Theatre of the Oppressed

Transcript[00:00:00] Wesley: Greetings everybody, uh, Wesley Pepper here and you're tuned to my podcast Wesley Peppers art Lexica, which is brought to you by spudcaster and baobulb. Yeah. Hi everybody. Uh, welcome to all my new and returning listeners from wherever you are on whatever device you listen to it, listening to it from whatever part of the world.[00:00:29] Welcome. And, um, thanks for, yeah, man. Thanks for joining me for another week of podcasting. Uh, yeah. Uh, lots has been happening in the world, uh, especially on my side, but I'll get into that a bit later. Um, yeah, maybe just start off with, uh, Uh, recapping on last week's episode, big up to my brother Skosana for coming through.[00:00:51] Um, I was really inspired by his, uh, or talking to him last week by his episode, man, like, um, not many artists, have clients backed up that far ahead already. And I think that's quite a level achievement and it should be celebrated for that. Um, so look, my bruh I'll definitely want to do a follow-up on him in a few but, like say, uh, probably early next year.[00:01:15] Um, uh, given that, uh, Yeah, that's just that, that's just some part of the art that I'm really, really keeping my eye on. Um, I'm, I'm, I'm talking about, uh, murals of, of, um, specifically murals, uh, specifically at, um, businesses, because as we know, uh, you know, things is changing fast, man, and. That plus the fourth industrial revolution, you know, lots of things are becoming automated.[00:01:38] So I'm very interested to know how businesses are adapting to that. Um, specifically arts, but, um, yeah, it's just a, it's just a theme or a topic, a subject that I'm keeping my eye open. Uh, that's why I seriously enjoyed speaking to my brother last week. Um, yeah man. Yeah. Um, and I said a lot has been happening to me, uh, but I I'm.[00:01:58] Okay. You know, I'm, I'm okay. I'm a survivor. So, um, Today. Um, today I also got, like a seriously cool, um, guest. I'm talking to Delia, Meyer she's based in Cape town. Um, she works for, or she's one. She works for UCT. So she's actually involved in, uh, in theater and thats her whole, um, I mean theater of the oppressed.[00:02:20] I know she works with a lot of marginalised communities. I know. From from, the Delia Meyer that I met because I met her like many years ago, um, many, many years ago. And, uh, I know she had her feet very grounded and she was always involved in community, uh, in the community arts and the community theater. And that's going to be really dope talking to her because we'll unpack a little bit of everything.[00:02:41] We’re going to be unpacking her processes. So the processes behind her creativity. Um, so I'm actually kind of interested for that. I'm looking forward to that because, um, I haven’t yeah been talking to too many, uh, theater practitioners on this platform. Yeah. I, well, I guess it's just, this is one of those things, so, um, yeah, I've, I'm, I'm definitely looking forward to that.[00:03:01] Um, so we’re going to be unpacking her processes, unpacking the work she’s been doing, because as we know, like, uh, with the ongoing pandemic, um, it has also not necessarily stopped, but it's definitely put the brakes on a lot of communities. Um, so it's gonna be very interesting to know how she's been adapting to that, you know, um, what project she's working on and, um, so forth man.[00:03:21] Um, and of course the COVID thing, because that's just like such a huge thing, man. And, um, the whole VAX versus anti-vaccine is becoming such a. It's becoming such a, it's becoming a real social, uh, thing. So there's people on the one side is like, you know, the whole us versus them, rich versus poor. Yeah, man.[00:03:40] It's absolutely absolutely crazy. So it's...