Community Engagement

My aims here

I am imagining working with a group of people using a core story about how we might live in collective, collaborative, nonviolent communities.

Keen to use and abuse the methods of the theatre of the oppressed.
First developed by Augusto Boal in the 1950’s and can be useful in bringing forwards solutions to current struggles through the telling and retelling of the way things are and the ways they could be if we all worked together beyond judgement and hierarchies.

Once we have a small group together and a space to work in, I would like to film the process and the people and tell our stories as they emerge.
At some point we might choose to perform our stories and how we found them, though I am not fixed on that.
I feel that via the facilitated process of coming together, sharing our lived experience and telling our stories, we will move towards creating communities seeking system change and designing practical ways to bring this about in nonviolent ways.

I have spoken to several people who are curious and want to get involved, if you are a film maker, or would like to be, if you are creative interested in producing new outcomes and perspectives, bring whatever you wish and we will make efforts to weave that into what we are doing here… equally if you feel you could get tangled up in sharing your story by telling it… singing it… painting it…, dancing it… let me know and we will work with that.
I have no idea where any or all of this might go… I know where I would like it go, and am willing to invest whatever energy I have in creating something that lives long after we have finished building it.
This is a place where communities can be born and grow and become models for others to follow… maybe… maybe it’s just going to be a manic, chill, fun gig and we get to meet a few new people we want to collaborate with?