Kimberlee Walker is a social worker, actor and Applied Theatre facilitator who is a founding member of Ontario-based not-for-profit Theatre of the Beat (TOTB). Theatre of the Beat is a theatre company with a process rooted in restorative justice principles and a passion for promoting conversations around social justice. Kimberlee developed TOTB's Restorative Justice Theatre Program which runs out of Grand Valley Institution for Women. This program marks the first time that a professional theatre company has collaborated with federally incarcerated women in Canada.

You don’t want to miss:

• How Theatre of the Beat got started and how it became the first professional theatre company to collaborate with federally incarcerated women in Canada
• Tips for creating safe space in your workshops that use a trauma-informed approach
• Why creating theatre within prisons is important and impactful and how you might go about starting your own program
• How applying a restorative justice lens to your work may affect your practices
• Resources on how to measure and evaluate your applied theatre work
• And MORE.

Links and Resources

• Learn more about Kimberlee and Theatre of the Beat
• Book your spot at TOTB’s upcoming digital show Forgiven/Forgotten
• Check out the Justice Arts Coalition – a network uniting teaching artists, arts advocates, currently and formerly incarcerated artists, and allies, harnessing the transformative power of the arts to reimagine justice
• Learn more about the impact of prison theatre programs through the Geese Theatre Company evidence library

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