[NYTr] NYC Rainbow of Desire workshop, 12/1-2/07 - NYC

Mon Nov 12 14:24:35 EST 2007

The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB)
451 West Street
New York, New York 10014
(212) 924-1858
toplab at toplab.org
http://www.toplab.org

The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB)

presents a two-day workshop in the Rainbow of Desire

Saturday, December 1, 2007 from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm; and
Sunday, December 2 from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm

facilitated by Gail Burton and Marie-Claire Picher

at

The Brecht Forum
451 West Street (travel directions below)
New York City

Rainbow of Desire is a Theater of the Oppressed technique similar to
Cop-in-the-Head. Where Cop uses games and exercises to recognize and
confront internalized forms of oppression, Rainbow of Desire deals with
conflicting needs, desires and wants within individuals and explores
power relations and collective solutions to concrete problems. This is
a method and set of techniques that is especially useful for teachers
and educators who work with disadvantaged populations, social workers,
psychologists and mental health professionals, and community activists
and organizers who are involved with marginalized constituencies and
constituencies which have traditionally been the victims of bias and
discrimination.

Tuition--sliding scale: $95-$150

To pre-register, please send an email to toplab at toplab.org to let us
know that you will be attending.

***

Other Upcoming Workshops:

+++ February 2008 (exact date TBA): Demasking Stereotypes: A Workshop in
Healing through Storytelling

+++ May 12-17, 2008: workshops with Augusto Boal; details to be posted

***

Travel Directions

The Brecht Forum is at 451 West Street (West Side Highway) in Manhattan,
between Bank and Bethune Streets, 1-1/2 blocks north of West 11 Street.

IND Eighth Avenue A, C, or E train to 14 Street or BMT Canarsie L train
to 8 Avenue (take a few minutes to look at "Life Underground", Tom
Otterness' series of whimsical bronze sculptures scattered throughout
both sections of the station); walk down 8 Avenue to Bank Street, turn
right, walk west to West Street, turn right.

IRT Seventh Avenue 1, 2, or 3 train to 14 Street; get off at south end
of station, walk west on 12 Street to 8 Avenue, left to Bank Street,
turn right, walk west to West Street, turn right.

New Jersey PATH train to Christopher Street; walk north on Greenwich
Street to Bank Street, left to West Street, turn right.

#8 bus to West Street; walk up West Street to 451.

#11, #14A or #20 bus to Abingdon Square; walk west on Bank Street to
West Street, turn right.

#14D bus to 8 Avenue and 14 Street, walk down 8 Avenue to Bank Street,
turn right, walk west to West Street, turn right.

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The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB)
toplab at toplab.org
http://www.toplab.org

"My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the
battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed."
                                        --George W. Bush, May 1, 2003

"...I told the American people that the road ahead would be difficult,
and that we would prevail. Well, it has been difficult--and we are
prevailing."
                                        --George W. Bush, June 28, 2005

"Our cause in Iraq is noble and necessary....America is engaged in a new
struggle that will set the course for a new century. We can and we will
prevail."
                                        --George W. Bush, January 10,
2007

"Prevailing in Iraq is not going to be easy."
                                        --George W. Bush, March 19, 2007

"[My son] Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be
the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next
few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human
lives." --Cindy Sheehan, May 28, 2007

+U.S. military fatalities through May 1, 2003: 140
+U.S. military fatalities through June 28, 2005: 1743
+U.S. military fatalities through January 10, 2007: 3017
+U.S. military fatalities through March 19, 2007: 3217
+U.S. military fatalities as of November 12, 2007: 3860 (this figure
exceeds the number of people killed in all of the incidents that
occurred on September 11, 2001)

+Iraqi civilian fatalities through May 1, 2003: 1982
+Iraqi civilian fatalities through June 28, 2005 (estimated by
IraqBodyCount.net): 22,563 – 25,560*
+Iraqi civilian fatalities through January 10, 2007 (estimated by
IraqBodyCount.net): 53,101 – 58,704*
+Iraqi civilian fatalities through March 19, 2007 (estimated by
IraqBodyCount.net): 59,326 – 65,160*
+Iraqi civilian fatalities as of November 12, 2007 (estimated by
IraqBodyCount.net): 76,662 – 83,516*
+Iraqi civilian fatalities as of July 2006 (estimated by The Lancet):
654,965

*These figures are based on the number of fatalities cited in various
news reports and have been criticized, with much justification, for not
giving an accurate assessment of the real civilian death count. A much
more rigorous and statistically-reliable study, conducted by teams from
Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University and Al-Mustansiriya
University, and published in The Lancet (the British medical journal)
in the Fall of 2004, put the figure at around 100,000 civilians dead.
However, that data had been based on "conservative assumptions",
according to research team leader Les Roberts, and the actual count at
that time was credibly assumed to be significantly higher. For example,
The Lancet study's data greatly underestimated fatalities in Fallujah
due to the surveying problems encountered there at that time. Most
recently, a second Lancet study, released on October 10, 2006, now
indicates that 654,965 "excess" deaths of Iraqi civilians have occurred
since the outbreak of the aggression and genocide committed by the
United States against the people of Iraq.

Sources: http://www.iraqbodycount.net/
http://icasualties.org/oif/
http://www.zmag.org/lancet.pdf
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1338749,00.html
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/Iraq_war.html
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=6271
http://olm.blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20041025/008279.html
http://www.thelancet.com/webfiles/images/journals/lancet/s0140673606694919.pdf

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