Using Theater to Envision Racial Equity Solutions

Based from her experience at the National Alliance of Community Economic Development Association’s People & Places 2019 conference, Miriam Axel-Lute discusses her experience participating in a workshop where the audience was instructed to perform a theater exercise from Theater of the Oppressed. Miriam's group chose to demonstrate a situation in which social work students from a large university would repeatedly show up in surrounding low-income neighborhoods for a semester or two, do their projects, and disappear. During the performance, participants were asked to try to shape their orientations, distances, postures, and attitudes to represent the problem, not only visually, but in an embodied way. Follow this link to read more Sourced from: Shelterforce