Through dynamic and low-stakes exercises, we'll share and perform stories related to themes of collective witnessing, our shared political moment, hope, and dreams. Workshop participants can expect to engage and sharpen their skills in deep listening, improvisation, and reflection.
Saturday, March 7th, 2026 @ 10am PST | West Los Angeles, CA
A 2-hour offering that blends the healing power of sound with restorative circle practices in honor of collective healing. Designed to support emotional understanding, nervous system care, and deeper listening, this experience creates space for both personal grounding and community connection.
Saturday, March 14th, 2026 @ 10am PST | West Los Angeles, CA
Combining theater, movement, voice, poetry, healing — including the frame of “Aloha” & “Mahalo” from the TeAda Methodology — we will explore, embody, connect to self, hopes, dreams and our collective humanity more deeply.
Saturday, March 21st, 2026 @ 10am PST | West Los Angeles, CA
Together, we will move through a writing workshop and writing prompts rooted in identity, memory, and freedom, before transforming our words into embodied expressions through movement or spoken word.
Saturday, April 11th, 2026 @ 10am PST | West Los Angeles, CA
We will explore musical connections to home and how we can express our feelings about home through music. Share your experiences about your relationship with where you live and the place you call home through meditative and energizing musical activities. No musical experience required!
Saturday, April 18th, 2026 @ 10am PST | West Los Angeles, CA
Participants will experience being part of a ritual through exposure to songs, vibrations and sound. They will participate by exploring vocal toning practices and harmony singing that soothe their nervous system, ease vocal tension, and quiet anxious thoughts, while boosting oxytocin and restoring inner balance.
Saturday, May 2nd, 2026 @ 10am PST | West Los Angeles, CA
We will explore how ancestral palm weaving traditions from the Philippines are being transformed by climate change, migration, and material insecurity. Blending storytelling, cultural history, and hands-on creative practice, participants will learn to repurpose discarded food packaging into weaving material and craft their own small woven object.
Saturday, May 30th, 2026 @ 10am PST | West Los Angeles, CA
This hands-on workshop navigates the Hawaiian canoe plant, kī. Propagation to then exploring the creative and cultural uses of the plant. Through story telling and practice, the workshop highlights plants as connectors of culture, creativity, and community.
Saturday, June 6th, 2026 @ 10am PST | West Los Angeles, CA
This candle-making session invites participants to engage in a co-creative healing space rooted in ancestral knowledge and contemporary struggles for justice.
Saturday, November 15th, 2025 @ 10am PST | West Los Angeles, CA
Multi-media, photography, and video art workshop focusing on the practice of blending your lens-based art with appropriated media to better understand our past, present, and future.
Saturday, November 8th, 2025 @ 10am PST | West Los Angeles, CA
We will use simple somatic techniques to explore how to allow all emotions to move through us without resistance, shame or guilt. We will focus on how to recognize in the body when emotional sensation is present, name it, tune into it and allow it to reach expression in a healthy way.
Saturday, November 1st 2025 @ 10am PST | West Los Angeles, CA
An immersive workshop that blends the ancient practice of sound healing with modern understandings of nervous system regulation and emotional resilience. It is a reminder that our bodies hold powerful tools for healing.
Saturday, October 25th, 2025 @ 10am PST | West Los Angeles, CA
In this workshop, we'll make contact with your innate forms of expression and lifelong themes of leadership, including what is available from childhood and your lineage and what wants to come forth now.
Saturday, October 18th, 2025 @ 10am PST | West Los Angeles, CA
“Community Stewardship: TeAda Methodology Workshop”
September 4, 2025 [at WAA^LA 2025 Conference]
(Re)consider how to engage with collaborators, audiences, and those who experience various forms of displacement and systemic oppression. This session utilizes TeAda’s Methodology that centers community partnerships, cultural navigation, and honoring cultural practices and experience. Learn strategies for developing sustainable relationships with populations that are historically excluded from the performing arts.
In this 5-day intensive we introduced The TeAda Methodology, a process that weaves theater, storytelling & movement. Participants explored their creative self expression, share personal stories, & build collective power to strengthen their leadership & advocacy. As a way to celebrate, and culminate all of the powerful work that has come from this workshop, we are hosting a public performance!
A Community Gathering & Resource Sharing Event hosted by TeAda Productions
To prioritize the safety of our communities - who are particularly vulnerable, and understandably in deep fear of traveling anywhere at this time - we will instead host a virtual space dedicated to creative community processing, story/resource sharing, and healing. This will be an opportunity to check in with each other and respond creatively and collectively to these times.
“LIVED IN: Character Building Through Self-Exploration”
Saturday, June 7th, 2025 @ 10am PST | West Los Angeles, CA
Discover the truth of your journey and excavate the gifts, lessons, talents and superpowers you've cultivated. You'll reframe your story through the lens of self love to reflect your perfection and honor your agency.
“LIVED IN: Character Building Through Self-Exploration”
Saturday, May 17th, 2025 @ 10am PST | West Los Angeles, CA
It is a workshop for storytellers who are wanting to develop fictional characters that move on the page. But it will also allow you to reflect on what moves you.
Saturday, May 3rd, 2025 @ 10am PST | West Los Angeles, CA
Creating and learning in community with no expectations of perfection or productivity combined with the physical act of finger-knitting with soft yarns offers healing during these tumultuous times.
Saturday, April 19th, 2025 @ 10am PST | West Los Angeles, CA
In this 2-hour session, you will be immersed in mantra chanting and the healing sounds of crystal singing bowls as you move through guided meditation, movement, breath work, and journal reflection.
“Partnered Thai Massage: Exercises in Unconditional Loving Kindness”
Saturday, April 5th, 2025 @ 10am PST | West Los Angeles, CA
Thai massage is a practice rooted in unconditional loving kindness that can be beneficial for both the giver and the receiver! Learn full-body techniques to help release tension in your legs, hips, back, shoulders, etc.
Saturday, March 22nd, 2025 @ 10am PST | West Los Angeles, CA
This acting class will explore the depth and breadth of character creation through exploration of our imagination, movement, and voice using TeAda's methodology.
“Words Move Through Me: A Writing Workshop Utilizing Movement”
Saturday, March 8th, 2025 @ 10am PST | West Los Angeles, CA
Our bodies hold the words we need to write our plays, our short stories, our lives. We will explore identity, loss, and rebirth as they live as words in our bodies.
TeAda Productions is a nomadic theater of color rooted in the stories of immigrants and refugees. Through theater workshops and performances, TeAda is committed to healing and honoring the lives of the displaced, exploited and overlooked. Our artistic process starts and ends with conscious listening, community building, and creative courage. TeAda began in 1996 as a means of providing opportunities for people of color to develop their artistry and bring marginalized voices into the public dialogue. TeAda’s plays are developed through community-based story gathering and a devised ensemble theater process. Current touring plays developed through this process include Refugee Nation, (the 1st nationally touring play about Laotian Refugees in the U.S.) and Global Taxi Driver (a play based on the stories of Taxi Drivers and the effects of technology on this gateway profession). TeAda’s Creative Self Care workshop series is entering it’s 3rd year at the UCLA Labor Center in downtown L.A.