October 3–5, 2014

Lyman Hall, Room 007

TAPS hosted a weekend workshop series with Daniel Bryan, director of the Pachaysana Institute, an Ecuadorian organization that uses the participatory arts to link community development and international education.

For thousands of years, our ancestors have sought balance between human needs and natural resources, often expressing the conflicts through a performed story.  Sponsored by TAPS, Searching for Balance is a weekend-long Theatre for Social Change workshop offered as part of Brown’s First Readings project and in response to the documentary film Oil & Water. Participants engaged the film’s themes through improvisation activities, Image Theatre, and Spoken Word, creating personal stories to share in a short interactive performance at the conclusion of the workshop.