2022 Torrance Festival of Ideas
INTRODUCTION
The Torrance Festival of Ideas is a free annual virtual event where renowned experts from across disciplines present their innovative ideas to the general public.
The 2022 Torrance Festival of Ideas showcases unique perspectives on a range of topics including creativity, imagination, entrepreneurship, innovation, flow, aesthetics, emotions, motivation, AI, digital art, music, literature, wellbeing, community health, mental health, childhood, aging, education, equality, identity, political resistance, sociocultural change, and social engagement.
HiA Network Member, Dr Jasmine Blanks Jones, will be presenting her piece, InterACTions in Crisis: The drama of saving our own lives, on the opening day – 19 April at 12:00 – 1pm (EDT).
See the full list of featured speakers via the link where you will also find a call for creative submissions.
Speaker
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Jasmine L. Blanks Jones Ph.Dasmine L. Blanks Jones is a dynamic theatre nonprofit leader, award-winning educator, and holds a dual PhD in Education and Africana Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research on theatrical performance as a civic engagement praxis illuminates global race-based inequities in education and health, lifting the potential of knowledge co-creation through the arts and digital cultural production. As founder of Burning Barriers Building Bridges Youth Theatre (B4YT), a cultural performance company dedicated to radical community empowerment through the arts, she has more than twenty years of experience in youth development in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. Having developed a track record of leadership in arts and advocacy in communities of color globally, in 2018 Jasmine extended the scope of B4YT to include a consulting practice, Creating Brave Stages, which provides support and guidance for advocacy organizations looking to integrate the arts into their movements and artists aspiring to create positive change through their performances. She holds a MPP from the University of Minnesota and BS in Music Education from Florida A&M University. She is a postdoctoral fellow with the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship at Johns Hopkins University this academic year.
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