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LIBERATING OUR POTENTIAL THROUGH
THEATER OF THE OPPRESSED
MARCOS ARRUDA PACS – Institute of Alternative Policies
UNIPAZ – International University for Peace
CIT – International College of Therapists
PLENITUDE FARM, Integral Ecovillage
Pierce College
Lakewood, Washington
January 25, 2017
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AUGUSTO BOAL PAULO FREIRE
What they have in common
“The Way” does not exist, it is one’s challenge to open one’s own way – individual-community-people TRUST people’s propensity for goodness/happiness FREEDOM – SELF-DEVELOPMENT - SOLIDARITY
THEATER OF THE OPPRESSED
•WHO: Augusto Boal and his team
•WHEN: 1960s -- present
•WHERE: Brazil And beyond!
•WHAT FOR:
To overcome OPPRESSION
- in Brazil
- in people’s lives anywhere
OPPRESSION =
LACK OF FREEDOM: - TO BE a person, community, people - TO HAVE ENOUGH for a decent life - TO DEVELOP ONE’S OWN POTENTIALS
WORLD VIEW BEHIND T.O. & E.O.: SEEING LIFE AS A WHOLE
CHIEF SEATTLE, in a letter to
President Franklin Pierce: “This we know: the Earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the Earth. ALL THINGS ARE CONNECTED like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the WEB OF LIFE, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”
*COOPERATE instead of SEPARATE COMPETE
*HARMONY WITH MOTHER
EARTH
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WHO AM I: THE ECO-SOCIAL INDIVIDUAL
HUMANS ARE:
– RELATIONSHIP
– NATURAL AND TRANSCENDENTAL
– COMPLEX – EVOLUTIONARY – LOVING
“WE, humans, are animals that depend on LOVE. This becomes evident in the fact that we get ill when deprived of love, at any age.”
Humberto Maturana, biólogo chileno
Reading: “THE ORIGIN OF HUMANNESS IN THE BIOLOGY OF LOVE”, By Humberto Maturana Romesin and Gerda Verden-Zoller, Munchen/Basel 1996.
• TO ONESELF
• TO NATURE
• TO SOCIETY-HUMANKIND
• TO EACH OTHER
WHO ARE WE?
• LOVE = welcoming the other as authentic Other in
communication/communion/empathy
• LIFE AS THE GREATEST GOOD
- DEVELOPMENT OF OUR POTENTIALS = moving ends of our evolution
- GOOD LIVING and HAPPINESS = enabling environment for social and human development
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UNITY OF DIVERSITY
INDIVIDUAL COLLECTIVE
OVERCOMING OPPRESSION:
• OVERCOMING OPPRESSION:
FULFILLING RIGHTS AS MEANS TO DEVELOP:
– “I” (INDIVIDUALS) – life, work, community, free time, freedom, respect, dignity, beauty, peace, friendship, LOVE
– “WE” (SOCIAL BEINGS) – water and food, health, dwelling, healthy environment, ownership of the means to produce and reproduce life
– NATURE – also a subject of rights (Constitutions of Bolivia and Ecuador – United Nations)
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UNITY OF DIVERSITY
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BOAL: THEATER AS A WEAPON FREIRE: EDUCATION AS A TOOL
1. OF OPPRESSION: do not think, do not act, depend, submit
2. OF LIBERATION: think critically, develop attitudes: self-reliance, solidarity
3. POWER TO SELF-MANAGE OUR LIVES: – THE BODY: self-knowledge, self-expression, self-
esteem, integral health
– FAMILY, COMMUNITY: self- and co-manage integral development
– NATION, THE PLANET: national and planetary citizenship
DEVELOPMENT AS
REALIZATION OF OUR POTENTIAL POLITICS
= Not only to contemplate the world and oneself, but to transform by means of action
. Daily life, city, country < SELF-RELIANCE
. Social animals: individual and collective responsibilities and rights > freedoms, good living, happiness, love
. POWER, vigor, force to act
DEMOCRACY
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• FREEDOM • COMMON GOOD
• REPRESENTATIVE • DIRECT
DEVELOPMENT AS REALIZATION OF OUR
POTENCIALS
SPECIFIC GOODS:
Esthetic pleasure, ethics, food, drink, friendship
SUPREME GOOD:
•BOAL: POLITICS – HAPPINESS = TO BE FREE
•MATURANA, CHARDIN: LOVE
ACT OF LOVING = WELCOMING the other
as authentic Other in communication/communion/empathy
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FROM NEEDS &DEBTS
TO DEVELOP MY/OUR
POTENTIALS