Theatre for engagement and dialogue.
TheatreWorks Consulting
TheatreWorks offers conference workshops and develops presentations and audience-interactive theatre performances with conference members, adding a creative and engaging component to your conference.
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In multi-day workshops (from 3-6 days) we bring together a group of people and use Theatre for Living games and exercises to explore a topic of interest. Based on this exploration, we develop short plays for audience-interactive theatre performances to engage the broader community in creative dialogue.
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Theatre without a play. Half and full day workshops provide an opportunity to utilize the games and exercises of Theatre for Living to stimulate creative dialogue to explore challenging issues and solutions for schools, organizations, and communities.
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Introduction to theatre workshops introduce theatre games, improvisation exercises and play creation to create opportunities for individual skill development and team building.
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Testimonials:
Facilitator, Memory Café Program (serving people living with memory loss and their partners and caregivers).
River led the group in an exploration of memory loss using Theatre for Living. Participants said, “We were strangers and now we allow ourselves to be close. Thank you for doing this tremendous work for us."
Principal, SJ Willis School, Victoria, BC.
Using the art form of theatre to examine in depth the thorny problems youth encounter with substance use and other real life issues is an effective and engaging tool to reach the hearts and minds of community members.
Conference attendees, Today’s Children Camp; Youth, Tomorrow’s Families,
Family Smart Youth Camp; Family Consensus Conference.
Excellent presentation and fantastic exercise. It was a very engaging, thought- provoking, fun and unique way to collaborate. The theatre presentation was a novel way of encouraging concrete ideas for engagement-well done!
Kaylin Arason, Settlement Youth Worker, Intercultural Association of Victoria.
It has been such a joy to work alongside River! River led theatre workshops in our children’s summer camps and a workshop exploring the theme Becoming for youth and young adult participants. Drawing from their experience as a Theatre for Living facilitator, River beautifully weaves together games and exercises that are fun, build community, and draw out insights, reflections, and embodied knowledge from participants through creative expression and play. Through River’s process and facilitation, our youth opened up and expressed themselves in a way I hadn’t seen before. From the planning stages to the workshop day, I admired River’s
thoughtfulness, adaptability and collaborative energy and approach.
River Chandler, MA, BSW, is the Artistic Director of TheatreWorks. River brings professional theatre training and experience, twenty-five years’ experience teaching and facilitating diverse groups, and extensive experience working with local, provincial and national partners in diverse organizations, schools and community groups to their work.
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