Our Mission

See Saw’s mission is to create participatory theatre projects with North Carolina communities.

See Saw Projects strive to foster:

• social engagement

• an outlet to examine ideas about social injustice and social change

• hands on learning

• community building

• reflection about identity

• leadership cultivation and professional development

• meaningful artistic experiences

• the freedom to play and connect no matter what age

Our Values

We work from a participant-centered model, which means that our projects are creating WITH communities rather than "for." We value our participants' stories, cultural identities, and the needs of their community. From these experiences, we can work together to create theatre and art that tells our stories in variety of forms.

See Saw's work is rooted in Paulo Friere's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, "which offers an approach to education and organizing to transform oppressive structures and create a more equitable, caring and beautiful world through action and reflection that is co-created with those who have been marginalized..." (practicingfreedom.org) And is also rooted in the principles in Adrienne Marie Brown’s Emergent Strategy.

Amy Sawyers-Williams founded See Saw Projects in 2017, and received her Masters in Applied Theatre from the CUNY School of Professional Studies, which laid the groundwork for the creation of See Saw. 

Banner photo credit: Mark Tulbert, from the Arab Spring Process Drama at NC State University