Category: Workshops
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Theatrical Adaptations
Theatrical Adaptations: Co-creation of Knowledge on Climate Change through Storytelling, directed and facilitated by Lara Aysal in 2021. The aim of the project is to open a pathway for a meaningful exchange of stories between Western and Indigenous knowledge systems for climate justice conversations. During the project an intergenerational team of participants, who are interested…
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Climate Strike
In 2019’s massive climate strike at Vancouver BC took place. Lara co-organized and facilitated creative tools to strike with Rise and Resist/Victoria- Kazdaglari Solidarity Group/ Vancouver. We creatively engaged in ideas to disturb everyday life during the climate strike focusing on discovering creative methods to protest.
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In Limbo
In Limbo is an intergenerational theatre project with refugees from Syria, Egypt, Kurdistan and Turkish senior volunteers that took place in 2017 in Istanbul, Turkey. Co-directed and facilitated by Lara Aysal. In collaboration with Ardıc Solidarity Association, Istanbul Creative Drama Association and Kadıkoy Municipality. The project focuses on building a dialogue between young refugees and…
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Hul’q’umi’num’ heroes: Reclaiming Language Through Theatre
Hul’q’umi’num’ heroes: Reclaiming Language Through Theatre is an applied theatre research project. In collaboration with Snuneymuxw Nation, UVic and SFU with the support of SSHRC. Led by Dr Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta, Co-facilitated, directed by PI’s Lara Aysal, Jemma Llewellyn, Dennis Gupa, Taiwo Afolabi. The project aimed at supporting the cross-generational transfer of the Hul’q’umi’num language and…
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Act 4 Change
Act4 Change is an applied theatre project that took place in 2011, co-facilitated by Lara Aysal, in collaboration with EU Youth Initiatives at Rustenburg, South Africa. Participants from South Africa, Bulgaria, France, Italy and Turkey performed Forum Theatre plays in rural and urban communities. Focusing on issues such as human rights, land and rural development,…
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Imece Gemisi
Imece Gemisi is an applied theatre project that took place in Van, Kurdistan in 2013, after the big earthquake. Van is a Kurdish city. The war between the Kurdish guerrilla and the Turkish military has been going on for more than 30 years. We organized workshops and five Forum Theatre performances with Kurdish youth. Working…
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