I first met Gopal in 2010, the same year I met Hector, the same year my life fell on its head…Gopal was the most unusual person to meet in Nepal, …
What I’m about to share came about during last month’s SPT practitioners call hosted by Laura Pastorini and Manish Srivastava. It was about the mourning and celebration of 2020. To do the practice, …
Since 2010, ImaginAction (imaginaction.org) creative director Hector Aristizábal and co-facilitator Alessia Cartoni have opened up their international social theatre workshops to apprentices from around the world. The interns are able to participate in diverse community projects, experience methodologies …
Two Sundays ago, I went out for a walk. I climbed a mountain in Benalmadena, Spain, the country where I live right now. The walk was 6 kilometres in total, …
There was a time we could seat together in a circle on the same floor. There was a time I could smell the person near to me. There was a …
The kinaesthetic process entitled “Images and Stories”, is rooted in the Aesthetics of the Oppressed as envisioned by Augusto Boal. It follows on the footstep of Boal’s earlier work with Newspaper …
Listening is a vital skill for co-existence, development, healing and collective and individual evolution. In a world with high noise levels, both inside and outside, listening is indeed a challenge. …
Since we are going through the second wave in Europe, more and more “new” and “old” reflections about the impact of the pandemic are coming up. We are now in …
In the first weekend of November 2019, I was in the beautiful Quinta Ten Chi, Sintra, Portugal for a Dragon Dreaming practitioners gathering. I met there Sebastian, a young French …