This 5 week webinar series is designed to increase your awareness of the biases, stereotypes, and discrimination Asian-Americans have historically experienced and continue to experience today. You will gain knowledge and skills to help you become a better ally and will leave with a deeper understanding of why Intermountain Opera Bozeman’s new adaptation of THE MIKADO is needed for social change. This series, How Do You Solve a Problem Like Mikado? Leveraging the Arts for Social Change is put on by Intermountain Opera Bozeman and Bozeman Public Library.

Register here for access to the Zoom information. 

Hosted by Sarah Allen. Sarah Allen, Ph.D is an assistant professor in the Department of Family Life and Human Development at Southern Utah University. She received her doctorate in Family Relations and Applied Nutrition from the University of Guelph in Ontario Canada. Over the past 20 years her research and teaching has centered on diverse individual, family, and community health and well-being. She has over 50 research publications that can be found in academic journal articles, books, and online formats as well as venues including TEDxSUU, Audible podcasts, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, and Slate. She began teaching diversity courses in 2007 and her teaching approach at Montana State University and Southern Utah University has garnered multiple awards. Sarah has also served on numerous arts boards in Bozeman and as an amateur pianist and mother of two string players, has a passion for the arts and its compacity to positively transform individuals and institutions. Sarah is dedicated to promoting healthy relationships and health equity through education, outreach, and public policy.

January 24: Microaggressions: What Are They And How do I Interrupt Them?

Topics Covered: 

• Defining microaggressions, understanding their impact, and learning how to interrupt them

Skills Learned: 

• Learning how to respond to microaggressions and effective strategies for deciding when to call in or call out individuals who use them

Special Guest: Kristen Choi, mezzo-soprano (Madison, The Montana Mikado)

Other events in this series:

January 10th, 6 PM: Asian-American Representation in the Arts with special guest: Dean Williamson (Conductor, The Montana Mikado) 

January 17th, 6 PM: Unpacking The Model Minority Myth with special guest Norman Huynh (Music Director, Bozeman Symphony)

January 31st, 6 PM: How To Be An Ally:  Conversations With Asian-American Community Members with guest panel students from MSU’s Asian-American Student Association

February 7th, 6 PM: Conversations with the Asian Opera Alliance with guest panel from the Asian Opera Alliance