Our artistic-pedagogical histories, inside and outside educational institutions, are documented in various books, plays and articles.

Quantum Theatre, England (1984-85)
A one-year community theatre project based in Manchester's College of Adult Education which produced The Woman and premiered Human Cannon, by Edward Bond, in collaboration with excluded post-industrial communities.

Theatre Against Oppression, England (1985-86)
A one-year collective theatre project based in Manchester University which produced The Worlds by Edward Bond, and the collectively-devised script Theatre Against Oppression, in colaboration with excluded post-industrial communities.

Mirror, North of Ireland (1994)
A 4-month community drama course for community students University of Coleraine which demonstrated storytelling and dialogic mask-work and culminated in the collectively-devised performance Mirror, Magee College.

Rational Theatre Company, Wales (1996-97)
A one-year course for community students at the University of Glamorgan which premiered Coffee by Edward Bond for the ex-mining communities of the Rhondda Valleys.

Unburying the Future, Brazil (1998)
A one-year cultural literacy collaboration between theatre-education students from the State University of Santa Catarina, youth from a semi-rural community and a Landless Movement school in Brazil, to develop a street theatre/community production of the collectively-devised piece Desenterrando o Futuro, a community mural Tears of Blood, and a teacher-training pedagogy of cultural literacy.

Land is Life, Brazil (2001-2003)
A two-year cultural literacy residential collaboration with the pupils and community of a Landless Movement (MST) settlement school in Santa Catarina, which culiminated in the collective mosaic Land is Life. read more

Unity in Difference, Peru (2004)
A two week intensive cultural literacy workshop to conclude a course of retraining for 60 artists at the National School of Fine Arts in Lima which culminated in two dialectically related collective installations, the Apu and the Kipu.

Pedadogy of the Land, Brazil (2004-07)
Five two-week residential collaborations with the Federal University of Para in Maraba to enable community-based rural literacy educators to adapt cultural literacy techniques to their educational projects. The final two residencies culminated in ten collective installations and a community mural.

The Institute has also given workshops in Brazil in the School of Fine Arts in Sao Paulo, and the Universities of Fraiburgo, Porto Alegre, Sao Paulo, Juiz de Fora, Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Florianopolis, Maraba, Belem, Campinas and Campo Grande; and in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa.