Name: "From the Oppression that Inhabits me to the Expression that Activates me"
Start: 2026-06-06T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-06-06T15:00:00+01:00
Location: East Street Arts

Speak Woman Speak C.I.C & Butterfly in the Head present a Theatre of the Oppressed practitioner workshop with Artist Cláudia Simone
About this Event

Speak Woman Speak & Butterfly in the Head present “From the oppression that inhabits me to the expression that activates me” with Cláudia Simone.

Based on the Aesthetics of the Oppressed, where the “act of transforming is transformative”, with the use
of clay, we will experience the sensation of transforming internalized oppressions into something concrete,
strengthening critical awareness, self-expression, enabling the symbolic representation of
mechanisms of oppression existing in society, to reinvent other ways of acting in
society.

Cláudia Simone Santos Oliveira, a Theatre of the Oppressed practioner based in France- this will be her first visit to the UK. Clàudia is a Black woman with experience in Europe, Latin America, and Africa, was born in Volta Redonda, in the interior of Rio de Janeiro, in 1967. She is the daughter of a domestic worker and union activist, with a degree in Pedagogy from FERP, in Psychopedagogy from Simonsen, a Master's degree in Ethnic-Racial Relations from CEFET/RJ, and is an international member of the Pas à Passo Théâtre de L'Opprimé (FR) and TOgether International Theatre Company.