The 28th Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed (PTO) Conference

Confronting Injustice:

Transformation, Reparation, and Radical Imagination

Omaha, Nebraska, USA

June 5-8, 2025, with pre-conference events June 3-5

Host Site: University of Nebraska Omaha Community Engagement Center

Join us June 5-8 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA for a deeply participatory conference where we lean into inquiry, dialogue and creative expression as ways to challenge the forces of domination, share learning and knowledge, and to create change! Artists, activists, organizers, educators and anyone working to dismantle oppression, this is for you!

The conference includes the following events, for which you can now register:

3-day pre-conference workshop with Julian Boal: June 3-5, 2025
Half-day pre-conference workshop with PTO Board Member Mark Weinberg: June 5, 2025
The PTO Conference itself: June 5-8, 2025

Please note that each of these events has a separate registration link, so registering for one does not mean that you have also already registered for another.

About this year’s conference:

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed unless it is faced.” -James Baldwin

This quote so aptly captures the spirit of this year’s theme. In many parts of the world, horrific violence and oppression – often even active genocide or threats of genocide – present grave injustices that demand attention and organized action. We are in a bleak period, where self-preservation might cause many to want to hide their heads in the sand. It is truly time for transformation, reparation, and radical reimagining. More than ever it is a time to come together to stand up for liberty, for strategizing, and for collective healing.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Theatre of the Oppressed provide us with inspiration and tools to transform our world into a more just and equitable society. Join us in the Gateway to the West, Omaha, Nebraska, seated on the ancestral homeland of the Omaha, Ponca, Otoe-Missouria and Ioway tribes.

This conference will give opportunities for people to share and expand on their methods to create justice from the bottom up. In these bleak times we come together not only to offer hope, but also real practical ways to move toward a new society. We will explore work that truly counters many of our social ills, including restorative and transformative justice initiatives, abolitionist activism, healing practices, calls for reparations, student organizing across the country, environmental justice and the fight against environmental racism, food sovereignty, housing rights, and other ways people are reckoning and grappling with the current moment.

REGISTER HERE for our 28th Conference — Confronting Injustice: Transformation, Reparation, and Radical Imagination, June 5-8, 2025

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Register HERE for our 3-day pre-conference workshop with Julian Boal: June 3-5, 2025

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