Image Theater
Sub-title:
Images of Gentrification
Date & Time:
01/19/2008 - 09:30 - 18:00
Kicker:
2-DAY WORKSHOP BEGINS
Description:
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 organizing around these issues, as well as to anyone who lives in communities that are threatened by gentrification. Activists working on other social 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.
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.
Minimum Fee:
95
Max Registration:
45
Fee:
Sliding scale: $95-$150
OUR SPECIAL THANKS! The Brecht Forum owes its existence to a broad network of support. Our modest fees cover only a fraction of our costs and we rely on the progressive community for our financial survival. Hundreds of valued subscribers and donors provide steady contributions to all of our activities. Our programs are made possible with support from Manhattan Neighborhood Network, The Surdna Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.
