In this workshop, the Catalan theatre company BROTS introduces participants to the artistic and social context of their work. Made up of performers with lived experience of mental health challenges, BROTS has spent more than fourteen years developing a distinctive, collective practice in which art, vulnerability and activism are closely intertwined. Participants are invited to explore how personal experience is transformed into theatrical language, and how performance can become a tool for mutual support, empowerment and social change. The workshop offers space to exchange perspectives on care, mental health and artistic responsibility, and to engage with BROTS\u2019 approach in an open and embodied way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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