Street Spirits Theatre Company

Training opportunities

Summer Workshops – August 2009

Actorvism – Social Action Theatre 

The workshop will introduce participants to Actorvism Social Action Theatre techniques. Actorvism is a powerful tool for exploring social experience and communityconcerns, for reaching into real life and creating moving drama from what we find. It is a form of theatre work that is effective for helping people to get in touch with personal issues, for learning effective communication and life skills, for community development and as a method of rehearsing, directing and training people in acting and performance.This intensive workshop in Actorvism Theatre techniques will introduce participants to the potential for addressing issues such as racism, suicide,  substance abuse and violence through interactive theatre. Participants will take part in a journey of personal exploration while learning powerful creative, therapeutic and expressive techniques. They will use these techniques to reach a better understanding of their own life experiences and will learn ways to communicate this learning to others. By the end of the workshop the participants will be skilled and confident enough to present brief vignettes addressing issues that they identify as important.

When: August 10-15 2009, 9am-5pm
Where: Prince George, BC, specific location to be announced.
How much: $300 Cnd* 30 participants maximum
Contact: info@streetspirits.com for further information

Actorvism – Train the Trainer

This workshop process introduces participants to the basics of Actorvism Theatre process from a leadership perspective. Included are theatre games, play creation, performance facilitation and strategies for maintaining an effective group. Participants learn how to lead and direct a group, how to guide a group to create an effective performance and how to facilitate audience interaction during a performance. Also included are techniques for participant retention and promotion of the program. This workshop is designed for people interested in establishing and operating a theatre program.

When:  August 17-21 2009, 9am-5pm
Where: Prince George, BC, specific location to be announced.
How much: $350 Cnd* 30 participants maximum
Contact: info@streetspirits.com for further information

*Reduced rates are available based on need.

Travelling Workshops
Bring our training opportunities to your community. Street Spirits Trainers can work with local organizations and groups to explore social concerns and establish programs in the community
Actorvism is the social action theatre form used by Street Spirits. The process involves the use of theatre games and creative techniques that allow participants to explore social problems in the world around them. Actorvism play creation processes allow participants to develop audience interactive performances based on the exploration work done through the theatre games and exercises. Performance is done in Forum Theatre. The plays created are usually short, 15 to 20 minutes in length and illustrate only the problems inherent in a situation. Audience members are invited to join the actors to brainstorm ways to resolve the problems in the play. The play plus audience interventions can create a theatrical event of 1 to 2 hours in length.

Train the Trainer

A roadshow version of our annual summer workshop, designed to assist in establishing community theatre initiatives. 

Community Workshops

Our community workshops are designed to assist a community to explore a social issue through theatre. Our team of trainers will work with a group of local participants to identify the key elements of a specific problem and create an interactive performance using local participants as performers. The performance can be presented to the community allowing for an exploration of the issues and for generation of potential solutions to the problems related to it. Combination Workshops Many communities have asked us to combine the two workshops. What we recommend is a train the trainer workshop first followed by a community workshop. Participants in the train the trainer take part in both workshops and, during the community workshop transition into being the group leaders. This process has successfully lead to the establishment of a number of community social action theatre programs across Canada.

To bring a Street Spirits workshop to your community contact Andrew at 250-565-6332 or e-mail info@streetspirits.com

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