Simone Cottrell (she/her/គាត់)
Owner & Founder of Rachhana Creative Consulting
Social Practice Multidisciplinary Theatre-Maker
Performance Artist
Arkansas Folk & Traditional Arts Community Scholar
Artist INC Arkansas Facilitator
NWA Girl Gang Board Member
Her Set Her Sound Advisor
Squire Jehegan Outreach Center Volunteer
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ABOUT
Where is Justice? | Fayetteville, AR | Spring 2022 - Present
- Protest Performance Art; Phase II - March 17, 2023 | Fayetteville Public Library
Perejil | Jonathan Gonzalez | the Momentary | Jan - Feb 2023
- Movement Performer
នៅពេលដែលកញ្ចក់ខូចអណ្តែត / When Broken Glass Floats | the Momentary | Nov 2022
- Inverse Performance Art Festival
Poetry + Visual Art + Storytelling | Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art | Fall 2022
- Creating Connections for regional senior activity centers
Theatre of the Oppressed | Fayetteville, AR | June 2022
- Free public workshops
An Incomplete Thought | City of Rogers, AR | Summer 2022
- Painting response to "What is White?"
Lukyay | Fayetteville, AR | Spring 2022
- Outdoor Art Installation
Projects
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Perejil
In 1937, Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo ordered the deaths of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent along the two nations’ borders. Over the course of five to eight days, 12,000 to 35,000 were killed based on how they pronounced the word “perejil,” or “parsley” in Spanish, and how their pronunciation of the “r” gave away their Haitian Kreyol mother tongue. González’s durational duet for two—one performer and a body of parsley-mycelial bricks—reflect on this massacre as performers construct and dismantle a brick wall into a river formation almost endlessly, coupled by speech acts that reflect on this historical wound which continues to impact the physical and psychological borders between Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Euro-American acts of intervention. Composing an immersive environment that weaves sound, projection, sculpture, and performance, Perejil seeks to provide a space for visitors to contemplate these independent and geographically interconnected Latin American nations with bonded Afro-Latin diasporic heritages and diasporic futures in a globalized present.
នៅពេលដែលកញ្ចក់ខូចអណ្តែត /
When Broken Glass Floats
Inverse Performance Art Festival
Bentonville, AR | Nov 2022
120-minute
meditation & performance installation
on koan "Where is Justice?"
Silence is just as subjective as sound.
Influenced by:
Khmer Folklore & proverb
street protests
individuals who dared to tell the Truth
personal and social injustices while living in Northwest Arkansas
Theatre of the Oppressed
Workshops
Fayetteville Public Library
June 2022
Four 90-min sessions
Entry level exercises
Participants:
Youth & Their Caregivers
US State Department - Fulbright Program
Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program
Secretariat of Public Education Program (Mexico)
Khmer Folktales & Myths
The Banana Tree Lady
Painting 2/9
Fayetteville, AR | 2022
9 Artworks
9 Khmer Folk Tales or Myths that occur on the full moon
Used as starting conversations to record stories of Mak's childhood and memories
Personal project
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Blog & Podcast
Sim1 Says...
The things they won't.
coming 2023 (Allegedly)
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disrupt your pattern
an anti-oppressive approach in arts & culture
Grants Development
writing, Editing & Review
6 years - Mississippi State University
3 years - Regional & National Panelist
Creative toolkit
bio, statements, work samples
3 years - Private Consulting
1 year - Artist INC
Program & project development
Generative guidance
10 years - Arts & Culture Nonprofit Experience
20 years - Theatre (Youth; Social Practice)
3 years - Private Consulting
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CONTACT
SIMONE COTTRELL
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