Grupo Teatro do Oprimido de Lisboa - GTO LX

National Network
Portugal
Address

Travessa do Corpo Santo,21, 3ºEsq
1200-131 Lisboa
Lisbon
Portugal

Telephone
+351 213 476 319
E-Mail
geral@gtolx.org
Mobile Phone
+351 962 892 673
Website
http://www.gto-lx.blogspot.com/
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2004
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. Democracy and community development
  3. Youth and education
General Information
1.NGO with 6 employees for the all the organization struture and we have 10 volunteers working with us. 2. 100.000€ per anum 3. EQUAL Initiative; Gebalis; Portuguese High Commissioner for Immigration and Inter-Cultural Dialogue 4. Social Empowerment using Forum Theatre Methodology, workshops and training in Forum Theatre Methodology. We also created the Multiply network composed of groups of Theater of the Oppressed LX GTO. Trained and certified by GTO LX, these groups use this method of multipliers to intervene in their own communities. The network covers more than 12 active groups in various parts of the country, consisting of populations as diverse as young people at risk, teenage mothers, elderly, immigrants or returnees. 5. Professional Theatre Company "A Barraca"; Multiply Network;EQUAL Initiative; Gebalis; Portuguese High Commissioner for Immigration and Inter-Cultural Dialogue; Moinho da Juventude Cultural Association
Mission and Objectives

The GTO Lx is the Theatre of the Oppressed Group of Lisbon, a non governmental organization engaged in stimulating active and conscious participation of the citizens in the construction of society.
We develop community intervention projects in critical neighbourhoods working directly with the population in order to provoke an awareness process about their realities and encouraging individual empowerment.
Our methodology incentives the beneficiaries to create Forum Theatre plays based on their issues and personal realities. These plays are then presented to the whole community, creating a common ground where shared problems are discussed and solutions explored, promoting social empowerment.

Main Projects / Activities

.“DRK”- Forum Theatre group composed by young people of Zambujal and Cova da Moura neighbourhoods, two infamous boroughs in the outskirts of Lisbon. This group is currently working autonomously, using Forum Theatre to intervene in their communities and acting as multipliers of the methodology, training new groups in the Forum Theatre technique.
They are the result of the DiverCidade Project, an EQUAL initiative, in which the GTO Lx is responsible for community empowerment through Forum Theatre
“R2” An adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, Richard II, performed by young people of Casal dos Machados, Zambujal and Cova da Moura and presented in the National Theatre D. Maria II in Lisbon.
This project was the result of a collaboration between theatre director Nuno Cardoso and GTO Lx. This work allowed these young people to participate in a professional theatre production.
“RVA!” A Forum Theatre group composed by young people from the Vale da Amoreira. This neighbourhood was considered by the government as a critical and priority area.
The group is currently working with GTO LX and has already created two Forum Theatre plays.
Besides this projects, we also have forum theatre projects with disabled and elderly people.

Contact (1) Full Name
Diogo Brito de Mesquita
Head of the organisation
Gisella Mendoza