I offer academic classes and practical workshops on applied theater in educational and social contexts for community groups, students and/or practitioners in the fields of performance, education, social work, and related areas. Whether training future facilitators or engaging first-time participants, in one-off or ongoing sessions, I tailor creative activities to the given social context.
These classes/workshops, oriented for different contexts and themes, present the praxis of socially-engaged performance, looking at theories and methodologies for facilitating community engagement, and examining potential ways for theater artists to generate social, somatic and educational dialogues, with a global perspective on their local terrain.
For more information, please email me: sarahashfordhart@gmail.com / sahart@wm.edu
Above: Image theatre workshop as part of the critical migration studies project “Other forms of protection: a collaborative and situated study on initiatives of community protection for migrant people with diverse identities and sexualities,” realized in collaboration with Foundation Lxs Locxs, at the Instituto Pensar, Javeriana University, Bogotá, Colombia, 2024
Above: body maps from a workshop on activist practices of communication as part of the diploma program “Women and Strategies of Communication for Collective Action” at the Yapawayra Foundation in Ibagué, Colombia, 2023
Above: My class at UC Davis on Performing Arts in Education and Community Contexts, Davis, California, 2018
How did it serve you? “To realize all we have and hope to achieve a better life for our families” “The play helped us shed our fear and gave me more confidence” “It was a message for other people who will immigrate…it felt good” “I liked it because I got to know more of my colleagues’ experiences”
Above: migrant performance workshop I facilitated with the group Warmipura (for immigrant women) at the Municipal Library of Recoleta in Santiagon, Chile, 2017
Above: Mapping Routes & Roots Workshop, Imagining America National Conference, University of California, Davis, 2017
Sarah Ashford Hart 