ATS2284 Agency, advocacy and activism in theatre and performance studies

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   use peer learning and community building to develop and analyse key concepts and practices in contemporary performing arts studies that focus on agency, advocacy and activism and present insights in the form of a community of practice charter;

2. 2

   critically evaluate how social movements, communities, and individual activists use the performing arts to seek political empowerment, dialogue and transformation and use these techniques to advocate for a community of practice in the form of a funding proposal;

3. 3

   create an original community event that engages processes of agency, advocacy and activism to address local community and global issues.