S3 Ep6: It's About the People with Jasmin Cardenas

<p>During this episode of Why Change? co-hosts Karla and Jeff discuss Karla’s conversation with Jasmin Cardenas, theatre director and activist from Workers Teatro. The dialogues focus on the reciprocal and multiple intersections of the arts and labor issues: how can labor improve in the arts and how can the arts contribute to systemic changes in labor?</p> <p><br></p> <p>In this episode you’ll learn:</p> <ul> <li><p>How theatre techniques, like Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, can contribute to dialogues about labor in Chicago;</p> </li> <li><p>What the arts may learn from labor movements in other sectors; and </p> </li> <li><p>The ways teaching artists can act as facilitators for important dialogues about worker’s experiences.</p> </li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p>Some things from the episode:</p> <ul> <li><p><a href="https://www.jasmincardenas.com/projects-3">Workers TEATRO</a></p> </li> <li><p><a href="http://www.ptoweb.org">Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed</a></p> </li> <li><p><a href="https://healthywork.uic.edu/workers-teatro-tells-their-stories/">Community Writing Project and Workers Teatro collaboration with University of Illinois Chicago</a></p> </li> <li><p><a href="https://1ststage.org/solo-commissions">Jasmine’s solo commissioned work with 1st Stage</a></p> </li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p>About Jasmine Cardenas</p> <p>Over the past 15 years Jasmin has taught, directed and devised with community members, adults and youth throughout the city for WorkersTEATRO (Co-Founder), Workers Resistance Theater (Co-Founder), Lookingglass Theater, Silk Road Theater Project, Adventure Stage Chicago, Lifeline Theater, Chase Elementary and at Carpenter Fine Arts, to name a few. </p> <p>In 2019 she facilitated creative youth leaders from across Chicago&#39;s city and neighborhoods and organizations to create the 2019 Youth Speak: RIGHTS OF CHICAGO&#39;S CREATIVE LEADERS. This was in partnership with Chicago Park District&#39;s  Arts &amp; Culture Culture Unit, led be Meida McNeil, and youth leaders from Albany Park T