Indigenous Magic
February 26th 6:00
Free to all!
Indigenous Magic is a monthly arts series for and by Native Folk, presented at the Magic Theatre. Organized by Jerome Joseph Gentes (Standing Rock Lakota and Fort Belknap A'aninin) Monday, February 26th @ 6pm in the lobby of the Magic Theatre.
This month: F*gs and Friends theatre company wlll be holding space with Magic Theatre and Indigenous Magic, in presenting a Theatre of the Oppressed workshop on the evening of Monday, February 26th at 6:30P.M.. Come gather with organizations, collectives, and artists with like minded goals in arts practice and activism. Theatre of the Oppressed is a practice coined by Brazilian practitioner Augusto Boal. Boal was inspired by famed literature, Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Boal's techniques use theatre as means of promoting social and political change in alignment originally with radical-left politics and later with diversified ideology. In the Theatre of the Oppressed, the audience becomes active, such that as "spect-actors" they explore, show, analyse and transform the reality in which they are living. Using the theatre-form Augusto Boal worked to engage community and discussions. The program will be facilitated by theatre founders, Mylo Cardona and Oli Naimi.
From the company:
We are a political education and activation cabaret series and theater troupe in Oakland. Many people know us as Fags and Friends! We use performance art as a medium for cultural organizing. We are building for our next cabaret series, it will focus on the theme of land back as it relates to indigenous groups in the Bay Area and Palestine. We are working with UC Berkeley’s Latinx Research Center and the Tribunal Freedom Archives to organize the research of revolutionary movements and practice inter-connection.
The workshop will be a lab experiment to theater practice and themes related to a land-back as it relates to indigenous groups in the Bay Area and Palestine. The group is working with UC Berkeley’s Latinx Research Center and the Tribunal Freedom Archives to organize the research of revolutionary movements and demonstrate how they’re all connected.