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Andrew Carstens is currently exploring theater as a social development tool while studying abroad in Lima, Peru. He has acted or participated in theater productions since elementary school and is now experimenting with the methods of Theater of the Oppressed in attempt to bridge the rural - urban communication gab. Applying his participation in the California Student Sustainability Coalition workshop convergences and the Drama Teachers Association of Southern California (DTASC) theater festivals to the context of Peru.

Location:
United States, Carlsbad, CA
Gender:
Male
I am:
Activist, Change Agent, Connector, Educator/Teacher, Filmmaker, Global soul, Performer, Producer, Student, World traveler
Languages:
English, Spanish
My website links:
La Otra Voz - Theater as a Social Development Tool in Peru
Universities:
UC Davis
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  • A comment on Conversation: Use Theater as a Social Development tool in rural and low resource areas to establish collective understandings of realities unspoken

    May 26 2012: What are some examples of when "storytelling goes wrong and encourages the ills it claims to be fighting"?

    How do you introduce these powerful globalized western forms and formats of storytelling, such as plays and youtube videos to communities who have their own strategies of story telling? Rather then creating a dynamic where its 'your way our the NEW modern form of story telling'... how do you create an approach that incorporates the two together, as to avoid the slow elimination of the old which does not have the capability if transmitting information as rapidly?

  • A comment on Talk: Ben Cameron: The true power of the performing arts

    May 25 2012: I take ISSUE with your argument in that "ANYONE is a potential author"… the voices of rural domestic house maids (to name a specific sector of the global population) are not participating in this “redefinition of the culture market”. They have been left behind and are NOT recreating their poetry, film, and stories due to the fact that in order to participate in this ‘globalized’ and ‘interconnected’ online society, you need capital -loosing dignity in the process. This marginalized sector of the world does not have the luxury of obtaining the necessary capital of a computer and camera so easily. I believe this project below highlights your encouragement of applying the arts in establishing a collective understanding of the realities we live in. Thank you for your speech, and I invite you to support the project La Otra Voz – Theater as a Social Development Tool in Peru.

    http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/110541?c=home&a=628657
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    A comment on Talk: Patsy Rodenburg: Why I do theater

    May 25 2012: We are trying to bring theater to rural Peru, using Theater of the Oppressed to bring to life the stories of domestic house maids La Otra Voz - Theater as a Social Development Tool in Peru. Thank you for your support!

    http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/110541?c=home&a=628657

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