Spirit To Rise: A Theatre of the Oppressed BIPOC Untensive
Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada
Ontario
43.653226
-79.3831843
Description
Join us for an online Theatre of the Oppressed 4-week workshop series, every Tuesday in November, to courageously explore what has got us down and what supports our rising up! Using the transformative tools of Theatre of Oppressed, we will make and share space for the many stories rippling through us during these charged time (COVID, racial uprisings, climate crisis and more!), and draw on our resiliency, creativity and catalytic capacity to breathe life into and nurture our personal and collective well-being.
This workshop series is for anyone who identifies as Black, Indigenous, Person of Colour - we honour that the particular body wisdom and lived experiences we hold are simultaneously diverse and intertwined, as such the space seeks to create an environment that is as-safe-as-possible to delve deep into what oppression and liberation looks and feels like in our bodies and beyond.
*Cost: $180 for the full workshop series
sliding scale options available
For More info and to Request the sliding scale application please email: info@branchouttheatre.com
Zoom link provided upon registration
*25% of the funds of this workshop will go towards Branch Out Theatre’s new mentorship fund for BIPOC artists/facilitators ages 18-29 to be mentored in Theatre of the Oppressed and community arts project facilitation by BIPOC artists/facilitators.
Facilitated by: Natalie Abdou, Associate Artist/Facilitator, Branch Out Theatre
Natalie is a community facilitator, theatre practitioner, life-long learner and creative soul who loves to reflect, share and learn alongside others for the purpose of community creation and transformation. Natalie has spent the last 10+ years connecting and collaborating with diverse communities in North America and Egypt, by co-creating learning environments that are founded upon shared values of diversity, love, respect, creativity, self-expression and empowerment - embracing a vision of solidarity, social justice and change from the inside-out. Using a range of approaches from popular education, Theatre of the Oppressed and embodied wisdom practices, Natalie cultivates learning that engages the mind, body, heart and soul, drawing on our experiences and inner wisdom for the purpose of community healing, peacebuilding, and capacity building. It is through the blending of creativity and value-based community building, that Natalie is able to nurture groups in creating space for each other - to reflect, share, learn and heal alongside one another for the purpose of personal, collective/organizational and systemic change.
More Info about Theatre of the Oppressed:
Theatre of the Oppressed was created by renowned Brazilian director and social justice advocate, Augusto Boal (1931-2009) as a form of popular education and includes a body of: theatre based games, exercises and techniques that empower individuals and communities to build solidarity, critically reflect upon and learn to address issues of oppression and use theatre to envision, embody and rehearse towards social change.
The techniques we'll use in this workshop series:
Image Theatre allows people to express themselves non-verbally, through creating frozen pictures (tableaux) and body movement, thus sharpening the senses of sight and visual observation. Image theatre is a helpful tool for individuals and groups to identify an issue and visualize, step by step, how they can move through conflicts to focus on fulfilling their goals and dreams.
Forum Theatre is a theatre-based visioning exercise, which allows individuals and communities to identify salient issues, explore their complexities and develop inspirational action plans to reconcile, transform and solve them. Forum theatre involves the development of a short performance piece based on personal stories of oppression that link to the wider social and political climate. A crucial part of the process involves performing the forum theatre play for an audience who is invited to become “spect-actors” and intervene in the action of the play to rehearse possible alternatives; providing deeper understanding of the issues and how to work through them.
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Tickets
Full Workshop Series
180.0
CAD
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