This 5 week webinar series is designed to increase your awareness of the biases, stereotypes, and discrimination Asian-Americans have historically experienced and continue to experience today. You will gain knowledge and skills to help you become a better ally and will leave with a deeper understanding of why Intermountain Opera Bozeman’s new adaptation of THE MIKADO is needed for social change. This series, How Do You Solve a Problem Like Mikado? Leveraging the Arts for Social Change is put on by Intermountain Opera Bozeman and Bozeman Public Library.
Register here for access to the Zoom information.
Hosted by Sarah Allen. Sarah Allen, Ph.D is an assistant professor in the Department of Family Life and Human Development at Southern Utah University. She received her doctorate in Family Relations and Applied Nutrition from the University of Guelph in Ontario Canada. Over the past 20 years her research and teaching has centered on diverse individual, family, and community health and well-being. She has over 50 research publications that can be found in academic journal articles, books, and online formats as well as venues including TEDxSUU, Audible podcasts, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, and Slate. She began teaching diversity courses in 2007 and her teaching approach at Montana State University and Southern Utah University has garnered multiple awards. Sarah has also served on numerous arts boards in Bozeman and as an amateur pianist and mother of two string players, has a passion for the arts and its compacity to positively transform individuals and institutions. Sarah is dedicated to promoting healthy relationships and health equity through education, outreach, and public policy.
January 17: Unpacking The Model Minority Myth
Topics Covered: Understanding racism, bias, discrimination, & cultural appropriation within the context of contemporary Asian-American experiences and representation in the arts, Exploring the terms diversity, equity, & inclusion and their application within the arts
Skills Learned: How to use your knowledge and awareness of racism and discrimination in the arts to ally with Asian-Americans
Special Guest: Dean Williamson (Conductor, The Montana Mikado)
Other events in this series:
January 10th, 6 PM: Asian-American Representation in the Arts with special guest: Dean Williamson (Conductor, The Montana Mikado)
January 24th, 6 PM: Microaggressions: What Are They And How do I Interrupt Them? With special guest Kristen Choi, mezzo-soprano (Madison, The Montana Mikado)
January 31st, 6 PM: How To Be An Ally: Conversations With Asian-American Community Members with guest panel students from MSU’s Asian-American Student Association
February 7th, 6 PM: Conversations with the Asian Opera Alliance with guest panel from the Asian Opera Alliance
