The Mandala Center for Change presents “Waging Peace – Designing Justice” - a special public Forum Theater performance and community dialogue on Friday, June 25th at 7:00 PM. This participatory event will take place at the Masonic Center – 1338 Jefferson St. – in uptown Port Townsend. Admission is FREE with donations gratefully accepted to benefit the Boiler Room – PT’s youth driven coffee house and community center. No advance reservations are necessary however chairs are limited so early arrival is recommended.

When: Friday, June 25th @ 7:00 PM

Where: The Masonic Center –
1338 Jefferson St., Port Townsend

Cost: FREE (donations welcome to benefit the Boiler Room)

Info: 360-344-3435 or
info@mandalaforchange.com

Facilitated by Marc Weinblatt

With a cast of 40 people from across the U.S. and Canada as well as the Republic of Congo, India, Chile, Hong Kong, Haiti, and Turkey, this Forum Theatre event is the culmination of a week-long intensive training in Theater of the Oppressed (also known as Theatre of Liberation, Theatre for Living) techniques and is created and performed by the participants including several members of the Mandala Center's local Poetic Justice Theatre Ensemble. Under the guidance of facilitator, Marc Weinblatt, the audience will choose from several pre-scripted short plays depicting social issues relevant to the community at large. The selected plays will be performed a second time at which point the audience will be invited to stop the action, come on stage, and improvise their solutions to the problems at hand. Themes from past annual events have included racism, sexism, homophobia, globalization, the education system, disability, and the war in Iraq.

This creative forum will not tell people what to think but instead will invite people to think. All opinions will be welcome and valued. Through the evocative and universal language of theatre, everyone is invited to share wisdom on the issues at hand. It can literally be a rehearsal for the future in which audience “spect-actors” take action towards creating the kind of world they want. Come participate actively or simply sit back and witness the process.