On Wednesday, April 21st we invite all 2004 KLAS Users Conference attendees to join us at Perkins School for the Blind for a Welcome Dinner and An Evening with Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller's Teacher.
The KLAS 2004 Users Conference will host a living history performance, Wednesday, April 21st, in Dwight Hall of the Howe Building on the campus of Perkins school for the Blind at 8 PM. The presentation will immediately follow the Welcome Dinner schduled to begin at 7 PM.
Kate Carney, in costume and character as Annie Sullivan, Helen Keller 's teacher, will share stories and interact with the audience in an historical role-playing experience set in 1912. Annie's indignant about people calling her a miracle worker -- she insists that Helen's not a miracle and she's no miracle worker and details the long, hard hours of work it took to teach Helen to communicate. She tells how her difficult childhood, which included the Tewksbury Poorhouse and the Perkins Institute for the Blind, prepared her for taming and teaching Helen.
Listeners exchange questions and answers with this feisty, creative woman and learn how deaf-blind mutes were treated before Helen came along, and of some struggles of Boston's early Irish immigrants.
Annie Sullivan, Teacher was presented at the International Women Playwrights Conference in Ireland.
Kate Carney, MA, storyteller, workshop presenter and coach, performs Heroic Women You Can Talk To characters in libraries, schools, museums and First Nights throughout the Northeast.
Kate's been an actor-director for 30 years, having performed in Boston and New York theatres, in films and on network TV, and has toured nationally and internationally. She's directed on Broadway, helped start theatre groups in France and Israel, and has directed and taught at Brandeis, Smith and other colleges.
Kate founded her educational theater company, Heroic Women You Can Talk To in 1993 to use living history to bring the past's astonishing relevance alive. Other 45 minute programs include: First Woman Doctor in the West: Bethenia Owens-Adair, MD, pioneer; Rachel Walker, Paul Revere's Mother-in-law, reluctant Revolutionary; writer Mary Antin, Russian Immigrant, author of The Promised Land and Mary Lyon of Mount Holyoke, founder of Mount Holyoke female seminary/college . Programs for younger children include: Greek Myths and Aesop's Fables; Mother Nature's Myths, nature stories and Mother Earth's Multicultural Tales, celebrating America's cultural diversity.
