Workshops

PROJECT’S NAME: Theater of Oppressed :

Theater of the Oppressed is a form of Theater that gives participants an opportunity to dialogue their personal experience on Social Justice issues and to create into monologues.

1. Image Theater

2. Forum Theater

3. Rainbow of Desire Theater

The overall outcome is to see how expressive they are vocally and physically; including through their creative writing skills. They will learn the tools as an ensemble on how to create a play improvisation, creating scenes, and play writing. When the youth learn how to collaborate and what different roles they can take as their responsibility, they will see how the different dynamics of actors, directors and designers collaborate in Theater of the Oppressed. 

PROJECT’S NAME:-  Workshop : Hip Hop Theater “…And we won’t stop”

DESCRIPTION:

Hip Hop Theater, is known as the “New Wave” style of traditional Theater. This form of art is known as an outgrowth of African Orature; a unique skill that preserves the history and culture of individual people through performance. This form of Art includes storytelling, proverbs, riddles, chants and dances. Hip Hop Theater helps people from the outside to understand a culture that’s deeper than Hip Hop such as the struggle of youth from historically marginalized populations and their victories, expressing themselves through creative five elements of Hip Hop:

• DJ’ing

• Emceeing/Rapping

• Hip Hop Dance

• Writing

• Human Beatboxing

The Hip Hop Theater“…And we won’t stop” workshop will start off to teach the youth the history of Hip Hop, which began in the Bronx, NY during the 1960’s, by a man name Afrika Bambaataa, the Godfather of Hip Hop. As we go back in time and learn about the birth and growth of this musical and fashion culture, the goal will be for them to have a better appreciation of Hip Hop and how it originally was more of a way to unite people and connect in peace. The final product will be a presentation of them telling their stories on their struggles as youth of color and expressing it through the five elements of Hip Hop.

Theme/Concept:  

Introduction “Step Into Our World”

Objectives:  

In the opening of the workshop, we will discuss about what they understanding about Hip Hop, what it means to them and do they believe that the culture is perceived as a positive or negative image for children and youth of today’s generation. Afterwards we will lead the group discussion and look into Afrika Bambaataa actual motive when he first created the world of Hip Hop, listening to the first music that was ever created,

B-boys and B-girls, radical Graffiti, DJ’ing and the Zulu Nation

Objectives:  

The second workshop, the youth will be learning about the different mediums of art that emerged from New York, which later became an international Culture, such as Break dancing, Graffiti, DJ’ing and the Fashion of Hip Hop. Then they will learn about the first Hip Hop international awareness group formed by Afrika Bambaataa, the Zulu Nation.

“Theatre of the NOW” Exploring the realism of Hip Hop Theatre

Objectives:  

For this workshop, we will go more in depth on the crossroad of Hip Hop and Theatre. I will present videos and writing materials from different Hip Hop Theatre companies; such as Universes, Teo Castellanos D-Project, Project 2050, Hip Hop Theatre Festival. Then we will have do writing prompts based off the performance topics that were presented. The hope for this lesson is that youth will see the how these different medium of arts are submerged together and how it is used to speak about social justice issues, for example: systematic oppression, internal racism, poverty, equal rights, etc. 

Spoken Word:

“Our Poetic Justice”

DESCRIPTION

Spoken Word is a style of poetry that emerged during the Harlem Renaissance. It became popular in the underground African American Community in the 1960’s with The Last Poets. The Last Poets was a poetry and political music group that was born out of the African American Civil Rights movement. Thanks to this group, the movement of Spoken Word grew into the generation of the youth and young adults of today. This art form is used as an outlet for people to express their perspectives on the economy, politics, their personal emotions and life experiences.

This workshop is about some the fundamentals history of Spoken Word and Youth Poetry Slams that are now forming rapidly across the country.

©2011 and 2012 Charmaine C Santiago Galdón