Chris Blois-Brooke (Founder & Director)
An Applied Theatre Practitioner with experience in international Drama Education, Community Theatre and Theatre for Development, Chris’ ongoing research interests centre around the documentation of Community Performance practice for the purposes of monitoring & evaluation, advocacy and training. Recent projects include facilitating participatory documentation of Community Circus, Dance, Theatre and Storytelling practice in Ethiopia, South Africa and Zambia, documenting large conferences around the world, as well as conducting Impact Assessment studies for organisations in the UK and USA. His other work includes Arts-based Curriculum Development consultancy, as well as authoring other Evaluative Research projects.
Making Theatre With Jennie Reznek
Myrto Papoulia and Tegan Arazny sat down with Jennie Reznek, Director and Trustee of Magnet Theatre, on Thursday, 22nd June 2017.
You can watch the full video (32 minutes) of their conversation here, or you...
A Day in the Life of a Magnet Theatre Trainee
Magnet Theatre’s Full-Time Training and Job Creation programme is a 2-year programme for “youth who for one reason or another struggle to be absorbed into the training at the University”. For some, this may...
Spirit Songs – Part 2
This is Part 2 of our materials on the production of Spirit Songs (click here for Part 1).
To hear more about the project, we sat down with Yonela Sithela, one of Magnet Theatre's Culture Gangs Facilitators who was...
Spirit Songs – Part 1
This is Part 1 of our materials on the production of Spirit Songs (click here for Part 2).
Spirit Songs, the result of a collaboration between Magnet Theatre's Culture Gangs Programme, the International Theatre and Literacy...
Cape Town’s Culture Gangs
Magnet Theatre’s Community Arts Development programme, the Culture Gangs, works to support existing youth drama groups in Cape Town’s townships. In 2017, the groups being supported are Chris Hani High School in Khayelitsha, iThemba Labantu...
Highlights of the Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH) Multimedia Toolkit
Dialogue has been working with Clowns Without Borders South Africa to develop an audiovisual toolkit for their Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH) Programmes.
In South Africa, the programme is referred to as the Sinovuyo Caring Families Programme,...
The ‘Our Story, Your Story’ Project
Clowns Without Borders South Africa (CWBSA), an artist-led humanitarian organisation, arrived in George (South Africa) in early May 2017 to facilitate the final component of their 'Our Story, Your Story' (OSYS) project in local Primary...
A Platform for “Local Talent and Local Stories”
Having received training from the Clowns Without Borders South Africa team, four young facilitators from The Seven Passes Initiative visited nine local schools, in the final part of the ‘Our Story, Your Story’ project.
Having...
Reflecting on ‘Our Story, Your Story’
On the benefits of storytelling…
“you learn more about yourself.” Young Facilitator
“storytelling is great, it gives you more confidence you believe in yourself.” Young Facilitator
“people started opening and being vulnerable and just showing us...