The women's empowerment session featured a workshop on Brazilian dance as well as an exercise on Theater of the Oppressed, a system of games and techniques developed by Augusto Boal that aims to give those who face oppression a way to use theater as an instrument of concrete social transformation.
Lailaa Abdullah led the dance session, which also incorporated a lesson on geography and culture.
Jessica Viramontes followed her with a Theater of Oppressed workshop in which the participants got a chance to express their frustrations and concerns about the inner-city public and charter school system through performing skits.
The program ended with a lesson on dressing for success by Okera Banks, a prominent stylist in Los Angeles.
