forum theater – Khmer Community Development

Register for free Forum Theater training on 18-20 February

KCD is excited to announce our second free Forum Theater training for Cambodian NGOs, which are interested to learn about using theater as a tool of social change.

Forum Theater is a tool to encourage social change through promoting empathy between different groups in Cambodia. This approach can be used to empower communities, including minority groups and youth, teach them to express themselves, build understanding for each other. Click here to learn more about Forum Theater and the Course.

Our next free training will take place on 18-20 February (3 days) in Phnom Penh (place will be announced to registered participants later). Each NGO can register up to two persons. Deadline for registrations is 13th February. Early registrations will be given priority.

The course is absolutely free, including venue, lunch and snacks.

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Join our upcoming Forum Theater Trainings

KCD is happy to announce that on 29-31 January we will be offering our first Forum Theater training to NGOs from Phnom Penh, who are willing to learn about this methodology. To learn more about training course, click here.

Unfortunately, there are no more spots for training course in January. However, if your organization is interested in learning about Forum Theater and its’ implementation as a tool of social change, we will be offering 3 more free workshops from February to March 2020. Trainings can be conducted in Phnom Penh or in province, depending on interest of the participants.

To register for workshop, please send an email to youth_kcd@hotmail.com, or fill in the contact form.

Hope to see you at the workshop soon!

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What is Forum Theater?

You might have probably noticed that in our articles we refer to Forum Theater (FT) as one of the primary methods for our project work. You would probably wonder what FT is and how does it work? Today we want to talk more about FT, its history, methodology and how it is implemented by KCD.

In a nutshell, Forum Theater, also known as “Theater of the Oppressed” is a type of theater that relates to encouraging the audience to engage and influence the performance on stage, thus becoming “spect-actors” with a power to stop and change the performance. The spect-actors can either suggest different actions to the actors, or come on stage themselves to become a part of the drama and perform they own solutions to the situation. Issues dealt with in FT are often related to areas of social justice with aims to explore solutions to oppression featured in the performance.

Read more “What is Forum Theater?” →

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Get out of your comfort zone to achieve more!

On 18-20th September KCD team has traveled from our cosy Phnom Penh office to Jombok Hoas Training Centre Resort. This was not just a regular teambuilding trip, our goal was to see, how far can we go beyond ourselves.

As you might probably know, KCD is using Forum Theater Methodology in its project activities. Training and implementing Forum Theater definitely requires a certain level of professionalism. Funny enough, no one of us has professional theater background. Thus, it might seem very challenging for our staff to use the method that we have never studied at university.

But life itself is a challenge and as NGO workers we should take it for granted. Every time, one of is using Forum Theater in their work activities, it is a step out of their comfort zone. So we have decided to challenge ourselves even more and to see, how far can we go out of our comfort zone. Read more “Get out of your comfort zone to achieve more!” →