It will be conducted with the aim of strengthening the capacities of actors and actresses with and without disabilities in inclusive performing arts.

Within the framework of the project "Inclusion of People with Disabilities and Older Adults in Disaster Risk Reduction in Central America" with the financial support of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany and organized by the Cultural Centre of Spain (CCEN), the Federation of Associations of People with Disabilities (FECONORI) and the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund (ASB), the call for the workshop on inclusive performing arts and disaster risk management is launched.

The workshop aims to promote the capacities of people with disabilities and older adults, as well as their opportunities, both spiritual and creative as well as material, to contribute to improving their quality of life through the recognition of cultural rights and to strengthen sensitivity to issues related to inclusion in disaster risk management.

We will work in the modality of practical workshop, a training that will consist of physical, vocal and expressive exercises, as well as technical exercises for the development of creative proposals focused on staging.

The call is open to professional actresses and actors with and without disabilities, students of performing arts with and without disabilities, directors of theatre/dance groups, teachers of performing arts and professionals of social and educational mediation in Nicaragua.

The workshop will be given by Professor Monica Ocampo and will be held on July 12, 13, 14, 17 and 18, 2017, from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm at the Centro Cultural de España en Nicaragua (CCEN), located at the first entrance to Las Colinas, 7 blocks up. Managua, Nicaragua.

To Apply visit the following link: https://bit.ly/2tTla79
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About the professor

Bachelor of Arts in Drama and Professor of Arts with a focus on Theatre at the National University of Cuyo in Mendoza, Argentina. She currently works independently with Quiebraplata and Oscurana Teatro, gives seminars on research and stage creation in surrealist poetics, directs one of the casts of the Professional Theatre Company of the Rubén Darío National Theatre and teaches art and theatre at the Nordic International School.