Participatory Design and Playable Theatre, 101

Most artistic experiences cast the audience in the passive role of consumer and appreciator; And authoritarianism thrives when people are passive. What is possible when audiences become participants, with a critical and co-creative role in the cultural experience? In this hands-on workshop participants will learn about participatory design, and how it can be used to create art that is more engaging and playful, and can train people towards active and generative community participation. By the end of the workshop participants will have made their own piece of playable theatre using Obvious Agency’s unique methodology.

Who is this workshop for?

Bored Theatre Artists - Performance makers, of any sort, who are looking for ways for their medium to do something more.

Gamer Nerds - People who love playing games of all sorts and want to learn more about how to make them.

Anti-Fascists - Anyone who cares about the political significance of the form that art takes, and wants their art to be revolutionary in our time.

Location:

TBD

Date and Time:

TBD

Rate Description

Obvious Agency offers tickets to our workshops at a variety of price points:

Solidarity Rate - We offer five heavily discounted Solidarity Rate tickets for all of our workshops. This is a way for Obvious Agency to bridge the gap between our goal to support working artists who are systemically under-resourced, and our need to support ourselves as working artists under capitalism. 

Discount Rate - Acknowledging the reality that many arts workers cannot afford our sustain or actual cost rate, we also offer a Discount Rate. This rate is available if you bring a friend or colleague with you, or if you purchase tickets to multiple workshops. This act of solidarity allows us to not undervalue our own work, and to help us achieve our goal of having a robust community in each workshop. We ask that you only pay this rate if you are unable to afford purchasing at our sustain rate or above for one or multiple workshops.

Sustain Rate - Paying our Sustain Rate helps us cover the bare minimum expenses that come with developing and offering workshops.

Actual Cost - Our Actual Cost is the real price for a workshop ticket, and allows us to continue to build a dignified workplace, providing salaries and benefits to our hard working artist staff.

Redistribution Rate - Paying the Redistribution Rate allows us to offer Solidarity Rate tickets. The cost of a redistribution rate ticket is one actual cost ticket plus the difference between a solidarity and actual cost ticket.

Discounts

Tickets at our discount rate ($75) are available for anyone purchasing tickets to more than one workshop, or any groups of 2 or more attending a single workshop. Email Daniel at Obvious-Agency dot com to receive a discount code that you can use at check-out.

COVID Policy

Obvious Agency strives to create COVID-safer spaces in solidarity with immunocompromised and working class people. We require all participants to wear high filtration masks (KF94/KN95/N95) during our workshops, except when actively eating or drinking. For workshops longer than three hours, we also require proof of a negative COVID test from all participants. Obvious Agency will provide high filtration masks and COVID tests at all of our workshops for attendees.