Virginia Tech’s School of Performing Arts will present “Art, Community, Ecology, and Health,” a colloquium series of free talks and workshops on the power and practice of art and culture as essential elements of healthy communities. The talks will be held at the Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library.
The presentations are meant to open dialogue on the practical values of art as a core element for building strong communities.
The first in the series will be Thursday, Feb. 20, and will feature essayist, novelist, arts journalist, and theatre historian Todd London. He will present “Let Me Sit with You a While, or The Challenge of Theatre Is the Challenge of the World,” exploring conflict and communion in society.
Before becoming the head of the Master of Fine Arts Playwriting Program at the New School in New York City, London served for 18 years as artistic director for the New Dramatists. He created programs for the group and worked closely with more than 150 of the country’s leading playwrights and advocated nationally and internationally for hundreds more. He is also the current director of theatre relations for The Dramatists Guild of America.
