I have been learning a lot about community cultural development recently from Winter and Spring term this year. It guided me in adding a minor in Disability Studies to my undergraduate degree. This term, I am taking a class called Living Theater. It is made up of community members with disabilities, volunteers who have experience in theatre, and university students. We are collaborating our ideas and stories that will turn into a performance for our final project. In our readings from Arlene Goldbard in chapter 5, she shares about Boal’s approaches using theatre to create dialogue with people from the community and providing a public place to express their issues and concerns. I really connected to this part in the book because I see similar connections in my theatre class.

Bronwyn Buffalino