Art and Activism- Theater of the Oppressed

3 units

This course is aimed at anyone interested in discussing, understanding, and applying alternative means to make change. It is for those who are interested in working on issues within the community, using theater as a tool for debate and social change; theater practitioners, social activists, teachers, community organizers, politicians, youth workers. The Theater of the Oppressed tries to activate people in a humanistic endeavor expressed by its very name: theater of, by, and for the opressed; a system that enables poeple to act in the fiction of theater to become protagonists, i.e. acting subjects, of their own lives. Because of its humanistic and democratic nature, it is widely used all over the world, in all fields of social activities such as: education, culture, arts, politics, social work, psychotherapy, literacy programs, and health.