Continuing Education

Us & Them

This workshop focuses on the heart of our desensitization: the polarization into Them and Us. In David’s words: What makes it possible for people to: Over consume with no regard for others or the planet? Racially profile? Witness hardship and even atrocity and not reach out?…….and so many other ways that we compromise the planet’s and humanity’s well-being, possible?

The creation, over and over, of “the other”: the creation of the “them” in “us and them”.
In seeking Support for our community’s demand to use our skills to engage the existential, social and political suffering, we have been introduced to David Diamond, founder of Living Theatre.
We invite you to allow him to facilitate your journey of two days in which you can expect to:

learn a theatrical language to open to your own internalized fear and desires
discover that which compels our patterns The Rainbow of Desire :Them and Us
meet the “cops in our head” that are voices belonging to others including media.

Living theatre can only be described, the outcome depends on the participants. If you have read this far, this workshop is for you.

Theatre experience is not necessary. Come in comfortable clothes and with a willingness to play and investigate the issues.

Registration closes October 30, 2025.

Date: Saturday & Sunday November 8 & 9, 2025
Times: 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Fee: GIT Student/Alumni Fee: $450 | Regular Registrant Fee: $495

Instructor

David Diamond, BFA, D.Litt(Hon)

David Diamond BFA, D.Litt (Hon.) trained as a professional actor and worked in theatre, radio, film and television

across Western Canada from 1975 to 1981 when he became a founding member and then Artistic

Director of Vancouver’s Theatre for Living. He encountered the work of Paulo Freire (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) and then Augusto Boal

(Theatre of the Oppressed) in 1984 and worked with Boal in France, Canada, the Netherlands and

Brazil, eventually evolving Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed into a more systems-based approach

that is now Theatre for Living. He has directed over 650 community specific theatre projects and trainings throughout Canada and the US, including with many Indigenous Nations.

as well as many other countries in the world. Subjects range from violence in all its forms to addiction, intergenerational conflict, mental health,

language reclamation, the legacy of Canadian Native Residential Schools, homelessness, issues of

refugees, dying with dignity, gang violence, suicide, climate change, globalization, water

privatization and species and habitat protection, and issues of Reconciliation to name just some.

He is the recipient of many awards and is the author of Theatre for Living: the art and science of community-based dialogue.

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