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Thursday, May 30
 

9:00am EDT

Trans Rights and Issues Pre-Conference Workshop Day 2 / Taller de Derechos Trans y Temas Importantes para la Comunidad Trans Día 2
Thursday May 30, 2024 9:00am - 4:30pm EDT
Presenters
avatar for aaron moore ellis

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 →
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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 →
avatar for Evren Wilder Elliott

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 →
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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 →
Thursday May 30, 2024 9:00am - 4:30pm EDT
Bininger Theatre

1:00pm EDT

Introduction to Theatre of the Oppressed Pre-Conference Workshop / Taller: Introducción al Teatro del Oprimido
Thursday May 30, 2024 1:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
“Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society.” (Augusto Boal, Games for Actors and Non-Actors)

PTO is happy to offer this one day workshop on Theatre of the Oppressed, facilitated by Mark Weinberg from the Center for Applied Theatre in Milwaukee, WI. Designed with local participants in mind, this workshop will run on Thursday, 30 May 2024 from 1:00-4:30pm at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida.

In this workshop participants will be introduced to the techniques used in Theatre of the Oppressed to not only reveal reality as it is, but more importantly to invent reality as it could be. After some basic theory, the first part of the workshop will focus on demechanization, perception, and community building. We will do some exercises (physical reflections on oneself), play some games, and explore how we create together.

The second part of the workshop will introduce Image Theatre – making sculptures with our bodies and dynamizing them to discover the goals, desires, and possibilities within them.

During the last segment of the workshop, we will become spect-actors in a Forum Theatre scene and raise questions about the power of Theatre of the Oppressed to point to the difficulty of challenging systemic oppression and to promote learning for all involved. The working language of this workshop will be English.

“El teatro es una forma de conocimiento; debe y puede ser también un medio para transformar la sociedad.” (Augusto Boal, Juegos para actores y no actores)

En este taller, lxs participantes conocerán las técnicas utilizadas en el Teatro del Oprimido no sólo para revelar la realidad tal como es, sino, más importante aún, para inventar la realidad tal como podría ser. Después de algo de teoría básica, la primera parte del taller se centrará en la desmecanización, la percepción y la construcción de comunidades. Haremos algunos ejercicios (reflexiones físicas sobre unx mismx), jugaremos algunos juegos y exploraremos cómo creamos juntxs.

La segunda parte del taller introducirá el Teatro Imagen: hacer esculturas con nuestros cuerpos y dinamizarlos para descubrir las metas, deseos y posibilidades dentro de ellos.

Durante el último segmento del taller, nos convertiremos en actores-espectadorxs en una escena del Teatro Foro y plantearemos preguntas sobre el poder del Teatro del Oprimido para señalar la dificultad de desafiar la opresión sistémica y promover el aprendizaje para todxs lxs involucradxs. Este taller tendrá lugar en inglés.


Presenters
avatar for Mark Weinberg

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 →
Thursday May 30, 2024 1:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
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