2. THEATER OF THE OPPRESSED The Theater of the Opressed (TOD) is a method developped the brasilian advisor, actor, director and pedagogue Augusto Boal in the 1960s. The Theater of the Oppressed is about the theater of oppressed social classes and about all oppressed people inside these social classes. The methods of the Theater of the Opressed are influenced by Bertolt Brechts epic theater and by The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire. They contain some initial games for actors and non-actors: the journalistic theater, the rainbow of desire, the legislative theater, the invisible theater, the image theater and the forum theater – the most famous among them.They are aimed at transforming the observers into protagonists of the dramatic action and “through this transformation helping the observers to prepare real actions which lead them to their own liberation”. The Aesthetic Eduaction has been the last method developped by Augosto Boal. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teatro_del_oprimido
3. PEACE CULTURE TRAININGS WITH YOUNG LEADERS SPONSORED BY SAVE THE CHILDREN Nicaragua, 2008 First workshops of the Theater of the Oppressed on the national scale. On this occasion we were instructing young leaders Ocotal, Totogalpa, Yalaguina, Somoto, Matagalpa, La Dalia, Ciudad Darío, Managua, León and Granada.Project of Save the Children about peace culture on the national scale, Nicaragua, 2008-2009
4. FIRST STAGE FORUM THEATER / COSUDE ACAHUALINCA, MANAGUA NICARAGUA 2010-2011 SUBJECT VIOLENCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION EXERCISES AND TECHNICAL METHODS
5. DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROJECT FORUM THEATER There arise places of discussion about subjects that we are interested in, in that case environment The groups are divided in subassembly groups of discussion Each group makes a suggestion about the chosen subject The groups present their suggestions The trainer observes the different suggestions, corrects undesirable behavior, encourages positive behavior Only one screenplay is elaborated based on the best scenes of each presented play that constitute the final opus
6. GRADUATES OF ASART’S FIRST THEATER WORKSHOP IN NICARAGUA FUNDED BY COSUDE, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84Huuw2QTU8
7. Second period Theater of the Oppressed Acahualinca and Ciudad Sandino, sponsored by COSUDE in Nicaragua During this second period we wrote a script for the play, we recorded a special CD with music and we made the a stage design. The play was called BARRIO LIMPIO BARRIO SANO (CLEAN TOWNSHIP, HEALTHY TOWNSHIP). The children practiced and presented the play to the most polluted markets in Managua (Huembes, Mazoreo and Oriental). On these markets we presented the play in collaboration with sister organizations that provided us a place like INPRHU and Pan y Amor del Oriental. In addition we presented us in Ciudad Sandino and finished in the lecture hall of the University of Centralamerica. Children, teachers from Acahualinca and Ciudad Sandino participated. The message thrills the consciousness of children and adults from Managua. We will provide new trainings about how to handle garbage for the benefit and the development in the community. Using founds of DANIDA (Danish cooperation) we continued our work in the elementary school of Acahualinca where we currently provide artistic recycling workshops, construction with ecological bricks (handling of nonbiodegradable waste), agriculture and reforestation (handling of biodegradable waste) and muralism to leave behind the graved messages where everybody can see them and remember them.
13. AULA MAGNA UCA, MANAGUA NICARAGUA, ASART-COSUDE FINAL PRESENTATION MARCH 29th 2011
14. LA DALIA , MATAGALPA, NICARAGUA, 2009 OTHER WORKSHOPS: IMAGE THEATER
15. Nursery-school teacher, La Dalia, Nicaragua 2009 Theater is an efficient way to communicate new values to people or groups of people. It is as well a tool for conflict resolution and for other methods that we use as Positive Inquiries and restaurative circels. Theater is the first phase that uses punctual organisation to wake up consciousness about subjects that impede the social development. Among others, it gives us the possibility to reprocuce situations that we live through every day. By representing these scenes we have the occasion to intervene as mediators, directors, trainers and to give alternative solutions for their problems.
16. PUPPET WORKSHOP FACILITATED BY THE FOUNDATION AMANECERES DE PANAMA AND ASART IN PAN Y AMOR SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL MARKET, MANAGUA NICARAGUA 2009
40. ART THERAPY WORKSHOP FOR ABUSED CHILDREN / SELF-PORTRAIT / 6-YEAR-OLD BOY, SEHLTER OF ESCAZU 2008 What cannot be seen at first sight… … can be seen with light effects in photoshop Since 2003 approximately 250 art workshop have come into being in shelters for minor abuse victims. Due to legal matters we cannot reveal their identity but we will be able to keep some of the results.
41. Shelter Escazu, 2006 Self-portraits of 6 and 7 year old children In these self-portraits we can detect characteristics that appear very often in drawings of abused children. Deformed or nonexistent extremities for exemple, as well as enourmous heads, empty eyes and the utilization of black.
42. We denounce aggresors when we have to face cases of abuse in school children like the following case in Los Lagos School, Liberia, 2006.
48. Other references about ASART and me http://www2.prensalibre.cr/pl/abanico/24729-llenan-de-color-parque-el-progreso.html http://www.costarica.org/asart http://www.prensalibre.co.cr/2008/abril/05/nacionales15.php http://www-usa.laprensa.com.ni/archivo/2008/abril/01/suplementos/nosotras/spot/spot-20080331-1.shtml http://www.nacion.com/ln_ee/2008/marzo/04/opinion1448681.html http://www.redcultura.com/ http://www.alianzaportusderechos.org/leer.php/98 http://www.ilustracionydiseno.com/parque/parque.htm http://www.intel.com/CostaRica/prensa/16Mar_07.htm http://www.ticotimes.net/backissues/catalog/details.cfm?sa=true&codarticulo=638 http://www.prensalibre.co.cr/2006/diciembre/06/abanico01.php http://www.aldia.co.cr/ad_ee/2003/diciembre/16/sociedad1.html http://www.artstudiomagazine.com/especiales/arte-ninos-1.html http://www.sembrandomaravillas.com/31-webpdf/31semana.htm
49. Sculptural work ASART-OIJ: project of infantile disarming 2008-2011 At first a play was presented in this project. This play invited the children to replace their martial toys with colored pencils, notebooks and water colors. Many toy weapons but also real thrust weapons and firearms were recollected. We had to start doing something with the recollected toys and as a result we elaborated an enormous sculpture that refers to peace culture together with product design students of Veritas University. The work is called “Los niños y niñas de Costa Rica eligen la PAZ” (“The children of Costa Rica choose peace”). The sculpture is exposed in the permanent exhibition in the Museum of the children in San José, Costa Rica. We want to repeat this project in Nicaragua and we almost have obtained the founds to realize it.
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52. TRAINING SCHOOL INSPECTOR OF MINED (Ministry of education), MANAGUA NICARAGUA, 2008
