What a riot.

What a Riot.

Upset!  Was created with the Latino students enrolled in the Plaza de la raza program with CAP. This process encouraged the students to look deep into history and highlighted their views and understanding of it. The “Joker system” allowed their ideas to be presented encouraging the audience to participate which started a deep dialogue in which all parties could feel that their ideas mattered. the purpose of this system is to raise questions.  I found the use of this device from theater of the oppressed to be very successful, because it brought the attention to  the process of people’s find their way to understanding not just the outcome of already crafted opinions. 

I do wonder what this might have been like if the students themselves created their own material through this process instead of using the layout that was given to them?