THEATER of the
OPPRESSED
A six-day intensive training
June 7th-12th
10am-4:30pm
St. James Church
4620 California Street
(between 8th and 9th Avenue)
San Francisco, CA
(non-denominational event)
$350
limited scholarships available
NO PREVIOUS THEATER EXPERIENCE NECESSARY
THEATER OF THE OPPRESSED is a popular education technique using theater as a tool for transformation. It reflects the life work of the late Brazilian director, scholar and activist AUGUSTO BOAL, and is rooted in Paulo Freire’s pedagogy of education. Theater of the Oppressed utilizes theater techniques to see and analyze the world around us and invites citizens into action. The work is currently practiced in over seventy countries, and in 2008, Boal was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of the transformative power of these techniques.
This TRAINING, which will include fun and interactive games and exercises and incorporate Image and Newspaper Theater, will focus on the advanced RAINBOW OF DESIRE techniques, which draw upon the participant’s personal experiences and address internalized oppressions. The techniques learned in this workshop will be immediately applicable to educators, activists, therapists, community organizers and theater artists and can be applied to a wide variety of populations.
FACILITATORS:
LAINE FORMAN is a San Francisco based artist and educator who has facilitated Theater of the Oppressed workshops with dozens of populations including adolescents, prison inmates, and immigrants in the U.S. and in South Africa. She has trained with founder Augusto Boal and completed intensive study with the South African TO organization Mothertongue. She is currently getting her masters in Drama Therapy at CIIS.
JAMIE SAMOWITZ is a teaching artist and workshop facilitator. She completed an intensive apprenticeship with Augusto Boal at the Center for Theatre of the Oppressed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (CTO-Rio), and is currently a freelance facilitator in both the US and Brazil. She is the author of an online training manual for TO facilitators and is currently getting her masters at Antioch University, New England. Laine and Jamie recently completed a fellowship at New College of Florida where they taught an intensive month-long training in the method and theory of Theater of the Oppressed.
LIMITED SPACES AVAILABLE!
Please forward this email and attached flyer to all those that may be interested.
TO REGISTER CONTACT: laine.forman@gmail.com (850-766-3576) and jamiemarisa@gmail.com (941-441-7744).
Pre-registration deadline: May 31st