Media | Tatiana Chaterji

Tatiana Chaterji

feature in California Shakespeare Theater program, summer 2018

Articles & Video on My Work
A Mirror, A Threshold, A Song: Profile on Chaterji's Healing Arts Practice (California Arts Council, filmmaker: Nicole Gervacio)

Rise of Restorative Justice in Oakland Schools Brings Promise, Controversy (EdSource)

We are 1 in 4: Testimonies from Women with Incarcerated Loved Ones  (Panel Facilitator, 2016 Policy Summit #StandWithHer, Essie Justice Group)

Youth Confront Violence Through Theater of the Oppressed (Oakland Museum of California & One West Oakland)

California Shakespeare Theater 2018 Luminary Awards

Narrative Writing / Lyric Essays on My Work
Restorative Economics: Creating an Alternative Pipeline for System-Impacted Youth Through Arts-Based Leadership  (Inspire Awards, Philanthropic Ventures Foundation)

Theater-Based Healing with Incarcerated Women:
  Mirrors of Each Other
  Through the Looking Glass
  Ritual & Memory
(Artist Investigator, California Shakespeare Theater)

To Find Spirit, To Survive: Reflecting on Artistic Process During the Covid-19 Pandemic (Public Participation Fellow, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts)

Performance Collaborations

Multiverse (Core Artist, Original Devised Theater Performance with Ragged Wing Ensemble)

Stories High IV, Bindlestiff Studio's One-Act Play Festival

It Has A Face (writer); Untethered (director)

VONA Open Studio at Kelly Writer's House (excerpt from original play, "Purva Express")

Features on Political & Artistic Projects with Youth

Oakland Listening Sessions (Facilitator & Youth Organizer, People's Policy Platform on Responses to Violence, 2016 City Council Elections)

Youth Poets Against Racial Profiling (KDOL forum, Poet-Mentor)

Counter-Militarism and Youth Voice (KDOL profile on BAY-Peace)

Oakland Youth on the Frontlines in Movement Against Police Brutality (KPFA profile on BAY-Peace)

Power of Youth (Bay Area Video Coalition profile on BAY-Peace)

Youth Poets Against Police Brutality (Youth Organizer & Teaching Artist, Oakland's Geography of Resistance, BAY-Peace)

Food Justice & Anti-Displacement: Aunti Frances' Legacy of Black Power (Oakland's Geography of Resistance, BAY-Peace)

Curriculum & Educational Resources

A Mirror, A Threshold, A Song: Medicines of Healing in Theater and Restorative Justice, Lead Author

Coliberate: Community-Driven Climate Resilience Planning, Contributing Author

Gallery / Visual Snapshot It's difficult to capture what I do with (amateur) photography - since it is about process rather than final product; the sacred, fleeting, ritual of live performance - but here is an imperfect attempt to do exactly that! Published with permission from the talented artists, youth visionaries, and participant-facilitators depicted here. Click the images to learn more about the context.

BAY-Peace Fundraiser with Davey D, Aimee Allison, Rob Bonta

Key Principles Guiding Restorative Justice Circle for Personal and Social Transformation and Healing

Youth Leadership in Action: Trainees in T.O. guiding dynamic interactive session with their peers

Passing the talking piece in circle: healing arts learning laboratory. photo by Z. Baisalova. Supported by Cal Shakes and California Arts-in-Corrections

Closing Ritual: unity is power, with T.O. Training for Youth Organizers

North Oakland RJ Council collaboration on alternatives to youth incarceration (graphic design Susan Quinlan)

Artistic collaborator and graffiti writer Joey Reyes' interactive piece for "a mirror, a threshold, a song: medicines of healing from off the edges of our maps." photo by Z. Baisalova. Performance culmination for healing arts learning laboratory, supported by Cal Shakes and California Arts-in-Corrections

Artistic collaborator and graffiti writer Joey Reyes' interactive piece for "a mirror, a threshold, a song: medicines of healing from off the edges of our maps." photo by Z. Baisalova. Performance culmination for healing arts learning laboratory, supported by Cal Shakes and California Arts-in-Corrections

Image Theater: Theatre of the Oppressed Intensive, Partners for Collaborative Change

North Oakland Restorative Justice Council youth-led public intervention

Sculpture/tableau, Beyond Part

Image Dynamization: from trauma to healing "Survivors Speak" conference in Sacramento

Words on the Wall: Beyond Partition

Body Demechanization: Theatre of the Oppressed Intensive, Partners for Collaborative Change

Playback Theater from community stories, Youth Resist Police Brutality (Humanist Hall)

Words on the Wall: Theater of the Oppressed workshop

Healing Through Theater: Essie Justice Group Healing Retreat

Oakland Middle School Ethnic Studies Conference Presentation: "Stop Being So Dramatic! Playing with Identity"

"Everyone Gets a Chance to Speak": Restorative Justice and Theater of the Oppressed Playshop Series

Theatre of the Oppressed "Joker" Training at the Omni Commons

POC Playshop in Theatre of the Oppressed: Colombian Hypnosis

Aunti Frances, Food Justice, Anti-Poverty, Legacy of Black Panthers

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"Spontaneous Celebrations" Embodied Exploratory Workshop in Kolkata

Words on the Wall: Ethnic Studies workshop with formerly incarcerated community members

the stillness of circle is its own prayer

Youth Poetry at Survivors Speak (Californians for Safety and Justice)

Embodied exploration to heal wounds of incarceration and criminalization. Photo by Z. Baisalova

Image theater exercise with Essie Justice Group leaders Chanta Parker and Jessica Escobar-Martinez, design by Z. Baisalova

Classroom Circle

Embodying moments of impact, workshop with healing arts learning laboratory. photo by Z. Baisalova. Supported by Cal Shakes and California Arts-in-Corrections

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Healing Retreat with Planting Justice

Black Lives Matter protest (sign created by students at Emiliano Zapata Street Academy)

Political Leadership, Personal Growth: youth artists in embodied reflective process

Image Gallery: Native American Health Center youth workshop in Theater of the Oppressed

"a mirror, a threshold, a song: medicines of healing from off the edges of our maps." photo by Z. Baisalova. Workshop session for healing arts learning laboratory, supported by Cal Shakes and California Arts-in-Corrections

Mirroring as part of humanizing & empathizing. Design by Den Legaspi

Training in Conflict Mediation & Effective Communication with SEEDS Community Resolution Center

Inaugural Subcontinental Drift Open Mic: peformance night for and by South Asians. United States of Asian America Festival 2018, at SoleSpace in downtown Oakland, CA

Conjuring Jadoo remount at Cal Shakes Desi Dialogue. Artwork by Madhvi Trivedi Pathak, Photography by Sufi Malik

Spontaneous Celebrations: Breath, Being, Body and Mind (collaboration between Arshinagar Project and Rajabazar Education and Awareness Development Society/READS in Kolkata, 2011): A Workshop in Dramatic Play and Embodied Encounter Toward Self-Awareness

Subcontinental Drift East Bay (co-founder): an open mic for and by people of the South Asian diaspora, mixed performance and artistic genres

Healing-Based Theater Workshop Series for Incarcerated Women; outreach flyer via Cal Shakes. Design by Den Legaspi

Physical Theater & Martial Arts workshop during artist residency with Ebong Amra / Tepantar Theater Village, Satkahonia West Bengal (2012)

We Fight/Back: Hamida Yousefzai fight choreography/lecture demonstration. Photo by Sun Sufi

Spontaneous Celebrations: Breath, Being, Body and Mind (collaboration between Arshinagar Project and Rajabazar Education and Awareness Development Society/READS in Kolkata, 2011): A Workshop in Dramatic Play and Embodied Encounter Toward Self-Awareness

San Francisco Zine Fest 2017. With co-curator of Mixed Queer Race Feminist zine, Emiliano Lemus