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Tools of ImaginAction in NYC, May 17-20

hector — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:30:26 +0000

May 17, 2012 6:00 pmtoMay 20, 2012 12:00 pmMay 17, 2012 6:00 pmtoMay 20, 2012 12:00 pmMay 17, 2012 6:00 pmtoMay 20, 2012 12:00 pmMay 17, 2012 6:00 pmtoMay 20, 2012 12:00 pm

A Workshop facilitated by Hector Aristizábal

Internship and TO Festival in China June 4th to June 16′ 2012

hector — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:54:33 +0000

June 4, 2012toJune 16, 2012

社区戏剧环保教育项目协调者
甘肃绿驼铃环境发展中心的合作伙伴
Environmental Community-Based Theatre Program Coordinator
Green Camel Bell Cooperating Partner
2011-2012 Compton Mentor Fellowship
电话： 18293127464

For the last few years ImaginAction has been developing an internship/mentoring program for people interested in the practice of Augusto Boal-inspired techniques and community-based theater. We have offered this mentoring opportunity in Northern Ireland, Colombia, The Basque Country, among other places. We are processing applications for practitioners interested in coming with us to China and be part of the Lanzhou International Community-Based Theatre Environmental Education Festival.

This festival is being organized by Allegra Fonda-Bonardi who has been introducing community-based theatre techniques to main land China for the last 6 months and whom participated in ImaginAction’s internships in the past. Look at the description below and contact us for more information.

Lanzhou International Community-Based Theatre Environmental Education Festival

（兰州国际社区戏剧环保教育节日）

Time: June 4th–June 16th, 2012

Location: Lanzhou, China

Internship Description:

To be part of a cultural exchange festival between Chinese community-based theatre

practitioners and foreign community-based theater practitioners

focused on environmental education themes.

Festival structure:

Week 1: Masterclasses for local practitioners and guests by Imaginaction International

and Hong Kong-based Center for Community Cultural Development, one of the oldest

community-based theatre groups in Asia, specializing in Playforward theatre (an expansion

on the principles of Playback theatre); creation of an original work in one week.

June 10th-11th: Performances by guest artists groups and local community-based theatre groups (both

pre-arranged works and the piece created in the Masterclasses during Week 1)

Week 2: Local artists + guest artists team up to give workshops in three selected communities

in and around Lanzhou: HuiNing Village Ecological Cooperative; the Lanzhou 4th Minority Secondary School

high school students and educational community; the Lanzhou City Environmental Education Department

(communities subject to change)

冯乐然
Allegra Fonda-Bonardi

Immaginare e trasformare la realtà/Imagining and transforming reality. Milano-Italy, July 11-15

hector — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:37:56 +0000

July 11, 2012 4:00 amtoJuly 15, 2012 4:00 amJuly 11, 2012 4:00 amtoJuly 15, 2012 4:00 amJuly 11, 2012 4:00 amtoJuly 15, 2012 4:00 amJuly 11, 2012 4:00 amtoJuly 15, 2012 4:00 am

Picture on the right: ©Bettina Frenzel, http://www.frenzel.at

Picture on the left: ©ImaginAction

The workshop led by Hector Aristizabal will be an introduction to the various possibilities of applying the different methods of Theatre of the Oppressed in order to stimulate and awaken our imagination and to create concrete opportunities of transformation regarding the reality that surrounds us.

The workshop is open to everyone - people with or without experience in the field of theatre, active TO-practitioners, educators, teachers, social workers, curious people interested in the approaches of participative theater, arts activists, etc. .

In addition, Hector Aristizabal will bring his performance Nightwind.

The program begins with a 30-minute performance based on Hector Aristizábal’s true story of being arrested and tortured by the US-supported military in Colombia. After his release, he witnessed the killings of many of his friends. In exile in the United States, his taxes fund the war in Iraq including torture at Abu Ghraib and the continued bloodshed in his country. In 1999, when Aristizábal’s brother was abducted and killed by the paramilitary, his own rage and desire for violent revenge was awakened–what he calls “the terrorist within.” Inspired by his own young children, he finds ways to re-channel this terroristic energy into constructive action.

Aristizábal’s movement-based performance becomes a springboard for audience members to explore issues of importance in their own lives. The direction of the workshop will change depending on audience member’s interests and desires.

Immediately after the performance Hector invites the audience into a brief dynamic meditation as a way to provide catharsis to the different emotions awakened by the theater piece. Afterwards using the techniques of Theatre of the Oppressed (please see description below), Hector invites participants to express their reactions to the images of torture by creating their own images in response.

The content of the performance and the scenarios often lead to explorations of other cycles of violence – family violence, gang violence – and the exploration of ideas on how to break them.

The exact program of evening activities will be published shortly.

Location: ARCI La Scighera, via Candiani 133, Milan (Italy), www.lascighera.org

Dates: 11-15 July 2012

Working time: 5 days, total amount of 25hours, exact times still to be decided

Fee: 250€ + ARCI membership card (around 10/12€), possible to request reduction

Information and booking: reservations will be opened soon. To make a pre-reservation, don’t hesitate to write us under this link.

More info:

www.lascighera.org/corsi/immaginare-e-trasformare-la-realt-workshop-di-teatro-delloppresso-con-hector-aristizabal

http://labarbabietolarossa.jimdo.com/workshops-e-formazioni/hector-aristizabal/