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.

 

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).

Amber Garrett

BARBADOS Global Warming Extravaganza

Newark Arts High School
Re-Assign Your Mind

HARLEM Tribute to Life in Honor of 9/11

NEW HOPE, PA

Seneca Middle School

Together for a Better World

8th Grade – Spring 2013
Kerin Crowley, Consultant
Seneca Middle School
Sachem School District

850 Main Street
Holbrook, NY 11741