Founded in 1981, Vancouver's Headlines Theatre, directed by David Diamond, uses THEATRE FOR LIVING to help living communities tell their stories. THEATRE FOR LIVING has evolved from Augusto Boal's "Theatre of the Oppressed". Since 1989 Headlines' work has slowly moved away from the binary language and model of "oppressor/oppressed" and now approaches community-based cultural work from a systems-based perspective; understanding that a community is a complexly integrated, living organism.

Headlines Theatre's work is a worldwide leading example of healing art, of theatre for social change, with projects in collaboration with First Nations and multicultural communities through hundreds of theatre workshops, Power Plays and Forum Theatre events around the world on issues such as violence and suicide prevention, anti-racism workshops, youth empowerment, bullying and community development.

And don't miss our annual theatre based training workshops! They are attended by people from around the globe who apply Headlines' Theatre for Living techniques to mainstream theatre, interdisciplinary work, personal, environmental action, education, counselling, conflict resolution and mediation training as well as community cultural development (CCD).