The EnActors
Tools for Joy in Oppressive Times Series:
Our newest workshop, Tools for Joy in Oppressive Times, is a series of six 90-minute applied theatre workshops led by The EnActors at Georgetown University. The sessions explore how creativity, embodiment, and mindfulness can serve as acts of resistance and restoration during periods of conflict and uncertainty.
Participants engage in multisensory activities—movement, music, artmaking, reflection, and shared meals—that awaken joy as a collective and personal practice. Grounded in the words of Ossie Davis, the Dalai Lama, and Desmond Tutu, the workshop invites participants to reimagine joy as both a human right and a transformative force that fosters resilience, belonging, and connection across difference.
Below you will find the schedule for how to interact with this series!
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About
The EnActors is comprised of performing arts professionals and educational developers. It is housed within Georgetown’s Racial Justice Institute and is supported by the Dean’s Office, the Red House, and the CURA Initiative. The EnActors create arts-based educational and social interventions. This work spans university settings from audiences of instructors and administrators to students and community hubs, sparking conversation and spreading knowledge. The EnActors work as “first responders,” developing hour-and-a-half engagements that dramatize and dissect social, legal, and health disparities crafting scenarios to address the harmful racial inequities in these contexts. Pairing short, applied theater performances in a range of genres with facilitated discussions, our programs work to highlight the experience of marginalized individuals, shed light on current and historical racial inequities, and enhance participants’ abilities to advance equity.