02/11/2020
Newspaper Theatre for Activists: Theatre of the Oppressed Part 1
Date & Time
Sat, Nov 7
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
$20 (Alternative Currency accepted see website for details
www.impactgatherings.com
Description
In this workshop we invite activists to explore Augusto Boal's 12 styles of Newspaper Theatre; a form which turns news stories into short, impactful performances in a variety of ways. You'll leave with performance perfect for streaming, social media stories and live.
Inviting activists to explore, experience and use these techniques to bring new life to their aspirations, protests, social media campaigns and education actions. To use the forms to reveal the hopes we have for our future. To connect the intentions of our current news coverage to solutions, unspoken bias, truth and oppression. Acknowledging that the news is part fiction, often constructed in bias and rarely impartial, we seek to use it to bring light to new possibilities, new solutions and a future we can all be proud of.
In Categories of Popular Theatre, Boal suggests that the motivation for newspaper theatre is to counter the neutralising effect of newspaper coverage. By juxtaposing massacres in Vietnam with tabloid-style “human-interest”stories and sports news, newspapers make the massacres seem natural and acceptable, and the other items seem just as important. Newspaper Theatre teaches people to read newspapers in ways which counter these false appearances. It uses techniques of demystification and deconstruction of journalism, but can also be used with other texts.
Location
Virtual in your home
