The Illumination Project
Coordinator: Jeannie LaFrance | 503-977-8149
The Illumination Project uses interactive social justice theater as a venue for Student Educators and audience members to join together to rehearse ways of solving problems. Interactive theater, with its capacity to engage diverse learning styles and members of a community, is an ideal way to challenge racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other forms of oppression. In performances audience members enter a scene and dynamically change its outcome. In this way, the Illumination Project challenges the viewpoints of both the audience and the actors/Student Educators in a performance.
The Illumination Project is a program of the Sylvania Women’s Resource Center and finds additional support from the Sylvania Campus President’s Office, Multicultural Center, Sociology and Theater Departments.
Current Topic and Events
Winter Term 2009, the Illumination Project will focus on racism, immigration and cultural pluralism and Spring Term 2009 we will be focusing on religious pluralism. Our goal is to create a campus community that values people of all backgrounds. Our plays will focus on the challenges faced by people of color, immigrants sexual minorities and relgious minorities within the PCC community and will reflect the desire for all individuals to be respected and included. With help from the Ford Foundations Difficult Dialogues grant, the Illumination Project and PCC will continue to maintain a focus on pluralism through the spring term of 2010.
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