A two-hour workshop where participants use creative play (images, sounds, words and bodily movements) to reimagine power relationships (e.g. sexism, racism, and classism).

Open to ages 16+ with an emphasis on curious, engaged, and diverse folks who want to explore how to ‘recover power’.

This 2-hour workshop will explore power relationships between people, and between people and institutions in a range of everyday scenarios to consider how we can recognise and transform differ-ent forms of dominating power (such as sexism, racism, and classism amongst others).

This will be done through various forms of creative play where participants will use images, sounds, words and bodily movements to reimagine and recover their own power. The approach will both explore common forms of domination and oppression that we may experience but more importantly emphasise the potential of recovering power as a generative and creative form of resistance.

Theatre of the Oppressed is a form that explicitly engages people working through bodies to explore oppression, domination and resistance so there are likely to be difficult themes but the process is always to collectivise struggle and not to rely on testimony or singular experience.

Facilitators: Ally Walsh and Pablo Routledge