The People’s Voice/The Odyssey Project

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A collaborative educational theater program between the Theater Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and County of Santa Barbara Probation. Student participants from both institutions will partner in a work setting that fosters equity to process and perform original performance pieces using analog and digital technology. The framework for this class is ancient Greek canonical literature with healing and heroic dimensions. The Odyssey of Homer provides the template. Through a series of writing and drawing exercises, the participants discover the heroic elements in their lives and how to utilize them to tell the Odyssey story in their own words.