Samuels & Blavity Are Redefining the Media World
DAP facilitator and operations consultant Aaron Samuels is a co-founder of the media company that reimagined the media landscape for Black millennials. Check out Mint Mag’s feature on his rise, or read Business Insider’s take on the creative approach Aaron and his coo-founders have embraced.
Lauren Whitehead Joins NYU Tisch Faculty
Condé Nast's Queer Imprint Reviews Adam Falkner's The Willies!
Adam Falkner’s new collection is out on shelves! Complete with powerful support from Dr. Cornel West, Saeed Jones and Patricia Smith — and this beautiful interview and review from Condé Nast’s them.
Carlos Andrés Goméz Parters w/ John Legend to Combat Toxic Masculinity
Read this powerful announcement about the campaign.
Jon Sands Win National Poetry Series!
"We Shall Not Be Moved"
Whirlwind talent and DAP Program Director Lauren Whitehead stars in the world premier of "We Shall Not Be Moved," a new opera directed by Bill T. Jones, for the Philadelphia Opera House.
Read NPR's powerful piece about this groundbreaking new production.
Congratulations, Lauren.
"Commonplace: Conversations with Poets"
During this episode, Zucker speaks with Adam Falkner, Lauren Whitehead and Carlos Andrés Gómez about how working with DAP has affected their creative work, their teaching, their lives and their priorities. They talk about how a workshop model can be used in schools, offices, and organizations to reimagine and revitalize diversity education, the power of performance and first-person narratives, guidelines for encouraging openness and risk taking, how to invite vulnerability into the classroom in responsible ways, culture-based intentionality, the permission to start with the self, how and why to step out onto the vulnerable edge in order to dismantle the master’s house, coming out, seasonal personal and political grief, and visions for expanding the DAP’s reach.
The Poetry Gods!
DAP founder, Adam Falkner, sits with poets Aziza Barnes, Jose Olivarez and Jon Sands -- known to the vast podcast nation as The Poetry Gods! -- to talk education, popular culture, and DAP's commitment to "writing into silences" as a central pillar of it's pedagogy. Listen to the full episode here!
TEDx NJIT: Returning to the Story – How Writing Can Change the World
Recently, DAP Founder and Executive Director Adam Falkner delivered a TEDx Talk at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, NJ. The following is a transcript of his talk...
Social Identity and Student Leadership: DAP at Georgia State University
Several years ago, the Dialogue Arts Project travelled to Atlanta, GA for the first of what would be multiple workshops and trainings with University Housing at Georgia State University. The following reflection was offered by Shannon Corey, GSU’s fabulous Assistant Director for Community and Staff Development.
Risking it All: Student Reflection on the Dialogue Arts Project
The following essay is by Kari Henry, a 10th grade student at the Academy for Young Writers who participated in the Dialogue Arts Project’s first-ever 36-week elective for high school students. Composed as the introduction for We’re All Quite Mad Here, a class anthology that served as the culminating project for the 2012-2013 school year, Kari talks about her own writing as well as the writing of her classmates, the experience of engaging with her peers in dialogue around difficult subject matter, and how the DAP elective impacted her ability to “take risks” as a writer.