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Radical Awakenings: Recognizing Racism and White Privilege is an immersive, arts-based Zoom workshop that reimagines how we engage conversations about race, privilege, and allyship. Rooted in Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, RA replaces passive learning with embodied exploration—using performance, imagination, and lived experience as tools for critical racial inquiry.
Participants are invited to examine their own stories, assumptions, and social positions through interactive exercises that cultivate empathy, awareness, and accountability. Rather than telling participants what to think, RA creates the conditions for participants to discover how racism operates within systems, relationships, and the self—and how allyship can move from concept to practice.
Facilitated by Candice D’Meza, educator and professional actress (B.A., MPA), RA blends theatrical methodology with social justice pedagogy to foster meaningful, transformative dialogue.
Premiered in 2020, this workshop was developed with funding support from the City of Houston, administered by the Houston Arts Alliance.
3 hours. Via Zoom. Pre-Work Required.
Click here to read the write-up on the workshop in BroadwayWorld from 2020.
Radical Awakenings: Recognizing Racism and White Privilege is an immersive, arts-based Zoom workshop that reimagines how we engage conversations about race, privilege, and allyship. Rooted in Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, RA replaces passive learning with embodied exploration—using performance, imagination, and lived experience as tools for critical racial inquiry.
Participants are invited to examine their own stories, assumptions, and social positions through interactive exercises that cultivate empathy, awareness, and accountability. Rather than telling participants what to think, RA creates the conditions for participants to discover how racism operates within systems, relationships, and the self—and how allyship can move from concept to practice.
Facilitated by Candice D’Meza, educator and professional actress (B.A., MPA), RA blends theatrical methodology with social justice pedagogy to foster meaningful, transformative dialogue.
Premiered in 2020, this workshop was developed with funding support from the City of Houston, administered by the Houston Arts Alliance.
3 hours. Via Zoom. Pre-Work Required.
Click here to read the write-up on the workshop in BroadwayWorld from 2020.