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“It’s a tool like any tool. It’s just a matter of figuring out how best to use it— strategically and intentionally.”
Image Theater workshop
In Image theater, participants use their bodies to create images to explore power relations and group solutions to social problems. Augusto Boal’s interactive approach to theatrical expression emphasizes physical dialogues, non-verbal imagery, and consensus-building and problem-solving processes. Image theater is used to develop awareness of both external and internalized forms of oppression.
Forum Theater workshop
Forum Theater is an innovative approach to public forums. It is used to analyze situations of conflict involving oppression, in which the action to be taken is not immediately clear.
Workshop participants (the actors) are asked to tell personal stories of unresolved conflicts, taken from daily life, which stem from political or social problems that are urgent, unresolved and defy solutions. Skits depicting those conflicts are improvised and presented in the community of the workshop and/or the world.
Presenting Forum Theater, engages the audience in influencing and stepping into the performance as both spectators and actors, in the role of the "spect-actor." The spect-actor has the power to stop and step into the performance, in order to communally rehearse solutions to the conflict being presented.
The aim of the forum is not to find an ideal solution, but to invent new ways of confronting oppression.
Cop in the Head workshop
Cop in the head is a theatrical rehearsal practice that prepares social actors to confront social control. In Cop in the head, participants explore experiences of internalized oppression through the exploration of stories that feel like, look like, and sound like a lack of resolution, confusion and/or inability to take action that would bring about the possibility of getting what an individual or targeted group need and want to manifest. Cops are the metaphor for internal blocks that appear as repetitive self destructive patterns informed by external messages of oppression that have been brought inside. This internalized control manifests as silencing, freezing and blinding the oppressed from seeing and acknowledging self empowerment and self love both individually and communally. And from fighting back the invisible Cops that have been barracked in the mind.
The Joker Cohort is our master facilitator apprenticeship. Current apprenticeship is in progress.
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