Our 10th annual Forum Theatre Summer Intensive is geared towards individuals seeking facilitation skills and training in Theatre of the Oppressed techniques with a TO Trainer with over 25 years of experience! Forum Theatre is a participatory theatre technique originated by Augusto Boal that can be applied to all kinds of work committed to social action and transformation—educational, political, creative, cultural and beyond.

Theatre of the Oppressed 2: Theatre of the Oppressed Facilitation Intensive
June 10 – 13, 2015 (4 days)
Our T.O. 2 Facilitation Intensive is geared towards individuals who already have some Theatre of the Oppressed training and experience but want to hone their skills in T.O. facilitation, in jokering, and in productively leading dialogue about power dynamics & systematic oppression while strengthening group relations and understanding.

ALL WORKSHOPS will be held at: Summit Presbyterian Church
6757 Greene Street, Philadelphia, PA 19119

WORKSHOP FEES
T.O.1: FORUM THEATER INTENSIVE
$275 – Registration before June 1, 2015
$295 – Registration after June 1, 2015

Payment plans are available for those who express a need, please contact lisajo@gasandelectricarts.org

TO REGISTER VISIT: http://www.gasandelectricarts.org/
INFORMATION CALL: 215.290.9784 EMAIL: lisajo@GasAndElectricArts.org

Workshops are led by Lisa Jo Epstein, Ph.D., Executive Director and Co-Founder of Gas & Electric Arts in Philadelphia. She is a theatre director, educator, teaching artist and certified citizen planner. Her socially-engaged, theatrical vision for community engagement started taking shape back in the early 1990s when she spent 3 years training in Paris France with Augusto Boal, creator of the Theatre of the Oppressed, and also at the world-renowned Théâtre du Soleil. For more than two decades, Lisa Jo has been a ‘multiplier’ and adapter of Theatre of the Oppressed, using participatory theatre as a vehicle for engaging communities in transformation.

THEN COME Audition for Gas & Electric Arts’ Actor-Facilitation Ensemble! Or pass this email along to others who might!

Gas & Electric Arts is recruiting diverse actors, to be part of an actor-facilitation ensemble that uses Theatre of the Oppressed techniques, improvisation, and related social justice and arts-based strategies for community engagement, healing across difference, and activism.

Initially, performance will be a medium for civic engagement and dialogue, using theatre to stimulate new ways of enacting social transformation. Ensemble members will first receive in-depth training from Lisa Jo Epstein, a seasoned Theatre of the Oppressed facilitator, educator and theatre director, and then be employed for a variety of projects, from participatory theatre residencies to creating site and issue-specific original pieces.

Requirements:

1. Comfort level w/improvisation—acting and movement– and ensemble-devising

2. Experience with Theatre of the Oppressed and/or Playback helpful but not required

3. Experience as a theatre teaching artist is favorable.

4. Previous social justice & diversity training such as undoing racism, intergroup dialogue, etc. will be useful;

5. Work well in a collaborative ensemble;

6. Group facilitation or interest in learning dialogue facilitation skills

7. Ability to travel throughout the Philadelphia region

8. Must be age 20+

Prior to employment working in community settings, team members will go through an intensive training in participatory theatre and facilitation techniques for engaging diversity issues using theatre strategies. These techniques can be applied to all kinds of work committed to social action and transformation—educational, political, creative, cultural, and beyond. Stipends will be provided for the training and subsequent employment with Gas & Electric Arts.

Auditions will be held:

Monday April 13, 2015
6:30-9:30p
@Summit Presbyterian Church in Mt. Airy
6757 Greene Street, Philadelphia PA 19119
Train stop, Chestnut Hill West: Upsal

To secure an audition slot, please email the following to Lisa Jo Epstein, Executive Director of Gas & Electric Arts lisajo@gasandelectricarts.org

1. Brief letter w/information about: what kind of community-based work and/or teaching that you have done; your interest in social justice; a short description of a theatre project that was significant to you.

2. headshot and resume

Auditions will be run as a group workshop so no monologue is required. Come wearing loose, comfortable clothes and be prepared for movement and improvisation activities.

Gas & Electric Arts 10th Annual
FORUM THEATRE SUMMER INTENSIVE
Six day facilitators’ training
July 21-July 26, 2015
Philadelpha, PA

Our 10th annual Forum Theatre Summer Intensive is geared towards individuals seeking facilitation skills and training in Theatre of the Oppressed techniques to improve their ability to effectively engage diversity issues. Forum Theatre is a participatory theatre technique that can be applied to all kinds of work committed to social action and transformation—educational, political, creative, cultural and beyond.

This six day training will bring out your ability to overcome societal and self-imposed limits in order to better include and interact with others.

Gas & Electric Arts promotes civic dialogue through participatory theater that taps participants’ capacity for creativity and stimulates new ways of thinking about social transformation.

July 21-26, 2015

Tuesday-Friday, 9:30am-5:30pm

Saturday, July 25, 10:3-am-5:30pm

Sunday, July 26, 10am-3pm
(Public Forum Theater Performance, 2pm)

WORKSHOP LOCATION
Summit Presbyterian Church
6757 Greene Street, Philadelphia, PA 19119

About the Training

Forum Theatre is a core technique of Theatre of the Oppressed, a revolutionary form of participatory theatre designed primarily for non-actors by Brazilian theatre visionary and Nobel Peace Prize finalist Augusto Boal. Through lively, fun and revelatory activities and improvisations, Forum Theatre transforms real-life struggles into interactive theatrical dialogue. Audience members are given the freedom to “stop” a scene, jump into it, and theatrically investigate ways of changing automatic behavioral patterns that keep us stuck in situations of monologue and not dialogue.

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