The Listening Lab experience is in anticipation of Different Ships, Same Boat performance two weeks after the workshop. Use this link to get information and tickets for the main performance. There is also a free Student Matinee at 10:00 am on the day of the main performance on October 23. Reserve spots now - seats are limited. This is a great field trip opportunity. 

Please note the Listening Lab is at First Parish Unitarian Church in Groton, Massachusetts while the main performance is twelve miles away, at the Andres Institute of Art Event Center in Brookline, New Hampshire.

Led by DSSB Principals Guy Mendilow and Regie Gibson. The audience is invited to participate in this forum in which moving stories told through spoken word and music facilitate generous listening with fellow participants in conversations that are honest, intimate, and alive. The intent is to strengthen community and build belonging based on the conviction that every person has a story that matters.

Participants are asked to bring their willingness to suspend assumptions and be surprised.

Mendilow and Gibson launched Different Ships, Same Boat and associated Listening Labs to address mounting civic and social tensions compounded by COVID-19. Both believe genuine curiosity, along with generous listening, can help increase social health and civic connection. For Gibson and Mendilow, the performing arts offer vital pathways towards curiosity and generous listening.

Mendilow and Gibson serve as Co-Artistic Directors for Artists for Social Cohesion, Mendilow also serves as the Executive Director. Both artists have won numerous awards and accolades. Earlier this year, Gibson was named as the first Poet Laureate for Massachusetts.

Funded in part by the New England States Touring program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies.

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