Headlines Theatre is a non-profit organisation and a registered charitable organisation.



Theatre for Living is about empowerment -- about people being the experts in their own lives and being able to use theatre as a means of creating change. THEATRE FOR LIVING gives a community the opportunity to use the language of the theatre to investigate alternative approaches to hard-to-talk-about issues. This is a first step towards dealing with difficult topics -- moving towards open communication and realities that communities want in an active and entertaining way on an individual and community level.



Theatre for Living gives workshop participants the opportunity to experience theatre in a different way -- not as something that is outside their lives, mysterious and inaccessible, but as a natural language. Culture, after all, used to be ordinary people singing, dancing, painting, carving and telling stories. If we can reclaim cultural expression as part of our everyday vocabulary -- a common language that we use to tell our own stories -- we are one step closer to being balanced both as individuals and as communities.



Founded in 1981, Vancouver's Headlines Theatre, directed by David Diamond, uses Theatre for Living, which is based on Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed to help living communities tell their stories.



Headlines Theatre’s work is a worldwide leading example of healing art, 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.