toured it to several communities from late February through March 1996. Their college work continues with a personal safety workshop at Capilano College.In February 1996 David Diamond of Headlines was given the City of Vancouver's First Cultural Harmony Award for his work in community-based theatre, used to explore such issues as diversity, racism, homophobia, and refugee concerns.On the last Friday of every month, Headlines hosts a Theatre for Living Cabaret at Havana, 1212 Commercial Drive at 8 PM; tickets are $5 or Pay What-You-Can. Everything comes from the audience!TOL workshops and performances for a wide range of groups and private organizations. A few recent projects have included: -- "Uprooting Racism" at Washington State University -- "Sexuality & Risk" with Lummi tribal youth -- "Sexual Harassment" trainings for the Seattle Public Schools -- "Working with Youth" -- Americorps LANDMARK CONFERENCE Augusto Boal, Paulo Freire, and Peter McLaren were the featured speakers at a conference on "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" held in Omaha, Nebraska from March 21-23, 1996. This was the first ever appearance of Freire and Boal together. The conference featured over 350 workshops, performances, demonstrations, debates, and dialogues. Doug Paterson coordinated a parallel series of TO workshops led by Boal before and after the conference period: "The conference was extraordinary...Perhap upward of 900 people, perhaps as much as 25% people of color including a contingent of 20-25 First Nations people. There was tension, distrust, joy, insight, pressure, confrontations, dialoque, and a final sense of genuine achievement, if I may be so bold as to characterize a larger experience from my own personal one." - Doug Paterson. ____________In Boal's work around forum theatre, invisible theatre and the theatre of the oppressed we see some fascinating expressions...
