“We Do Not Choose This Life”: Advocating for and Empowering Those Living with Poverty Through Applied Theatre
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A collaboration between a theatre company, a university and eight community organizations culminated in an applied theatre project entitled “Living Below the Line.” Residents living with poverty were invited to become co-creators of a new play, which was performed in five local venues. The project’s objectives were 1) the provision of a respectful, supportive, empowering and creative process for the co-creators, and 2) increased understanding of the effects of poverty for audience members and the larger community. This paper reports the findings of the evaluation, which indicate that the objectives were met in several ways: 1) the co-creators felt uplifted by the support of their colleagues and the positive response from the community; 2) they felt their stories of lived experience were respected, and they appreciated the opportunity to learn new skills; 3) the audiences reported increased awareness and understanding of the issues leading to poverty while being simultaneously deeply moved and entertained. Analysis of the findings indicate that skillful management of the ethical issues and sensitive accommodation of the co-creators’ physical, mental and emotional challenges were key to the success of the project.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.011 | 0.015 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.016 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".