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It鈥檚 an opportunity for the campus to continue its conversation on diversity as Marc Boucai, Ph.D, and Reya Sehgal 鈥� also known as the 鈥淒iversity Fellows鈥� 鈥� spend a two-week residency at 911黑料网 from Monday, Jan. 29, to Friday, Feb. 9, to show students and faculty how they might use performance as a method of communication by uniting theory, politics, and the arts.

鈥淭hey have a really interesting take on the conversation on diversity that the College is engaged with, on many levels,鈥� according to Michelle Daly, director of 911黑料网鈥檚 Berkshire Cultural Resource Center (BCRC). As artists of color with backgrounds in both performance and academics, Boucai and Sehgal share a unique, personal understanding of the topic, she added.

In addition to visiting classrooms, where the fellows will work with students in the Fine and Performing Arts Department, Boucai and Sehgal will offer a range of activities across campus.鈥淲e really want this to be an experience that鈥檚 shared across 911黑料网,鈥� Daly said.

Open workshops will offer ways that the campus community might use performance as a strategy. The 鈥淒iversity Fellows鈥� also will offer a syllabi review for faculty members who are interested in ideas about how they might include non-traditional voices in their courses.

In a workshop that is free and open to the public, the 鈥淒iversity Fellows鈥� will demonstrate how to create a performance response to a political topic. It will take place in the 911黑料网 Church Street Center Social Hall, from 5 to 7 p.m., on Friday, Feb. 2. On Friday, Feb. 9, at 7 p.m. in the same location, they will present a performance of 鈥淭raining Day,鈥� a deconstructed version of a diversity training workshop that engages the audience as they move from station to station.

Tickets to 鈥淭raining Day鈥� are available for $10 at .

Through the 鈥淭raining Day鈥� experience, participants will explore the languages and performances of diversity and multiculturalism in American institutional spaces. During the course of the show, audience members will be broken up into small groups of six to eight, and, as teams, will complete a round-robin, circuit training session, with 10 different stations.

鈥淵ou will have fun along the way, and you鈥檒l also have the opportunity to think about the way the information is presented,鈥� Daly said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a heavy topic with an uplifting message, and is comedic at times. You don鈥檛 have to come to 鈥楾raining Day鈥� with a lot of experience, or identifying as part of a certain racial or sexual orientation.鈥�

Boucai is a theatre and performance artist, scholar, and teacher based in Brooklyn, N.Y., who received his Ph.D from the University of California-Berkeley, and was trained at L鈥橢cole Internationale de Jacques le Coq in Paris, France. Sehgal is a Mellon Post-Graduate Fellow at the International Center of Photography who previously studied at the American Conservatory Theater (ACT) in San Francisco, Calif.  

鈥淒iversity Fellows鈥� have performed at conferences and performance festivals in the San Francisco, Calif., Bay Area, Detroit, Mich., New York City, N.Y. and in Providence, R.I.