By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively, a never-ending process. – Johan Galtung — I interviewed Sulaiman Khatib and Chen Alon, co-founders of “Combatants For Peace”, nominated twice for the Nobel Peace prize in 2017 and in 2018. Both times, the nominations were …
Mother Earth Wait. Wait. Don’t leave us alone in a world we have wrecked. A collaboration between Reconectando, ImaginAction and Work That Reconnects Network Reconectando, ImaginAction, and The Work That Reconnects Network collaborated on the 2nd of November, 2023. Ilaria Olimpico, Shyontoni Ghosh, Hector Aristizabal, and Uri Noy Meir, facilitated …
Looking back on more than three decades creating community and drama around the world using the techniques of the Theatre of the Oppressed. By Alistair Campbell My name is Ali Campbell and for my entire career as an artist and activist I’ve made theatre anywhere but theatres. Most of us were taught …
Communitas was a Latin term that referred to the ideal of community and the spirit of coming together in solidarity. It was also the name of an experience-research project by the art collective TheAlbero. The project aimed to bring together people who wanted to rekindle their lost relationship with nature …
The play is not just a play but also a playfulness. It is through playing that we can return to our inner child and gain a deeper understanding of the present moment and what is needed for a life-sustaining culture. Brazilian Augusto Boal, in his Theatre of the Oppressed, suggests …
TheAlbero is an artistic collective born from the work of ImaginAction social arts facilitators Uri Noy Meir and Ilaria Olimpico and that uses theatre and art as tools for personal and social transformation. It is follow our believes in the healing power of theatre as a ritual and aims to …
Guest authors Yana SALAKHOVA and Vladyslava KRYZHNA published in media on modern Ukrainian art Korydor on 17 June 2022 and translated into English by Olesia Storozhuk. This article was written before February 24, 2022, yet the Newspaper Theater Method, elaborated in Brazil during the times of dictatorship, became the first …
A Guest post by Aman Kohli and Elisabeth Demeter Humans have been, are, and always will be a part of nature. No matter how much technology and automation we invent, we are still dependent on all the gifts nature offers. What we seem to have forgotten though, is the knowledge …
NEW BOOK AND ONLINE SUMMER SEMINAR by Dan Friedman Theatre artists, including many of us doing progressive “theatre for social change,” “political theatre” “social theatre” (there are lots of labels, none up to the task) have usually understood our work as putting on shows for audiences. We work on the …
ImaginAction’s first cohort of hybrid distant learning Global Mentoring program is now over but is not done. In the last six months, we have met on a bi-weekly basis with leading social arts mentors and facilitators to hone our skills and to listen, and to see each other’s gifts and …