2007 Programs
2007 Programs
Saturday: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Sunday: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
An innovative approach to public forums, Forum Theater is rooted in the Brasilian popular education and culture movements of the 1950s and...
Saturday, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Sunday, 10:00 am Ð 3:00 pm
The consensus process is much more than a decision-making tool. It is an opportunity to participate in a creative process, the outcome of which...
Saturday: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Sunday:9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Image Theater is part of the repertory of Theater of the Oppressed created by Brasilian director and cultural activist Augusto Boal as...
An Anti-Power Workshop with screening of <i>Soma: An Anarchist Therapy</i>
Facilitated by Nick Cooper
Throughout civilization, oppression has inspired a rich history ofcreative resistance. Over time, though, resistance can harden and create new oppressions; systems of power can co-opt the methods and symbols...
Facilitators: Marie-Claire Picher and others TBA
Rainbow of Desire is an Image Theater technique similar to Cop-in-the-Head. Where Cop uses games and exercises to recognize and confront internalized forms of oppression, Rainbow of Desire deals with...
An Introduction to the Paulo Freire Methodology
Facilitated by Carmelina Cartei, Fernando Reals & Esperanza Martell
This is an introductory hands-on workshop in the use of popular education techniques based on the complementary approaches to education for liberation developed by two Brasilian cultural activists: philosopher...
An Image Theater Technique
Facilitated by Augusto Boal, Julian Boal & Marie-Claire Picher
Saturday & Sunday 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Monday 10:00 am to 5 pm
with a public performance demonstration 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Rainbow of Desire is a technique similar to Cop-in-the-Head...
Techniques & Dialogues on the Aesthetics of the Oppressed
Facilitated by Augusto Boal, Julian Boal & Marie-Claire Picher
Tuesday & Wednesday; 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Thursday: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
This is an advanced workshop designed for people who have extensiveexperience as Theater of the Oppressed...
Facilitators: Autumn Brown, Samuel Conway, Stuart Rockefeller & Danielle Sered
Saturday, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Sunday, 10:00 am Ð 3:00 pm
The consensus process is much more than a decision-making tool. It is an opportunity to participate in a creative process, the outcome of which...
Facilitated by Marie-Claire Picher and Others TBA
Friday: 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Saturday & Sunday: 11:00 am - 6:00 pm
Cop-in-the-Head is a collection of Theater of the Oppressed techniques that use games and exercises to recognize and confront...
Facilitated by Sr. Clare Marie Therese, ICM
Using various exercises from street theater, Playback Theater and Theater of the Oppressed (especially Forum Theater), participants will gain insights into the experiences and the limited space into which...
Part 1. ""TO SEE""
Maria Arettines, Carmelina Cartei, Kate Cavanagh, Esperanza Martell, Julie Nevies, Fernando Real & Other Popular Educators!
Part 1 of this Paulo Freire Methodology Intensive is an introduction to the theory of Pedagogy of the Oppressed and to the practical application of the Paulo Freire methodology. Through taking part in...
Facilitated by Kelly di Bertolli, Kayhan Irani and Lisa Lindstrom
Saturday & Sunday: 10:00 am to 5:30 pm
An innovative approach to public forums, Forum Theater is rooted in the Brasilian popular education and culture movements of the 1950s and 1960s. It is designed...
Facilitators: Autumn Brown, Samuel Conway, Carter Klenk, Danielle Sered
The consensus process is much more than a decision-making tool. It is an opportunity to participate in a creative process, the outcome of which is a synthesis of the raw materials we began with. It is a...
Laurie Kellogg
When trying to speak in public, have you ever felt butterflies in your stomach? Has your mind gone blank? Or, do you ramble on and on? Um, like, ya know, well, uh ........
You are not alone!
This...
Focus on Immigration Issues
Facilitators: Marie Claire Picher & Others TBA
Image Theater is designed to develop individual skills of observation andself-reflection, and cooperative group interaction. Leadership-buildingand consensus-building games and techniques explore relations of...
Part 2: ""TO ANALYSE & TO DO""
Maria Arettines, Carmelina Cartei, Kate Cavanagh, Esperanza Martell, Julie Nevies, Fernando Real & Other Popular Educators!
Part II of this Paulo Freire Methodology Intensive will focus on analysis and action plans. Participants will learn through practice the basic steps of the Freire methodology:
1. to express and see...
Yvonne Bynoe
Ideas are the catalyst to all social and political change. Before there can be a movement, someone has to spell out what the problem is and how it needs to be solved. Activists as varied as W.E.B. DuBois,...
Facilitators: Marie-Claire Picher & Others TBA
Saturday & Sunday: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Rainbow of Desire is an Image Theater technique similar to Cop-in-the-Head. Where Cop uses games and exercises to recognize and confront internalized forms of...