31st May, 2011 - Posted by Gavin - Comments Off on Power to the People? – The Final Event!
Wednesday 11th May saw over 40 people come together at St James Church Hall in Leith for the culmination of our Power to the People? project. Thank you to everyone who turned out for the four hours who helped make the event such a success. After a quick introduction and warm-up it was time for […] Read More
25th March, 2011 - Posted by Gavin - 7 Comments
This week the group continued working in the groups they formed last week and began to name and discuss what had brought them together. They then began to make an image of the problem and found a way of moving in and out of the image using rhythm, sound and movements. Although there is more […] Read More
21st March, 2011 - Posted by Gavin - Comments Off on Power to the People? – Defining terms
This week was a very packed week for the Power to the People? group. After an hilarious warm-up game of West Country Zip Zap Boing, led very enthusiartically by Alan (“No parkin’ in the paddock”), we moved on to beginning to define what we meant by “empowerment” and “oppression” Words that defined empowerment were […] Read More
14th March, 2011 - Posted by Gavin - Comments Off on Power to the People? – Pluralising personal experiences!
Another great session on Wednesday evening which enabled the group to use their newly gained “language of images” to explore personal experiences of disempowerment. The group was asked to portray an image of a time that they felt disempowered by “sculpting” other group members into images. The point of the exercise was not to uncover […] Read More
4th March, 2011 - Posted by Gavin - 2 Comments
We had another great turnout for Power to the People? last Wednesday evening. Following on from Alan’s session last week on the basics of Forum Theatre, this week the group began to explore the topic of Empowerment. However with this being a drama workshop and not a discussion group, we conducted a lot of this […] Read More
24th February, 2011 - Posted by Gavin - 1 Comment
The second stage of our Power to the People? project started properly this week with Alan Jeffrey leading a workshop for the group exploring the basics of Forum Theatre. We have a great group of participants with varying levels of theatre experience who are all interested in exploring the tricky concept of Empowerment. Over to Alan […] Read More