A Drachma Project in collaboration with Allied Rainbow Communities and Eden Cinemas and made possible through funds by Premju tal-President.
The Events
Friday 1 March at 20.00 at the University Chapel: A Conversation with Dr Nicholas Briffa and Rev Karm Debattista on Gay Conversion Practices.
Saturday 9 March at 21.00 (time to be confirmed) at the Eden Cinemas: Viewing of the film 'Boy Erased'.
Saturday 16 March 09.00-17.00 at the MXlokk Youth Activity Centre: Forum Theatre activity
'Images
of oppression...images of empowerment' is a project for LGBTI persons
using Image and Forum Theatre.
The project will focus on the
relationship between sexual orientation and identity on one hand, and on
religious faith and spirituality on the other hand. Through
physicality, the participants will create images of oppression that
reflect the personal and social tension experienced by LGBTI persons in
struggling to integrate their sexuality with their faith. These images
will serve as a catalyst to create acted out scenes of oppression that
will be explored further in the Forum Theatre sessions. The participants
will experiment with a variety of different alternatives and approaches
to transform these scenes of oppression into scenes of empowerment. The
engagement will allow the community to re-create the scenes in such a
way that these can then be realistically transported into their everyday
lives, or else provide them with interpersonal and intrapersonal skills
which can be used in their lives to address the oppression. For legacy
purposes the narrative of empowerment created by the participants will
then be used as a basis for a theatrical script.
The outcome of this
project is twofold: a) it will serve to reach out to the LGBTI community
and offer Drachma LGBT more exposure which will result in supporting
the marginalised even further; b) it will offer a space of empowerment
to the participants that can lead to more integration in life and to
better welfare.
Attendance
is open to all adults over the age of eighteen (+18) and can be
LGBTIQ+, parents or allies or any person interested in the theme.
Persons interested in attending should send an email on
drachmalgbt@gmail.com or contact 79253875 for further details.
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