Events
Colloquium Depot has hosted a number of events over the years and will continue to do so in the future.
Below are a sampling of past events and preview of events to come.
Commemorative Event
In alignment with New York State’s Dignity for all Students Act that, “… seeks to provide…secondary school students with a safe and supportive environment, free from discrimination, intimidation, taunting, harassment and bullying,”
Colloquium Depot, Ltd., is laying the groundwork for THE FIRST ANNUAL BAN ON BULLYING® COMMEMORATION EVENT and THE ARTS MOVEMENT, proposed for October, 2019, Anti-Abuse Month (the exact date/venue is to be confirmed). It will be an inter-generational happening under the heading of, “TOGETHER FOR A BETTER WORLD.” At this event, T-shirts will be auctioned and sold.
Past members of our collaborative team included:
- Abyssinian Baptist Church
- Arts High School, Newark, New Jersey
- Bobbie Horowitz Productions
- Connect-A-Million Youth Inc. (C.A.M.Y Inc.)
- Drew Hamilton Community Center, Harlem
- Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, New York
- Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center
- Maisonave Management, Inc.
- National Action Network
- Sachem High School East
- Seneca Middle School (Sachem School District)
- St. Cecilia’s Parish, Harlem
- Street Corner Resources
- The Children’s Village, Dobbs Ferry, New York
- The Global Association of Women for the Arts
- The Juilliard School
Ban On Bullying as Art Therapy to Re-Assign Your Mind
Spring 2022 – Summer 2023
Verna Hampton
Workshop Facilitator
Puddingstone Creatives
Our focus at COLLOQUIUM DEPOT, LTD., has been largely on youth combating abuse/bullying through Education, Entertainment and the Arts.
More recently, we decided to broaden our scope to include adults, which enabled a sharing of positive skills learned from their past experiences of opening doors, and expanded the Arts to ‘Arts Therapy’.
Of utmost importance is the development of positive thinking and behavior, which can be nurtured by activities that are personally liberating and esteem building. We achieved this by working in collaboration with Puddingstone Creatives at the Vine Street Community Center in Roxbury, Boston, Mass., by creating workshops, leading to play readings and performances.
On April 24, 2023, Puddingstone Creatives, in conjunction with Colloquium Depot, Ltd., presented “The Biographical Dyad Workshop”. The Lab Members first read the performance poem, “BULLY”, written by the Workshop Facilitator, Verna Hampton, then participated in the “Biographical Dyad Workshop.”
The accompanying photographs capture some of their rehearsing experiences.