2013 Programs
2013 Programs
Facilitated by Marie Claire Picher
Image Theater, part of the repertory of Theater of the Oppressed, was created by the late Brazilian director and cultural activist Augusto Boal (1931-2009).
Drawing on the theories of popular...
Facilitated by Julia Barclay
In this two-day workshop, we will review the tools learned in the one-day workshops last Spring and move forward so that participants can create their own work using these tools. Beginners to the workshop as...
Facilitated by Marie-Claire Picher & others TBA
This extended workshop focuses on exercises, games, and improvised scene work of Forum Theater, one of the forms in the Theater of the Oppressed repertory developed by Brazilian director, popular educator...
A One-day Image Theater/Cop-in-the-Head Workshop
**WORKSHOP CANCELED**
...Facilitated by Reka Polonyi & Jennifer Sargent
The workshop will introduce participants to the fundamentals of Clown—we will take a moment to enjoy and relish how ridiculous we are! Whether it is our human physicality, mannerisms, environment, our ideas...
Facilitated by Marie Claire Picher
Cop-in-the-Head is a collection of Theater of the Oppressed techniques that uses games and exercises to recognize and confront internalized forms of oppression, and explore power relations and collective...
Facilitated by Marie Claire Picher
Looking at the Occupy movement that captured the collective imagination in late 2011, and some of the burgeoning newer movements that have since coalesced, this one-day workshop will examine some of the ways...
Looking at Aging—Its Effects on Families, Caregivers & the Aging Person
Facilitated by Elia Gurna & Marie-Claire Picher
In our society, the process of growing old is at once beautiful and awe-inspiring, and, for families and people close to an aging person, can be an ongoing, celebratory relationship. But for the aging person...
Facilitated by Marie Claire Picher
Rainbow of Desire, an Image Theater technique, is a technique similar to Cop-in-the-Head. Where Cop uses games and exercises to recognize and confront internalized forms of oppression, Rainbow of Desire...
WORKSHOP IS CURRENTLY FULL
facilitated by Julian Boal & Marie-Claire Picher
WORKSHOP IS CURRENTLY FULL!
This three-day workshop is an outgrowth of a collaboration and some conversations that took place over the years between Julian Boal, TOPLAB facilitator Marie-Claire...
Facilitated by Marie-Claire Picher
Workshop days and times are: Friday, October 18, 2013 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm; Saturday, October 19 10:00 am to 6:00 pm; and Sunday, October 20 10:00 am to 6:00 pm.
Forum Theater is one of the forms in...
Facilitated by Kayhan Irani & Marie-Claire Picher
Workshop days and times are: Saturday, November 23, 2013 10:00 am to 6:00 pm; and Sunday, November 24, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm.
Cop-in-the-Head is a collection of Theater of the Oppressed techniques...
Facilitated by Marie-Claire Picher
"We must emphasize: What Brecht does not want is that the spectators continue to leave their brains with their hats upon entering the theater, as do bourgeois spectators." --Augusto Boal
"The...