Kuringa
We thank each and everyone who supported the first steps of KURINGA.
The members of the community groups Madalena-Berlin, Kuringa-Wedding and Kuringa-Moabit, who with their Forum theatre productions discussed important issues in a public debate and build the backbone of our association.
Those, who visited our space and brought their presence, opinion and stage intervention for the events that we promoted.
Those, who helped us with the workshops of our agenda in 2011, contributing to the construction of our pedagogical program.
To each and all who have trusted our proposals and helped us to achieve them by supporting the cleaning, painting and reforming our space, donating materials and furniture and money.
Local, regional and international partners who build together with us the path for the transformation of the reality.
We ended 2011 activities with the joy and satisfaction of having done our best.
We wish you a great 2012 for all of you!
We hope to do even more; together and in solidarity.
Happy New Year!
KURINGA team.
Mission
Theatre of the Oppressed
Research * Production * Qualification
Mission:
Kuringa is a Theatre of the Oppressed organization dedicated to the research, development and creative multiplication of the method; through the artistic production based on the Aesthetics of the Oppressed, and through the formation and support of community groups, qualification of practitioners, promotion of dialogue and solidarity networks; therefore, contributing to the transformation of reality.
• Qualification of practitioners
Developing programs that meet the artistic, political and professional needs of qualifications of Theatre of the Oppressed practitioners. Envisioning the documentation and systematization of these learning processes to contribute to the creation of pedagogical paradigms in this area.
• Research
Creating space for research and artistic development of the various techniques of the method: Aesthetics of the Oppressed, Rainbow of Desire (Invasion of the Brain), Madalena Laboratory – Teatro das Oprimidas (theatre of the oppressed on women's issues), amongst others, which appeared as necessary and useful under the perspective of creative multiplication of Augusto Boal's method.
• Artistic Production
Investing in artistic productions – plays, performances, sculptures, audiovisual, music, dance, poetry etc. – based on Aesthetics of the Oppressed, and in consonance to the Method's fundamental as well as with aesthetic quality and political depth.
• Community Groups
Stimulating and supporting the organisation of artistic community collectives and committed in the struggle for transformation and overcoming of the oppressing realities.
• Dialogue and Solidarity
Cooperating with other cultural, social and political institutions on the local, regional and international level, aiming to the creation of solidarity networks that promote concrete and continuous social actions.
• Documentation
Producing and promoting the documentation of developed processes - images, words and sounds, etc; to communicate and share the produced knowledge, and artwork, and for the stimulation of new creative processes.