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A highly regarded and experienced theatre practitioner and therapist,
Mr. Blair trained ACE artist/facilitators for three weeks and oversaw
the initial implementation of the program.
Mr Blair has 15 years' experience facilitating theatre projects involving incarcerated adolescents - the most recent of his Shakespeare projects took place in 2001 in the 'high risk offender' division of Central Juvenile Hall in Los Angeles, a unit reserved for 14 - 18 year olds charged with murder.
The ACE program took place in a Queensland correctional facility, and
used Shakespearean text as a medium for Queensland prisoners to
address rupture in their own lives and those of their families.
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Photo by Jeremy Patten
Theatre of the Oppressed practitioner and the founder of the Center for Theatre of the Oppressed and Applied Theatre Arts (Los Angeles) Brent Blair took a two-week intensive workshop on Image Theatre, Forum Theatre and Rainbow of Desire techniques, including basic Games for Actors and Non-Actors, an overview of the history and the pedagogy, and practical group exercises. For Artists, therapists, social workers, teachers, actors...
two week intensive workshop: 26-30 June & 3-7 July
2006-
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afternoon workshop for teachers and Ed students: 8 July
2006-
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Queensland Times - Borallon inmates given bard labour
Sun Herald - Bard behind bar in bid to beat violence
The seven-year old "Shakespeare Behind Bars" program in Kentucky, USA: the subject of a documentary film profiled by the Christian Science Monitor.
The London Shakespeare Workshop's "Prison Project" at Her Majesty's Prison Woodhill.
The ten-year program created and run by Jean Trounstine at Framingham Women's Prison in Massachusettes, USA, and described in her book, "Shakespeare Behind Bars."
Those which eminent theatre practitioner Augusto Boal has implemented successfully in more than seven Brazilian prisons. Boal's work is respected world-wide as innovative and effective in addressing social problems and creating harmony in diverse communities.