Mina's suggestion for our workshop title and description

Hi Teresa & Alexis,
Hope you are enjoying happy and restful Memorial day weekend!
I was very happy to meet you ladies on our orientation day as a team. It was definitely a great time that widened my interests and perspectives.
Indeed, we came up with a bunch of fantastic ideas.
Here's some of our ideas that were written in my note (Please add anything that I missed here):

- Writing the same story from different perspectives
   ex) Story: Little Red Riding Hood, Writing the story from Wolf's perspective

- Discussing normative sentences for their truthiness
  ex) Showing some normative sentences and asking students for their thoughts on whether the    sentences are really true

- Christianity as dominant religion vs Mormons/ Armish etc. as minor religion in U.S. or Indiana region

- Discussing the need of cultural respect with the case of 2014 Hong Kong protest

- Discussing Islam through Sufi music

- Experiencing Kabukki (Traditional Japanese drama & dance)

- Exploring widely known prejudices across race, gender, and etc.

- Challenging the media

<Teresa's idea that was shared on 5/27 (Fri) through Group 2 space>

- "One World, Many Voices"
Our end product is a video students will make comparing various perspectives on cultural issues in different regions.
Looking at all of the ideas above together, I've felt that what we were trying to develop was experiences that students could strengthen their capacities to become local citizens who were proud of their own roots and traditions and global citizens who understand and respect cultural diversities in different parts of globe. Although we haven't fixed anything, I guess, this summary can work as a good starting point that we can further develop our ideas.

So, I've tried to think our workshop title and description as follows. Please feel free to share your thoughts on them, suggest any better ideas if you have, and modify as needed :)

• Workshop Title

          The Diversity Project with Art: Getting to know myself and you

• Descriptions

         This session provides fruitful experiences that can help students strengthen their local identities and broaden and widen their perspectives on cultural diversity with a variety of artistic performances such as singing, playing, video making, and etc. (we can add more performances as we develop more specific ideas). The focus of this session is to nurture students' capacities to become local citizens who are proud of their own roots and traditions and global citizens who understand and respect cultural diversities in different parts of globe.These experiences will enhance their abilities to effectively interact with future colleagues from various cultural backgrounds in their university lives.


Look forward to hearing from your thoughts!!

An idea... title "One World, Many Voices"
Our end product is a video students will make comparing various perspectives on cultural issues in different regions.  Issues might be beliefs, the concept of family, traditions, personal interactions, etc.  Here's my idea for the video:
Individual students, one at a time
   " My name is... I live in ..." 
back to first student- " In my family..." go through all students again
back to first student- " Where I live women ...."
back to first student- "Many people in my region believe..."
The video ends with all students coming together and reciting a line together that illustrates that they are all one no matter where in the world they live.

What do you think?

Rough Draft Google doc
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dAdyw8jwWYjkFPqYdlonHxi3yrhQJ1b3H3HsBBSU6lU/edit

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