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A first course for those with little to no previous knowledge of the language. Students speak Spanish from the first day and acquire basic speaking, reading, and writing skills while learning about Spanish...
This Afro-Futuristic yarn features philosopher and Jazz pioneer Sun Ra and his Myth Science Orchestra. Summoned from Outer Space to save the Black race, this film is a meditation on slavery, cooptation and...
This ongoing seminar on Vol I of Marx' Capital, began in the Fall. Part 2 will begin this term at Chapter 15. New students are welcome to join the class at any time. A good background reading is Leo...
Each Wednesday in the month of February Women on Wednesday will feature the phenomenal creative expressions of women of the African Diaspora in poetry/spoken word, dance, music, song, and theater arts.
...This class will examine the capitalist roots of the multi-faceted ecological crisis via a Marxist economic and...
Writing in the socially-engaged poetic tradition of Langston Hughes and Walt Whitman, Ewuare X. Osayande unleashes his latest book of poems, Whose America?, that takes on the political climate...
The “Ladies First 2012" art exhibition at...
This mini-workshop, designed for people who have been curious about the Theater of the Oppressed (TO) but have not been able to commit to a full weekend workshop, will present an overview of the basic...
The film narrates the story of David Carr, an unemployed worker and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, who decides to fight for the republican side in the Spanish Civil War. The film won the...
This seminar will meet as a working group to study the historical trajectory of the U.S. Labor Movement since the late 19th century to understand its relationship with current crises. How have the forces of...
These Tuesday evenings will each begin with an update and analysis of major economic events of the last month and their contexts of longer-term economic trends shaping politics and society here and abroad....
Each Wednesday in the month of February Women on Wednesday will feature the phenomenal creative expressions of women of the African Diaspora in poetry/spoken word, dance, music, song, and theater arts.
...Jose Rosa, an immigrant from El Salvador, with 15 years experience teaching Spanish to teenagers and adults, will conduct classes to develop conversational skills while learning more complex grammatical...
Hegel's philosophy has had a great influence to much that has happened in the world since his time. Hegel is crucial to understanding much of modern philosophy as well as to understanding Marxism and the...
Freedom Summer tells the story of Bob Moses, a Harvard graduate, who single-handedly initiated the voter registration efforts of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the most racist...
Freedom Summer tells the story of Bob Moses, a Harvard graduate, who single-handedly initiated the voter registration efforts of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the most racist...
Freedom Summer tells the story of Bob Moses, a Harvard graduate, who single-handedly initiated the voter registration efforts of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the most racist...
Crime, drugs, HIV/AIDS, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty,...
The Obama presidency represents a major milestone in black history and the struggle for...
Each Wednesday in the month of February Women on Wednesday will feature the phenomenal creative expressions of women of the African Diaspora in poetry/spoken word, dance, music, song, and theater arts. Women...
The Brecht Forum invites you to a Special Reception Celebrating Vinie Burrows & Esther Jackson.
Image Theater, part of the repertory of Theater of the Oppressed, was created by the late Brazilian director and cultural activist Augusto Boal (1931-2009).
Drawing on the theories of popular...
Concluding our Black History look at Afro-Futurism, the Brecht Forum and the Groundfloor Collective are proud to present two experimental films.
Child of Resistance(Haile Gerima, 1972, 36 minutes...
Each Wednesday in the month of February Women on Wednesday will feature the phenomenal creative expressions of women of the African Diaspora in poetry/spoken word, dance, music,...
José Carlos Mariátegui is one of Latin America’s most profound but overlooked thinkers. A self-taught journalist, social scientist, and activist from Peru, he was the first to emphasize...
These Tuesday evenings will each begin with an update and analysis of major economic events of the last month and their contexts of longer-term economic trends shaping politics and society here and abroad....
The principles of trade unionism are based on working people acting together in solidarity with each other, to improve wages, working conditions, and life for themselves and all others. In its most developed...
This session will consist of three lectures on the basic structure of capitalism and its relation to political power. We will examine how the specific class structure of...
Verita$ critically examines Harvard’s historical role and its global impact. The film’s director describes Harvard¹s traditional character in three key words: rich, white, and male...
In 1972, Selma James set out a new political perspective. Her starting point was the millions of unwaged women who, working in the home and on the land, were not seen as “workers” and their...
In his book Legislative Theatre: Using Performance to Make Politics, Augusto Boal explains how certain circumstances, both social and political, "signaled the necessity to create a new category of...
In 2010 and 2011 Kayhan Irani, playwright and Theater of the Oppressed facilitator, worked in Afghanistan using Theater of the Oppressed with Afghan Education Projects, a media for development organization....
These Tuesday evenings will each begin with an update and analysis of major economic events of the last month and their contexts of longer-term economic trends shaping politics and society here and abroad....
This workshop is an outgrowth of a collaboration and some recent conversations that took place between Julian Boal, TOPLAB facilitator Marie-Claire Picher and other members of TOPLAB. When it first...
The dominant schools of neoclassical and neoliberal economics tell us that material scarcity is an inevitable product of an insatiable human nature. Against this, Costas Panayotakis argues that scarcity is...
Cop-in-the-Head is a collection of Theater of the Oppressed techniques that uses games and exercises to recognize and confront internalized forms of oppression, and explore power relations and collective...
These Tuesday evenings will each begin with an update and analysis of major economic events of the last month and their contexts of longer-term economic trends shaping politics and society here and abroad....
Invisible Theater is one of the techniques of the Theater of the Oppressed, in which "actors" create "theatrical" situations in public places, but where the public does not realize that a...
This weekend workshop focuses on exercises, games, and improvised scene work from the Theater of the Oppressed repertory developed by Brazilian director, popular educator and Workers Party activist Augusto...
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