The LNH Living Room Chats - Chat 3
April
19, 2005
Sue Chollet's Living
Room, Peterborough, NH
Discussion on:
You Want Me to do
WHAT??! The Verbatim Project: Building Community Through
the Arts
Follow-up on the Verbatim Project
Contact: Larry Siegel, Artistic Director
(603) 355-8353
larry@tricinium.com
www.tricinium.com
April 27, 2005
Dear Community Leader,
As a member of Leadership New Hampshire, I wanted to make you aware of funds that are now available to help you undertake the kind of community-building work that will invigorate the organizations and communities with which you are affiliated.
Tricinium, a non-profit arts organization based in Keene, New Hampshire, is making funds available to enable non-profit organizations, educational institutions and municipalities to undertake a Verbatim Project, a unique community arts program that builds meaningful connections by helping communities tell their stories through words, music and theater. Our Verbatim Fund provides subsidies up to $5000 to non-profit organizations and communities wishing to host a project.
"This project pushed people with diverse views together to work as a team. We connected on cultural and human levels. We built respect for each other and an ability to support others in their differences. It created bonds beyond opinion." Pamela Gleeson re: PeterboroughVerbatim
Over the past 15 years, Tricinium has worked with dozens of municipalities and organizations throughout New Hampshire, and New England, including Peterborough, Harrisville, Nelson and the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, to help them tell their stories in ways that celebrate and forge the kind of community connections that make New Hampshire unique. It is a powerful way to build social capital among people and groups whose common interests depend upon meaningful affiliations, awareness and understanding of each other, and their environments.
"The Verbatim Project is democracy in action. It brought to mind the old adage - 'sometimes you need to be reminded of what you already know'." Governor Walter Peterson re: PeterboroughVerbatim
Lawrence Siegel, Artistic Director of Tricinium and facilitator of these projects, has built a reputation throughout New England and beyond for work that is at once playful, accessible, and artistically excellent, while invigorating a group's sense of purpose and potential.
A project can take many forms depending upon your goals and resources of time and energy. Verbatim Projects have helped groups celebrate anniversaries and special events, mark significant accomplishments, and launch new community initiatives. Projects can last an afternoon, a weekend or a year. No matter what form a project takes, the common thread is creative and compelling interactions, fostered by respect, attentiveness and humor.
"The new connections of people who might never interact create new possibilities of what might be and what will be… To imagine a community where people freely interact across the boundaries that normally divide us is to create that community." Kathleen Bollerud re: Harrisville Weavings
We'd like to invite you to consider giving your organization, community and constituencies a gift this year - the opportunity to come together in a spirit of acceptance, playfulness and creativity, while advancing the evolutionary work of living and working together.
Please check out the Request for Proposals, and other information, at our website at
www.tricinium.com, and give us a call, or e-mail me at
robin@tricinium.com, to talk about the possibilities. Tricinium wants to help you plan just the project you need to energize your community-building efforts!
Sincerely,
Robin Boyd
For the Verbatim Project
