GME specializes in multifaceted residencies/facilitations enabling deeper connections between people, perspectives, experiences and ideas.
GME residencies help people enter into the conversations, explorations, and relationships they want — or need — to have.
GME residencies broaden and strengthen long-lasting relationships between sponsoring organizations, like performing arts centers, and community constituencies, including traditional audiences as well as individuals and groups who have, historically, felt that the performing arts are irrelevant to them.
GME’S DEFINITIONS
residency
{noun; res·i·den·cy | \ ˈre-zə-dən(t)-sē}:
A series of purposeful gatherings towards an encompassing intent.
That intent emerges from, and reflects, the specific people served.
Just as people, circumstances and communities are distinct, so too is the residency intent that reflects them.
The purposeful pathways to achieve that intent are therefore also often unique.
GME’S PROCESS FOR RESIDENCY/FACILITATION
1. LISTEN.
Residency/facilitation design starts with listening sessions to build trust, mutual excitement and GME’s understanding of participants’ needs and aspirations.
What are the explorations, the conversations, that people want, or need, to have?
Listening sessions often occur in-person, on site with community stakeholders and leaders.
2. REFLECT.
GME listens actively and communicates clearly to ensure that the residency intent and definition of success aligns with community partners.
3. DESIGN.
Gathering formats to achieve the residency’s intent include — but are not limited to — listening labs, story circles, workshops, dinners, choral/string collaborations, “live” community documentaries, conversations, celebrations, lectures and site-specific flash happenings — sometimes magical, playful or whimsical, often participatory and always unexpected — that take stories, questions and themes out of the halls and into public spaces. Performance itself becomes an instrument towards the residency intent.
4. IMPLEMENT.
5. EVALUATE.
Residencies provide opportunities for GME and for community partners to learn more about the people served and about ways to effectively serve them.
