Services
TheatreWorks will work with you and your organization to develop and deliver successful workshops, presentations, and performance projects tailored to your organization’s goals, needs and mandate.
Port Alberni Youth and Family Services and TheatreWorks hosted a day long workshop with youth and youth workers using games, Image Theatre and dialogue to explore our struggle with the opioid overdose crisis. We created a powerpoint presentation of our process using photography, art and participants’ reflections for youth to utilize in presentations for local governments, schools and not for profit organizations.
We facilitate theatre skills workshops for children, youth and adults. Workshops can include games, introduction to improvisation, improvisation exercises, and play creation, and can be adapted to different levels of experience with theatre. Workshops build confidence for participants and build teams in a creative and playful way.
Theatre without a play. We work with you and your organization to develop workshops using the games and exercises of Theatre for Living to explore an issue that is important to you. These workshops provide an opportunity for creative dialogue to explore challenging issues and solutions in schools, organizations, and communities. Workshop length varies from one and half hours to a full day, depending on your organization’s needs and capacity.
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TheatreWorks brought their experience with theatre and working with children to artsREACH Victoria, developing and delivering curriculum across SD 61 for K-grade 5 children. The games were fun, engaging and provided an opportunity for creative expression and skill building.
Mount Currie First Nation and the Village of Pemberton’s Winds of Change program hosted TheatreWorks in a day long workshop with Indigenous and White youth, school counsellors, and elders to explore, “What Reconciliation Means to Us”. In the workshop we explored barriers, built relationships across the two communities, and deepened our understanding of reconciliation. We presented and animated physical images from our workshop at Mount Currie’s Wellness Celebration, engaging the audience in a creative dialogue about reconciliation.
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InsideOut: Interactive theatre about homophobia and transphobia, brought youth and young adults with lived experience of the issue under investigation together in a six-day workshop. The group created three audience interactive plays based on their experiences in their families, in university and in the community, and presented three public performances, followed by performances at schools and universities in Victoria, BC. The project was supported by Burnside Gorge Community Association, the Greater Victoria School District, and the BC Ministry of Public Safety.
We help community organizations and schools bring the gap between issues and people. In multi-day workshops (from 3-6 days) we bring together a group of people and use the games and exercises of Theatre for Living to explore a topic of interest. Using the material, we develop short plays for audience-interactive theatre performances that engage the broader community in creative dialogue.
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The Oak Bay family of schools in SD 61 and TheatreWorks brought elementary school leadership students and high school theatre students together in a three-day workshop, Sticks and Stones, to explore bullying. TheatreWorks and the theatre students utilized the material from this workshop to develop two powerful plays for performance in Oak Bay schools. After performing each play for student and teacher audiences, we let audience members know that we would show them the plays again, and invited them to stop the action, take an actor’s place, and as the character, try their idea for stopping the bullying taking place in the play. These audience interactions prompted meaningful dialogue and creative solutions with actors and audience alike.
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TheatreWorks can add a creative and engaging component to your conference keynote or workshops. We draw on your conference or workshops themes to offer presentations and workshops and/or work with a group of conference attendees to develop short plays for audience-interactive theatre performances.
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At the University of the Fraser Valley’s Race and Antiracism Network’s Conference, we used Cops in the Head to engage audience members in a creative dialogue as the keynote address.
Cops in the Head addresses those internal voices that have embedded themselves in our psyche. It is not always external forces that we struggle against - sometimes internalized voices that originate from other people are equally powerful. Cops in the Head are the voices of people who put up stop-signs and say, "you can’t do that", "you're stupid", "no good" etc. People who have somehow blocked us and over time have taken up residence inside us, affecting the way each of us listens, sees and acts. This workshop helps participants and living communities identify these voices and liberate themselves in a creative and entertaining way.
