Organization & Workplace engagements
Virtual Performance
Big Apple Playback uses online theatre to bring interactive performance to organizations everywhere. BAPT’s energetic, meaningful and engaging performances create a safe space for people of all ages, races, genders, classes, creeds and religions. Using the virtual platform, BAPT creates community and connection across distance for your organization.
Staff Development
Big Apple Playback will curate a professional development program to address your organization’s needs — such as equity, diversity and inclusion, anti-bias training, and self-care. Through performance, facilitated discussion, and practice-based learning, teachers and staff will gain the tools, language, and empathetic support they need to be a team of leaders creating an inclusive and caring environment for your entire community. Opt for one session or a workshop series.
EDI Equity, Diversity, inclusion
Big Apple offers a multifaceted learning and processing approach to organizations who have clear topics and visions for professional development. Our EDI program blends workshop, playback theatre and what we like to call our ‘practice based learning modules” around the topics of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.
Our EDI practice-based learning experiences are a combination workshop/performance with very specific learning objectives. In this form, we solicit information from the organization well in advance and script scenes that deal with the topics they want to address. We show an interaction gone wrong, and then invite participants to replace someone in the scene to improve it. This approach is based on the work of Augusto Boal and a field of work called Theatre of the Oppressed. We call it practice based learning because participants actually get a chance to practice difficult conversations and interactions and learn from that practice in a safe environment.
We have found that allowing participants to experience how a scenario plays out in real time can help elevate the topics from a simple lecture or discussion as well as help address the diverse learning styles of adults. The participants can experience pitfalls around the issues and ‘rehearse for life’ using real tools that the organization wishes they acquire. This approach is designed in close partnership with client organizations’ to tailor the topics and approach specifically to serve the needs of the group at hand.
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