Our Programs

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Embodying Change: Theater of the Oppressed for Community Action

Theater of the Oppressed (T.O.) provides tools for people to explore shared struggles, unpack their shared history and present situation, and then experiment with inventing a new future together. We use theatre and embodied physical practice to disrupt, transform, and design strategies to challenge internalized, interpersonal, and systemic oppression. Through gathering in public for an action or reflecting with our closest community members, comrades and colleagues, with T.O., we lift up invisibilized stories.

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Coliberate: Participatory Action Research Curriculum & Trainings

The Coliberate process draws on methods of Popular Education including Participatory Action Research and Theatre of the Oppressed to democratize research, planning, design and project implementation. Coliberate brings people together to:

  • Define for themselves what problems they face in their community;

  • Identify possible solutions the problem through creatively engaging their peers to collect data;

  • Implement those solutions through strategic and informed actions.

    It’s a model of cultural organizing that builds the capacity of people on the front-line of a problem to take leadership in creating the change that works for them.