“I have been alone and very wretched, without friend or comrade, suffering a great deal.” Philoctetes Photo by Adrian Lach What do Juan Mann, who offered free hugs to passers-by in Sydney’s city centre in 2004[1], and American writer Laura Hillenbrand, who had stayed in bed for years due to chronic fatigue syndrome[2], have inContinueContinue reading “From Philoctetes to HAL 9000. Acting on the theatre stage against loneliness and exclusion”
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COVID-19 Experiences Alchemized Through Arts: A Case Study on Script Writing and Filmmaking with High School Students
“…the narratives evolved from personal anecdotes into complex stories enriched with interpersonal tension.” Making a timeline of the pandemic involved remembering the COVID-19 timeline and adding three personal events and two events that happened in the media. The main idea of this exercise was to remember personal events that can become a story but alsoContinueContinue reading “COVID-19 Experiences Alchemized Through Arts: A Case Study on Script Writing and Filmmaking with High School Students”
Media and Epidemics (MEDEP) 