When: 
Friday, October 31, 2014 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Where: 
Interfaith Chapel, Hogg Hall
Presenter: 
Prof. Rick Piatt, Asst. Prof. of Visual and Performing Arts, Merrimack College
Price: 
Free

"Theater of the Oppressed" is a form of consciousness-raising and activist theater developed in the 1960s by Brazilian theater director and political dissident Auguste Boal.  In Theater of the Oppressed workshops, those who have experienced or witnessed some form of oppression are invited to share their stories, then some of these stories are selected for performance, revised enactment, and discussion.  TO pedagogy is highly interactive; since everyone present can potentially be both an observer and a performer, workshop attendees are called "spect-actors." Prof. Rick Piatt, a Lafayette alumnus as well as a specialist in Theater of the Oppressed pedagogy, will help us learn by doing, getting some of us off our feet to demonstrate how TO pedagogy might be used in the classroom to elicit thoughtful and lively discussions about issues of power, privilege, oppression, and difference.

Sponsored by: 
The Center for Community Engagement, CITLS, & the Teagle Inclusive Pedagogy Faculty

Contact information

Name: 
Debbie Byrd
Phone: 
484-903-2687
Email: 
byrdd@lafayette.edu