Toward an Inclusive Culture of Health Through Engagement, Satirical Theater and Song

The Mime Troupe proposed using its well established play-creation workshop process to help participants from three constituencies - incarcerated felons, low-income youth, and migrant workers in California’s Central Valley region - to identify and voice what health means in their communities and cultural contexts. They assisted each constituency in developing its own short piece to be performed and then incorporated language and themes from these three original short pieces into a larger single production to be performed for the respective constituencies as well as for a larger San Francisco audience. Through this project, SFMT proposed to amplify these constituencies’ voices and bring new perspectives into the discussion around making health a shared value.