[NYTr] TOPLAB Facilitator on WBAI radio, 9/11 8 PM & NYC events Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 05:19:31 -0500 (CDT) Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) 451 West Street New York, New York 10014 (212) 924-1858 toplab@toplab.org http://www.toplab.org Tune in to WBAI radio at 99.5 FM to hear TOPLAB associate Sr. Clare Marie Therese interviewed on the weekly progressive pan-Asian radio show, Asia Pacific Forum (http://www.asiapacificforum.org). The show will be broadcast on Tuesday, September 11, 2007 starting at 8:00 pm. You can also hear it live on the web at http://www.wbai.org. Clare Marie Therese is visiting from Tamilnadu, India where she works with Dalit, tribal and other oppressed and marginalized communities. On Asia Pacific Forum she will discuss the work she does there, particularly her use of theater as an organizing tool, and talk about two events she will present at the Brecht Forum on Friday, September 14 and Saturday, September 15 (details below). ** The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) presents Shit a talk and film screening presented by Sr. Clare Marie Therese Friday, September 14, 2007 at 7:30 pm at the Brecht Forum 451 West Street (travel directions below) New York City Sr. Clare Marie Therese, who lives and works in a Dalit community in Tamilnadu, India, will show the documentary film Shit, which depicts the deplorable conditions faced by manual scavengers of human feces, those people at the lowest rungs of India's caste system. Sr. Clare-Marie will discuss the caste system which perpetuates systemic discrimination, even in the twenty-first century and will examine the socio-economic and political realities and struggles of the 200 million Dalits ("untouchables") in India, with a special focus on Dalit women. She will also share her own experiences of using theater as a tool for social change and empowerment. No reservations needed. Contribution--sliding scale: $6, $10, $15 **** Exclusions and Space a one-day workshop facilitated by Sr. Clare Marie Therese Saturday, September 15, 2007 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm at the Brecht Forum 451 West Street (travel directions below) New York City Using various exercises from street theater, Playback Theater and Theater of the Oppressed (especially Forum Theater), participants will gain insights into the experiences and the limited space into which Dalits, especially Dalit women, are restricted and confined due to the many historical social exclusions they suffer in their daily lives. Clare Marie will demonstrate how she uses "space" in theater to help break through the culture of silence, exclusion and oppression. This workshop will be useful to people working with marginalized communities and constituencies in the United States. Tuition--sliding scale: $45-$75 To pre-register, please send an email to toplab@toplab.org to let us know that you will be attending. ** Clare Marie Therese is based in Tamilnadu, India where she has been involved for fifteen years in mobilizing people in the Dalit community, particularly women, in the struggle for social justice and full democratic rights. She uses theater extensively in her political work in Tamilnadu and elsewhere in India, and also in Sri Lanka where she has worked with women from indigenous groups like Dalits and other tribals, people from the beleaguered Muslim community, cadre and others in mass political movements, plantation workers in Sri Lanka and Sri Lankan repatriates in India, street children and child laborers, and other constituencies. She was a member of fact finding teams concerning atrocities committed against Muslim and Dalit women, and also against fisherfolk in Madras. She has been trained in both Playback Theater and Theater of the Oppressed. **** Travel Directions The Brecht Forum is at 451 West Street (West Side Highway) in Manhattan, between Bank and Bethune Streets, 1-1/2 blocks north of West 11 Street. IND Eighth Avenue A, C, or E train to 14 Street or BMT Canarsie L train to 8 Avenue (take a few minutes to look at "Life Underground", Tom Otterness' series of whimsical bronze sculptures scattered throughout both sections of the station); walk down 8 Avenue to Bank Street, turn right, walk west to West Street, turn right. IRT Seventh Avenue 1, 2, or 3 train to 14 Street; get off at south end of station, walk west on 12 Street to 8 Avenue, left to Bank Street, turn right, walk west to West Street, turn right. New Jersey PATH train to Christopher Street; walk north on Greenwich Street to Bank Street, left to West Street, turn right. #8 bus to West Street; walk up West Street to 451. #11, #14A or #20 bus to Abingdon Square; walk west on Bank Street to West Street, turn right. #14D bus to 8 Avenue and 14 Street, walk down 8 Avenue to Bank Street, turn right, walk west to West Street, turn right. * ================================================================= .NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems . Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us . .339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org . List Archives: https://blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/ . Subscribe: https://blythe-systems.com/mailman/listinfo/nytr =================================================================