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Five Bells for 9/11 featured

By Rich

Award winning author, Joan Bauer, featured my play, Five Bells for 9/11, on her website called Teaching 9-11. It's an amazing resource page for teachers and parents.
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We've touched down in Singapore

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We made it to Asia

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We're at Tokyo's Narita Airport, waiting for our flight for Singapore.
08.18.10 05:09 AM - Comment(s)
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Skimming the top of Canada

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Hit by a Mac Truck

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Olivia Munn gave her life to the Lord at TAM when she was 14. Now she's 22 and prepping for full-time ministry. She preached to her former peers (though some students were older than her). Her sermon challenged them to be bold for the Lord. She said if someone said she was hit by a Mac Truck you w...
08.17.10 12:09 PM - Comment(s)
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Siyonora, New York City

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The next time we have a view from the ground it will be at the airport in Tokyo, exchanging for a plane bound for Singapore: http://Itinerary.RichDrama.com.

08.17.10 09:42 AM - Comment(s)
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Inspired all over again!

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When I was in college, over 20 years ago, Curt Cloninger, pictured here with Patricia Mauceri and myself, performed his one-man plays God Views and Red Letter Edition in our chapel at what was then George Fox College (now University). It was the first time I'd ever seen a one-man play, a...
08.16.10 11:24 PM - Comment(s)
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TAM Report

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Here's my report on the TAM Conservatory at Westchester Chapel.


08.16.10 05:31 PM - Comment(s)
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The Struggle

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The Struggle
© Copyright 2010 by The Salvation Army
By Elisa K, DeeJay R, Belén B, Megan P and Rich Swingle.

Developed through sociodrama (www.RichDrama.com/Workshops) under the direction of Rich Swingle (www.RichDrama.com) for The Territorial Arts Ministries Conservatory (www.theTAMjam.com), ...
08.15.10 10:55 AM - Comment(s)
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Tableaux on Times Square, part 1

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Tableaux on Times Square, video of the turn

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Tableaux on Times Square, part 2

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Tableaux on Times Square, part 2 close up

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About a dozen groups created tableaux at the exact same instant (more or less) on Times Square. We held each contrasting image for about a minute. The reactions were inspiring. I hope we do it again in the future. A Jewish man, who had just returned from Israel was begging for us to continue.
08.15.10 01:43 AM - Comment(s)
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You Lead Me

By Rich

Last night's finale to the TAM Conservatory was spectacular! Phil Laeger was commissioned to write a song for us, and wow did he blow us away. After the final performance last night we danced out singing the chorus, and not long after we were all in the lobby we started in again! This morning the c...
08.15.10 01:11 AM - Comment(s)
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In the city

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We've arrived in New York to see West Side story and create tableaux on Times Square.
08.11.10 09:36 PM - Comment(s)
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Broadway Dreams

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Carol Jaudes shared her one-woman musical, Broadway Dreams last night.

I've seen it three times, but I was still laughing and weeping just as much.

In the midst of songs she's sung over the years she told the story of how she was cast in CATS on Broadway, and how, after almost a decade in the longes...
08.11.10 07:16 PM - Comment(s)
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Tableaux on Times Square

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Tonight at 6:20 (or so), the TAM Conservatory ( http://theTAMjam.com), where I'm teaching and directing this week, will be dividing into groups and creating contrasting tableaux on Times Square. Someone will hold up a sign and the students and faculty will create a tableau based on that word. Then ...
08.11.10 11:58 AM - Comment(s)
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Already delivered

By Rich

The group I'm directing at the TAM Conservatory developed our piece through sociodrama ( http://RichDrama.com/Workshops). This morning we placed our scene in a hospital. We had our bed lined up by dinner! The IV drip is en route.

08.09.10 10:51 PM - Comment(s)
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Helen Keller quoted at TAM

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The theme of identity has already come up in our opening meeting for TAM, and now Carol Jaudes, who was a cast member with Susie Brown in CATS on Broadway and currently leads TAM, just quoted Helen Keller. Our theme at MasterWorks was identity and our play, The Miracle Worker, told the story of Hele...
08.08.10 10:46 AM - Comment(s)
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TAM has begun

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The Salvation Army's Territorial Arts Ministry (TAM) is launching it's 10th week-long conservatory. I think this is my 7th year as an instructor. Can't wait to see how God moves in the lives and talents of these young people this year...

08.07.10 10:23 PM - Comment(s)
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