Greening Duluth, an organization which hopes to see “a vibrant, green community in the heart of a thriving metropolis” and believes that raising awareness and consciousness is the way to achieve their goal on Duluth Street and the surrounding community is now taking another step towards achieving their goal by offering an Urban Gardening course […]
Theatre activists, like actors in a theatre, rely on a gamut of artistic accessories – props, scenery, costumes, make up, and especially masks – to conduct performances on the streets, sometimes during demonstrations. Masks constitute important props in this theatrical arsenal, as they have the power to transform the actor into a different entity, which […]
In 2003, a group of New York City-based theatre artists got together in an attempt to organize a theatre-based city-wide protest against the war in Iraq. The group stuck together and formed Theaters Against War, or THAW, a group whose goal is to nurture a pro-peace culture by standing up to attacks on civil liberties, […]
Anyone who has children, or works with them, can tell you that there is almost nothing worse than the death of a child. There can be no excuse to subject society’s most vulnerable members to oppression and massacre, and the realisation that over 250 children have being killed during the assault on Gaza is enough […]
Preceding yesterday’s presentation of an eviction notice by activists to the Israeli consulate in Montreal, a group of Jewish women were arrested for occupying the Israeli consulate in Toronto on Wednesday in protest of the Israeli attack on Gaza, among them were filmmaker BH Yael, psychanalyst Judith Deutsch and professor Judy Rebick. Rebick, a prominent […]
It’s not even really a debate anymore. It’s almost gotten to the point of cliché. Just about everyone with even the slightest activist leaning and even many who don’t have one knows that the corporate media does not represent all sides or show a complete picture of any story. Getting a progressive message into the […]
Harold Pinter, who died this past Christmas Eve at the age of 78, was not only an acclaimed playwright, actor, director and poet, he was an activist who wasn’t afraid to speak his mind. He was also someone who saw how art could be used as a tool for social change and recognized, as an […]
It’s New Year’s Eve, so what better time to look back on the past year and the year ahead. 2008 was a busy one for OTL on several fronts: Sinking Neptune II: We adapted our verbatim theatre critique of Canada’s “first play” Lescarbot’s Theatre of Neptune in New France and those remounting it, racism against […]
Today is Boxing Day in Canada (also in Australia, New Zealand and Britain). While its roots date back to the tradition of wealthier people giving gifts to the lower classes the day after Christmas (having just exchanged gifts among their “equals” the day before), today it’s pretty much considered a shopping holiday. With prices slashed, […]
Even though we’re known for guerilla-style culture jams and highly improvised performances like Car Stories, OTL also has also produced a significant amount of text over the years, some of it theoretical material and some of it scripts for theatre. We’ve started collecting some of this in what we’re calling the Optative Library. Just like […]
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