Centre for Community Dialogue and Change | Projects&Methods

Dedicated to the promotion of Theatre of the Oppressed - particularly in the field of education - the Centre for Community Dialogue and Change (CCDC) is an organisation based in Bengaluru, India. They offer workshops and training in Theatre of the Oppressed, for diverse populations, especially those in the field of education, such as students, teachers, and teacher trainers. They also encourage documentation and research of Theatre of the Oppressed work in India.

Website: http://www.ccdc.in/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ccdcto
Google+: https://plus.google.com/+CcdcIn

Basal'ya bazoba | Project&Methods

Basal'ya bazoba was a music theatre project in Kinshasa, Congo, created to generate attention to the issue of child sorcery. In Kinshasa, an estimated 20,000 children live on the streets. 70% of them have become homeless after relatives accused them of witchcraft. These accusations give desperately poor parents an excuse to kick children out of their homes. In 2009, Theatre Embassy, Compagnie Dakar and K-Mu théâtre joined forces to create a participatory arts project about this topic. They offered theatre classes to street children and produced a highly successful show that was performed on the back of a flatbed truck all over Kinshasa, attracting more than 100,000 spectators. After each show, one of the actors facilitated a discussion with the audience in the presence of children who had been accused of sorcery.

Website: http://www.kmu-theatre.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kmu.theatre

City Repair | Projects&Methods

The City Repair Project | Oregon, USA

City Repair is an organized group action that educates and inspires communities and individuals to creatively transform the places where they live. The many projects of City Repair have been accomplished by a mostly volunteer staff and thousands of volunteer citizen activists.

Website: http://www.cityrepair.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cityrepair/

Tiny Toones | Projects&Methods

In 2005 Tuy Sobil (aka “KK”) opened up his modest home to a handful of kids he had seen working or living on the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. KK had only just arrived in Cambodia himself. Born in the Thai refugee camps, he grew up in the projects of Los Angeles, fell into gang membership and was eventually deported to a country he had never previously visited. What happened next is what makes his story special.

Word spread that KK had been a break-dancer. All of a sudden the very kids he saw living on the streets were knocking at his door asking him to teach them. KK saw these kids getting involved in anti-social behaviour and drugs, he saw that without guidance they were in danger of repeating the mistakes of his youth. He decided to take on the challenge and reluctantly agreed to start teaching them break-dancing.

Seven years on, those kids have performed internationally – from Australia to Italy – and now over 200 children from the slums come every day to dance, to make music, to learn English, Khmer (the Cambodian language) and computing, and to enjoy the freedom to be children.

Website: http://www.tinytoones.org/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TinyToonesNgo

Baltazár Theatre | Projects&Methods

The Baltazar Theatre, founded in January 1998, is the one and only professional theatre company in Hungary whose members are mentally challenged actors and actresses.

The Baltazar Theatre Foundation, which runs the theatre company, breaks new ground by putting actors’ disabilities in the background and emphasizing their talent.We create the conditions for disabled people to earn a living from their talent. Our work is based on the ambition that our pieces should not be prepared and presented in social exclusion. The performances should not be judged by a relative standard but by their own values.

Website: http://www.baltazarszinhaz.hu/index.php?action=menu&lang=2
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BaltazarSzinhaz?fref=ts

PASMI | Projects&Methods

Latina Urbana from Victor Robles Bravo on Vimeo.

PASMI is a community theatre, but the organisation brings together many professionals from diverse arts disciplines and the social sciences.

Their productions have been toured to communities excluded from the "mainstream arts circuit", communities on the urban periphery and in rural areas, or within prisons and other institutions. Pasmi has worked with many communities, including migrants, people with HIV-AIDS, people with terminal illness, differently-abled people, rural communities, and high risk communities (drug trafficking, youth offenders).The key factor that defines their work with the community is continuity. To ensure this, the Pasmi methodology is based on group work, participation, interaction, collaboration, experiential learning, ethics and confrontational pedagogy.

Website: http://www.teatropasmi.org/
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/pasmi

The Wroclaw Centre of Children's Creativity | Projects&Methods

The Wroclaw Centre for Children’s Creativity was founded in October 1998 by Małgorzata Strońska-Zaremba. Their task is to stimulate the creative potential of each of the children using experienced pedagogues and artists to work with small groups of students. They aim to develop children’s reative personalities by means of theatre, movement, music and fine arts.

One of their project is aimed at children from numerous families who are usually given fewer opportunities to develop their own cultural interests and creativity. Starting the Project they bore in mind Doris Tarlowksi’s words that “There are no children who are not artistically talented. There are only those who have never been granted access to art.” They realised how challenging it is to raise many children. In the face of numerous everyday matters and problems it might be difficult for the parents to think about developing their children’s artistic interests. It is through their workshops that they would like to provide those raising the young generation with some support. For more great projects check out their website.

Website:
http://centrumtworczosci.pl/the-wroclaw-centre-for-childrens-creativity

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Wroc%C5%82awskie-Centrum-Tw%C3%B3rczo%C5%9Bci-Dziecka/124105317635651