A large group of artists stretching up to the sky during a Theatre of Change class

Applications are now open for Theater of Change 2024 Apply before January 1

Applications are open to theater makers of any discipline interested in learning how to use their own skills and expertise for social change.

The course will run from February 16-18th, 2024 with a final presentation on February 26th at Columbia Law School. Participants will be compensated for participation in this course. If you have questions, email leia@bac.nyc.

 

In social change work, the arts provide a vital space to imagine alternative solutions to unjust systems and promote those alternate futures as achievable realities.

The Theater of Change (TOC) Methodology brings together theater artists, policy experts and students, and advocates who have first-hand experience with the systems we need to change to learn from each other and expand their capacity, community, and impact.

This intensive workshop enables participants to blend the practices of artistry, law, policy, and advocacy led by people with direct experience to produce artistic projects with the potential to make tangible impact on the inequitable, unjust, and racist systems. Through these powerful collaborations, the participants co-create and perform pieces of artivism – narrative-based artistic pieces designed with an activism strategy – to center the narratives of directly affected members in the group, develop lasting collaborations, and effect meaningful policy and systems change.

In partnership with the Center for Institutional and Social Change, BAC teaches the Theater of Change Methodology annually in a week-long course at Columbia Law School.

A group of artists and advocates present their impact project at Columbia Law School during the Theater of Change Forum

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Theater of Change tools and resources will be available at theaterofchange.org