Event: 3-day Theatre of the Oppressed Workshop for Community Activism
- Location
- 285 Clarissa St.
- Bottomliner
- Ricardo, Henry
- When
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- Every week at Friday, Saturday, 10:00am - 5:00pm
- Every week at Sunday, 10:00am - 6:00pm
The Flying Squirrel Community Space
285 Clarissa St.
Rochester, NY 14608
Workshop dates and times:
Friday July 14 6-9pm
Saturday July 15 10-5pm
Sunday July 16 10-6pm (performance from 4-6pm)
Plan on attending all three days! $20 donation to help offset the costs of this workshop.
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Join us for a 3-day Theatre of the Oppressed workshop where we will explore the inherent and systemic toxicity that challenges change in our society. What you hear and experience may surprise you! Theatre of the Oppressed draws from the lived experience of its participants and does not require that you have any acting experience! With TOPLAB facilitator Marie Claire Picher, learn methods developed by Augusto Boal to expose the oppressions in our society. We will play theatre games to create scenes and end in a culminating performance- but this audience will not be passive — they will be spect-actors, and be given the chance to intervene and attempt to solve or work through the scenario presented. This groundbreaking work was developed by educators Augusto Boal and Paolo Freire in Brazil.
Theatre of the Oppressed for Community Activism will provide tools that will be invaluable in the work of all community activists!
For more information on Theatre of the Oppressed check out: http://jsirri.org/
Marie-Claire Picher, PhD, is a Theater of the Oppressed trainer and popular educator who collaborated annually with Augusto Boal from 1990 until his death in 2009. She is a founding member of TOPLAB (1990) and the Institute of Popular Education at the Brecht Forum (1992). In addition to leading hundreds of workshops in the New York, she has facilitated sessions in numerous cities throughout the United States, as well as in Mexico City and the Mexican states of Chiapas and Tabasco, in Santa Cruz del Quiche in the Guatemalan highlands, in Guatemala City and in Cuba. An article of hers, Dramatizing Democracy: Theater of the Oppressed, appeared in the Fall 2006 issue of Fellowship. Another article, Democratic Process and Theater of the Oppressed, was published in the December 2007 issue of New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education. She was Executive Director of the Brecht Forum from 1989 to 1993. She is also a tenured professor of French and Spanish, and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in Riverdale, NY.
Workshop dates and times:
Friday July 14 6-9pm
Saturday July 15 10-5pm
Sunday July 16 10-6pm (performance from 4-6pm)
Plan on attending all three days! $20 donation to help offset the costs of this workshop.