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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. Black Studies, 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.
Click here to read the write-up on the workshop in BroadwayWorld from 2020.
3 hours. Via Zoom. Pre-Work Required.
*Registration and pre-work sent immediately upon checkout to the email address provided.
If you do not receive the email immediately, please:
check your spam folder for an email from candice@candicedmeza.com
make sure you are checking the email account that corresponds to the payment method you used or the email you input.
If you still do not find it after those steps, please email candice@candicedmeza.com with your email and session date.
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. Black Studies, 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.
Click here to read the write-up on the workshop in BroadwayWorld from 2020.
3 hours. Via Zoom. Pre-Work Required.
*Registration and pre-work sent immediately upon checkout to the email address provided.
If you do not receive the email immediately, please:
check your spam folder for an email from candice@candicedmeza.com
make sure you are checking the email account that corresponds to the payment method you used or the email you input.
If you still do not find it after those steps, please email candice@candicedmeza.com with your email and session date.