Jing-Wen TSENG (Jing-Wen)
Tainan
Independent Artist/Facilitator
Jing-Wen Tseng is a full time practitioner using theatre for social transformation since 2007. She works in communities, organizations, schools, prisons, and identity groups, for educational, organizing and empowerment purposes. She loves the co-creating process with people in theatre workshops to open more space for feeling, connecting, thinking critically (from individual to social dimension), and expressing both individually and collectively. She facilitates interactive performances related to people’s voices, community building and education. Jing-Wen participates in different human rights groups and social movements including immigrants’ groups, nurses’ union, social workers, and prisoners’ groups, and has participated in a deliberative democracy project as a facilitator since 2011. Overall, she regards herself as a dialogue facilitator, a critical pedagogy practitioner, a cultural activist, an organizer, and a human rights movement participant.