“The purpose of Theatre of the Oppressed is to rehumanize humanity.” — Augusto Boal Theatre of the Oppressed What is Theatre of the Oppressed? As created by Brazilian theatre visionary and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Augusto Boal (1931-2009), Theatre of the Oppressed (T.O.) is a form of popular community-based education that uses theater as a tool… Continue reading Theatre of the Oppressed
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Verbatim Theatre
Theatre that incorporates the words of real people Verbatim theatre, as Will Hammond and Dan Steward point out in their excellent book on the subject, is not a form but a technique: a way of incorporating the words of real people, as spoken in private interview or public record, into drama. more here: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2012/may/08/michael-billington-verbatim-theatre
Speacedeck – browser based collaborative ideation tool
https://spacedeck.com/ https://github.com/spacedeck This is the free and open-source version of Spacedeck, a web-based, real-time, collaborative whiteboard application with rich media support. Spacedeck was developed in 6 major releases during Autumn 2011 until the end of 2016 and was originally a commercial SaaS. The developers were Lukas F. Hartmann (mntmn) and Martin Güther (magegu). The… Continue reading Speacedeck – browser based collaborative ideation tool
From order to chaos – individual practice evaluation
Brief Think about your practice and use the winter holiday to position yourself in the creative world. Consider how would you bring order from chaos. Response I was inspired by Lauren Lee McCarthy’s – Social Turkers project where she employed Amazon Mechanical Turk workers to direct her actions in real-time, during dates. After analysing various… Continue reading From order to chaos – individual practice evaluation