Coming to Bellingham

March 12, 13, 16, 2008
Climate Change…Help Wanted: An intimate evening of theatre (without a play) about global warming Directed & Joked by Adam Ward

Painting by: Art Eco (Courtesy of Headlines Theatre)

Wed. March 12, 7:30 p.m. -- Arntzen Hall 100, Western Washington University. All tickets released 30 minutes before show for this 350+ seat venue (no advance tickets).

Thur. March 13, 7:30 p.m. -- The Firehouse Performing Arts Center, 1314 Harris Avenue, in Historic Fairhaven. A limited number of advance tickets available at Village Books, 1200 11th Street ($15 per ticket). All Admission by Donation tickets released 30 minutes before show.

Sun. March 16, 7:30 p.m. -- Arntzen Hall 100, Western Washington University. All tickets released 30 minutes before show for this 350+ seat venue (no advance tickets). A Participating Production in the March 16 2008 A Jokers’ International Day of Action on Global Warming: Featuring 48 theatre artists in 43 cities in 23 countries on 5 continents within a 24 hour period.
 

Democracy Improv approaches the creation of community-based, issue-oriented theatre events from the point of view presented by David Diamond in his new book Theatre for Living: the art and science of community-based dialogue and rooted in the groundbreaking social-justice theatre games, exercises, and techniques invented by Augusto Boal, the founder and author of the Theatre of the Oppressed.

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The full Democracy Improv website will launch in late March of 2008! Please note the above navigation buttons will be activated at that time.
 

Climate Change…Help Wanted is a participating production in A Jokers’ International Day of Action on Global Warming, the first-ever global theatre event on climate change.

 

A Jokers’ International Day of Action, an event initiated by Headlines Theatre, of Vancouver, Canada, takes place around the world on March 16, 2008.

 

Adam Ward, of Democracy Impov, helped conceive this event during an exchange of emails with David Diamond, the author of Theatre for Living: the art and science of community-based dialogue and Artistic Director of Headlines Theatre. 

 

Visit these links at Headlines Theatre’s website for more information on:

We are collaborating with people and organizations in the environmental movement in and between Seattle and Bellingham, WA, to create various theatre workshops and performances in the region between now and March 16, 2008. If you are in the region and would like to get involved or bring Climate Change…Help Wanted to your community, please contact Adam Ward. 

 

Bookmark this page now! Then check back in late March of 2008 to learn more about Democracy Improv and the art of producing community- based forums through custom theatre events.

 

Note: A Joker is the term used to describe a person who facilitates and/or directs theatrical events using Augusto Boal-based techniques from the Theatre of the Oppressed.

 

 

Contact: adam@democracyimprov.com