-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 TOPLAB: Boal's Theater of the Oppressed - 2-17-NYC Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB) 451 West Street New York, New York 10014 (212) 924-1858 You are invited to attend a talk and reception Come hear Geo Britto discuss some of the work being done in Rio de Janeiro by Augusto Boal's Center for the Theater of the Oppressed Friday, February 17, 2006 at 7:30 pm at The Brecht Forum 451 West Street* New York City (* travel directions below) The Center for the Theater of the Oppressed in Rio de Janeiro (CTO-Rio), founded by Augusto Boal, is involved in numerous social justice projects in that city and elsewhere in Brasil. Geo Britto, a long-time worker at CTO-Rio will review and discuss some of the Center's ongoing projects, particularly work being done with the Landless Peasants Movement; prisons and prisoners' rights; and domestic violence, especially violence directed at women. Britto will also examine some of the revolutionary approaches to mental health being developed in Brasil and implemented by some psychologists and mental health care pracbreastioners there. Geo Britto has been working with the Center for the Theater of the Oppressed in Rio de Janeiro for the last fifteen years. He coordinates the Center's youth prisoner project and its mental health project, and is a founder and coordinator of the CTO-Rio's two anti-violence programs, Campaign against Domestic Violence and Men against Violence against Women. He has facilitated TO workshops throughout the world, and recently returned from a visit to Mozambique and South Africa. Geo Britto will also facilitate a two-day TOPLAB Forum Theater workshop at the Brecht Forum on Saturday, February 18 and Sunday, February 19 (see separate announcement). For more information, please contact TOPLAB Suggested contribution: Sliding scale--$6, $10, $15 (no one turned away) ***** Other Upcoming Events Saturday, February 11 and Sunday, February 12: Integrated Theater Arts for Actors, Non-Actors and Activists (workshop) Saturday, April 8-Sunday, April 9: Introduction to the Theater of the Oppressed--A Workshop for Beginners Saturday, May 20 through Thursday, May 25: Workshops facilitated by Augusto Boal and Julian Boal --Workshop 1: Invisible Theater --Workshop 2: Cop-in-the-Head Saturday June 24 and Sunday June 25: Forum Theater Festival ***** GPS for the racist community 621R.Peffers. Ha, ha. I swear I'm not making this guy up! The Caribbean's a good place to see how 'integrated' Pakis and african americans become, left to their own devices: they emigrate, to... Travel directions The Brecht Forum and TOPLAB is at 451 West Street. West Street is the same as the West Side Highway. Subway: IND Eighth Avenue A, C or E to 14 Street; BMT Canarsie L to 8 Avenue. Walk down (against the traffic) Eighth Avenue to Bethune Street (at Abingdon Square). Go right (west) on Bethune to West Street, turn left for 1-2 block to 451. IRT Seventh Avenue 1, 2 or 3 to 14 Street. Exit at the south (12 Street) end of the station. Walk west (against the traffic) on 12 Street to West Street. Turn left, walk 1-1-2 blocks to 451. New Jersey PATH train to Christopher Street. Walk north (with the traffic) on Greenwich Street to Bank Street. Turn left, walk west on Bank Street to West Street. Turn right, walk 1-4 block to 451. Bus: #8 to Christopher and West Streets, walk north on West to 451. #11 and #14A to Abingdon Square. Walk west on Bethune Street to West Street, turn left for 1-2 block to 451. #20: From downtown--to Abingdon Square. Walk west on Bethune Street to West Street, turn left for 1-2 block to 451. From uptown--to 12 Street. Walk west (against the traffic) on 12 Street to West Street. Turn left, walk 1-1-2 blocks to 451. ***** This is the TOPLAB Announcement List. To unsubscribe, send an email to: unsubscribe tlnyc If you are not on this list and would like to be, message body write: subscribe tlnyc To be placed on TOPLAB's News List (moderate-volume list of news items, analytical articles, essays and background reports of interest to TOPLAB the first line of the message body write: subscribe tlnews Note to people with AOL, Hotmail and Yahoo addresses: Mail to these domains is frequently rejected and returned to TOPLAB as undeliverable. We can't guarantee that mailing list subscribers at those domains will receive our posts. Therefore, we encourage TOPLAB List members to supply us with addresses that are alternatives to AOL, Hotmail or Yahoo. - -- "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. 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