Dan Baron Cohen is a community performance educator and eco-cultural activist of Welsh-Quebecois origin. He has lived in Brasil since 1998 and in the Brazilian Amazonian city of Marabá since 2009.

After 10 years of collaborations with the MST (landless workers), trades Union and indigenous movements and Pará State Federal University in Brasil, Dan and his co-founder of the Transformance Institute, Manoela Souza, were invited to create a community sculpture in the Afro-Indigenous village of Cabelo Seco in 2008.

The Rivers of Meeting performance education project began by awakening sleeping cultural roots and human rights through Afro-Contemporary percussion, dance and lyrics workshops. Over 12 years, excluded youth were nurtured to become community workshop leaders and coordinators of medicinal plant, street library/cinema projects, dance and audiovisual companies, annual festivals and workshop courses in their Community University of the Rivers, to defend the River Tocantins and nurture an eco-village based on eco-pedagogies for sustainable community. This young AfroRaiz Collective is the community sculpture.

In this alternative pedagogias session, Dan will answer questions about the origins and challenges of this project based on insights he acquired during his quest for pedagogies of transformation through performance.

I will consist on a live dialogic circle based on reflections/ comments on the 7 minute video on the following video:

This is part of a webinar series co-organised by PeDAGoG, Radical Ecological Democracy, Educere, Ecoversities, The Alternatives Project, WEALL and the GTAGlobal Tapestry of Alternatives on alternative learning/education.