Ambiente Project: Theater Workshops for Groups
Description
Maine Inside Out’s Ambiente Project offers theater workshops for groups of youth and adults. Every space has an ambience (ambiente!) - a mood that shapes how people feel and connect. The Ambiente Project is about learning to create that intentionally, turning any room into a place where something real can happen between people.
MIO’s highly interactive workshops offer games and exercises that deepen our understanding of ourselves and our social conditions. The workshops draw on MIO’s core pedagogy of Theatre of the Oppressed and other creative and movement practices we’ve learned from teachers and artists. Workshop participants will experience the ways we create original theater with groups in prisons and communities. Participants will leave the workshop having had the opportunity to experience theater as a tool for building trust and deepening dialogue within their community.
The number of workshop participants is flexible.
Cost
Cost of a workshop for groups is a sliding scale of $500-$2,000.
The cost includes all aspects of the workshop:
Transportation to the workshop
Appropriate portion of salaries for the facilitation team
Leadership development
Workshop planning, facilitation, and debrief
Team
The workshop is led by a team of facilitators with diverse lived experiences. This team currently leads our play creation and performances programs in the community and inside correctional facilities. Most of our facilitators are from the communities they work in and bring invaluable experience and expertise to their work. In addition to leading theater games, facilitators will share about their experiences facilitating theater workshops and community performances with youth and adults.
The team has facilitated workshops for youth and adults at Bates College, Blueberry Harvest School, Bowdoin College, Cobscook Institute, King Middle School, Lewiston Middle School, Long Creek Youth Development Center, Maine Educators Conference, Maine Law, Maine Youth Leadership Conference, Mountain View Correctional Facility, Next STEP, Somali Bantu Community Association, and more.
The cost of the workshop is an overall investment in MIO programs - workshops like this are our only “fee for service” offering and the revenue we generate goes directly into supporting the programs in Maine communities.