Action Camp Daily Agendas 2009

Thursday, August 13

3:30      Logistics

Introductions: Name & Your Image

Anything You Want the Group to Know

Juggling Names Game

Listening Activity

Question Circle

Community Agreements & Underlying Assumptions

Language & Vocabulary

Timeline: Story of Racial Justice in the U.S.

Personal Timeline of Race & Racism

Check-out: Name

One Thing About You We Can't Tell By Looking

Hopes and Fears

7:00                 Dinner

8:00                 Clean-up

8:40                 Light-skinned PoC and Mixed Race Caucus at Campfire

                        Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action Screening

9:45                 Campfire Open to All

Friday, August 14

8:30-9:30         Breakfast

9:30-1:00         Announcements

                        Check-ins: Sounds & Movement

                        Peruvian Ball Game

                        Ethnic Identity & Pride

                        Break

                        Caucuses: POC, White Allies

                        Whole Group Dialogue

1:00-2:30            Lunch

2:30-7:00            Theatre of the Oppressed*

• Space Series
• Blind Series
• Mirror Sequence
• Complete the Image
• Machines
• Multiple Images of Happiness
• Image of the Word: Theatre of the Oppressed & Discussions

7:00-8:00            Dinner

8:00-8:30            Clean-up

8:30                 Campfire & Flag Wars Screening

Saturday, August 15

8:30-9:30         Breakfast

9:30-1:00         Announcements

                        Check-ins: Share a stretch, Sound & Movement

                        Theatre of the Oppressed*

• Blind Tracker
• Animal Pairs
• Find Your Mother Like a Baby Penguin
• Machine Series
• Lightning Forum

                        Timeline Part 1

1:00-3:00            Lunch at the River

3:00-7:00           Power/Problem Tree

Design an Anti-Racist Co-op: Activity, Presentations, Critiques,

Discussion

Moop

Check-outs

7:00-8:00            Dinner: Queer Caucus

8:00-8:30            Clean-up

Night-time Activities:

Zine/Art Party

Slingshot Hip Hop Screening

Sunday, August 16

8:30-9:00            Breakfast

9:00-9:10            Check-ins: Weather Reports, Counting

9:10-10:00            Design an Anti-Racist Co-op Part 2

6 min report, 6 min critique and questions

10:00-10:30            Clear out of Cabins

10:30-11:30            Break Out Groups: White allies & PoC Caucuses

11:30-12:30            Break Out Groups

                                    Environmental Racism

                                    Cultural Appropriation

12:30-1:00          Report Backs: 6 min/group

1:00-2:30            Lunch: Gentrification Caucus

2:30-3:30            Action Steps

3:30-4:00            Reporting Back/Leading Trainings

4:00-4:30            Closing

4:30-5:30            Clean-up & Head Out

5:30                     Depart, Leave etc.

Facilitation details for items in bold can be found in NASCO's facilitating racial justice trainings document.

*For notes on facilitating these Theatre of the Oppressed exercises, refer to Theatre of the Oppressed by Augosto Boal.