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Portfolio: Forum Theatre

THE WORK I'VE DONE WITH STAGE LEFT HAS
BEEN THE MOST PROFOUND OF MY ENTIRE LIFE.

---- Fleetwood Legay

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A Damn Runs Through It
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Image Theatre Workshop
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A Wild Ride
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InterRelationCRIPS
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Closet Freaks
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Zoltan the Adequate
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Youth Skills, Youth Jobs
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Go Girls! Group
FORUM THEATRE WORK*
An interactive form of Popular Theatre that immerses agents of change in critical discourse about how to liberate themselves from individual, cultural and/or structural oppressions. 

WITH PROFESSIONAL ACTORS, for institutional change (in policy and/or professional practices)
    2023        Systemic Silence, Indigenous, Local, Global Health Office (ILGHO); UCalgary Cuming School of Medicine
    2022        Inherited Systems, Drs. Janet de Groot & Pamela Roach; UCalgary Cuming School of Medicine
    2022        Decolonizing Acute Care, ILGHO; UCalgary Cuming School of Medicine
    2022        Decolonizing Patient Advocacy, ILGHO; UCalgary Cuming School of Medicine
    2022        Systemic Silence, ILGHO; UCalgary Cuming School of Medicine
    2021        Student Mix...er..., 
ILGHO; UCalgary Cuming School of Medicine
    2021        Divided & Conquered, SeedSchool (The Mustard Seed & CBE - Calgary Campus)
    2021        Chain Reactions SeedSchool (The Mustard Seed & CBE - Calgary Campus)
    2021        The Race Card SeedSchool (The Mustard Seed & CBE - Calgary Campus)
    2021        We Are All Immigrants?!, SeedSchool (The Mustard Seed & CBE - Calgary Campus)
    2019        Decolonizing the Academy, Office of Academic Indigenization; MRU
    2008        No Sweat, Food For Thought Conference; King's University
    2008        Hearing Voices, Adult Aboriginal Mental Health; Elbow River Healing Lodge (Calgary run)
    2008        
Hearing Voices, Adult Aboriginal Mental Health; Elbow River Healing Lodge (Canmore run)
    2007        Stand Up For Your Rights!, Parkland Conference, Edmonton 


WITH NON-ACTORS, for community-driven liberation (social justice)
    2013        Access THIS!, Spinal Cord Injury Initiative; Alberta Paraplegic Society
    2008        Talking To Strangers/ Strange Talk; Calgary Health - Diversity Services
    2008        The REAL End of the Spectrum, Transitions IV; Autism Aspergers' Friendship Society
    2007        Dis THIS!, Active Living Alliance of Alberta; Persons with Developmental Disabilities - Calgary
    2007        Unmasking Self, School, and Society, Transitions III; Autism Aspergers' Friendship Society
    2006        BullyProof, Transitions II; Autism Aspergers' Friendship Society
    2006        Get Global, Province-wide Tour; Alberta Council for Global Cooperation
    2006        The Whole Story: Reflections on Relationships, Dr. Lindsay Crowshoe; UBC Family Medicine
    2006        A Dam Runs Through It, Dr. Tim Pyrch; UCalgary Social Work & UC International Centre 
    2005        The Whole Story: Reflections on Relationships, Dr. Lindsay Crowshoe; UAlberta Family Medicine
    2005        The Whole Story: Reflections on Relationships, Dr. Lindsay Crowshoe; UCalgary Family Medicine
    2005        School Systems, Dr. Donna Crowshoe; Alberta Education – Aboriginal Services
    2005        Home Life | School Life | The System, Transitions I; Autism Aspergers' Friendship Society
    2005        What Did You Call Me?!, Reality Check Conference; Calgary Activist Network
    2005        Go Girls!; City of Calgary Neighbourhood Services
    2005        What Did You Call Me? Faculty of Social Work Students' Society, UCalgary Social Action Day
    
2004        The Whole Story: Reflections on Relationships, Dr. Lindsay Crowshoe; Poundmaker Lodge
    
2004        A Wild Ride, CASA; Persons with Developmental Disabilities - Central Region 
    2003        The Whole Story: Reflections on Relationships, Dr. Lindsay Crowshoe; Ghost River Recovery
    2003        A Wild Ride, Self-Advocacy Summit; Persons with Developmental Disabilities - Alberta 
    2002        Welcome to the System, Yak Bak Youth Conference; Calgary John Howard Society
    2001        School Dayz, Calgary Arts Jam; Arusha Centre
    2001        Power Play, Self-Advocacy Project; Prospect Disability Services
    2000        At the Bus Stop, Power Plays Self-Advocacy Program; Stage Left Productions
    2000        At the Seed, Power Plays Self-Advocacy Program; Stage Left Productions
    2000        At Home?!, Power Plays Self-Advocacy Program; Stage Left Productions

    1999        School Dayz, Disability Action Hall; Calgary Scope Society
    1999        The Protest, Disability Action Hall; Calgary Scope Society
    1999        The Appeal, Disability Action Hall; Calgary Scope Society

LEGISLATIVE THEATRE
Using Forum Theatre to bring together oppressed peoples with those with power over us (law/ policy-makers) into a Town Hall, where both sides are committed to enacting whatever changes the spect-actors (larger community) come to agreement on. 
    2022        Metaxis: An Arts in Indigenous Health Congress, ILGHO; UCalgary Cumming School of Medicine
    2006        What Did You Call Me?!?!, Social Action Day; UCalgary Faculty of Social Work




* PLEASE NOTE: 
Many of our Theatre of the Oppressed projects have been omitted here, due to our policy of safeguarding the many vulnerable people/ communities we collaborate with.

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Michele Decottignies, founding Artistic Director 
403.829.2307 | Box 8007, Canmore RPO; Canmore, AB  T1W 2T8
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