Theater of the Oppressed workshop with Henry Padron

part of the Flying Squirrel's STOP MASS INCARCERATION programming...

Name: Theater of the Oppressed workshop with Henry Padron

Description: Using games and image theater from the Theater of the Oppressed repertoire, participants will explore effective responses to prisons and policing in the current repressive atmosphere.

The Theatre of the Oppressed describes theatrical forms that the Brazilian theatre practitioner Augusto Boal first elaborated in the 1960s, initially in Brazil and later in Europe. Boal was influenced by the work of the educator and theorist Paulo Freire. Boal's techniques use theatre as means of promoting social and political change. In the Theatre of the Oppressed, the audience becomes active, such that as "spect-actors" they explore, show, analyze and transform the reality in which they are living.

Date: Sunday, October 26, 2014

Time: 11:00AM – 4:00PM

Location: Flying Squirrel Community Space, 285 Clarissa St.

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/504645619672100/

For more information on this special programming, check out: thesquirrel.org/node/1240