<b><i>PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE FROM JUNE 4-5 TO JUNE 25-26!!<br><br><a href="http://www.TransformingConflict.net" target="_blank">Transforming Conflict Series</a> presents...</i></b><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br>
</span><br style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"><div class="gmail_quote"><font style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);" size="4">Transforming Conflict through<br>THEATER OF THE OPPRESSED TECHNIQUES</font><br style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">
<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"></span><b style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br></b><b style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Facilitator:
Gail A. Burton, Emerson College<br> TOPLAB New England<br></b><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"></span><b style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br>
June 25-26 </b><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> @ </span><a href="http://WWW.ENCUENTRO5.ORG"><font size="2"><b><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">encuentro 5</span></b></font></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> <br>
10am to 7pm 33 Harrison Avenue, 5th Floor<br>
Boston, MA 02111<br> <a href="http://www.encuentro5.org/directions" target="_blank">Directions</a><br><br></span><b style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">2-day weekend, $50</b> <b><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">(reduced rates available)</span></b><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">To register and for more info, please visit: <a href="http://www.transformingconflict.net" target="_blank">www.transformingconflict.net</a><br>
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<br><font size="2"><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">General Workshop Description:</b></font><br><br>
<span>How do we deal with conflict as a community? Based on the interactive techniques developed by Augusto Boal,
Brazilian theater activist, this creative workshop will engage participants to
enact real situations of oppression and conflict they are experiencing
in their lives, while learning how to unpack the emotional and
institutional aspects of the scenarios. Groups will apply various
techniques of the Theater of the Oppressed repertoire as the community
discovers collective envisionings of how to best handle and resolve the
situation of conflict. A highly participatory living-in-the-body
interaction. No previous experience necessary. <br> </span><br>
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<div class="paragraph editable-text" style="text-align: left; display: block;">Gail A. Burton grew up in East
Harlem NYC and graduated from Radcliffe College, Harvard University.She
was trained by and is a
member of the facilitation collective, <strong style="">Theater of the
Oppressed
Laboratory </strong>at the Brecht Forum, in NYC; and currently serves as
the
coordinator of the collective’s multiplication project, <strong style="">TOPLAB
New
England</strong>. She has studied Image, Forum, and Rainbow of Desire
theater techniques under the guidance of Marie-Claire Picher, Julian and
Augusto Boal; as well as other members of the collective. Burton has
been a member of the <strong style="">Medea Project
Theater for Incarcerated Women</strong> in San Francisco, CA. and
coordinator and workshop leader for her <strong style="">New Freedwoman
Project</strong>, in MA. <br>
<br><span></span>In 2007, she
received the <strong style="">Black Butterfly Leadership Award</strong>
in the category of
WARRIOR, from Sister Summit and the Boston Black Pride Committee. She
received the <strong style="">Cambridge Peace Award</strong> in honor of
<em style="">Muses</em>, her
first play, and the community building and organizing activities
surrounding the production which celebrated and created positive
visibility for LGBTQA communities of African descent in Massachusetts.
She is currently on faculty at <strong style="">Emerson
College</strong> and <strong style="">Roxbury Community College</strong>
in Boston, MA</div><br><br>Organized by <a href="http://www.mesasinfronteras.org" target="_blank">MESA sin fronteras</a><br clear="all"><br>
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