https://www.ctpo.org/home daily 1.0 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d27f4f06d33346a8d0cae5/1627650822141-U6PA79U4WNL4I46HA600/1473372579939.jpg Home Applied Theater Training Theater of the Oppressed Story Circles Program Design https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d27f4f06d33346a8d0cae5/1627650978151-8JVNPDQUFH9044OQU98F/DSCN1500.JPG Home - Joker Cohort Retreat Image Theater Cop in the Head Forum Theater https://www.ctpo.org/about daily 0.75 2021-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d27f4f06d33346a8d0cae5/1627336240016-K5ZZFUHLEGUX68PE7URT/20160728_144158.jpg About - PHOTO: 2017, Niangal Village, Senegal The Center for Theater & Pedagogy of the Oppressed (CTPO) CTPO is a hybrid, digital and in-person, popular theater and popular education portal which combines established pedagogy and practice with new innovations in applied theater to address, unmask and dismantle all forms of oppression everywhere. Our mission is to bring the full improvisational swag of our ancestors to bear on 21st century challenges to humanity. As a U.S. based practice of theater and pedagogy of the oppressed, CTPO recognizes as a central point of historical reckoning, the legacy of chattel slavery, the embedded refusal to vanquish anti-black caste systems, and the continued imposition of state sanctioned and enforced structural racism, in our own country and globally. https://www.ctpo.org/ctpopractitioners daily 0.75 2021-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d27f4f06d33346a8d0cae5/1624426999362-D0PBDWEFEIEAA7DOFOLE/20131229_020404.jpg CTPO Practitioners - Gail Burton Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d27f4f06d33346a8d0cae5/1628721899209-N8QIFK8IGFVOKX3U3NH1/IMG_0160.jpeg CTPO Practitioners - The Joker Cohort MASTER FACILITATOR APPRENTICESHIP The current Joker Cohort began as a remote learning study group focused on the Pedagogy and Theater of the Oppressed. In August 2021, we put theory into practice and met for a practical workshop in Image theater and to establish the commitments of the group as a Joker cohort of Theater of the Oppressed (TO). The Joker Cohort is comprised of community workers who are interested in the ways that embodied social justice practice, in the form of Theater of the Oppressed, can be used to address social issues. We also look at the practice in concert with multiple efficacies (contemplative, political, theatrical, educational, technological) that members of the Cohort have mastered. In the future, new members will be decided through a curated process which considers the input of the existing group with final decisions made by the Director. PHOTO: 2021 Joker Cohort Retreat, Providence, RI. L to R: Ivan Eusebio Aquirre Darrancou, Josie Bray, Brittany Owens, Brendan Curran. Interested? 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