[van-announce] REMINDER: Tues March 11 FREE Drop-In Theater Workshops Continue!!!!

[mia amir]

Hey folks,

Just a reminder that the first of the NOII-*neworld*theatre FREE
Drop-InPopular Theatre Workshops are continuing this upcoming Tuesday
March 11th.
The workshop this week is "BASIC SKETCH DEVELOPMENT AND SATIRE" @ 6 pm at
Georgia Krill Co-op (251 East Georgia, corner Main/ 4-5 blocks south of
Hastings East). See full details and description of this and the other
remaining workshops below!

Feel free to forward this information.

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FREE DROP-IN POPULAR THEATRE WORKSHOPS!

No One Is Illegal in collaboration with Neworld Theatre will be hosting a
series of 5 FREE creative resistance theatre workshops during the month of
March and April. No experience necessary, all welcome!

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All remaining workshops will run consecutive Tuesdays up to and including
April 1st
Workshops run from 6-9 pm
Workshops are held at Georgia Krill Co-op (251 East Georgia, corner
Main/ 4-5 blocks south of Hastings East)

Food and bus tickets available at the workshops.
Child care reimbursements also available (please contact for details).

* TO GUARANTEE SPACE, PLEASE REGISTER by emailing
noii-van at resist.ca(preferable) or call Alex Mah at
604.251.7974. Simply provide your name, contact info (email/phone) and which
workshops you would like to attend.

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Background to the Theatre Project:

The goal of these introductory workshops is to create a space where
community members and organizers can have an opportunity to explore their
creativity and develop performance tools. These workshops are the beginning
of an exciting collaboration between No One is Illegal and neworld theatre,
through which we hope to jointly contribute to bridging the gap between art
and activism by developing tools of artistic resistance that are less
individualistic and professionalized, and more deeply rooted in community
social movements.

It is our hope that these basic workshops will provide participants with
tools that can be used to strengthen their own personal expression, social
activism and resistance work, and contribute to the health of our many
communities. For example, in developing more effective public intervention
skits and street theatre performances. No One Is Illegal recognizes the
deeply rooted and central role of culture and creative expression as key
components of both historic and on-going resistance movements.

Following from our organizing principles, these workshops will take
place ina space committed to anti-oppression principles.

For more information please feel free to call Alex at 604.251.7974 or mia at
604.780.8463 or email noii-van at resist.ca

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Workshop Descriptions:

TUESDAY MARCH 11: BASIC SKETCH DEVELOPMENT AND SATIRE

This workshop will focus on the creation of sketches, and on how to
incorporate satire into your work. Participants will come away will skills
that are ideal for developing usable material for demos and other public
events. The workshop will look at the use of humour as a strategy for
advocacy.


TUESDAY MARCH 18: CLOWIN' AROUND

A great workshop to attend for folks wanting to have some fun and work on
feeling comfortable performing in front of people at the same time as you
are developing your performance skills.


TUESDAY MARCH 25: INVISIBLE THEATRE

Find out tricks for performing public street theatre when your audience
doesn't know that you're acting. How do you get an unexpecting audience
involved and engaged in your performance? A great way to get people asking
questions and engaged in social justice issues.


TUESDAY APRIL 1: PROP MAKING (Guest Facilitator TBA)

This workshop will focus on how to create basic props to enhance
theatrical performances. Workshop participants will be some hands on
experience planning, designing and creating props using low cost
materials. Materials will be provided.

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Bio for Marcus Youssef, Workshop Facilitator:

The workshops will be facilitated by Marcus Youssef, a graduate of the
National Theatre School and a member of neworldtheatre's Artistic Producing
Team. Marcus most recently was Collaborating Director on neworld's
production of My Name is Rachel Corrie and conceived and directed It's All
About You for Studio 58 in Vancouver. His plays, many co-written with his
long-time collaborators Camyar Chai and Guillermo Verdecchia, almost always
address political or social context largely sanitized in the mainstream
media. These plays include A Line in the Sand (Chalmer's Award), Ali and Ali
and the Axes of Evil, Adrift (Magnetic North Theatre Festival), True Lies
(Rumble, High Performance Rodeo), Come Back to the 7-11, Judy Blume, Judy
Blume, and Apathy House. Ali and Ali, A Line in the Sand, and Adrift are all
published by Talonbooks. Marcus has also always worked with a variety of
community-based groups, working with them to find ways to make art that's
relevant to people's lived experiences.