Matemurga is a leading Argentinian community theatre group based in Villa Crespo, Buenos Aires. At ICAF 2023, its founder, Edith Scher, will facilitate a hands-on workshop that focuses on methods for composing community-based stories and narratives as part of community formation and facilitation.
The workshop will begin with a screening of the most recent film of Matemurga “Lack of Air”, an audio-visual version of their latest work. It will provde further context and insight into their working methods. From there Edith Scher will lead an interactive workshop around her methodology.
Matemurga was founded in August 2002. Its founder and director, Edith Scher, is an Argentinian writer, musician, academic and actress. The works of Matemurga centre on community singing and music, with the use of orchestras and puppets. For Matemurga, community theatre is theatre created specifically by neighbours and performed for neighbours. Through her approach and methodology, Edith Scher not only conducts and facilitates participatory art practices with groups and communities, but also creates community in the process of doing so.
This workshop is for those wanting to gain a richer insight into the Argentinian and Latin American community arts context and for those interested in Edith Scher’s community arts methodology that creates community through its very making.