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.

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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.

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Slide 1

Participating Robbie McCauley Play Reading and Performance Lab members: Back row ( L- R ) Kristen Belton-Willis, Verna Hampton, Gregory O., Michael Nurse, Janine Robinson. Front Row ( L – R) Cassandra Cato-Louis, Dr. Carol.

Slide 2

Janine Robinson and Dr. Carol Interviewing and notating for the Bibliographical Dyad exercise.

Slide 3

( L – R ) Michael Nurse, Gregory O., Janine Robinson, and Cassandra Cato-Louis reading a scene from “Loose Squares” by Tia Ja’Nae, a play that addresses systemic bullying.

Slide 4

Lab members Parmie Polk and Janine Robinson stand strong against bullying wearing their glow-in-the-sun graphic Ban On Bullying t-shirts designed by the Colloquium Depot Ltd. Artists in New York City.

Slide 5

Lab members Gregory O. and Cassandra Cato-Louis interviewed each other about the bullying issues that were brought up in the performance poem The Bully Chronicles.

Slide 6

Kristen Belton-Willis and Michael Nurse continue with the Biographical Dyad exercise.

Slide 7

Michael Nurse displaying his artist’s rendition of what represents bullying.

Re-Assign Your Mind

Summer 2021 – Spring 2022

Pauline Houston-McCall
Artistic Curator
ART on the HILL

Mark Twain said, “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” Working with Artistic Curator, Pauline McCall Houston, one can see how easily that can be attained, by way of the arts.

In taking that another step further, COLLOQUIUM DEPOT, LTD. believes that during discovery, one can also learn how to “Re-Assign Your Mind‘.

Our project, “Re-Assign Your Mind‘, is intergenerational and includes attending three 3-hr workshops, where one can learn how to interpret, paint and share emotions, on a specially designed T-Shirt, that can be later worn with pride.

T-Shirt Art by Lead Artist, Aleathia Brown.

Table of Artistic Discoveries – (TOAD)

Summer 2021 – Spring 2022

Pauline Houston-McCall
Artistic Curator
ICY-TV

‘TOAD’ fully embraces intergenerational and multi-cultural fun, and wholesome topics, from anti-bullying and conflict resolution, to health and wellness, through Entertainment and the Arts.

Together for a Better World

Pre-School – Summer 2020

Pauline Houston-McCall, Educator
GARDEN ARTS PROGRAM
(The Butterfly Garden)

CAMPUS PHILLY OPEN ARTS
1500 John F. Kennedy Blvd.,
Ste #411
Philadelphia, PA 19102

Summer Arts Festival at Marble Collegiate Church

2017 Marble Summer Arts Festival

Click on flyer for more information about the reading at the 2017 Marble Summer Arts Festival that included a reading of Colloquium Depot’s “TLC (Tender/Loving/Control.)”

T-Shirt Contest Winners at the Fiorella H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts

Ban on Bullying

Senior Class – Spring 2016
Maggie P. Chang, Arts Teacher
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School
of Music & Art and Performing Arts
100 Amsterdam Ave.
New York, NY 10023

Art Exhibitions at Gibney Studio

Colloquium Depot features individual artists in gallery shows at Gibney Studio, including professional artists (see Alethia Brown below) and promising students (see Amber Garrett below).