Diverse Works - What People Are Saying

Diverse Works performed for Energizer on Martin Luther King Day 2004.
"The event was a BIG success. The evaluation results are in, and the consensus is that the MLK Day diversity awareness celebration was educational, entertaining, hit on issues that are important to our colleagues, and taught valuable lessons that will live on."
Anji Eschele
Diversity Leadership Program

Some of the verbatim comments about the PERFORMANCE were:
- Very innovative way of getting your message across
- Excellent event!
- I really enjoyed it, I hope we can do this and other activities not just on MLK birthday, but throughout the year
- The group did an outstanding performance. I think this should be a mandatory event.
- For me, showing the examples instead of telling me leave a lasting impression and is much more helpful.
- Of 43 write-in comments, 40 were positive

Some of the verbatim comments about the DISCUSSION were:
- Very good for me to be able to interact with people from other departments
- It was good, the comments that were made were and are very important for all of us.
- It was good. Hearing others' thoughts helps to open my mind and put a new perspective on it. We learn from each other and we should value each other's opinions.
- I wish we could have spent more time in the discussions. I think getting to know new people of different backgrounds and/or outlooks in life is an important part of team building
- Of 26 write-in comments, 21 were positive

Suzanne Peebles, a Multicultural Performance Styles major at Webster University who was also interned with That Uppity Theatre Company, describes her interest in finding the "core human being" that can rise above issues of diversity and multiculturalism. Says Peebles, "If we can find and truly understand the core of what makes us human, we will finally begin to break down barriers."