White Privilege Conference

WPC YOUTH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE-Youth Conference flier

Concurrent with the WPC, we are offering a Youth Leadership Conference for High School students . The first two full days will include of workshops, performances, caucuses, and affinity groups specially designed for youth. Following, youth workshops will feature interactive activities, film, spoken word, Theatre of the Oppressed techniques, and small and large group discussions to address issues of heritage, identity, language, isms, labels, power & privilege, teamwork, and strategies for community action. Participants will increase their skills in identifying social justice issues, naming and analyzing manifestations of oppression, and discussing elements of liberation. Using theatre, spoken word, music, simulation and other forms, students will create and present strategies for interrupting oppression and enacting liberation. On the last day, youth will join the larger WPC conference and can choose to attend from any of the full conference workshops and activities. A flat The registration fee is a separate fee must be submitted a s well as the specific nd registration form for the WPC Youth Leadership conference.

OBJECTIVE: Provide youth-friendly and youth-specific workshops, caucuses, entertainment, and space that engage issues of white privilege, white supremacy, and oppression within the larger structure of The White Privilege Conference. The Youth Institute is geared for youth of any ethnic background in grades 9-12 who are prepared to seriously engage issues of race, racial identity, privilege, oppression, and social change.

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Eddie.MooreJr@Bush.edu