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The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB)
451 West Street
New York, New York 10014
(212) 924-1858
top...@toplab.org
http://www.toplab.org
The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB)
founded in 1990
presents
A Two-day Workshop in Image Theater: Images of Gentrification
Saturday, January 19, 2008 from 9:30 am to 6:00 pm, and
Sunday, January 20 from 9:30 am to 6:00 pm
facilitated by Gail Burton and Marie-Claire Picher
at the Brecht Forum
451 West Street (travel directions below)
New York City
Image Theater is designed to develop individual skills of observation
and self-reflection, and cooperative group interaction.
Leadership-building and consensus-building games and techniques explore
relations of power and group solutions to concrete problems through
"living body imagery." Discussions begin through the language of
images, offering a fresh approach to power analysis and new
opportunities for the exchange of ideas.
This workshop will emphasize topics related to gentrification and should
have special appeal to people who are working and organizing around
issues related to gentrification, as well as to anyone who lives in
communities that are threatened by changes that benefit the rich at the
expense of poor and working people. In addition, activists working on
other social and political issues will be able to adapt the TOPLAB
gentrification-issue model for use in their own projects. All
participants will come away with a greater understanding of some
critical issues facing our cities--and, increasingly, our suburbs. By
using those topics as the basis for this workshop, people working on
other issues will be able to enhance their own effectiveness among
their particular constituencies and within their organizations.
As part of this workshop, we are pleased that Rene Francisco Poitevin, a
researcher on urban and gentrification issues who teaches at New York
University's Gallatin School and is a member of the Brecht Forum's Task
Force on Gentrification, will join us to discuss the various issues that
will inform these sessions.
It is highly recommended that people read the book The Suburbanization
of New York: Is the World's Greatest City Becoming Just Another Town,
edited by Jerilou Hammett and Kingsley Hammett (New York, 2007:
Princeton Architectural Press, $24.95. ISBN-13: 978-1-56898-678-4 and
ISBN-10: 1-56898-678-4).
Tuition--sliding scale: $95-$150
To pre-register, please send an email to top...@toplab.org to let us
know that you will be attending.
*****
Other Upcoming Events
++February 2: Diabetic Drama--A Workshop; facilitated by Robbie McCauley
++February 15-17: De-masking Stereotypes--An Approach to Healing through
Storytelling; facilitated by Potri Ranka Manis
++March 1: Sugar; performed by Robbie McCauley
++March 8-9: Forum Theater, focusing on gender oppression; facilitators
to be announced
++March 29: Body Interviewing, Body Sculpting; workshop facilitated by
Gail Burton
++March 29: Along These Shores; performed by Gail Burton
++April 12-13: Advanced Techniques for Facilitating Image Theater;
facilitators to be announced
++May 12-17: Two workshops facilitated by Augusto Boal and Julian Boal
*****
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.
===
The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB)
top...@toplab.org
http://www.toplab.org
"My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the
battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed."
--George W. Bush, May 1, 2003
"...I told the American people that the road ahead would be difficult,
and that we would prevail. Well, it has been difficult--and we are
prevailing."
--George W. Bush, June 28, 2005
"Our cause in Iraq is noble and necessary....America is engaged in a new
struggle that will set the course for a new century. We can and we will
prevail."
--George W. Bush, January 10,
2007
"Prevailing in Iraq is not going to be easy."
--George W. Bush, March 19, 2007
+U.S. military fatalities through May 1, 2003: 140
+U.S. military fatalities through June 28, 2005: 1743
+U.S. military fatalities through January 10, 2007: 3017
+U.S. military fatalities through March 19, 2007: 3217
+U.S. military fatalities as of January 10, 2008: 3921 (this figure
exceeds the number of people killed in all of the incidents that
occurred on September 11, 2001)
+Iraqi deaths due to the US invasion, as of September 2004 (estimated by
The Lancet): 100,000+
+Iraqi deaths due to the US invasion, as of July 2006 (estimated by The
Lancet): 654,965
+Iraqi deaths due to the US invasion, as of January 10, 2008 (estimated
by Just Foreign Policy): 1,164,650*
*These figures are based on the number of deaths estimated in The Lancet
(the British medical journal) study through July 2006, and then updated
based "on how quickly deaths are mounting in Iraq". To do that, Just
Foreign Policy multiplies The Lancet figure as of July 2006 by the ratio
of current deaths reported by Iraq Body Count (IBC), divided by IBC
deaths as of July 1, 2006. The IBC numbers, considerably lower than
those cited by The Lancet, Opinion Research Business (a British polling
firm which estimated 1.2 million Iraqi deaths as of September 2007),
and even the Iraq Ministry of Health, are based on the number of
fatalities cited in various news reports and have been criticized, with
much justification, for not giving an accurate assessment of the real
Iraqi death count. The much more rigorous and statistically-reliable
study, conducted by teams from Johns Hopkins University, Columbia
University and Al-Mustansiriya University, and published in The Lancet
in September 2004, put the figure at around 100,000 civilians dead.
However, that data had been based on "conservative assumptions",
according to research team leader Les Roberts, and the actual count at
that time was credibly assumed to be significantly higher. For example,
The Lancet study's data greatly underestimated fatalities in Fallujah
due to the surveying problems encountered there at that time. The
second Lancet study, released on October 10, 2006, indicated that
654,965 "excess" deaths of Iraqis have occurred since the outbreak of
the aggression and genocide committed by the United States against the
people of Iraq. The current figures provided by Just Foreign Policy
seem to be logically consistent with the increasing rates of death from
2003 to 2004, and 2004 to 2006.
Sources: http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
http://icasualties.org/oif/
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/
http://www.zmag.org/lancet.pdf
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1338749,00.html
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/Iraq_war.html
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=6271
http://olm.blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20041025/008279.html
http://www.thelancet.com/webfiles/images/journals/lancet/s0140673606694919.pdf
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