Introduction to community arts and 4th wall

WONDERFUL workshop with a lovely woman named Diana today!!! We learnt some of the skills it takes to bond and communicate with other people when engaging in different activities.... GROUND RULES are essential!!!! The whole group came up with some different "name games" where in which we find out each other's names in a fun way without any kind of problems. This was a challenge as each game had it's pro's and con's but it was very interesting to know how different people may react to different activities and what it takes to deal with these situations.

"The 4th wall" to me symbolises that particularly within this project, there is no barrier or "4th wall" between us and the teenagers from the Turn around centre. When we are working together, it is all about equality and finding our similarities instead of our differences.

This is the place we will be working with to apply community arts skill. We started to learn about practitioner work and particularly a practitioner named "Boal" who is well known for trying to help people become free from oppression through his plays.