SWAMP Theatre grassroots interactive theatre
Rent Assembly May 2013
What does it mean to be a renter?
For many of us, we have never known anything else..
As part of the Rent Assembly: A Gathering of Renters in a Time of Siege, The Swamp hosted a FREE 3 hour interactive theatre workshop.
Community Yoga Vancouver March 2013
Interactive theatre workshop asking questions around what this buzz-word "community" means to us, and
what it doesn't mean. Bringing analysis to the commodification of community, while recognizing how we are already active
participants in community building.
Emily Carr University for Art + Design Nov. 2012
Invited workshop for Professor Zoe Kreye’s course, Studies in the Social Sciences with a focus on the work of Paulo Freire and critical pedagogy. An experiential examination of our experiences of the mainstream education system, how it has served or hindered us, and
dialogue on possible alternatives.
Prof. Zoe Kreye's profile at Emily Carr University
Social Spaces Summit Oct. 2012
Workshop entitled "Back to the Body", addressing the focus on intellectual analysis in radical organizing spaces and communities. A look
at how much we trust the wisdom of our bodies, and those of one another, and how finding more balance between academic and experiential analysis could change our approaches in radical organizing.
Social Spaces Summit: event description
Girls Group Program July 2012
Summer camp for girls ages 13-15 designed to educate from a feminist perspective, to take action toward increasing their personal safety and that of other girls in their schools and larger communities.
North Shore Girls Group Program
Purple Thistle Institute July 2012
An “alternative to university” summer program combining academic courses with experiential workshops and community work placements.
Creative ReMix July 2012
Visual and Performing Arts summer camp for multicultural youth ages 7-12
Cultural Democracy 101 June 2012
A workshop for inner-city, low-income residents run through Simon Fraser University’s Office of Community Engagement. An exploration of our collective experience of community building, loss and gentrification in the DTES.
Dialogue Youth Vancouver June 2012
A project convened by the City of Vancouver to build increased understanding and strengthened relations between Indigenous, Aboriginal and immigrant/non-Aboriginal communities.
W2 Mayworks Festival May 2012
3-hour interactive workshop entitled "Worker Know Thyself" that will invite play, connection, discovery and vulnerability that ultimately challenge our participation in capitalist culture by allowing us to re-connect with ourselves and one another.
W2 Mayworks Festival: Worker Know Thyself
Emily Carr University for Art + Design May 2012
Invited workshop for Professor Zoe Kreye on the theme of "unlearning". What have we been taught that does not serve us, and in fact may hinder us in our creativity and solidarity. What have we been taught that keeps us from connecting with ourselves and one another? How do we "un-learn" these harmful systemic beliefs?
Prof. Zoe Kreye's profile at Emily Carr
The Interplay Project May 2012
A workshop for community dance ensemble, stART Dance, as part of a collaboration for interdisciplinary performance at the Moberley Arts + Culture Centre.
Sea Inside Project Feb. 2012
An exhibition and workshop series put on through Emily Carr University of Art + Design which aims to discover if the creative classes can make a positive contribution around the topic of marine ecology and the crisis currently underway in our oceans.
Sea Inside Project + Swamp Theatre
W2 Mayworks Festival May 2011
3 hour Theatre of the Oppressed workshop investigating issues of struggle specifically in relation to labour and working within a system that is unhealthy, oppressive and dysfunctional.
W2 Mayworks Festival: In Labour with the Swamp
SWAMP Open House April 2011
An introduction to the tools, practices and experience of Swamp Theatre.
Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society.
-Augusto Boal
PAST WORKSHOPS
All workshops took place on unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver BC), unless otherwise indicated.