27th Pedagogy &amp; Theatre of the Oppressed Conference

Traditional children's games can 'mis-educate', lets look at ways to improve how we play to be more inclusive and less oppressive. Dive into sociodrama, Five Faces of Oppression, and Butler's dodgeball insights. Explore the ongoing conversation about games' impact on children, unraveling hidden oppressions and dominance. Gain practical insights to shape inclusive education, fostering fresh perspectives. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY. Participants can earn CEU. Part 1 of a double session. / Sumérjase en el sociodrama, las cinco caras de la opresión y las ideas de Butler sobre el balón prisionero. Explore la conversación en curso sobre el impacto de los juegos en lxs niñxs, desentrañando opresiones y dominancias ocultas. Obtenga conocimientos prácticos para dar forma a la educación inclusiva, fomentando nuevas perspectivas. Lxs participantes pueden ganar CEU. Parte 1 de una sesión doble.

This session will be presented in English. / Esta sesión se presentará en inglés.

Presenters

Julie Wells

Director, Suncoast Psychodrama

Julie Wells, LCSW, a TEP (Trainer, Educator, and Practitioner in Psychodrama, Sociometry, and Group Psychotherapy), is based in Clearwater, FL, where she operates a private practice and serves as the founder and director of Suncoast Psychodrama. A Board Director for ABE (American... Read More →

Friday May 31, 2024 9:00am - 10:30am EDT
Bininger Theatre

Liberatory Methodologies

Audience Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced/Experienced

9:00am EDT

"Applied Theatre and Refugee and Diasporic Studies"

Friday May 31, 2024 9:00am - 10:30am EDT

Paper Presentation, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

This paper links applied theatre to refugee and diasporic studies, reflecting on personal experiences facilitating theatre with refugees. / Este artículo vincula el teatro aplicado a los estudios sobre refugiadxs y diáspora, y reflexiona sobre experiencias personales facilitando el teatro con refugiadxs.

This session will be presented in English. / Esta sesión se presentará en inglés.

Presenters

Fadi Skeiker

Fordham University

I am an applied theatre artist/scholar. My work centers around refugees and immigrants experiences.

Friday May 31, 2024 9:00am - 10:30am EDT
Triton's Pub

Audience Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced/Experienced

9:00am EDT

Image Descriptions / Descripciones de las imágenes

Friday May 31, 2024 9:00am - 10:30am EDT

Workshop: Techniques and Applications, Theatre of the Oppressed

Long before Image Descriptions went viral as a means to make the internet more inclusive, they were a fundamental tool in Theatre of the Oppressed. This workshop brings Image Description back to its collective roots to make it more salient, powerful, and useful for people who might benefit from it. / Mucho antes de que las descripciones de imágenes se volvieran virales como medio para hacer que el internet fuera más inclusivo, eran una herramienta fundamental en el Teatro del Oprimido. Este taller devuelve la descripción de imágenes a sus raíces colectivas para hacerla más destacada, poderosa y útil para las personas que podrían beneficiarse de ella.

This session will be presented in English. / Esta sesión se presentará en inglés.

Presenters

Morgan FitzPatrick Andrews

Philadelphia Theatre of the Oppressed

Morgan FitzPatrick Andrews helped start TO Philly as a network of people using PTO techniques in Philadelphia. From 2008 until the start of the 2020 pandemic, TO Philly's work unpacked dynamics of ability, class, faith, gender, migration, race, and other issues in a wide array of... Read More →

Friday May 31, 2024 9:00am - 10:30am EDT
Fox Hall B

Audience Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced/Experienced

10:45am EDT

Sociodrama: Navigating Oppression in Traditional Children's Games—Unveiling Dodgeball Dynamics (Part 2 of a double session)/Sociodrama: Navegando por la opresión en los juegos infantiles tradicionales - revelando la dinámica del “dodgeball”...

Friday May 31, 2024 10:45am - 12:15pm EDT

Part 2 of a double session. Traditional children's games can 'mis-educate', lets look at ways to improve how we play to be more inclusive and less oppressive. Dive into sociodrama, Five Faces of Oppression, and Butler's dodgeball insights. Explore the ongoing conversation about games' impact on children, unraveling hidden oppressions and dominance. Gain practical insights to shape inclusive education, fostering fresh perspectives. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY. Participants can earn CEU. Part 2 of a double session. / Sumérjase en el sociodrama, las cinco caras de la opresión y las ideas de Butler sobre el balón prisionero. Explore la conversación en curso sobre el impacto de los juegos en lxs niñxs, desentrañando opresiones y dominancias ocultas. Obtenga conocimientos prácticos para dar forma a la educación inclusiva, fomentando nuevas perspectivas. Lxs participantes pueden ganar CEU. Parte 2 de una sesión doble.

Presenters

Julie Wells

Director, Suncoast Psychodrama

Friday May 31, 2024 10:45am - 12:15pm EDT
Bininger Theatre

Liberatory Methodologies

Audience Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced/Experienced

10:45am EDT

The Benefits and Challenges of University and High School Theater of the Oppressed Collaborations / Los beneficios y desafíos de las colaboraciones del Teatro del Oprimido en universidades y escuelas secundarias

Friday May 31, 2024 10:45am - 12:15pm EDT

Roundtable Discussion, Both Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed

This roundtable discussion addresses the benefits and challenges of developing Theater of the Oppressed University and High School collaborations. Focus will be on the “how to” of collaboration building, as well as opportunities for students and the problems of power differentials in education. / Esta mesa redonda aborda los beneficios y desafíos de desarrollar colaboraciones entre la Universidad y la Escuela Secundaria del Teatro del Oprimido. La atención se centrará en el “cómo” construir colaboración, así como en las oportunidades para lxs estudiantes y los problemas de las diferencias de poder en la educación.

This session will be presented in English. / Esta sesión se presentará en inglés.

Presenters

Terri Hasseler

Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence and Professor of History, Literature, and the Arts, Bryant Univerity

Terri began work with Theater of the Oppressed in college classrooms, teaching and developing forum theater and newspaper theater with a women-identified living and learning community. Bryant University has an under-represented number of women-identified folx, creating difficulties... Read More →

Erin Mulry

Art Teacher, Hope High School

Erin is an Art Teacher at Hope High School in Providence, Rhode Island. She teaches theater with a range of student groups, including producing and staging public performances. Introducing students to Theater of the Oppressed is an important part of art expectations in theater education... Read More →

Friday May 31, 2024 10:45am - 12:15pm EDT
Miller Auditorium

Audience Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced/Experienced

10:45am EDT

"Dance of Potentialities:" Theatre of the Oppressed and the Virtues Project / "Danza de las Potencialidades": Teatro del Oprimido y El Proyecto de las Virtudes

Friday May 31, 2024 10:45am - 12:15pm EDT

Workshop: Techniques and Applications, Theatre of the Oppressed

Boal developed Rainbow of Desire to unearth the strengths of a healthy personality. Using Image and Virtues Project techniques we will explore how naming and exercising strengths leads to surer paths to our greatest effectiveness as activists and lovers of humanity. / Boal desarrolló el Arcoiris de Deseo para descubrir las fortalezas de una personalidad sana. Utilizando técnicas del Teatro Imagen y del Proyecto de Virtudes exploraremos cómo nombrar y ejercitar las fortalezas conduce a caminos más seguros hacia nuestra mayor eficacia como activistas y amantes de la humanidad.

This session will be presented in English. / Esta sesión se presentará en inglés.

Presenters

Jenny Wanasek

Co-Founder, Center for Applied Theatre

Jenny Wanasek (B.F.A. – UW-Milwaukee) is co-founder of the Center for Applied Theatre. Her training includes workshops in TO with Augusto Boal, Beyond Racism and Ally Building with Healing Our Nation, and facilitator certification with The Virtues Project, in addition to her BFA... Read More →

Mark Weinberg

Co-Director, Center for Applied Theatre

Mark Weinberg is co-founder, with Jenny Wanasek, of The Center for Applied Theatre. He began his study of TO with Augusto Boal in 1992 and has conducted workshops and training sessions for educators, administrators, students, business leaders, theatres, NGOs and community organizations... Read More →

Friday May 31, 2024 10:45am - 12:15pm EDT
Fox Hall B

Audience Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced/Experienced

3:15pm EDT

The Forum Board Game / El juego de mesa del Teatro Foro

Friday May 31, 2024 3:15pm - 4:45pm EDT

Fox Hall A

This session builds on traditional Forum Theater introducing participants to an easy-to-recall structure for "storyboarding" an impactful Forum Theater scene, based upon captions. The technique was developed specifically for generating material with pre-teenagers. / Esta sesión se basa en el tradicional Teatro Foro y presenta a lxs participantes una estructura fácil de recordar para crear un guión gráfico de una escena impactante del Teatro Foro, basada en subtítulos. La técnica fue desarrollada específicamente para generar material con pre adolescentes.

This session will be presented in English. / Esta sesión se presentará en inglés.

Presenters

Pink Flowers

Director of education and Training, ICC Ann Arbor

Pink Flowers is a Black trans artist, pleasure activist and educator, whose work is rooted in ancient shamanic, African trickster, and Brazilian Joker traditions. Pink uses Theater of the Oppressed, Art of Hosting, Navajo Peacemaking and other anti-oppression techniques, as the foundation... Read More →

Friday May 31, 2024 3:15pm - 4:45pm EDT
Fox Hall A

Workshop: Techniques and Applications, Theatre of the Oppressed

Audience Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced/Experienced

3:15pm EDT

The Rainbow of Psychodrama Roles: Applying Psychodrama to Rainbow of Desire (Part 1 of a 2-part session) / "El arco iris de los roles del psicodrama: aplicación del psicodrama al arco iris del deseo" (Parte 1)

Friday May 31, 2024 3:15pm - 4:45pm EDT

Workshop: Techniques and Applications, Other liberatory methodology

In this workshop, participants will be invited to experience an integration of Boal's "Rainbow of Desire" and Moreno's Role Theory and how to apply both of these modalities to effectively address forms of internal oppression.Participants in this session may earn CEU credits! Part 1 of a double session. / En este taller, se invitará a lxs participantes a experimentar una integración del "Arco iris del deseo" de Boal y la Teoría de roles de Moreno y cómo aplicar ambas modalidades para abordar eficazmente las formas de opresión interna. ¡Lxs participantes en esta sesión pueden ganar créditos de CEU! Parte 1 de una sesión doble.

This session will be presented in English, but the facilitator(s) can answer questions in Spanish and Portuguese, too. / Esta sesión se presentará en inglés, pero lxs facilitadorxs también pueden responder a preguntas en español y portugués.

Presenters

Daisy Martinez-DiCarlo, LMHC, CP, PAT

CEO, Founder, Director, Theatre for Social Justice, Inc.

Daisy Martinez-DiCarlo, LMHC, LPC, CP, PAT (She/Her)Biographical StatementDaisy is a certified psychodramatist, a practitioner applicant for trainer in psychodrama and a licensed mental health counselor living in the state of Florida. She has over 20 years of experience and has worked... Read More →

Friday May 31, 2024 3:15pm - 4:45pm EDT
Bininger Theatre

Audience Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced/Experienced

5:00pm EDT

Reconnecting Currents: Recollecting Afro-Diasporic Memory, Rituals, and Stewardship / Reconectando corrientes: Recordando la memoria, los rituales y la custodia afrodiaspóricas

Friday May 31, 2024 5:00pm - 6:30pm EDT

The film, Reconnecting Currents, uses site specific performance, and ritual practice as a tool to examine the relationship between marginalized communities and their environments, particularly people of the African Diaspora to freshwater sources. / La película Reconnecting Currents utiliza actuaciones y prácticas rituales específicas de un lugar como herramienta para examinar la relación entre las comunidades marginadas y sus entornos, en particular las personas de la diáspora africana con las fuentes de agua dulce.

This session will be presented in English. / Esta sesión se presentará en inglés.

Presenters

Marsae Lynette

Doctoral student, Northwestern University Department of Performance Studies

Reconnecting Currents: Recollecting Afro-Diasporic Memory, Rituals, and StewardshipMarsae Lynette is a queer interdisciplinary artist, educator, and scholar from Flint, Michigan committed to creating engaging work that empowers & enlightens. With a recent Master of Fine Arts in Dance... Read More →

Elisandra Rosario

Reconnecting Currents

Elisandra Rosario is an artist, activist, and curator of space, vibration, and frequency. They were born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, which along with their experience as a DJ, influences their attraction to social dance cultures. They use their passion for curating social spaces... Read More →

Friday May 31, 2024 5:00pm - 6:30pm EDT
Miller Auditorium

Performance

Audience Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced/Experienced

5:00pm EDT

Follow the F***ing Money: Newspaper Theatre, Capitalism, & the Critical Reception of Information / “Siga el maldito dinero”: Teatro Periodístico, Capitalismo y la Recepción Crítica de la Información

Friday May 31, 2024 5:00pm - 6:30pm EDT

Workshop: Techniques and Applications, Theatre of the Oppressed

Where to start when staging the news critically? One option: follow the money. Come join us to learn about Newspaper Theatre and practice using it to highlight the financial underpinnings of news sources. We hope that the workshop can be useful for both new and experienced practitioners. This workshop is designed to be accessible for both English and Spanish speakers. ¿Dónde empezar a la hora de presentar las noticias de forma crítica? Una opción: seguir el dinero. Únase a nosotrxs para aprender sobre el Teatro Periodístico y practicar su uso para resaltar los fundamentos financieros de las fuentes de las noticias. Esperamos que el taller pueda ser útil tanto para practicantes nuevxs como experimentadxs. Este taller está diseñado para ser accesible tanto para hablantes de inglés como de español.

Presenters

Kelly Howe

Loyola University Chicago

past PTO conference organizer and past PTO president, current board member, TO practitioner, editor, writer, and translator of TO-related texts, researcher of political theatre, etc

Friday May 31, 2024 5:00pm - 6:30pm EDT
Fox Hall B

Audience Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced/Experienced

5:00pm EDT

Restorative Theatre™: an Embodied Praxis Pedagogy in Creating Community and Healing with Youth (Part 2 of a double session) / Sanación Comunitaria a través del Teatro Restaurativo© (Parte 2)

Friday May 31, 2024 5:00pm - 6:30pm EDT

Workshop: Techniques and Applications, Both Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed

Experience how we use Restorative Theatre™ in schools, detention centers, and professional development. The first half culminates in our storytelling process “Chair Your Story” inspired by Boal’s, “Great Game of Power”.The second half takes participants through personal exploration of privilege/ identity as the role of facilitator through Image Theatre, Viewpoints and Devising.

Join Mirror Image Arts (Denver-based non-profit) in an interactive session delving into the pedagogy and praxis of Restorative Theatre™ as a tool for deconstructing, restoration, and healing within a community. This is the second part of a double session. / Únase a Mirror Image Arts (una organización sin fines de lucro con sede en Denver) en una sesión interactiva que profundiza en la pedagogía y la praxis del Restorative Theatre© (Teatro Restaurativo) como herramienta para la deconstrucción, la restauración y la curación dentro de una comunidad. Parte 2 de una sesión doble.

This session will be presented in English. / Esta sesión se presentará en inglés.

Presenters

Maya Osterman-Van Grack

Executive Director of Programs, Mirror Image Arts

Maya received her BFA in Theatre Performance from the University of Colorado with a focus in applied theatre through the Interactive Theatre Project (a theatre ensemble utilizing Theatre of the Oppressed techniques to address social justice issues on campus). After graduating Maya... Read More →

Kiana English

Mirror Image Arts

Maddy Chilese

Your Voice Program Manager, Mirror Image Arts

Maddy Chilese is an Actor/Writer/Teaching Artist with over 20 years of related experience. After getting her B.A. in Acting from the University of Northern Colorado. She worked and studied in Chicago, focusing on Improv and new works. In New York City, where she lived for ten years... Read More →

Friday May 31, 2024 5:00pm - 6:30pm EDT
Triton's Pub

Audience Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced/Experienced

5:00pm EDT

The Praxis Forest: A Freirean Model for Community Organizing / El Bosque Praxis: un modelo freireano de organización comunitaria

Friday May 31, 2024 5:00pm - 6:30pm EDT

Fox Hall A

This session explores community praxis through collective analysis and action planning using the Freirean technique of problematization and action trees to transform real world problems. Rooting our work in the Freirean ideas of See, Analyze, Act, we'll work together to understand the complexity of a problem and come up with actions to help overcome in within a community. / Esta sesión explora la praxis comunitaria a través del análisis colectivo y la planificación de acciones utilizando la técnica freireana de problematización y árboles de acción para transformar problemas del mundo real. Arraigando nuestro trabajo en las ideas freireanas de Ver, Analizar, Actuar, trabajaremos juntxs para comprender la complejidad de un problema y proponer acciones para ayudar a superarlo dentro de una comunidad.

This session will be presented in English. / Esta sesión se presentará en inglés.

Presenters

Charles Adams

Lecturer, Augsburg University

Charles Adams is a teacher, writer, dramaturg, and facilitator/joker in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. He has a PhD in Theatre Historiography from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in drama and theatre for youth from the University of Texas at Austin. His research is in areas... Read More →

Friday May 31, 2024 5:00pm - 6:30pm EDT
Fox Hall A

Workshop: Techniques and Applications, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Audience Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced/Experienced

9:00am EDT

Weathering the storm: Wellbeing and Self-knowledge / Capeando la tormenta: bienestar y autoconocimiento

Saturday June 1, 2024 9:00am - 10:30am EDT

Well-being and Community Care, Other liberatory methodology

This workshop is inspired by creative techniques to explore innovative ways to engage in self-care. You will be invited to immerse in experiential activities, such as creative writing. You may be able to release any stress in your lives, and redirect your energy in a liberatory way. / Este taller está inspirado en técnicas creativas para explorar formas innovadoras de participar en el cuidado personal. Se les invitará a sumergirse en actividades experienciales, como la escritura creativa. Es posible que puedan liberar cualquier estrés en sus vidas y redirigir su energía de una manera liberadora.

This session will be bilingual: English and Portuguese. / Esta sesión será bilingüe: inglés y portugués.

Presenters

Rita Baptista

Oxford Brookes University

I graduated in Social Education from the Higher Education School of Education (ESEP) in Porto (Portugal). I also concluded two Postgraduate Certificates: one in Psychopathology and Psychotherapy of Childhood and Adolescents and one in Social Intervention with children and young people... Read More →

Saturday June 1, 2024 9:00am - 10:30am EDT
Triton's Pub

Audience Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced/Experienced

9:00am EDT

The Dramaturgy of Forum – Reflecting Complexity (Part 1 of a double session) / La dramaturgia del Teatro Foro: reflejo de la complejidad (Parte 1 de una sesión doble)

Saturday June 1, 2024 9:00am - 10:30am EDT

Workshop: Techniques and Applications, Theatre of the Oppressed

This workshop will look at how we make forum models which reflect the complexity and intersectionality of modern society and elicit the maximum response and variety of interventions.This is part 1 of a double session. / Este taller analizará cómo creamos modelos de foros que reflejen la complejidad y la interseccionalidad de la sociedad moderna y provoquen la máxima respuesta y variedad de intervenciones. Parte 1 de una sesión doble.

This session will be presented in English. / Esta sesión se presentará en inglés.

Presenters

Adrian Jackson

Adrian Jackson MBE is a theatre-maker, activist, translator and teacher, with a particular expertise in the Theatre of the Oppressed. He translated five books by Augusto Boal into English and collaborated with him on many occasions in the 1990s and 2000s. He was also the founder director... Read More →

Saturday June 1, 2024 9:00am - 10:30am EDT
Bininger Theatre

Audience Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced/Experienced

9:00am EDT

Don't Say Gay: Theatre of the Oppressed with LGBTQ+ Youth / No Digas ‘Gay’: Teatro del oprimido con jóvenes LGBTQ+

Saturday June 1, 2024 9:00am - 10:30am EDT

Workshops: Anti-Oppression, Theatre of the Oppressed

In an alarmingly hostile climate for queer and trans youth, theater can be a powerful tool for self-expression and liberation. This interactive workshop will model TO activities to use with LGBTQ+ youth, and start a dialogue around how to support queer and trans students under threat of censorship. / En un clima alarmantemente hostil para lxs jóvenes queer y trans, el teatro puede ser una poderosa herramienta para la autoexpresión y la liberación. Este taller interactivo modelará actividades de TO para usar con jóvenes LGBTQ+ e iniciará un diálogo sobre cómo apoyar a lxs estudiantes queer y trans bajo amenaza de censura.

This session will be presented in English. / Esta sesión se presentará en inglés.

Presenters

Adam Odsess-Rubin

Founding Artistic Director, National Queer Theatert

Adam Odsess-Rubin (He/Him) is the Founding Artistic Director of National Queer Theater (NQT) and Co-Founder of the acclaimed Criminal Queerness Festival, showcasing censored and criminalized LGBTQ+ artists from around the world. He directs community-based theater programs such as... Read More →

Saturday June 1, 2024 9:00am - 10:30am EDT
Fox Hall B

Audience Beginner, Advanced/Experienced, Intermediate

10:45am EDT

Activism in Education: Transformative Teaching with Challenged Literature / Activismo en educación: enseñanza transformadora con literatura cuestionada

Saturday June 1, 2024 10:45am - 12:15pm EDT

Workshop: Techniques and Applications, Both Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed

Award-winning teaching artist and YouTuber Stevey Jones shares his experiences teaching in Florida, and how using banned children's books can be a form of activism, promoting social change through education, and creating safe and welcoming spaces for students. / El galardonado artista docente y YouTuber Stevey Jones comparte sus experiencias enseñando en Florida y cómo el uso de libros infantiles prohibidos puede ser una forma de activismo, promover el cambio social a través de la educación y crear espacios seguros y acogedores para lxs estudiantes.

This session will be presented in English. / Esta sesión se presentará en inglés.

Presenters

Stevey Jones

Teaching Artist, Mr. Stevey Meditates

I am an award-winning teaching artist and founder of arts education events who blends creativity and mindfulness in my work. As the host of 'Mr. Stevey Meditates' on YouTube, and the co-founder of 'Mr. Stevey & Friends', I spread arts education throughout Florida while advocating... Read More →

Saturday June 1, 2024 10:45am - 12:15pm EDT
Fox Hall B

Audience Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced/Experienced

10:45am EDT

The Dramaturgy of Forum – Reflecting Complexity (Part 2 of a double session) / La dramaturgia del Teatro Foro: reflejo de la complejidad (Parte 2 de una sesión doble)

Saturday June 1, 2024 10:45am - 12:15pm EDT

Workshop: Techniques and Applications, Theatre of the Oppressed

This workshop will look at how we make forum models which reflect the complexity and intersectionality of modern society and elicit the maximum response and variety of interventions.This is part 2 of a double session. / Este taller analizará cómo creamos modelos de foros que reflejen la complejidad y la interseccionalidad de la sociedad moderna y provoquen la máxima respuesta y variedad de intervenciones. Parte 2 de una sesión doble.

This session will be presented in English. / Esta sesión se presentará en inglés.

Presenters

Adrian Jackson

Saturday June 1, 2024 10:45am - 12:15pm EDT
Bininger Theatre

Audience Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced/Experienced

10:45am EDT

Playground of Curiosity: What is it like when... / Patio de juegos de la curiosidad: ¿Cómo es cuando...

Saturday June 1, 2024 10:45am - 12:15pm EDT

Workshops: Anti-Oppression, Both Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed

Playground of Curiosity: What is it like when...? When you find yourself flummoxed by the people around you due to your disability? When you are with a friend with a disability and no one’s talking about it. This workshop will bring us joy and somewhat of a saga! / Patio de juegos de la curiosidad: ¿Cómo es cuando...? ¿Cuando se encuentra desconcertadx por las personas que le rodean debido a su discapacidad? Cuando está con unx amigx con discapacidad y nadie habla de ello. ¡Este taller nos traerá alegría y algo de una saga!

This session will be presented in English. / Esta sesión se presentará en inglés.

Presenters

elizaBeth Simpson

PhD candidate, University of Illinois

I have been affiliated with Pedagogy and Theater of the Oppressed since 1999.

Saturday June 1, 2024 10:45am - 12:15pm EDT
Triton's Pub

Audience Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced/Experienced

3:15pm EDT

PTO Journal Session / Una sesión sobre la PTO Journal

Saturday June 1, 2024 3:15pm - 4:45pm EDT

Classroom 122

This talk aims to provide PTO Conference participants with information about the main perspectives and goals of the PTO Journal. We will also share the Call for Proposals for 2024, and create an open space for discussion about the next volumes. / Esta charla tiene como objetivo proporcionar a lxs participantes de la conferencia de la PTO información sobre las principales perspectivas y objetivos del PTO Journal. También compartiremos la convocatoria de propuestas para 2024 y crearemos un espacio abierto para hablar sobre los próximos volúmenes.

Participants can access this session in three languages; English, Spanish, and Portuguese. / Lxs participantes pueden acceder a esta sesión en tres idiomas; Inglés, español y portugués.

Presenters

aaron moore ellis

Board Member & Co-Editor of PTO Journal, PTO

Dream Defender & Descolonizarte TEATRO Grantwriter, Producer, and Program Designer. aaron is a scholar/artist and activist/organizer working between Lenapehoking (nyc) and Timucua, Seminole, and Miccosukee lands (Central Florida). They are a National Queer Theater (NQT) board member... Read More →

Patricia Freitas

Co-Editor of PTO Journal, GETEPOL

Patricia Freitas dos Santos is a literary translator, founder of GETEPOL (Research Group on Political Theatre) and holds a Ph.D from the University of São Paulo/ Brazil in the field of Language and Arts. Her research focuses on Augusto Boal’s work in exile, especially the three... Read More →

Saturday June 1, 2024 3:15pm - 4:45pm EDT
Classroom 122

Critical Dialogue

Audience Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced/Experienced

3:15pm EDT

Practical Approaches to "Deep Equity" & "Liberatory Leadership" (Part 1 of a double session) / Un enfoque práctico para la "equidad profunda" y el "liderazgo liberador" (Parte 1 de una sesión doble)

Saturday June 1, 2024 3:15pm - 4:45pm EDT

Workshop: Techniques and Applications, Other liberatory methodology

"Deep Equity?"Liberatory Leadership? This workshop calls us all to continue the legacy of freedom fighters to lead and support challeges to oppressive systems. Through proven methods, practical tools and experiential activities, partcipants will be better able to advance their work in the world. Part 1 one of a double session. / "¿Equidad profunda?" “¿Liderazgo liberador?” Este taller nos llama a todxs a continuar el legado de lxs luchadorxs por la libertad para liderar y apoyar los desafíos a los sistemas opresivos. A través de métodos probados, herramientas prácticas y actividades experienciales, lxs participantes podrán avanzar mejor en su trabajo en el mundo. Parte 1 de una sesión doble.

This session will be presented in English. / Esta sesión se presentará en inglés.

Presenters

Kaye Craft

Debra Alexander

Principal, Alexander Consulting & Training, Inc.

Debra Alexander Organization Development (OD) Consultant DEIA Strategist and HR Advisor Debra Alexander has many years of experience working in the higher education, non-profit and for profit, and public service sectors. A former Federal employee, she worked for HHS and OPM, and... Read More →

Saturday June 1, 2024 3:15pm - 4:45pm EDT
Triton's Pub

Audience Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced/Experienced

3:15pm EDT

Naked Gender: The Revolution of my Queer Body / Género desnudo: la revolución de mi cuerpo queer

Saturday June 1, 2024 3:15pm - 4:45pm EDT

Workshops: Anti-Oppression, Both Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed

Participants will use Image Theater and games from the arsenal of the theater of the oppressed to explore their own queer identity, even if they do not identify as queer. / Lxs participantes utilizarán Image Theatre y juegos del arsenal del Teatro del Oprimido para explorar su propia identidad queer, incluso si no se identifican como queer.

This session will be presented in English. / Esta sesión se presentará en inglés.

Presenters

S Leigh Thompson

Joyful Trouble-Maker

I am a queer and trans, white and Native person with disability living in the unceded occupied lands of the Munsee Lenape. I first learned about Theatre of the Oppressed as a student a UNO from my theatre professor Doug Paterson. He invited me to a workshop with Augusto Boal and my... Read More →

Pink Flowers

Director of education and Training, ICC Ann Arbor

Saturday June 1, 2024 3:15pm - 4:45pm EDT
Fox Hall B

Audience Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced/Experienced

5:00pm EDT

Join Descolonizarte TEATRO for a Community Conversation following their all conference session! / ¡Únase a Descolonizarte TEATRO para una conversación comunitaria después de la sesión plenaria!

Saturday June 1, 2024 5:00pm - 6:30pm EDT

Classroom 123

Join us for an engaging discussion on Latinx/Latine theater, decolonial theater, community-based theater, and Theater of the Oppressed (TO) applications with impacted communities. We invite those passionate about these topics to delve deeper into Desco's practices and share their own experiences. Following Desco's model of fostering community conversations, we aim to connect through shared challenges and successes, particularly in utilizing TO and similar liberatory theater practices to advance anti-racist and decolonial objectives. / Únase a nosotrxs para una interesante discusión sobre aplicaciones de teatro Latinx/Latine, teatro decolonial, teatro comunitario y Teatro del Oprimido (TO) con comunidades impactadas. Invitamos a lxs apasionadxs por estos temas a profundizar en las prácticas de Desco y compartir sus propias experiencias. Siguiendo el modelo de Desco de fomentar conversaciones comunitarias, nuestro objetivo es conectarnos a través de desafíos y éxitos compartidos, particularmente en la utilización de TO y prácticas teatrales liberadoras similares para promover objetivos antirracistas y decoloniales.

This session will be presented in English, but the facilitator(s) can answer questions in Spanish and can understand questions in Portuguese. / Esta sesión se presentará en inglés, pero lxs facilitadorxs también pueden responder a preguntas en español y entender preguntas en portugués.

Presenters

Nadia Garzón

Zero HIV Stigma, Descolonizarte TEATRO

Desco’s Founder and Executive Director. Her work focuses on Latin American theater with an emphasis on theater for social change and the use of theater as a tool for decolonization. Her work is influenced by her activism and at the core of what she does is the belief that our bodies... Read More →

Saturday June 1, 2024 5:00pm - 6:30pm EDT
Classroom 123

Critical Dialogue, Theatre of the Oppressed

Audience Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced/Experienced

5:00pm EDT

Locked In: A Forum Theater Play on Healthcare and Homelessness / "Locked In": una obra de teatro foro sobre la atención sanitaria y las personas sin hogar

Saturday June 1, 2024 5:00pm - 6:30pm EDT

Critical Dialogue, Theatre of the Oppressed

Video and Discussion of a Forum play that brought together health workers and people with lived experiences of homelessness to identify disparities and develop co-created solutions through a collaboratively created theatrical presentation and dialogue. / Video de (y una charla sobre) una obra de Teatro Foro que reunió a trabajadorxs de la salud y personas con experiencias vividas de falta de vivienda para identificar disparidades y desarrollar soluciones co-creadas a través de una presentación teatral y un diálogo creados en colaboración.

This session will be presented in English, but the facilitator(s) can answer questions in Spanish, too. / Esta sesión se presentará en inglés, pero lxs facilitadorxs también pueden responder a preguntas en español.

Presenters

Adrian Jackson

Maren Ward

zAmya Theater Project

Aarti Bhatt

zAmya Theater Project

Mason Persons

zAmya Theater Project

Jada Windom

zAmya Theater Project

Shannon Kemp

zAmya Theater Project

Saturday June 1, 2024 5:00pm - 6:30pm EDT
Miller Auditorium

Audience Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced/Experienced

5:00pm EDT

If it bleeds, it leads: From Newspaper Theatre to digital news sourcing for community understanding / Si sangra, lidera: del Teatro Periodístico al abastecimiento de noticias digitales para la comprensión de la comunidad

Saturday June 1, 2024 5:00pm - 6:30pm EDT

Workshop: Techniques and Applications, Both Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed

Social media provides the public with news important to civic life at the local, state, and national levels. Newspaper theatre techniques will be applied to the digitally sourced news to provide the basis for performance-for-understanding for social change and movement building. / Las redes sociales brindan al público noticias importantes para la vida cívica a nivel local, estatal y nacional. Se aplicarán técnicas de Teatro Periodístico a las noticias de origen digital para proporcionar la base para la “performance para la comprensión” para el cambio social y la construcción de movimientos.

This session will be presented in English. / Esta sesión se presentará en inglés.

Presenters

Michel Coconis

Professor, Sinclair Community College

I am a long-time member of PTO and a former national board president (the first). I use PTO work on my social work teaching, community trainings, and in brief activism workshops and trainings in communities as solo events or part of larger trainings. I've used Invisible, Newspaper... Read More →

Saturday June 1, 2024 5:00pm - 6:30pm EDT
Fox Hall B

Audience Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced/Experienced

5:00pm EDT

Practical Approaches to "Deep Equity" & "Liberatory Leadership" (Part 2 of a double session) / Un enfoque práctico para la "equidad profunda" y el "liderazgo liberador" (Parte 2 de una sesión doble)

Saturday June 1, 2024 5:00pm - 6:30pm EDT

Workshop: Techniques and Applications, Other liberatory methodology

"Deep Equity?" Liberatory Leadership? This workshop calls us all to continue the legacy of freedom fighters to lead and support challeges to oppressive systems. Through proven methods, practical tools and experiential activities, partcipants will be better able to advance their work in the world. Part 2 one of a double session. / "¿Equidad profunda?" “¿Liderazgo liberador?” Este taller nos llama a todxs a continuar el legado de lxs luchadorxs por la libertad para liderar y apoyar los desafíos a los sistemas opresivos. A través de métodos probados, herramientas prácticas y actividades experienciales, lxs participantes podrán avanzar mejor en su trabajo en el mundo. Parte 2 de una sesión doble.

This session will be presented in English. / Esta sesión se presentará en inglés.

Presenters

Kaye Craft

Debra Alexander

Principal, Alexander Consulting & Training, Inc.

Saturday June 1, 2024 5:00pm - 6:30pm EDT
Triton's Pub

Audience Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced/Experienced

5:00pm EDT

Playing & Plotting / Jugar y tramar

Saturday June 1, 2024 5:00pm - 6:30pm EDT

Workshops: Anti-Oppression, Both Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed

Bring your needs and your questions, and we’ll play games and plot through our struggles. This is “networking” and conspiring, PTO-style. Come for the intimacy, vulnerability, and laughter – leave with new tools, connections, and affirmations for your inner child. All in the name of liberation. / Traiga sus necesidades y sus preguntas, y jugaremos y tramaremos nuestras luchas. Esto es “trabajo en red” y conspiración, al estilo PTO. Venga por la intimidad, la vulnerabilidad y la risa; váyase con nuevas herramientas, conexiones y afirmaciones para su niño interior. Todo en nombre de la liberación.

This session will be presented in English. / Esta sesión se presentará en inglés.

Presenters

Evren Wilder Elliott

Evren Wilder Elliott (He/They) loves telling and sharing stories. Evren is a strategist, joker, facilitator and storyteller who has called Indianapolis his home for the past decade. His current project, “Imagining Home: liberatory theatre and speculative solutions for housing justice... Read More →

Saturday June 1, 2024 5:00pm - 6:30pm EDT
Bininger Theatre

Audience Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced/Experienced

9:00am EDT

Historical Narrative Art: Now a Restorative Practice / Arte narrativo histórico: ahora una práctica restaurativa

Sunday June 2, 2024 9:00am - 10:30am EDT

Workshop: Techniques and Applications, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

The workshop will be a presentation on narrative paintings centered on history and a hands on activity where participants will start or create a work of art that is historical in context. / El taller será una presentación sobre pinturas narrativas centradas en la historia y una actividad práctica donde lxs participantes comenzarán o crearán una obra de arte histórica en su contexto.

This session will be presented in English. / Esta sesión se presentará en inglés.

Presenters

Dr. Dallas Jackson

Researcher and artist, Dr. Dallas Jackson- artist

I am a practicing artist, research consultant with USF REACH grant, a 30 year educator having led schools in high poverty communities and have worked K12 through postsecondary teaching and leading teachers. My arts practice is focused on historical narratives of African American life... Read More →

Sunday June 2, 2024 9:00am - 10:30am EDT
Triton's Pub

Audience Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced/Experienced

9:00am EDT

Theater of empathy and bridge-building / Teatro de empatía y construcción de puentes

Sunday June 2, 2024 9:00am - 10:30am EDT

Workshop: Techniques and Applications, Other liberatory methodology

In this workshop you will get an introduction to playback theatre - the theater of empathy. You will practice tools for building bridges between people, including between people in conflict. / En este taller obtendrá una introducción al teatro de reproducción: el teatro de la empatía. Practicará herramientas para construir puentes entre personas, incluso entre personas en conflicto.

This session will be presented in English. / Esta sesión se presentará en inglés.

Presenters

Olga Sanachina

Artistic director, Thread Playback Theater (Sarasota, Fl)

Accredited trainer of Playback Theatre (Centre of Playback Theatre), Founder of Thread Playback Theater (Sarasota, Fl, US) https://www.facebook.com/PlaybackTheatreSarasota Co-founder of the playback theatre «New Jazz» and Central Playback Theater School (Russia). Co-founder, art... Read More →

Sunday June 2, 2024 9:00am - 10:30am EDT
Fox Hall B

Audience Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced/Experienced

10:45am EDT

Non-Joking Matters: The Ethics of Performance-Based Research / Asuntos que no son de broma: la ética de la investigación basada en el performance

Sunday June 2, 2024 10:45am - 12:15pm EDT

Critical Dialogue, Both Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed

This paper presentation explores jokering performed to resist or reify exclusion. Our guiding question: How can we reproduce anti-oppressive performance arts-based research without reproducing oppression? is answered from our dialogical development of self and projects over the last three years. / Esta presentación de artículo explora interpretar un rol de curinga para resistir o materializar la exclusión. Nuestra pregunta guía: ¿Cómo podemos reproducir la investigación anti-opresiva basada en las artes escénicas sin reproducir la opresión? Se responde desde nuestro desarrollo dialógico de nosotrxs mismxs y de nuestrxs proyectos durante los últimos tres años.

This session will be presented in English. / Esta sesión se presentará en inglés.

Presenters

Cornelio Aguilera

Officer/Teatro Coach/Actor, Outcast Theatre Collective

Cornelio “Coky” Aguilera (he, him, el, del, etc.) studied as an Acting Specialist at UW Madison, moved to the Tampa area, and has been working professionally with the following companies since 2012: Stageworks Theatre, A Simple Theatre, The Tampa Repertory Theatre, St. Petersburg... Read More →

Tara Nkrumah

ASU Assistant Professor, Assistant Research Professor, Center for Gender Equity in Science and Technology (CGEST)

Tara Nkrumah, Ph.D. is an Assistant Research Professor in the Center for Gender Equity in Science and Technology at Arizona State University, Tempe. Her research agenda centers on equitable teaching practices for anti-oppressive discourse in education and science, technology, engineering... Read More →

LaSonja Roberts

LaSonja Roberts, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of educational leadership at Western Michigan University. Her research agenda focuses on leader preparation and retention, specifically the use of appreciative leadership to create environments that foster learning and well-being for... Read More →

Maria Migueliz Valcarlos

Vonzell Agosto

Professor, University of South Florida

Dr. Vonzell Agosto, PhD. is a Professor of Curriculum Studies and Chair of the Department of Educational, Leadership, and Lifelong Learning. Her research focuses on curriculum leadership and anti-oppressive education. Dr. Agosto was an educator in Chicago and the Chicagoland area... Read More →

Sunday June 2, 2024 10:45am - 12:15pm EDT
Triton's Pub

Audience Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced/Experienced

10:45am EDT

Exposure to More Universal Teaching / Learning Methods to Reach Those Who are Neurodivergent and Better for Everyone / Exposición a métodos de enseñanza/aprendizaje más universales para llegar a aquellxs que son neurodivergentes y métodos que son mejores

Sunday June 2, 2024 10:45am - 12:15pm EDT

Workshop: Techniques and Applications, Other liberatory methodology

Explore blocks like Negative Self Talk that keep Us From Getting Things Done - similar to Augusto Boal's cop-in-the-head technique. / Explore bloqueos como el diálogo interno negativo que nos impiden hacer las cosas. Esta sesión tiene que ver con técnicas parecidas a la técnica de “lxs policías en la cabeza” de Augusto Boal.

This session will be presented in English. / Esta sesión se presentará en inglés.

Presenters

MärRem

Founder, MärRem Consulting

As a consultant, I specialize in working with those who are neurodivergent to help them go from overwhelm, fatigue and despair to confidence, clarity and connection. Using a wide variety of disciplines, including somatic experiential modalities, I help them and others understand their... Read More →

Sunday June 2, 2024 10:45am - 12:15pm EDT
Fox Hall B

Audience Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced/Experienced

10:45am EDT

TO in performance – provocation and seduction (Part 2 of a double session) / TO en performance – provocación y seducción (Parte 2 de una sesión doble)

Sunday June 2, 2024 10:45am - 12:15pm EDT