Theatre of the Opressed
Originally developed out of Augusto Boal’s revolutionary work with peasant and worker populations in Latin America, it is now used all over the world for social and political activism, conflict resolution, community building, therapy, and government legislation.
Community Wise
Communities with histories of oppression have shown great resilience, yet few health interventions focus on structural oppression as a contributor to health problems in these communities. Community Wise is a unique behavioral health intervention designed to reduce substance use frequency, related health risk behaviors, and recidivism among individuals with a history of incarceration and substance abuse residing in distressed and predominantly African American communities.
The Prison Creative Arts Project
The Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) brings those impacted by the justice system together with the University of Michigan community for artistic collaboration, mutual learning, and growth. We are a program of the LSA Residential College. Founded in 1990 with a single theatre workshop, PCAP has grown to include courses, exhibits, publications, arts programming, and events that reach thousands of people each year.
The Detroit Creativity Project
The Detroit Creativity Project is an organization in Detroit, Michigan using theatre and comedy improv to help children and youth work through challenges they experience.
Improvisation Heals
Therapeutic healing services from a licensed social worker in Ypsilanti, Michigan who utilizes improvisation within therapy for groups and individuals using a social justice framework.
¡Presente!: Chapter 4: Making Presence
"In chapter 4, she highlights Guatemalan artist Regina José Galindo and her performance, Earth, analyzed as an example to illustrate extractivist and necro-political practices in Latin America. In an illuminating study of Guatemala’s political history of internal war that left thousands of people dead, Taylor proposes to understand Galindo’s work as “embodying the country’s ferocity, the unilateral and seemingly endless violence directed at women, at indigenous people, at the defenseless, at the environment” (124)." review from Paola Hernandez
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17r1pbdnwIjxiwYWnHVx65FJr_4MLpqEB/view
Race and Revelation in Our American Stories
Add your 6-word stories to the official The Race Card Project Archives. Learn more about Our Hidden Conversation and Dinner a’Dozen, a new book club announced during the program that invites people to come together for discussions around identity, race and culture. Learn how you can enter to win 12 books and host your own book club.
https://www.mellon.org/events/race-and-revelation-in-our-american-stories
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art is located in Washington D.C. in the National Mall area. The art gallery offers various visual art pieces that can spark conversation about social justice issues and can spur dialogue about various social justice challenges. Online lessons and courses are also available.
Pedagogy of the oppressed. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. (Chapter 1 and Chapter 4)
Chapter 1: The justification for a pedagogy of the oppressed; the contradiction between the oppressors and the oppressed, and how it is overcome; oppression and the oppressors; oppression and the oppressed; liberation: not a gift, not a self-achievement, but a mutual process. Chapter 4:Antidialogics and dialogics as matrices of opposing theories of cultural action: the former as an instrument of oppression and the latter as an instrument of liberation; the theory of antidialogical action and its characteristics: conquest, divide and rule, manipulation, and cultural invasion; the theory of dialogical action and its characteristics: cooperation, unity, organization, and cultural synthesis.
https://envs.ucsc.edu/internships/internship-readings/freire-pedagogy-of-the-oppressed.pdf
Creating For Justice
This organization utilizes various genres of art to amplify minority population voices while creating community. Through the work of this collaborative, CFJ utilizes activism, education, and connection through the arts as vital to advancing social justice.
Creating For Justice
This organization utilizes various genres of art to amplify minority population voices while creating community. Through the work of this collaborative, CFJ utilizes activism, education, and connection through the arts as vital to advancing social justice.
PBS Art and Social Justice Collection
Educational resource for teaching art and social justice
Detroit Justice Center
The Detroit Justice Center (DJC) is a non-profit law firm working alongside communities to create economic opportunities,
transform the justice system, and promote equitable and just cities.
Renée Fleming Neuroarts Investigator Awards
Fields of basic science related to neuroarts include neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology, public health, neurology, complementary medicine, pediatrics, gerontology, and rehabilitation science and may involve others. Arts-based neuroarts disciplines include visual arts, dance, music, expressive writing, performing arts, digital arts, and may involve others. Two one-year grants, each for up to $25,000, will be awarded.
https://neuroartsblueprint.org/neuroarts-investigator-awards/
The Invention of Race
Compiled by Award-winning producer John Biewen from the "Seeing White" series. The Invention of Race traces the development of racial and racist ideas from the ancient world - when there was no notion of race - up to the founding of the United States as, fundamentally, a nation of and for white people. The Invention of Race is adapted from several episodes of the more in-depth 14-part series "Seeing White" on the Scene on Radio podcast.
https://www.wnyc.org/story/invention-race/
World Opera Forum
Opera has benefitted for decades from the support of cultural agencies and private philanthropists for different reasons. In much of Europe, governments have been motivated by a sense of obligation to their national culture and cultural infrastructure. In North America, the grandeur and exclusivity of opera has been an allure to many social and business leaders. Many countries exhibit a mix of these motivations, but in a world of competing priorities and limited resources, support structures for opera companies in their current form are weakening.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lQ4AZw081Mh7nbLOnS1ULWQlRL6Xx6PG/view
Painting the Ocean & the Sky
A resource by IC Transformative Justice Fellow Shira Hassan for anyone who is working to build collective community-based, non-carceral responses to crisis — and to prevent and create spaces to heal from them, to create and maintain resources that interrupt the almost routine harm and violence our communities experience as we simply move through our daily lives. It is offered in the spirit of knowing that everything written here can and should change over time, be pushed back on, expanded, and refined.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mvcRG8xsRd1NUdIEWEndYqawkRHmfvuN/view
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Fire Shut Up in My Bones is an opera by Terence Blanchard based on the memoir of the same name by Charles M. Blow, a New York Times columnist. The opera is about a young African-American man named Charles who is growing up in poverty and dealing with sexual abuse from his cousin as a child. The opera explores themes of masculinity and sexual identity as Charles comes of age and tries to find his place in the world.
https://www.metopera.org/discover/video/?videoName=fire-shut-up-in-my-bones-trailer&videoId=6348399508112
