The Power of Performance: Community Legal Education Through Theatre

Learn how to determine if an identified cohort may benefit from storytelling through theatre, how to best approach it, and the benefits and challenges involved.

10:00 am
-
10:30 am
Dec 13, 2023
-
Dec 13, 2023
Online

Theatre performance can be a highly effective way to deliver legal information to young people from culturally and racially marginalised communities.

In this webinar, Kirsten Young and Engy Abdelsalam from Peninsula Community Legal Centre share their insights from developing and presenting ‘This is not who I want to be’ – a show covering family violence issues which particularly affect young people in their area.

The project involved 14 theatre performances in 4 schools, reaching over 335 students throughout 2022.

It was funded by a Victoria Law Foundation Community Legal Grant.

Participants details

Engy Abdelsalam

Lawyer
Peninsula Community Legal Centre
Peninsula Community Legal Centre

Engy is a Lawyer at Peninsula Community Legal Centre responsible for designing and delivering innovative projects to provide legal information to culturally and linguistically diverse communities. She provides legal assistance and advice to clients on Civil, Criminal, and Migration matters. She also is currently running a project to provide legal information and support to CALD young people on family violence and forced marriage.

Kirsten Young

Community Engagement, Education and Legal Policy Officer
Peninsula Community Legal Centre
Peninsula Community Legal Centre

Kirsten oversees the development and delivery of community legal education, community development projects, and policy and law reform initiatives. She returned to the community legal sector after working for two decades with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in various countries around the world.

Event information

Host

No items found.

Participants

Engy Abdelsalam
Lawyer
Peninsula Community Legal Centre
Peninsula Community Legal Centre
Kirsten Young
Community Engagement, Education and Legal Policy Officer
Peninsula Community Legal Centre
Peninsula Community Legal Centre

A New Perspective on Legal Need and Legal Capability is now available

The third report from the Public Understanding of Law Survey explores how attitudes, skills and confidence matter in satisfactorily resolving justiciable issues.