Recently I had the wonderful opportunity to go to a workshop about Street Spirits. Street Spirits is a youth driven social action theatre company. They go across North America (primarily in Alberta and BC) performing audience interactive performances that raise awareness about issues in our society, and through interaction with the audience generate solutions. Their shows discuss a variety of topics including alcohol use, family violence, racism, sexual assault, poverty, peer pressure, homophobia, and more.
This theatre company would be fantastic to bring into your school for a class presentation, school wide assembly or small groups to deal with issues that are arising within your school. It is a great way to provide students with a safe outlet to discuss and deal with serious issues and demonstrates how the arts can be used to help deal with issues that arise in students home lives and at school.
This sounds pretty cool. I wish there was I could have seen that workshop too! Drama can be a powerful way to convey important messages when done right.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the workshop I attended, but I wish I had had the opportunity to see this one too! Sounds like it was very interesting and creative.
ReplyDeleteWatch for more opportunities at teachers' conferences! This use of drama as activism is a bit new for me, or outside of my experience. Now that I am aware of it, I would want to find out more about it. It would be a kind of "creative presentation" to add to the class repertoire for Inquiry Platform Projects.
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