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Dream Theater
2019-2022Theatre has the advantage, in front of all kinds of arts, to enable each participant's task to be tailored to his / her strengths, preferences and abilities, while maintaining the motivation to work together to achieve a common goal, which would not be possible without summing up the contributions of each of them.
The theater also offers space for overcoming social discrimination against people with disabilities, giving them access to cultural events, as in the role of spectators, and creators.
Considering this, we pursue a wide range of goals, which move from the study of dramatic art strategies and techniques to these, which are more direct and affect the personal development of the participants.project goals:
- Preparation and presentation of various performances in each of the partner cities, participating in the project - Calpe – Spain, Thessaloniki – Greece and Sofia – Bulgaria, in order to create visibility of the work of the participants and the significance and social projection of the project in different sectors of society.
- Acquisition of new skills for interpretation and communication through training of training participants, developed by participating professionals
- Creating a strategic cross-border network, based on a common interest in raising the visibility of the social value of the performing arts educational and social field
Participants in educational trainings and performances - by 12 man from every side
The implementation of the project will be carried out in two phases:
1in phase: 5daily training on stage skills in each of the partner cities
2ra phase: 5 daily rehearsals for creating and performing in each of the three countries.
Partners
2018 – 2021: EUROPEAN YEAR OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
2018 r. was presented as the European Year of Cultural Heritage, which aims to promote the participation and approach of Europeans to their cultural heritage, to promote the exchange and appreciation of Europe's rich heritage and to strengthen a sense of belonging to a common European space.
We could not find a more appropriate European reference framework for the presentation of our strategic partnership project, which not only guarantees access to cultural content, but above all encourages participation in the creation and dissemination of this content to a vulnerable group such as people with disabilities.
COLLABORATION
Theatre has the advantage, which encompasses each of the performing arts, so that the necessary individualization is achieved for each person (taking into account its strengths, preferences and abilities), while maintaining the motivation to work together and as a team, working together to achieve a common goal, which would not be possible without the amount of each contribution.
WIDE RANGE OF GOALS
The theater also offers space for overcoming social discrimination against people with disabilities, to ensure access to cultural content, and also to create.
Taking this into account, we pursue a wide range of goals, which range from the study of dramatic artistic strategies and techniques to those, which are more transverse and affect the personal development of the participants.
- Develop their skills and dramatic competence from a professional point of view.
- Collaborate and participate in a play in any organization.
- Develop transversal competencies through theater: communication, socialization, social visibility and the removal of existing barriers and social prejudices.
- Offer opportunities to our students with functional diversity to know other cultures and cities.
- Create networks for cooperation and exchange of methodologies in the field of performing arts, which include various institutions and organizations, to achieve better opportunities for students and consumers to participate in social life and to promote social change.
- To communicate the impact of this project to the relevant local and regional organizations and authorities, to gain greater support for theater and performing arts for people with disabilities through: more training suggestions, creation of theater festivals, where people with disabilities can participate, greater participation in the supply of recreation plans in their cities, performed for professional companies, who work with people with disabilities, etc..
TWO PHASE PROJECT
We will develop a project, divided into two phases:
- First year, dedicated to a week of specific training in theaters and performing arts seminars at each of the partners' headquarters
- Second year, dedicated to the rehearsal and presentation of the plays, which will be designed in each participating institution.
Participants in these actions will be the 36 students (by 12 from each participating country), who will conduct the training seminars and the presentation of the work.
Mobility from the 1st year
Training seminars in theater and performing arts.
Mobility from the 2nd year
Creation and performance of a play in each country.
1) First year One week drama workshop 2) Second year One week to prepare and participate in a play Participants March 2020 r. Drama workshop with CPEE Gargasindi (Calp, Spain) 2021 Preparing and playing a play in Lie (Spain) 4 participant from Aratos.
4 participant from Theatre Tsvete.May 2020 r. Drama workshop Theatre Tsvete (Sofia, Bulgaria) 2021 Preparing and playing a play in Sofia (Bulgaria) 4 participant from Gargasindi.
4 different participant from Aratos.September 2020 r. Drama workshop with Aratos (Thessaloniki, Greece) 2021 Preparing and playing a play in Thessaloniki (Greece) 4 different participant from Gargasindi.
4 different participant from Theatre Tsvete.Project events
Visit to Spain: Day 4
18 May 2022 r. |
These days we have worked very hard under the guidance of Martha and Zaira! 💪🏼💪🏼 After we worked, we wanted to use our time, so we didn't stop for a second! We were happy to visit Altea 💙 i Benidorm 💚, where we learned a lot with our guide Manu. 👏🏻👏🏻 Everything is prepared and tomorrow we will have a special audience, students from Asc Amigxs Gargasindi Calp. We are very lucky for this great team Aratos Theater, Theatre Tsvete!
Visit to Spain: Day 3
18May 2022 r. |
Spaniards.
Visit to Spain: Day 2
18 May 2022 r. |
Second day of the workshop, host of which Asc Amigxs Gargasindi Calp in Benisa. Martha us "Preparing for chaos": if a digital eclipse occurs in the world, we will have to go back to body language and face-to-face relationships. We also enjoy the weather and the cities in the area La Marina Alta.
Visit to Spain: Day 1
17 May 2022 r. |
Good morning! The first working day in Asc Amigxs Gargasindi Calp in Benisa (Spain). The participants worked very hard, but they could also enjoy pottery time!
Visit to Sofia: Day 5
26 April 2021 r. |
It's time to say goodbye, these days in Sofia they were very nice and we all felt well received. The workshop of Theatre “Tsvete” and her performance "Disappearing world" remind us how important it is to take care of the environment and try to do our best as human beings 🌏💚. Theater and social consciousness can be a good combination. Thanks to all participants and those, who collaborated during those days. I'll see you soon!!
Visit to Sofia: Day 4
26 April 2021 r. |
Almost ready…. 🎭 Greece 🇬🇷 Spain 🇪🇸 Bulgaria 🇧🇬
Visit to Sofia: Day 3
26 April 2021 r. |
Third day of the workshop in Sofia (in the building of "Union of the Deaf in Bulgaria") and performance grows and improves. At Violina Vasileva-Alexandrova everything becomes easier and more creative ❤️. We thank our hosts for their hospitality
Visit to Sofia: Day 2
26 April 2021 r. |
Finally, after 2 years the teams reunite!!
Visit to Sofia: A walk
26 April 2021 r. |
What an amazing trio Theatre Tsvete, Asc Amigxs Gargasindi Calp and Aratos Theater! Second day of the workshop in Sofia and we also enjoy and learn from others. After work we had time for sightseeing and communication. Good job!!
A few words from Tsvete Yaneva from the Theater “Tsvete”
26 April 2021 r. |
Fantastic workshop in Sofia (Bulgaria), led by Theatre Tsvete and participants from Gargasindi (Spain) and Aratos Theater (Greece).
https://youtu.be/Nm9GB9K4wMQTheatre contains each of the other arts. This allows the individual involvement of each of the participants, according to its strengths, preferences and abilities, while maintaining the motivation to work together to achieve a common goal, which would not be achievable without the contribution of each one. Taking this into account, the project pursues a wide range of objectives: from enriching the trainers with new artistic strategies and techniques to the personal development of the participants. The project is planned to be held in two rounds. Unfortunately, immediately after its launch, the pandemic closed. After the present participation of the Bulgarian and Greek group in the training in Spain, the Bulgarian and Greek trainers had to conduct their training online. We are very happy that we can now be together again!Currently participants from Spain, Greece and Bulgaria work together under the leadership of Violina Vasileva-Alexandrova, actress from Theatre “Tsvete”We wish them success!
Visit to Sofia: Day 1
25 April 2021 r. |
We finally managed to travel and return to ours Erasmus project. We are already in Sofia (Bulgaria) and we had the first day of the seminar. This workshop is led by Theatre “Tsvete” and the participants are from Theatre “Tsvete”, Gargasindi (Spain) and Aratos Theater (Greece). Here are some pictures from our first day!
Aratos Theater Workshop: Day 5
05 October 2021 r. |
We reached our last workshop with theater Aratos. And you liked it so much, as much as to us? Share and enjoy!
Aratos Theater Workshop: Day 4
05 October 2021 r. |
Time for crafts. Are you ready? Jenny shows us how to make these sailboats. Don't miss the part 2 from this handmade in the workshop for day 5! Share and enjoy!
Aratos Theater Workshop: Day 3
05 October 2021 r. |
After a good warm-up, from Thessaloniki, theater Aratos offers us this fantastic activity: talking masks. Show all your artistic skills! Share and enjoy!
Aratos Theater Workshop: Day 2
05 October 2021 r. |
Are you ready for today's session? Jenny and Achilles introduce us to these fun activities. let's do this! Share and enjoy!
Aratos Theater Workshop: Day 1
04 October 2021 r. |
Ours Erasmus project is here again! Here we have the first online seminar of colleagues from Greece. Mimes and sculptors ли are you ready? Share and enjoy!
Pajama Workshop: Fox!
23 February 2021 r. |
Greetings from Sofia !! Violina has prepared a new video for the online workshop from Bulgaria! This fox is so cute, that you would like to do it yourself! Listen Violina and follow her instructions:
Pajama Workshop: Birds!
Feb 23, 2021 |
Attention! Attention! New video from Violina! Do you have paper rolls at home? Do not throw them away, better recycle them! You can use them, to make this amazing bird! Now it's your turn! Share and enjoy!
Pajama Workshop: Hedgehog!
23 February 2021 r. |
It's me Violina from Theatre “Tsvete”, which presents its online workshop. It is time for "Pajama workshop!“ This time we make a very special hedgehog. Pay attention and … follow her! Share and enjoy …
We are back!!!
23 February 2021 r. |
After a long time, we are very happy to tell you, that … WE ARE BACK !! This pandemic has forced us to stop traveling and seminars in partner countries, but … we found an alternative!
We will make theater workshops from Aratos and Theatre Tsvete online. The participants will carry out the activities in their centers and we will record the whole process, to complete this first year of experience!For now, we'd like to show you the videos, who Flower Theater has prepared for all of us. We look forward to carrying them out (by doing all the activities) and show you the result !!
1-in a workshop: WELCOME TO CPEE GARGASINDI!
27 April 2020 r. |
We had our first workshop in March and it was amazing! This was the first attempt at Gargasindi in student mobility and we must recognize, that we liked it a lot!
Team of “Dream Theater” The only thing, which we must regret, is that when our friends came to Spain, a state of emergency has occurred. We were really lucky, that we finally managed to complete the experience and they managed to return to their countries, although we all felt really scared!
However, we have suffered some consequences: some participants failed, the cancellation of the play, to show all students what we have done in the seminars, and the refusal of our operator, who was to come to the theater, to record our performance. Whatever, this does not mean, that we were not happy or did nothing !! We adapted quite well to her situation, as you will see in the shared presentation, we presented at the school to our students (really the best audience!) And instead we used our mobile cameras!
talking circle But we must admit, that thing, which we were very happy about, except working hours, it was to get to know each other and spend time together in the afternoon, enjoying your free time and enjoying your city. We don't have too many opportunities, to take our free time, dealing with all friends together, so that was a good opportunity.
Now we would like to share with all of you a very nice presentation with photos and videos for our first workshop and we hope, that you will all enjoy so much, as much as we do!
Host of the first seminar
17 February 2020 r. |
Vicente Galiana has graduated in fine arts. She also has a degree in advanced research (DEA in Spain) in Complutense University in Madrid, within the doctoral program "Applications of art in social integration: art, therapy and education in diversity ".
She worked as a dance teacher in Dan Zas Association, has conducted dance and theater seminars for people with functional disabilities, as well as training courses for professionals from different fields.
Vicente Galiana, acting in Dan Zas Association She also conducted an Investigation and Research Program based on their experience as a specialized theater company and their research on the performing arts and diversity., looking for those methodologies, which allow the participation of people with functional differences, regardless of their type and variety.
In addition, she has led a wide range of seminars on performing arts and diversity in Alicante, where it comes from, funded by the government of Valencian government.
First international meeting
9 December 2019 |
On 2, 3 and 4 November we spent in Lie the first international meeting between the partners, constituting the project “Theater of Dreams”.
Although we had been in contact before, this was the first time, when we met in person.
It was a great opportunity to learn, to share knowledge and experience, as well as to share agreements about the project and the most important information about it.
And besides working, we also had time to get to know and understand the culture of Lie, to discover its cuisine and visit the most charming and emblematic places in the city: the majestic Ifach Rock, the old city walls and its old city , Salinas with their flamingos and others.
Next stop: Lie, March 2020 r. (we expect to start with the seminars!).
Let's go!!Dream Theater
Theatre has the advantage, in front of all kinds of arts, to enable each participant's task to be tailored to his / her strengths, preferences and abilities, while maintaining the motivation to work together to achieve a common goal, which would not be possible without summing up the contributions of each of them. The theater also offers space […] -
The eye of an artist, the soul of a poet
2020 - 2021with the support of Ministry of Culture
The show "The eye of an artist, poet's soul " is built on stories "The harvest", Asphyxiation, Mowers and "In the next world", included in the curriculum in literature in primary and secondary education. It is designed to increase students' interest in creativity Elin Pelin, as well as help those, who are about to graduate. It is built on a modular principle, as between the stories the actors enter into a discussion with the audience, helping with their questions to make sense of the author's message and means, through which he achieved this suggestion.Directing: Tsvete Yaneva Scenography and dolls: Silvia Stoyanova Music: Vlada Yaneva Participate: Violina Vasileva-Alexandrova,Ralitsa Stoyanova, Ekaterina Kazakova, Georgi Mavrov, Martin Noev and Mikhail Petrov Lighting and sound: Larry Ask The eye of an artist, the soul of a poet
with the support of the Ministry of Culture The performance “Eye of an Artist, soul of a poet "is built on the stories" After the harvest ", Asphyxiation, "Mowers" and "In the Other World", included in the curriculum in literature in primary and secondary education. It is designed to increase students' interest in the work of Elin Pelin, whatever […] -
Harassment and abuse
2018-2021Resume:
The project will be implemented for 32 months (from 01-09-2018 to 30-04-2021) from a consortium of 7 partner organizations from 6 different countries (Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, France, Portugal and Denmark) and associate partner, led by FSZK НПО, Hungary.
The main goal of the project is to support the daily work of educators to prevent various types of harassment among young people - from ridicule to abuse. A complete system of tools will be developed in the project, which includes:
- Simulation game, mainly for young people (O1);
- Guidelines for working with the experience of young people, acquired from the simulation game (O2);
– Methodology on Forum theatre, which also works with their experience, acquired by the game (O3).
One of the goals of the game is to increase the sensitivity and awareness of young people about the different ways of harassment.. Another important goal of the project is to encourage and support the social inclusion of such vulnerable groups, who already have fewer opportunities and thus have a greater chance of becoming victims of harassment. The simulation game supports our shared responsibility to avoid harassment situations. The third goal of the project is to provide the necessary knowledge and practices to young people (including young people from different types of vulnerable groups) for recognition, avoid and / or dealing with such situations in the best possible way.
Partners:
- Copenhagen City Youth School (Denmark)
- E2C73 (France)
- Association of Hungarian Head Teachers (Hungary)
- Second Chance School of Matosinhos (Portugal)
- Babes Bolyai University (Romania)
- Flower Theater (Bulgaria)
- Equal Opportunities of Persons with Disabilities Non-Profit Ltd. (Hungary)
Events:
Test 1
Progress in Denmark
New motivation from France
Important progress in Portugal!
LAST TEST
FINAL MEETING
Harassment and abuse
Resume: The project will be implemented for 32 months (from 01-09-2018 to 30-04-2021) from a consortium of 7 partner organizations from 6 different countries (Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, France, Portugal and Denmark) and associate partner, led by FSZK NGOs, Hungary. The main goal of the project is to support the daily work of educators to prevent different […] -
Violence at school
2020Theatre Tsvete offers five forum theatrical performances, associated with various forms of violence, suitable for different age groups. Forum theatre is a theatrical play, in which the actors present a problematic situation. The audience, who is also a participant in the performance, is invited to suggest and play solutions to alleviate it. Forum theatre gives viewers an incredible chance to try out in a safe environment different patterns of behavior in potentially problematic life situations. The presented cases are suitable for additional discussions in class.“AND WHAT WOULD YOU DO?” is a forum theatrical performance, in which three of the most common forms of school violence are presented. Viewers decide which one to try to bring about positive change. Best for 3you to 9th grade including;“COMMENT ON THIS!” is a theatrical play, created on a real case of violence. It aims to draw the attention of young Internet users to personal responsibility, which everyone has, to the protection of other people's personal space. Best for 4you to 9th grade including;"YOU WILL NEVER SEE ME AGAIN!” presents a dramatic conflict between daughter and mother. Viewers make assumptions about the events, led to rupture. In the story created on the basis of their own experience, young people are looking for ways to ease the child-parent relationship. Most appropriate for 6th to 10th grade including;“YOU COOL ARE YOU?” presents the drama of replacing the moral values of the young man with material quantitative criteria, which he must perform, to be admitted to a particular social group. Most suitable for 5you to 10th grade including;"ME AND YOU" is a show about the euphoria of the first love excitements and voluntary or involuntary misunderstandings, which break the fragile bond. Young people will have the opportunity to give ideas for positive changes in the course of events, whose effectiveness they will test in the love laboratory created in this way. Most suitable for 5you to 8th grade including.It is important to know about the performances, that:- Three or more professional actors take part in each performance;
- Performances do not necessarily require a theater hall and technical assistance from the school;.
- Each forum theatrical performance has a duration 45 – 60 minutes (theatrical discussion is an integral part of it);
- The audience can be no more than 80 man;
Violence at school
The Theatre "Tsvete" offers five forum theatrical performances, associated with various forms of violence, suitable for different age groups. Forum Theatre is a theatrical play, in which the actors present a problematic situation. The audience, who is also a participant in the performance, is invited to suggest and play solutions to alleviate it. Forum Theater gives viewers an incredible chance to try it out […] -
“Colorful shadows”
2020Co-financed by a program "Culture" of Sofia Municipality
The partnership project of the NGO "Flower Theater" and the Foundation Health Initiative provides for innovative non - formal health education of 800-1000 growing up between 13 and 18 years, aimed at preventing the use of >narcotic drugs and the associated risk of infection with HIV, by including them in a forum theatrical performance and interactive training of a group of young trainers of their peers. Learning by doing and experiencing, whatever forum theater offers, gives deeper and more lasting results than any didactic method. It gives viewers an incredible chance to try out in a safe environment different patterns of behavior in potentially problematic life situations..
Due to the imposed emergency measures, the implementation of the project was postponed, even uncertain. Supported by the Sofia Program "Culture", we digitized the show, to ensure its spread in the presence of an epidemiological situation.
We are happy to announce, that for now project "Color shadows" of the NGO is carried out Live.On 29.09.2020. from 11:50 the eponymous forum theatrical performance was presented at Princess Maria-Louisa Vocational School of Clothing– city. Sofia. And on 05.10.2020 from 12;45 An interactive training on the topic was conducted with the same ninth-graders by expert psychologists from the Foundation Health Initiative.
The next object of the event was Vocational High School of Ecology and Biotechnology "Prof.. Dr. Asen Zlatarov - city. Sofia. There on 16.10.2020 from 13:50 interactive training on the topic was conducted "Myths and reality about the consequences of drug use", and on 23.10.2020. from 13:50 a forum theatrical performance was presented "Color shadows".
On the last day before the entry into force of the new strict restrictions, associated with the coronavirus pandemic, on 26.11.2020, we managed to play another live performance in front of students from 156 Vasil Levski Primary School, and their meeting with our psychologist partners was on 10.12.2020 in online format.
On 12.11.2020. took place online premiere of the digitized show "Color shadows" in front of students of pedagogy from SU "St.. Kliment Ohridski ”, and on 26.11.2020. The main participants in the forum theatrical online performance were the young people from the crisis center "Hope" of the foundation P.U.L.S.. The same young people participated in the interactive training "Myths and realities about the consequences of drug use" on 08.12.2020 r.
“Colorful shadows”
Co-financed by the Culture Program of Sofia Municipality, the Partnership Project of NGO Flower Theater and the Health Initiative Foundation envisages conducting innovative non-formal health education of 800-1000 growing up between 13 and 18 years, aimed at preventing the use of >drugs and the associated risk of HIV infection, by including them in a forum theatrical performance […] -
Lesson on empathy
2020with the support of Ministry of Culture
It is implemented with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture, won through a competition
The spread of the puppet forum theatrical performance The Flying Knight is held in order to prevent school violence among students from the primary stage of primary education
The puppet forum theatrical performance “The flying knight” presents the story of a boy with a wild imagination. His classmates do not accept him because of his differences. And adults are mired in their own problems.
What happens on stage is familiar to students. Violence at school is so common, that students get used to it, they begin not to notice it. Victims alone cannot get used to it. The children in the hall empathize with the troubles of Little Martin. Empathy motivates them to go on stage and look for a way to help him.
“The flying knight” teaches children to recognize violence and to protect each other. If they are silent and patient, the abuser believes, that he is invincible and repeats, and triples and in response provokes violence. With this show we want to provoke children, parents and teachers to understand the personal responsibility of each to this huge problem - school violence.
Lesson on empathy
with the support of the Ministry of Culture Implemented with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture, won through a competition “The flying knight” presents the story of a boy […] -
Development of the audience of people with hearing impairments in Bulgaria
2019Supported by NFC, program "Publics", agreement № 122-P – 18 – ORG1620-23 /18.09.2018
Marketing strategy for dissemination of the ready innovative gesture-verbal spectacle "Borders". Production of leaflets and posters, distributed by centers of Union of the Deaf in the city. Stara Zagora, Burgas, Yambol and Sofia.
Digital advertising campaign on the social network Facebook.
Developing active communication with audiences and inclusion to the activity of our organization.
STARA ZAGORA, 26.02.2019 | BURGAS, 27.02.2019 | YAMBOL, 28.02.2019 | SOFIA, 04.03.2019
Our contribution to the creation of a methodology for building theatrical gestures and verbal performances:
My name is Vasil Spasov. I am a hearing actor and director, directed "Kukunor I Unuki ” in Bulgaria as a member of Flower Theater. I already had experience with different types of theater - puppet theater, educational theater, forum theater, playback theater, improvisational theater, theater for reproduction, theater of collective creativity (Devised theatre), theater of the specific space (Site-specific theatre) and a sensory maze theater. So I was very open to the bilingual show, because. experimenting in new territories is part of my creative DNA.
There is no tradition of bilingual or other kind of inclusive theater in Bulgaria. There are some random performances, but very rarely. I myself have taken part in such, sounding pieces of deaf actors in the moments, in which a voice was needed above the text.
So I was ready to dive into the adventure
PREPARATION
Text preparation
What is the best text for a bilingual game? I still don't know the answer to that question. I know what a good text is for a hearing audience, but also for the Chuvash and the deaf - this was a question for me as a director from the very beginning of the process. So I read the play Kukunor I Kalahari several times and I followed my artistic instinct.
The first thing, which caught my attention, it was, that they were parts of the text, which were rhyming and very abstract in meaning - they were difficult to understand at first glance and their translation into sign language would hardly carry their true meaning. The repetition of the sound in the rhymes and the play on words would delight the hearing audience., but for the deaf they will confuse and make sentences difficult to understand. So my decision was to remove these rhyming parts and if possible, to try to find another way to put their message in
The second thing, what I noticed was, that the whole play is based on text. This, what i mean is, that words themselves are the main instrument of dramatic action. As far as I know, deaf people use many ways to interact with each other and words / the signs are just one of them. So my goal as a director was to invent and involve more "Without a word / no signs " scenes, to balance actions, based on the text. Later, at the performances I felt, that in these scenes the actors and the audience focus on the action itself, without words or signs to raise barriers between them. I made a few - "Opening stage"(about 8 minutes), in which the audience got acquainted with the characters and the situation, "Shooting scene" - a dramatic moment, in which they injure the woman, "Romantic scene" - flirting / love dance, in which the characters approach emotionally and physically.
The third thing, which was very important to me, the play had a very clear and strong construction. I knew, that because of the two channels of communication, which the audience will watch all the time, it will be overwhelmed by the complexity of storytelling, so my job as a director was to prepare a play, which is easily captured and monitored. In short - a simple story, which is delivered in a very new and complex theatrical way. So I edited the parts, which were not very clear from a structural and logical point of view.
The last part was the translation of the text into sign language. This process was done with a translator and actors, deaf and hearing. The focus here was to find the right signs for the words and when they didn't turn out to be appropriate - to replace them with other similar ones..
The pace was also a serious problem - was the sign language or verbal language faster or slower than the other? This question has become even bigger, when the rehearsals on stage began.
For me, the text for a bilingual play should be different from that for a play only for hearing people. Because we combine two communication systems, we need to find the intersection of their strengths. A cooperative approach would be the best way - whether done by one writer with a consultant or by two writers, but also "Hearing" and The "deaf" parts must be involved in this process, to carry all the richness of words and plasticity.
Actor training
Most of the actors did not know each other, met in this project for the first time. But that was not the problem. The biggest problem was doubt, that this method can work. For all four actors, this endeavor was something completely new; something, which they had never done before. I had to prepare them to play characters, presented by another actor / actress with different means of expression. And this character would interact with another character, also played by both a deaf and a hearing actor.
I started the preparation carefully, Step by Step. For starters - games. The first five rehearsals were just to build the team, getting to know, a sense of partner on stage and collaboration - nothing about the play itself. In these games, the actors found their ways of communication - how deaf and hard of hearing to give signals to their partners., how to interact on stage. Was a lot of fun, mistakes were taken only as steps along the way, which removed the tension from the "big task". We started to build mutual trust. we went into creative mode. It is very important to create such a "laboratory" atmosphere, in which people feel free to experiment and have no fear of failure. When we achieved it, we took another step - we started improvisation games. Initially, the task was simple - four people in different random or extreme situations. The actors begin to develop the situation through interaction between them. When they got used to it, we switched to improvisation in pairs, in which the two actors played a single character. Are they a mirror to their partner, its opposite or continuation of the idea taken by it - the combination of everything, which we found, is the best key. Then the couple began to interact with the other couple. And because this improvisation can be really confusing, it requires the concentration and partnership of the team to rise to another level. They took control of the situation, the actors felt ready to start working on the play.
But how does the director feel?
Preparation for the director
Stage rehearsals were approaching, and I still didn't know exactly how to do it. There were many unknowns in my head, but I was in "laboratory" mode, i.e.- open to the process. I certainly knew the following: the story, each character will be played by two actors, the need for a strong visual expression of the scenes, especially those with sounds in them. While choosing the actors, I chose the two hearing actors to be about fifty years old, and the two deaf, about thirty. I used this to enrich the characters. How will each of these ages react in different situations?
Rehearsals
The most important advice, which I can give to someone, who has decided to undertake such an undertaking, is: patience, patience, patience. Things are done slowly, but eventually they become. Mixing two languages, the intertwining of two worlds, finding their best intersections, requires time. This is a path of discovery, path of failures and victories. Here are some of the challenges:
Keeping up the pace - it is difficult for two participants to have the same emotional and reactive speed, even if they read the same text at the same time. And imagine how much harder it was in our case… We put a lot of effort, so that the dialogue goes on all the time at the same time. We had to further edit some of the text or characters, to keep the flow. Sometimes we consciously looked for a different pace in the couple, but it was in special moments, when we wanted to emphasize something important. If we tried to synchronize the actors in many emotional moments, they looked like robots, so we were looking for a specific solution to each specific situation.
Two actors - one character - this is a very creative task. As I said before, the best way for us was to combine mirror, evolving and contradictory. But the combination is done on different scales in the cases, in which communication takes place in the couple and from this one, in which communication is with the other hero-couple or between different parts of oneself. For example, in our version of the play, the woman is alone on stage and there is a great internal conflict - so every actress retires - the young deaf actress wants to love the man., and the mature actress - to hate and kill him. The difficulty was this, that they had to have the same text. We solved the problem using just one phrase, which was repeated several times, whereby the conflict became more visual and physical.
Misansen! The first difficulty stems from the fact, that to be understood, deaf actors have to gesture like that, so that it can be seen by the audience, which means, that they should not play in profile or back. Another problem is, that when gesturing they can't do anything else with their hands - to play props or other physical actions. If such a thing is necessary, they must pause the text, until they perform the action and only then continue the text.
And so, with this in mind, we tried to use the whole scene and have different variants of interaction - deaf with deaf, hearing with hearing, hearing with deaf.
Balance! All participants must be equal on stage, no one to lead or support. So each of the four actors through the play had their own special moment of attention as an individual and each character - as a couple of partners..
Style of action - when deaf actors gesture, it is necessary to select the physical expression of the hearing actors and to focus more on the speech and the implementation of the action with this tool. The balance in the team is sought again.
How a director observes two simultaneous actions?! Many things were happening on stage at the same time and it was difficult to understand at once. So my approach was to focus on one thing and look at it carefully, while the whole action was going on. For example, I just focus on the deaf actors or listen to the lyrics of the hearing actors or watch one pair and then change the focus. The approach was again step by step.
REPRESENTATION
Our premiere was in Sofia and I thought, that the deaf community will be present en masse, because she is very eager to have a theater for the deaf in Bulgaria. But that was not the case. The audience was around 20% deaf and 80% hearing. On the contrary, in our tour in 3 the city in the country the audience was 90% deaf and 10% hearing. At our last presentation, again in Sofia, the spectators were 50/50 . For people, this was something completely new, so in the beginning we had resistance from each of the communities - it just took a while, until the hearing spread, that this new thing is good. For some deaf people in the country, this was the first theatrical experience and it was very valuable for our team. In the discussions after the performances, the main message of the audience was, that they want more theater like this. So somehow we created a hunger for bilingual performances, for which we want to share the responsibility with all theater actors in Bulgaria.
Development of the audience of people with hearing impairments in Bulgaria
Supported by NFC, Audience Program, agreement № 122-P – 18 – ORG1620-23 /18.09.2018 Marketing strategy for dissemination of the ready innovative sign-verbal show "Borders". Production of leaflets and posters, distributed by centers of the Union of the Deaf in. Stara Zagora, Burgas, Yambol and Sofia. Digital advertising campaign on the social network Facebook. Developing active communication with audiences […] -
Prevention of school violence
2019-2020funded by RKBPPMN - Mladost district
Theatre Tsvete offers five forum theatrical performances (external link), associated with various forms of violence, suitable for different age groups.
Forum Theatre is a theatrical play, in which the actors present a problematic situation. The audience, who is also a participant in the performance, is invited to suggest and play solutions to alleviate it. Forum Theater provides viewers with an incredible chance to try out in a safe environment different patterns of behavior in possible problematic life situations..
The presented cases are suitable for additional discussions in class.
“AND WHAT WOULD YOU DO?” is a forum theatrical performance, in which three of the most common forms of school violence are presented. Viewers decide which one to try to bring about positive change.
Best for 3you to 9th grade including;
“COMMENT ON THIS!” is a theatrical play, created on a real case of violence. It aims to draw the attention of young Internet users to personal responsibility, which everyone has, to the protection of other people's personal space.
Best for 4you to 9 class inclusive;
"YOU WILL NEVER SEE ME AGAIN!” presents a dramatic conflict between daughter and mother. Viewers make assumptions about the events, led to rupture. In the story created on the basis of their own experience, young people are looking for ways to ease the child-parent relationship.
Best for 6you to 10 class inclusive;
"ARE YOU COOL?” presents the drama of replacing the moral values of the young man with material quantitative criteria, which he must perform, to be admitted to a particular social group
Most suitable for 5you to 10 class inclusive;
"ME AND YOU". is a show about the euphoria of the first love excitements and voluntary or involuntary misunderstandings, which break the fragile bond. Young people will have the opportunity to give ideas for positive changes in the course of events, whose effectiveness they will test in the love laboratory created in this way.
Most suitable for 5you up to 8 class inclusive.
It is important to know about the performances, that:
- Three or more professional actors take part in each performance;
- Performances do not necessarily require a theater hall and technical assistance from the school;.
- Each forum theatrical performance has a duration 45 – 60 minutes (theatrical discussion is an integral part of it);
- The audience can be no more than 80 man;
- Price – depending on the number of the invited performances
Prevention of school violence
funded by RCBPPMN - Mladost district "Flower" Theater offers five forum theater performances (external link), associated with various forms of violence, suitable for different age groups. Forum Theatre is a theatrical play, in which the actors present a problematic situation. The audience, who is also a participant in the performance, is invited to suggest and play solutions to alleviate it. Forum […] -
Theater Against Violence 2018 Campaign
2018At the festival Theater Against Violence, held on 26.11.2018 at the University Theater "Alma Alter" were presented 4 forum theatrical performances.
At the end of 2017. Theatre Tsvete announced its intention to conduct a Campaign THEATER AGAINST VIOLENCE at a meeting with principals of Sofia schools and representatives of local commissions for combating anti-social behavior of minors (KBPPMN).
To involve a school in the campaign, necessary:
- Buy at least one package from 5 forum theatrical performances, associated with various forms of violence, who Theatre Tsvete offers;
- To form a student theater club of at least 6 children between 5 and 10 class and one educator- head of the club for participation in the festival Theater Against Violence on 26 November 2018,
Thanks to funding, received from locals KBPPMN from areas "Swelling" and Vitosha and program "Sports" of Sofia Municipality, joined the Campaign 2SU "Akad.Em.Stanev", 86 Primary school "St. Kl. Ohridski ”, 130 SU "Stefan Karadza" and students majoring in "Informal education" on SU "St.. Kliment Ohridski ” headed by Assoc. Vanya Bozhilova. The methodological materials for the training of the students were prepared in cooperation with Assoc. Bozhilova so, to be most useful for their regular university education. In the first phase of their training, the young people performed tasks, related to the creation of a short theatrical performance on real history. In the second phase they were trained in joker (leading the forum, next performance). Immediately after that, the practical part of the training began - the preparation of the students forum theatrical performances to participate in the festival. As a result of the joint work of students, teachers, students and actors, one performance was prepared in two of the schools, and in 86 OU - two, which were played on 2 times in front of classmates.
At the festival Theater Against Violence, held on 26.11.2018 at the University Theater "Alma Alter" were presented 4 forum theatrical performances featuring 32 the actor aged from 12 and 14 years, prepared under the guidance of 12 students with mentors 3 actors and 4 local educators. They were joked by students trained by us. Total number of student performances - 200.
Students and pupils were certified, the participating pedagogues were awarded a diploma
Theater Against Violence 2018 Campaign
At the Theater Against Violence Festival, held on 26.11.2018 were presented at the Alma Alter University Theater 4 forum theatrical performances. At the end of 2017. Tsvete Theater announced its intention to hold a THEATER AGAINST VIOLENCE Campaign at a meeting with principals of Sofia schools and representatives of local commissions for combating anti-social behavior of minors. […] -
Who will be king?
2016-2020with the support of a program "Agriculture and Rural Development 2014-2020" of the European Commission.
A puppet tale with the participation of the audience for children from 3 to 10 years
The show teaches young viewers how important it is for people to take care of nature, so that nature can take care of them. They get many opportunities to participate in the show, which provoke them emotionally and turn the conclusions of the experience into lasting beliefs
Director: Tsvete Yaneva Set designer: Mila Dikalova Music: Vlada Yaneva Participate: Violina Vasileva-Alexandrova, Ekaterina Kazakova and Hristo Ivanov Lighting and sound: Martin Noev The show was created with funding from the program "Agriculture and Rural Development 2014-2020" on European Commission.
Who will be king?
with the support of the program "Agriculture and Rural Development 2014-2020" of the European Commission. A puppet tale with the participation of the audience for children from 3 to 10 years The show teaches young viewers how important it is for people to take care of nature, so that nature can take care of them. They get many opportunities to participate […] -
"In Europe, with us or without us - the fate of the excluded and strangers "
2017Erasmus + program
2014-2020
Key action 2:
Strategic partnership projects
"In Europe, with us or without us - the fate of the excluded and strangers "
AGREEMENT № 2016-1-PL01-KA204-026320 (4)
Resume for the project
The project "In Europe, with us or without us - the fate of the excluded and foreigners " takes action on behalf of various disadvantaged groups, including the elderly, women in a difficult situation, victims of all forms of violence, people with educational disabilities, migrants (with special emphasis on the fate of women), by opposing their discrimination. Five partnership meetings are planned, including two of 5 school days, during which the participants - lecturers from the partner countries of this project - will acquire knowledge about the three specific methods (biographical story for an interview, biographical conversation, drama). These new skills will be used to diagnose problems and try to solve them, and the first step in this direction will be to develop profiles of adults of different ages (25 + / 60 +) from disadvantaged backgrounds. In every country, several biographical interviews with representatives of the target groups will be conducted, and their fate will be visualized with the help of drama. technicians. The following questions will be raised in interviews: to locals: What is their desire to accept "strangers", what knowledge they have about the problem of migration and refugees, what is their political consciousness, what are their stereotypes on this topic , and whether they would like to find themselves in the situation of migrants in their own country. Other questions, which will be raised, will address the issue of the Euro-orphanage, namely, the impact of parental migration and the upbringing of children by grandparents. On the other hand, we will want to know what the expectations of migrants were, related to the new destination, as well as whether they are met, what is the reason for their emigration, how the choice of destination was made and what is their knowledge of social, geographical and cultural circumstances in the country of destination. At the Poleski Art Center, the artistic activities of the coordinating organization, will be supported by members of the Center for Active Pensioners, working there.
The project is aimed at training the staff and instructors of the European institutions, participating in the project, as well as a group of learners, related to these institutions, and people from groups vulnerable to marginalization. Project activities will cover involved around 1000 souls, among listeners and viewers. The main goal of our project is to improve the quality of education and lifelong learning. However, an equally important goal is to reflect on such concepts as: hatred, respect, mercy and love, and building dialogue between people, so that they talk to each other, and are curious about each other. The project aims to eliminate the fear of foreign migrants. A lasting result of the project will be: a public project website, the pages of the partner organizations, links to the project on the pages of other organizations, working against discrimination and exclusion, electronic brochure with a description of the methods and results of the project in English and in the national languages of the partner organizations.
FIRST ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
The program:
Sunday, 12 February: Arrival of partnersMonday, 13 February
Conference location: "Citizens' Office", Lower arbor 24
9.00 – 9.30 Presentation of the partner institutions
9.30 – 10.30 Project distribution / Schedule / Work in small groups
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 12.45 h. Presentation of "The Constance Biographical Talks" (Gödelitzer model) from Any Cybulla, Integration Officer of Constance and Zahide Sarikas, member of Council of Constance13.00 – 15.00 Lunch at a restaurant „Münsterhof“
15.00 – 17.30 tour of the exhibition "Spirit" - project for identity and cultural imprints
and best practice "The meaning of the first name for our identity" from Any Cybulla
Come on, tell us the name, which they call there at home -
Mother, father, fellow citizens, the neighbors around.
Certainly no man in the world is nameless, all are called.
Born in high society or in a shack,
as soon as the child sees the light
His parents always call him, after he was born.
Homer, Odyssey, Book VIII
Names in cultural communication
Each culture has its own names. Many cultures view proper names not only as belonging to humans, but also as identical with them. And while all cultures apply naming by small names, the rules for their use, as well as for giving them, may vary.
Official naming is usually prescribed by national laws and regulations. At the same time, there may be informal naming rules. These informal practices may have a special personal value.
Social changes are reflected as in the official, as well as in the informal naming. for example, in the Middle Eastern countries surnames were introduced in the 50s of the 20th century. Self-chosen names are often an expression of self-awareness and belonging, which is why their correct pronunciation and spelling are extremely important.
The correct use of names is essential for interpersonal communication. They are used as a full name, including first and last names - in a different order, only first name or only last name, name, through which the person is known, pet shape, abbreviated form, pseudonym,
surname in the role of o baptism, associated with address information, parts of an appropriate name or title, used instead of the name or as an appropriate extension to it.
This can dramatically affect the relationship between communication partners.
In the use of all crops, changing or omitting a name conveys respect or contempt, mockery or recognition; They convey intimacy, tenderness or distancing and reproach. The chosen form of address conveys the social roles and elements of the relationship. The "wrong" chosen form of address can strain social relationships. for example, the use of the informal "you", instead of the official "you" or incorrect pronunciation of a name, it can be perceived as intentional or unconscious disregard. Appropriate use of an appropriate name helps to establish contact in conversations between partners and can contribute to their willingness to cooperate.. Listening to a person's name increases attention and can make it easier to absorb new information.
© Dr. Sabine Handschuck - Institute for Intercultural Qualifications Munich IQM
www.i-iqm.de; Page. 16 ; Translated from Greek by Robert Fassals.
Translator's comment: This applies to languages, who have such a distinction, e.g.. Of / Sie in German or tu / Lei in Italian as opposed to e.g.. English and Arabic, which do not distinguish between formal and informal "you".
Recommendations for handling proper names during intercultural situations of first contacts:
- Keep in mind, that naming can vary, and the German model is just one of many possibilities.
- Determine if the surname in the German sense is common and which of the names is a surname and which / which is / are given a name(on). Keep in mind, that the order of the names may vary even in Official Documents depending on the country of origin of the person. Not in all countries is the last name
mandatory.
- be sure, that you have been given the full name of a person, and not just part of the name, which
used in everyday interactions.
- Determine whether the title is an addition to the name or an integral part of it.
- Ask how the person in question would like you to address him or her.
- Make an effort to pronounce her name correctly, if necessary, to seek help. Keep notes on phonetics and spelling or underline the syllable with emphasis, so it can allow quick use
- Check spelling.
- A person's gender cannot be derived from an unknown name. Add "sir" or "madam" [or "Mrs."], to help you with correspondence.
- Ask if a young, an unmarried woman would like to be addressed as a 'lady' or this would be considered a crime in the country of origin.
- Find out if the gender can be identified by the masculine or feminine ending of the family name. Some women give up the feminine form of their language, for others, this distinction may be important. Inquiry about the preferred form of address and spelling of the name.
- Don't guess, that family affiliation can be reliably identified by surnames. If necessary, ask the full names of each family member.
- Imagine your name and your preferred form of address
© Dr. Sabine Handschuck - Institute for Intercultural Qualifications Munich IQM
www.i-iqm.de
Find ConstanceTuesday, 14 February:
Location: Language Service Constance, Wallgutstrasse 39.30 – 10.30 Summary of the meeting and evaluation
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
11,10 – 12,30 h. Conducting a course for integration of migrants in German
12.30 – 15.00 Lunch of your choice and free time
15.00 – 17.00 h. Grand trip through Constance from Dr. Goodren Schenkenburger
Meeting: Login to „Münster”Wednesday, 15 February
DepartureSECOND PARTNERSHIP MEETING
31.03 – 03.04.2017; Sofia
Workroom: zh.k.. "Borovo" bl.59, 6-you floor; Anna Lalkowska
Participants: Maria Goldstein, Isabella Pietovska, Tsvete Yaneva, Yanko Velkov, Anna Lalkowska, Nelly Lalkovska, Maria Chalupova, Angelica Brechelmacher, Felice Frank, Aleksandar Todorovski
PROGRAM:
Friday, 31 March Arrival of the partners
Saturday, 1 April
11.00 – 12.00 Meeting with Healthy Vodenicharova - expert from "Bread House Network". Discussion for a future project with a deadline 26.04.2017
12.00 – 12.30 Coffee break
12.30 – 13.00 Development for the project / Schedule / Working groups Maria Goldstein
13.30 – 15.00 Lunch at a restaurant Happy Bar и Grill
15.00 – 16.30 Presentation of the partner institutions: how / what has been done so far; All partners
16.30 – 18.30 “Discover Sofia” – Nelly Lalkovska - tour
19.00 Dinner: in a restaurant “My home”Sunday, 2 April:
10.00 – 11.00 People, trained in biographical interviews, will tell the other participants their impressions and experiences from their work with the interviewees; Angelica Brechelmacher and Felisi Frank
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 13.00 Impressions and discussion of experience and variations in different target groups. What are the main target groups; Tsveti Yaneva
13.30 – 15.00 Lunch at the restaurant “Zad Agala”
15.00 – 16.00 Questionnaire as guidelines Characteristics of the interview (supportive / is not interrupted / respects feelings) Maria Chalupova
16.00-17.30 Conclusions of the meeting. Assessment. Anna Lalkowska
18.00 Dinner “Wine Bar” St. Parchevich 32Monday, 3 April: Departure
THIRD PARTNERSHIP MEETING
Training in Skopje, Macedonia
25 – 29.05.2017
- The activities of 25 and 26 may take place in GEM club (Menada), Karaorman bb 1000 Skopje
- The activities of 27 and 28 may be held in a public hall Public Room, 22, 50-and Division, Skopje 1000, Macedonia
PROGRAM:
25 May:
- 11:00 - the beginning of the activities, welcoming and greeting partners from Savka Todorovska and Maria Goldstein
- 11:15 - Introduction of current partners
- 11:45 - coffee break
- 12:30 – 13:30 - discussion of interviews
- 13:30 – 15:00 - Lunch
- 15:00 – 16:00 - continuing the discussion and deciding which of the stories will be staged
- 16:00 – 17:00 - retrospective of the day and discussion of the activities of the next day
BULGARIAN BIOGRAPHICAL INTERVIEW
„You can't imagine the risk we are all at, how all-encompassing is evil. Now you are not his direct victims and you can't even imagine him. Politicians are the greatest evil in the world. „- he says Lydia
Lydia is a Syrian woman, a devout Christian, English teacher. Her family has been living in the city center for some time Homs. Their neighborhood is surrounded by 13 Christian churches. Her grandmother is an herbalist and weaves the most beautiful carpets in the world. Her father paints beautifully; graduated in surgery in Bulgaria. He successfully combines art and science and established a private hospital for plastic surgery in the town. Homs. In Bulgaria he falls in love with the mother of Lydia, also a doctor. But her daughter is only on 5 years, when she leaves them and returns to her homeland.
Lydia has a son and a daughter. At the time, when war breaks out, the boy is on 21, and the girl - on 17 years. While her daughter is a diligent student, her son is a temperamental artistic boy, which protests against police censorship and racketeering in the country.
Influenced by the Arab Spring, a dozen 15-year-olds from the city Dera write on the wall "Down with the Assad regime!“ The police imprison and abuse them.
Their parents, and then many other citizens from different parts of Syria go on peaceful demonstrations in defense of young people. Lydia she is also in the square - her son could have been one of those children?! The police fired, has to kill. Weapon boxes appeared on the streets. The opposition armed itself with guards and also started firing. The war begins.
Assad besiege the city with tanks; the population is leaving it en masse. People settle in nearby villages. One night Lydia is warned, that the police have a list of demonstrators and are looking for them. She panics and the family immediately crosses Turkey, through 2012 r. it's still easy.
Now she and her husband work in Sofia. Their children are still studying at universities, but they also work. They spend a lot of their family money, to help his son's best friend also cross the borders and join them. "There is no civilian in Syria, a world war, only on the territory of my country. Thousands of Christ crucifixes are crucified there every day, and weep thousands of weeping Virgin Mary. And every day I cry for them. "- says Lydia.
On 25 May 2017 g., after all participants presented the interviews, which they had done, the team chose the history of the colleagues from Macedonia - the National Council for Gender Equality. The President of the NSRP, Mrs. Savka Todorovska told us the following story:
A month ago, Mrs. Maria, Croatian, called the SOS phone in Macedonia. She said, that she had lost her daughter Daria before 25 years. Then her girl fell in love with a young Macedonian, who was exiled to her native Croatia. During the war she went with him somewhere in Macedonia and has not heard from her since
With the help of the police, the NSRP found Daria in a small Muslim village. She had changed her faith and her name, now it was Susanna. That's why her mother couldn't find her for so long. Susanna has an older son and a daughter. Her son Emin helped his father, but her daughter Rezarta, she ran away from home and married various men.
The NSRP created an opportunity for Susanna and Rezarta to move to Croatia. Susanna chooses to become Daria again and live with her mother Maria, but Rezarta returns to Macedonia and changes partners again.
26 May:
- 11:00 – 12:30 - defining the scenes, which will be performed in the play
- 12:30 – 13:30 - identification of issues, which will be addressed to the audience
- 13:30 – 15:00 - Lunch
- 15:00 – 16:00 - retrospective of the day and discussion of the activities of the next day
- On the second day of the workshop, the development of the story as a forum play began. The development of the plot was divided into three stages: 1.)The connection of Daria with the young Macedonian until her separation from her mother; 2.)Her life together until her discovery;3.)What happened to her and her daughter after her discovery. Participants were divided into 3 groups, so that they can use a second language in their communications, different from English. The first stage was developed by the representatives of Bulgaria and Macedonia; the second - from the numerous Polish group, and the third by colleagues from Germany and Slovakia, all fluent in German. Ms. Todorovska was asked questions to clarify the story, so that the post-Yugoslav reality becomes understandable to us, foreigners.
- “Why the mother is looking for her daughter only after 25 years?” - She has been looking for her many times, but after the war the existing structures in the former Yugoslavia were destroyed; the territory is divided into many states; the search for missing relatives is widespread
- “Didn't the mother know what the boy's religion was??” - During socialism, everyone was an atheist and there was no talk of religion
- “Why mother and daughter did not exchange visits and letters?” - Croatia was at war, and Macedonia does not. Crossing borders is difficult and undesirable, post offices do not work
27 May:
- 11:00 – 13:00 h. - seminar, conducted by the German partners
- 13:00 – 15:00 - Lunch
- 15:00 – 17:00 - rehearsal of the play
28 May:
- 11:00 – 12:30 - rehearsal of the play
- 12:30 – 13:00 - coffee break
- 13:00 – 14:00 - rehearsal of the play
- 14:00 – 16:00 - Lunch
- 16: 00-17: 00 - rehearsal of the play
29 May:
- 11:00 – 13:00 - city tour
- 13:00 – 14:00 - coffee break and discussion to continue our cooperation
- 14:00 - representation
Participants made different assumptions about the reasons, led to the facts known to us from the life of Daria – Susan. Because they could be the most diverse, the leading drama-training Bulgarian team paid special attention, that it is conducted in order to enrich the tools of partner organizations with effective means to provoke integration processes in society. The script must be carefully designed this way, that in no case should the viewers be allowed to reproach Islam.
Mrs. Todorovska was a valuable arbiter on the feasibility of proposals on local soil. With disputes and discussions with the acceptance and rejection of individual proposals, the final performance had the following content:
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Daria is 19 one year old croatian girl. A nice young man is sitting at the coffee table next to her. They meet, invites her to a disco. Love blazes.
He is Macedonian, works here on a temporary contract, which is about to expire. Quick to come back, because war is expected to break out in Croatia at any moment, and he doesn't want to get involved. Their relationship develops in a flash. He offers her to marry him and go together to a calmer Macedonia. Daria she is very happy. She quickly introduces him to her mother, sign and leave.
The war begins. Daria lives in a peaceful village, but he worries about his mother. Already 3 he writes her letters, and there is no answer. The post office is closed, and crossing borders is difficult and dangerous - there is no way to connect with it! And the news, who come from Zagreb, are scary! Christians and Muslims, until yesterday they lived as brothers, today they are being ruthlessly exterminated. Her mother-in-law, ether her, like all the other women in the village cover their heads and Daria surprised to discover, that she lives among Muslims. For this they have not talked to her husband so far - none of them was interested in religion.
Daria gets pregnant and that changes things. Her husband and mother-in-law kindly invite her to accept their faith, to keep her and their child safe in these troubled times. Daria she herself felt the disapproving looks of her neighbors on her hair. Her mother-in-law throws a beautiful scarf over her head and hugs her warmly. And to understand the village, that she is no longer a non-believer, Daria accepts the name Susan.
One after another, a boy and a girl are born to them. Susan takes care of the children and the house, together with his mother-in-law, and her husband works in the city and returns to them only on weekends.
Finally, the war is over! One day a policeman arrives at their place, who is looking for a woman by name Daria. Her mother-in-law denies that such a person lives in the house, but Susan he is not afraid to tell the truth.
After the war, a severe economic crisis ensued. Her husband is finding it increasingly difficult to find work. And the children are growing, the money is not enough. He starts drinking. When Susan trying to talk to him, he hits her. Their daughter Rezarta trying to protect his mother, but also gets slapped. Beatings and scandals become commonplace. Rezarta trying to persuade her mother to leave her husband, but Susan he has nowhere else to go. However, the girl does not reconcile and is looking for a way to leave the hated home.
A gallant handsome man turns the girl's head. He offers her a well-paid job at a hair cosmetics advertising house. Rezarta is deceived and caught in the trafficking of girls. Relatives and friends turn their eyes away from her.
After the presentation of the story, the audience pointed out the three women, the grandmother, as victims, mother and granddaughter. She chose to make suggestions, through which to try to improve the fate of the mother Daria – Susan.
Interventions made:
1.) Daria does not object to the change of faith, because. it doesn't matter to her, but does not accept a change of name.
In our case, her husband threatened her with divorce, but this did not change the decision of Daria (presented by a spectator). She said, that she hoped to keep her new family's support for herself and their future child, and she hoped her husband would reconsider his decision.. At the same time, however, it is very important for her to keep in touch and support her loving mother, as he does for his mother-in-law. She wants to be an equal partner in her marriage, and not dependent on the whims of her husband.
2.) Susan reveals the whole truth to the policeman, managing to maintain a warm relationship with his mother-in-law. She explained, that it will continue to be said about the others in the village Susan, but she wants her mother to stop worrying about her and come to hug her and her mother-in-law, like a mother, he must understand her.
3.)Proposed, but not played, was in conversations to stop daily drunkenness, to include the mother of the alcoholic spouse, which is a holy person for Muslims.
In the ensuing conversations, the participants expressed satisfaction, that their joint work has an anti-war message.
FOURTH PARTNERSHIP MEETING
Training 24 – 30.11.2017; Vienna, Austria
PROGRAM
Working halls:
Venue 1, 25 – 26 November:
University of Klagenfurt, Schottenfeldgasse 29, 1070 Vienna
Venue 2, 27 – 29 November:
Geriatric center in the Vienna Woods / Lainz Hospital, Jagdschlossgasse 59, 1130 Wien
25.11.
11.00 – 13.30 - Presentation of the program and new participants
Presentation “Biographical interviews” – Angelika Brechelmacher
13.30-15:00 - Lunch
15:00 -19:00 Interviews – Tренинг “Biographical interviews” – Angelika Brechelmacher
26.11:
10:00 – 13:00 - Visiting exhibitions and other events, related to the subject of the project
13:00 -14:00 - Lunch
14:00 -19:00 – "Biographical conversations" - presentation and moderation Zahide Sarikas
27.11:
10:00 - meeting of Meet at Hietzing underground station
11:00 –18:00 ( lunch included)-
“Our portraits” - workshop on Brigitte Gadnik -Jiskra
"Biographical conversations with refugees" - moderator Zahide Sarikas
Choosing a story for a performance
28.11:
10:00 -12:00 - Attending events, museums and exhibitions, related to the subject of the project
12:00 – 13:00 - Lunch
13:00 - meeting of Hietzing underground station
14:00 – 18:00 - training in forum theater, moderated by the Polish team - Hanna Gzella, Jadwiga Konopacka, Marta Czajczyńska, Barbara Grabowska -Pankiewicz
29.11:
Forum theatrical performance
“Children's rhymes from around the world” – Brigitte Gadnik – Iiskra
Evaluation and discussion until the end of the day
The event, narrated by our participant Bistra Dragolova:
Migrants in Europe - integration and problems
From 24-30 November 2017 within the project In Europe in program Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership in Vienna was held a workshop with international participation on current issues, related to the European migrant crisis and the models and mechanisms for the integration of refugees.
Representatives of non-governmental organizations from Austria at the forum, Germany, Slovakia, Poland, Macedonia and Bulgaria held discussions and analyzes on the difficulties and challenges facing the integration processes and the degree of readiness of the European societies to successfully implement them. Trafficking in refugees and economic migrants mainly from the Middle East, Africa and South Asia to the Schengen area The European Union faces the difficult task of receiving and distributing huge masses of people with drastically different ethnocultural backgrounds., social and religious identity and places European societies, political parties and authorities face difficult integration processes.
The main center of the workshop was the training in the methods of the biographical interview, forum theater and fine arts as a means of contact between migrants and society, in which they integrate.
Techniques and methods for the integration of refugees have been experimented and successfully applied in Geriatric center in the Vienna Woods, where the members of the group in the workshop met migrants of different nationalities, participating in the project IGOR (Integration work&Health promotion in public spaces), whose motto is "Learning through friendship". Every newcomer there has abilities, which it can demonstrate and which are targeted in workshops or places of practice. The project includes educational and cultural work, as well as group training. Using the methods of the biographical interview, emotionally saturated facts from the lives of young refugees from Afghanistan and Syria were revealed., which aroused sympathy and a desire for support in the group. The theater's techniques caused excitement and joy in the refugee children.
Integration techniques and practices have a wider application and can be used in various fields - sociology, psychology, journalism, pedagogy.
As part of the workshop, participants visited in Vienna Museum Karlsplatz the multimedia exhibition "History of movement: Shared stories ”, dedicated to labor migration from the former Yugoslavia and Turkey. The exhibition traces the lives and destinies of migrants in Vienna from the 1960s, whose initial intentions are for temporary residence and the idea to earn money for a better life in the homeland. But limited stay plans in many cases turn out to be unrealistic and the return does not take place.. Migrants form civic associations, in Vienna their families and guest workers emigrated and integrated into Austrian society. The exhibition is an exciting look at the life of this category of people in all its manifestations - at work, in school, in the free time.
ONE-DAY TRAINING IN FORUM THEATER FOR FRIENDS OF REFUGEES, INCLUDING THE PERFORMANCE “YOU ARE DIFFERENT!”
08.12.2017; Sofia
"You are different!“ presents the problems between a Muslim mother and daughter, fled the Syrian war. In Bulgaria they are from 3 years, the mother works, the daughter is in high school. The girl likes greater freedoms, who have her peers here, but her attempt to be like them was met with strong resentment from her mother.
"In Europe, with us or without us - the fate of the excluded and strangers "
Erasmus + program 2014-2020 Key action 2: Strategic partnership projects “In Europe, with us or without us - the fate of the excluded and foreigners “AGREEMENT № 2016-1-PL01-KA204-026320 (4) Project summary The project “In Europe, with or without us - the fate of the excluded and foreigners "takes action on behalf of various disadvantaged groups, […] -
Mixing audiences through art
2017-2019with the support of a program Creative Europe of the European Commission
Creating an opportunity for equal inclusion of people with disabilities in art as performers or audiences, is a pan-European problem, which deals with numerous organizations, each of which - with specific tasks and discoveries. The problem concerns many people, therefore, the partnership between them is very appropriate and useful for everyone.
Theatre Tsvete provokes the personal development of young people and encourages their positive inclusion in public life, regardless of their origin and givens, applying innovative for Bulgaria interactive theatrical techniques. Participation in an international partnership project "Mixing audiences in art" will enrich our professional arsenal to fulfill our mission, which is why it is especially desirable and exciting for the team. The project envisages cooperation of 8 partner organizations from 6 countries - Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Portugal, Finland and Croatia for the implementation and participation in the dissemination of successful innovative techniques for the inclusion of people with disabilities in art, created by the Finnish actor Eero Engvist.
The main event in the project is the construction of a verbal-verbal spectacle, equally suitable for actors with and without hearing problems and equally accessible to viewers with and without such. Our director is working on the construction of the Bulgarian bilingual gesture and mime show Vasil Spasov and the actors from Mim-Art Theater Rositsa Karadzhova and Nuri Yashirov, from Flower Theater Violina Vasileva-Alexandrova and the guest actor Todor Yankulov. The unusual performances will be distinguished by the free discussion provided after each of them among all present., assisted by sign language interpreters, creating conditions for equal interpersonal communication and successful mixing of audiences. To reach the cultural event to the maximum number of spectators, we envisage interaction with organizations of people with hearing impairments.
The project will include Open Seminars for directors from all over Europe, showing interest in applied theater. The seminars include exchanging experiences on ways to attract and mix audiences with different needs.
Directors gained personal experience from the application of the technique, will combine it into a manual, who will provide their knowledge to all, practicing applied arts in the project web platform and the web page of Theatre Tsvete www.theatretsvete.eu. Again in partnership, the participants will look for the application of the technique for other needs of people with hearing problems., as well as adapting it to solve problems and people with other disabilities.
The project envisages joint work of the participants who have gained experience in the application of the technique of bilingual theater on its adaptation for groups with other special needs.. The results achieved in the project will be made available to colleagues from around the world from the forthcoming creation of a manual and its publication in the web platform of the project and the web page of Flower Theater
Starting meeting in Zagreb
Our project officially started with a meeting in Zagreb on 13 September 2017, Wednesday
Directors in Brussels
The directors from the partner countries met in Brussels,Belgium on 1 December 2017. They discussed their views on the realization of the play Kukunor
Project meeting in Sofia
The consortium meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria was on 7-9 March 2018 r. The project managers and the directors of the performances will hold simultaneous meetings, to discuss relevant aspects of the project. All participants will attend the rehearsals of the Bulgarian version of Kukunor.
The Flower Theater is celebrating 25 his anniversary with the PRIME MINISTER!
"BRANCHES"
an innovative bilingual show
on the play "Kukunor and Uniku" on Eero Enquist,
realized in partnership with MIM-ART TheaterAdaptation and directing: Vasil Spasov
Set designer: Boyana Bachvarova
Consultant: Maria Atanasova
Participate: Rositsa Karadzhova, Violina Vasileva-Alexandrova, Nuri Yasharov and Todor YankulovLocated on the border of warring states, two soldiers will find The man beyond the fence. Despite all the restrictions imposed - physically, psychological and emotional, the path to the Other is always worth walking…
The innovative bilingual show brings together actors without and with hearing impairments on one stage, as well as a hearing and non-hearing audience in one hall. Each image is represented by a pair of actors, which in a unique way combine two Bulgarian languages - spoken and sign language.
19-20.10.2018
The Crowd in Lisbon - Meetings, Open workshop , premiere
18 OOctober
- Meeting of the project leaders of the partner organizations: collection of materials for distribution and communications from the first year; Interim financial report; Determining the schedule of activities in the second year;
- Meeting of the directors: Judgments and conclusions from the five theatrical performances; Structure and first articles of the manual on Innovative bilingual theater; planning its creation
19 OOctober
Open workshop "Introduction to the method of innovative bilingual theater", led by Eero Enquist (Finnish actor and director) and Ivo Peters (project coordinator “Sign and Sound Тheatre”, are funded by the Program Creative Europe of the European Commission.
The main objective of this project is to promote the theater of the deaf at European level and in particular the pioneering method of IDT (Innovative bilingual theater), which unites deaf and hearing actors on stage and deaf and hearing people in the audience. IDT is an innovative technique, which integrates sign and spoken language.
10:45 – 12:30 h. – FIVE SUCCESSFUL PRACTICES
"Wolverhampton University."
"Tsekeyt and Dalan.", Zagreb
- Voart, Lisbon
- Flower Theater, Sofia
"De Safe.", Brussels
BREAK - Lunch at the National Museum of Art Antiga
14:30 – 17:30 h.> DEBATE
- Exchange of experience and sharing of ideas
- Is the innovative bilingual theater a method of mixing the audience?
- Is it applicable to other groups with other specific needs?
- How to spread this theatrical technique in Europe, in European festivals?
20 OOctober
Free time;
Premiere "3.50 x 2.70" of the Portuguese partners
FINAL CONFERENCE OF ABBA PROJECT - 04.10.2019, Brussels
The team's plane tickets were co-financed by the Sofia Program "Culture", Direction Mobility 2019
Mixing communities from ARTS - New ways to develop the audience for culture and greater inclusion in societyThe final conference of the project took place on Friday, 4 October 2019 r. in Brussels, Belgium. They included over 50 participants, as deaf, and hearing. The interpretation of the sign language was available in Flemish, Finnish, Greek, British, Bulgarian and international sign language.
Carmen Arroyo from EASPD welcomed the participants and introduced Ivo Peters from The Zeyp, project coordinator, which speaks to the initial inspiration for the project: play of Eero Enquist. Eero then talks about how he came up with the idea to write his play, poorly adapted from a classic Finnish work by Viita.
The project consortium presented the results, created in the course of project a - Theater for signs and sounds. There followed a debate on arts policy and inclusion with the politicians present:
Eoin Nash, COPE Foundation, Ireland. Chairman of European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disabilities EASPD
Representative of the European Economic and Social Committee (EISK )
MEP Julie Ward from the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament. Deputy Chairman Committee on Culture and Education
Barbara Gesler, head of department Creative Europe, Directorate General "Education, youth, sport and culture ", European Commission
Immaculate Placencia-Porrero, senior expert - department "Social issues, Disability and Inclusion ", Directorate General "Employment, social issues and inclusion ", European Commission
Representative of the Art Lovers GroupThe afternoon sessions began with the presentation of good practices for the accessibility of art by four European companies outside the project.:
o Nalagaatorg, Israel
o Un-Labelproject, Germany
о Fattoriavitadini, Italy
o The pulse of silence, Spain
The project participants then shared their own experiences of accessing and engaging in cultural situations:
the experience of the pilot theater project “Guardian of Dreams” in the five consortium partner countries; ·
guidelines for replicating the technique "Innovative bilingual theater"; ·
the results of the extended seminars on border crossings with European service providers and organizations for people with disabilities; ·
Two publications: Terms of use of IBT and recommendations for the implementation of IBT.The conference was built on these results and created a broad dissemination platform.
As a coordinator, The Zeyp hosted a dinner for all participants in the new center of the organization, with which the event ended.
Mixing audiences through art
with the support of the European Commission's Creative Europe Program Creating an opportunity for equal inclusion of people with disabilities in the arts as performers or audiences, is a pan-European problem, which deals with numerous organizations, each of which - with specific tasks and discoveries. The problem concerns many people, therefore, the partnership between them is very appropriate and […] -
Puppet celebrations in the Rhodopes
2017-2019with the support of a foundation "Plovdiv together 2019"
The project is funded by a foundation “Plovdiv-2019 ″, direction "Chitalishte: Community participation and innovation "
and is realized in cooperation with:
Ltd. "Balkanida", Rhodope Spark Community Center - 1880 ″ and Nikola Vaptsarov Community Center - 1936
The project includes guest appearances of three interactive puppet shows on the stages of the Community Center "Rhodope Spark - 1880" in. Chepelare and Community Center "Nikola Vaptsarov - 1936" in the village. Juniper, to make it even more festive Children's Day 1 June, Christmas and the coming of Baba Marta for the little Rhodopeans and their parents. Children will also be included in the audience, deprived of parental care by family - type accommodation centers in from. Narechenski Bani and s. Pavelsko. School bus from the village of. Juniper will gather children from five villages for the performances.
BNR Plovdiv with an interview for the project
Puppet celebrations in the Rhodopes
with the support of the Plovdiv Together 2019 Foundation The project is funded by the Plovdiv 2019 Foundation „, direction "Chitalishte: Community participation and innovation ”and is implemented in cooperation with: Ltd. "Balkanida", Rhodope Spark Community Center - 1880 ″ and Nikola Vaptsarov Community Center - 1936 ″ The project includes three interactive puppet shows on the stages of Rhodope Spark Community Center - 1880 в […] -
“Different together”
2016From the beginning of September 2016 year in Sofia Municipality region "Swelling" a project is being implemented "Different together", funded by the European Union through the European Structural and Investment Funds with a signed Grant Agreement № BG05M2OP001-3.001-0066 under the Operational Program "Science and education for smart growth".
The beneficiary of the project is Sofia Municipality district "Swelling", and partners- DG № 91, DG № 92, DG № 110, NGO "Flower Theater". They are included in it 90 children from three municipal kindergartens aged 4-5 years and their parents. The project focuses on the creation of specific policies / measures / for the integration of children from different ethnic groups. The activities are aimed at creating conditions for successful socialization of children from ethnic minorities and overcoming negative public attitudes towards them by including them in various workshops..
The goals of the project are:
- Transforming cultural diversity into a source and factor for the spiritual development of children and creating an atmosphere of mutual respect, tolerance and understanding.
- Formation of empathy for the problems of modern society and building civic consciousness through direct contact of children with nature.
- Increasing the level of proper command of the Bulgarian language by children through non-traditional methods and an attractive educational environment.
- Stimulating communication and joint performances between children of different ethnicities through participation in joint art and applied activities.
- Using theatrical art as a form of aesthetic perception and reproduction of intercultural patterns of behavior.
“Different together”
From the beginning of September 2016 year in Sofia Municipality district "Poduyane" project "Different together" is implemented, funded by the European Union through the European Structural and Investment Funds with a signed Grant Agreement № BG05M2OP001-3.001-0066 under the Operational Program "Science and Education for Smart Growth". The beneficiary of the project is Sofia Municipality "Poduyane" district, […] -
“The flying knight”
2016The performance was co-financed by the Sofia Program "Culture" in support of the candidacy of Sofia and the South-West Region European Capital of Culture - 2019 r.
The puppet show The Flying Knight presents the story of a boy with an unusually wild imagination. His classmates do not accept him because of his differences. And adults are mired in their own problems.
What is happening on the stage is familiar to the audience. Such jokes… But did everyone laugh?
Violence at school is already so common, that children get used to it, they begin not to notice it. Victims alone cannot get used to it. We teach kids the age of 7 to 12 years to recognize violence in its various forms and to defend each other. If they are silent and tolerate violence, the abuser believes, that he is invincible and repeats, and triples… and in response provokes aggression.
With this show we want to provoke children, parents and teachers to understand the personal responsibility of each to this huge problem - school violence.Screenplay and direction: Tsvete Yaneva Scenography and dolls: Christina Nedeva - The Shrub Music: Vlada Yaneva Participate: Violina Vasileva-Alexandrova,Dana Andonova, Ekaterina Kazakova, Yanko Velkov - Lamb and 7-year-old Ivan Mutafchiiski
“The flying knight”
The performance was realized with co-financing from the Sofia Culture Program in support of the candidacy of Sofia and the Southwest region European Capital of Culture - 2019 r. The puppet show "The Flying Knight" presents the story of a boy with an unusually wild imagination.. His classmates do not accept him because of his differences. And adults are mired in their own problems. What's happening […] -
The dose
2016forum theatrical performance for students over 12 years
Peter is of 17 years. He studies and struggles with life in the big city on his own. He falls in love for the first time and is ready for anything for his girl. Unfortunately Lina is addicted to drugs. To help her when she's in crisis, Peter commits theft.
Can love justify the crime committed??
Do you have a choice, if you please?
Is this the help, which the girl needs?
What awaits him in the courtroom?
How will the young man's life continue from here?
These are the problems, which our forum-theatrical performance will raise among the young spectators. Maybe they are familiar with this situation or just have something to say?
The forum theater presents real problem situations on the stage, for which there is no single answer.
Screenplay and direction: Tsvete Yaneva Participate: Ana-Maria Andonova, Violina Vasileva-Alexandrova, Ekaterina Kazakova, Vasil Spasov and Yanko Velkov - Yanets The dose
forum theatrical performance for students over 12 Peter is years old 17 years. He studies and struggles with life in the big city on his own. He falls in love for the first time and is ready for anything for his girl. Unfortunately, Lina is addicted to drugs. To help her when she's in crisis, Peter commits theft. […] -
“WE AND THAT”
2015A puppet show for educating the little ones in tolerance
“WE AND THAT”
A puppet show for educating the little ones in tolerance -
In defense of our rights
Training of pedagogues for conducting training under the Convention on the Rights of the Child through art and drama techniques With the support of the Program for support of NGOs in Bulgaria on EEA FM 2009 – 2014 -
EUPIN
2015-2017European partnership for working with people at risk of social exclusion. The project focuses on the main issues, contained in the guidelines of Europe 2020 - inclusive growth in the economy, which is characterized by a high level of employment and providing economic, social and territorial cohesion; the fight against poverty and social exclusion.
The project includes the following goals:
• Development of cooperation and exchange of experience between professionals, working with people, at risk of social exclusion: senior citizens, people with disabilities and drug addicts;
• Improving their professional qualification;
• Acquisition of new skills and improvement of existing psychological ones, interpersonal and methodological ones, necessary for working with mentees;
• Dissemination of modern art-therapeutic methods of work among employees, working with people at risk of marginalization and people, working for these communities;
• Creating more opportunities for personal development of teachers, participating in the project,
• Increase their self-esteem and reduce the risk of burnout willpower
Target groups:
• pedagogues, working with people, at risk of marginalization;
• people, related to these educators, who will join the project and
• people, who work on behalf of the communities, at risk of marginalization.
These groups will participate in trainings, which will show effective methods of work. Participants will be both trainers and learners; disseminators of information about the project at local and international level. Teachers are trained differently in the partner countries, as well as working with individuals, with different prerequisites, putting them at risk of social exclusion.
A connecting factor is the common desire in the European Union to enable most people to return to active life in society..
International cooperation gives each partner a great opportunity to get acquainted with programs and methods, which will ensure the acquisition of more complete and richer knowledge.
About 1500 people will be involved in the project.
First organizational meeting – 19.10.2015 – 21.10.2015, Sofia, Bulgaria
Host organizations: BAUR and Flower TheaterFIRST PARTNERSHIP MEETING
23-29.11.2015, SOFIA
Host organizations BAUR and Theatre Tsvete
Venue: Vitosha Blvd. 6124 November, Tuesday
10:00-12:00 - Tourist tour of Sofia14:00 – 18:00 - Workshop by Jadviga Konopachka: "How to work with people, victims of domestic violence with the help of fairy tales "; Feedback, discussion on methods and means; exchange of experience, related to this topic
25 November, Wednesday
10.00 – 13.00 - forum-theatrical performance with masks in Sofia school of the actors of Theatre Tsvete. Discussion and feedback14:00 – 18:00 - Workshop on Hanna Jastrebzska-Gzela – "Introduction to the world of darkness"– theater with the visually impaired. Feedback, discussion on methods and means, exchange of experience, related to this area
26 from November, Thursday
10.00-13.00 - puppet forum theatrical performance of Theatre Tsvete in a Sofia school14.00 -18.00 - Workshop on Anna Dąbrovic: "Occupational therapy for adults".
Feedback, discussion on methods and means, to exchange experiences in this field27 from November, Friday
11.00-13.00 - Workshop on Ekaterina Kazakova "Paper dolls and possible applications". Feedback, discussion.
14:00 – 18:00 - Workshop on Violina Vasileva-Alexandrova "To revive inanimate nature". Feedback, discussion.28 from November, Saturday
10:00 -12: 00 - Workshop on Theatre Tsvete – Documentary Theater
14:00 – 16:00 – Theatre Tsvete presents results of work with minority theater
14:00 – 18:00 - Assessment - BAURTWO ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
21.02.2016 – 23.02.2016
Host organization: National Council for gender equality
Held in Save Club, Skopje, Macedonia- Introduction to methods and tools for the daily work of Macedonian colleagues for gender equality and prevention of domestic violence, to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and the situation of women in the labor market in Macedonia.
- How to motivate girls and women, to join political parties, as one way to access decision making and thus counteracting the marginalization of women and protection of gender-based violence; reintegration of women.
- Getting acquainted with some of the state social assistance programs in Slovakia and the condition of women shelters to Austria
- Getting to know a successful project "Hidden stories„PARTNERSHIP MEETING
29.03.2016 – 04.04.2016, Skopje, Macedonia
Host organization: National Council for gender equality
Held in Save Club, Skopje, MacedoniaPARTNERSHIP MEETING
06.06.2016 – 10.06.2016, Lodz, PolandHost organization: Poleski Center of Art
Theatre Tsvete was invited to participate in XII International Biennial "Therapy and Theater" – 06.06 – 08.06, 2016, Lodz, Poland, to present his experience of working with children with SOP and to present two forum-theatrical performances for the prevention of school violence "And what would you do??“
The actors also joined with interest in:
Monday, 06 June
Academic Center for Art Initiatives (THAT'S RIGHT)
The conference THEATRENON/AVAILABLE09:00 -11: 00 h - Panel 1: Theater for the Disabled in Slovakia, Bulgaria and Ireland
Irena Jajte-Lewkowicz from the University of Łód., Ph.D Maria Chaloupkova from Bratislava, Tsvete Yaneva from Sofia and Katarzyna Ojrzyńska from the University of Łód.11:15 h - 13:00 - Panel 2: Theater behind bars
Dr. Magdalena Hasiuk from the Polish Academy of Sciences, Виолина Janiszewska (cooperation with the Penitentiary Institution in Novogard) and Agnieszka Piasecka (cooperation with the Penitentiary in Grudziądz)Exhibition of drawings by Monika Kuriata - portraits of actors with disabilities
Poster exhibition - Superheroes by Dr. Michal BałdygaNowy Theater, big stage
Review of creative activity of people with disabilitiesLobby on Nowy Theater, 1-you floor
Lesson One. About: Recognition by touch, exhibition of touch graphics from Katarzyna Jagodzińska from the Academy of Fine Arts in Łód.16:30-18:30 Nowy Theater, big stage
Theater-dance seminars, conducted by Jmad Baeyens, SET6 theater, BelgiumTuesday, 07 June
12:00 and 15:00 Academic Center for Art Initiatives
“And what would you do??” – Theatre Tsvete, Bulgaria
19:30 Nowy Theater, big stage
Unicorn, dir. Jeroen Baeyens, Move6 theater, BelgiumWednesday, 08 June
Short performances without text or with very little Polish text by people with disabilities
16 -18.30 Meeting of the partners in the office of the hosts from Poleski Center of Art, Krzemieniecka 2а
Thursday, 09 June,
Poleski Center of Art,Krzemieniecka 2а
10:00 o'clock. -11: 00 Anna Лалковска: Situation of the single mother in Bulgaria - social assistant; programs
11.00-12.00 participation in a computer workshop for adults
12 -13 SOZM - integrating workshop ‘Makedonski bean
13-14,30 Lunch (tasting of dishes)
14:30 – 17 craft workshops
17-18 Evaluation of the day, organizational questionsFriday, 10-you June
10: 00-12.30 Visit to the textile museum
12.30 – 14:00 Lunch at the museum
15 00 Meeting in Art Center Poleski
16:00 – 17.00 dance session of the Center for AdultsKarolew (branch of the organization)
17-18 Summarizing discussions, score on the meetingconnection with the strong interest in the presented at XII Toto International Biennial "Therapy and Theater"– 06.06 – 08.06, 2016, Lodz, Poland, we publish the following article by Violina Vasileva-Alexandrova
Forum theater as an aspect of non-formal education
Violina Vasileva-Alexandrova
Resume: The characteristics and priorities of non-formal education are considered, which coincide with the current priorities of the Forum Theater. The development outlines the basic principles of the Forum Theater, its goals and objectives as an aspect of the informal education. The advantages of the Forum Theater as a good practice in the field of non-formal education when working with adolescents and young people are widely represented..
Non-formal education has developed at an extraordinary pace in recent years throughout the European Union as well as in the new member states. The development is conditioned by the new socio-economic conditions in our countries and by the development of the civil society.
In the most popular publications, non-formal education is defined as a set of processes, funds and institutions, specially and specifically developed for the needs of training and education, which, however, are not directly aimed at giving a degree. Its characteristics are:
1.It is an innovation, which is called to give a solution to certain social problems.
- It is deliberate and purposeful, but is not oriented towards a specific certification procedure.
- Rather, it covers the contemporary efforts of the participants to solve specific problems, than learning and mastering certain academic disciplines or subjects.
- It can help to initiate a program or project after a certain experimental stage.
- It is flexible and centered in the learner.
- It is rather practical, than theoretically.
- Non-formal education programs are independent and less susceptible to external scrutiny.
- It is more economical, as it uses all kinds of spaces and means for educational purposes.
- It is a continuous process, accompanying lifelong learning.
- Non-formal education is based on mutual trust and respect, which encourages questioning and reflection.(Innovation in Literacy and Non Formal Education. –In; Literacy Watch BULLETIN, January 2001-N17)
In essence, non-formal education is an approach, which can be used with adults, young people or children, in the classroom or outside. It is focused on the needs of learners. Uses the learner's resource, drawing on their experience, respecting their personality, dignity, honor and belonging.
In recent years, it has been observed on the one hand, distinguishing the parameters and importance of formal and non-formal education, but on the other hand new bridges and canals were created between them, as well as uniting the efforts of institutions and organizations, carrying out both types of education, and the growing number of trainers find professional realization in both areas.
Recently, research on human beings, as individuals and as part of society they have developed. When we talk about quantitative changes, even when correlated with other changes, as physical, intellectual and personal, we mean those relating to the attitude, structure and personal organization. The wider the range of information, educational and alternative services for all categories of the population, the more upward the personal and social development.
In this context, at European level, the participatory arts have become valuable alternative methods for lifelong learning and personal development. They are an integral part of non-formal education in our country as well. The contemporary arts include a series of interactive methods, such as Forum Theater, whose roots are as in education, and in the theater. Contemporary Arts and Forum Theater, in particular, work with emotional intelligence and provide a secure space, where professionals - educators, psychologists, social workers and artists meet people on an equal footing, to work together. Due to its flexibility, these methods can be successfully applied in working with groups from different socio-economic conditions and educational levels, from young people, confronted with violence or risk, to groups of people with special needs, facing educational, adaptive and behavioral problems.
A significant contribution to the development of the contemporary arts belongs to the Brazilian director Augosto Boal, founder of the "Theater of the Oppressed". Augusto Boal is influenced by Brazilian educator Paolo Freire and his social view of non-formal education. The two met while working together on a literacy project in Peru.
The name of Paolo Freire and his "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" is associated with the ideas and practice of progressive pedagogy. According to Freire, formal and public education are subject to the principles of dialogicity. Education is a collaboration, based on respect, and is not a one-sided influence. He calls traditional education "banking", because it seems to be ready, pre-prepared outside deposits in the student, and does not help him to develop fully and independently. For him, practice is an informed action, related to certain values, through which everyone can participate in the creation of life and the world. Therefore, alternative education is closely linked to the community. He insists that educational activities be naturally included in people's life experiences and be based on conscious choices and decisions. (Nikolaeva, 2008).
Education is a product and reconstruction of knowledge. It is conscious, rather than imaginary accumulation. Augusto Boal assembles Freire's didactic device and the artistic devices of conventional theater and thus obtains a triple result - an aesthetic project with an educational and social effect.
There are three main versions of Augusto Boal's Theater of the Oppressed, which could overlap and interact, and the choice of one or the other of the three types depends on the situation, in which the work is performed and for the purpose of the theatrical and educational process. These three types are:
- Image theater (Image theatre)
- Invisible theater (Invisible theatre)
- Forum theatre (Forum theatre)
Fundamental for all three types is the participation of people with and without theatrical experience, no age restrictions, floor, race, social and cultural affiliation. Exceptional democracy, accessibility and the wide range of means of expression makes the Theater of the Oppressed an influential means of discussion, polemics and ultimately an attempt to resolve personal, social and human problems, in a word, everything, which worries and excites people in their lives.
The theater of the image is a series of exercises and games, which puts participants face to face with truths about society, the family and between human relationships, without use, at least at the beginning of the speech. Participants make still images of their events on the topic, feelings, experiences or attitudes towards something, generally cases of oppression of one nature or another. The group suggests a title or topic, which are then depicted as sculptors of the same name, using their own or other bodies as "clay". The image does not remain static, and as in other forms of "Theater of the Oppressed", the frozen picture is a vital factor in this type of work. The group of participants sees pictures of different types and meanings in most cases with a surprising connection between them, often things, which the sculptors themselves did not realize. The images are independent of language and cultural barriers and as Boal shows, they often reveal unexpectedly universal truths. In addition, working with images is more democratic and does not privilege people with a better verbal culture.
The pictorial theater can be used in preparation for the Invisible Theater or the Forum Theater and is fundamental to some forms of therapeutic work reflected in Boal's book. (1995).
The invisible theater engages the audience as participants without even knowing it. They are both spectators and participants in a dramatic scene, but while it is happening (and usually even after it) they do not know, that it's just theater, and not "real reality". Of course, this is also real life as long as the people and reactions are real enough during the event. This is a theater, which does not take place in a theater hall or any other theatrical space, and in public places, which we would not associate with a game or a performance - the subway, the restaurant, store. Several actors prepare the stage, which is then played out in a public place and usually involves unusual "out of the ordinary" behavior in a given social environment. Eyewitnesses are involved in an argument, usually supported by actors - provocateurs mixed with the audience and expressing two opposite reactions to this, which happens.
Invisible theater is a way to stimulate discussion, involving people in problems, in the form of a public forum. It can be compared to an "agitated" street theater, so, that the audience is free to take any position and offer any way out of the situation, without having the feeling, that she was taught. This is another principle in the "Theater of the Oppressed" - never be didactic with your audience, but to emphasize the process of mutual learning.
Forum theater is an effective means of personal intervention, socially, political, educational level and to a lesser extent at the psychotherapeutic level. The method is based on the use of theatrical language and aesthetic space, in order to stimulate active public intervention, and to facilitate interactive reactions between actors and audiences. The latter becomes spectator-actors, united in the effort to explore, analyze and rethink problems, encountered by the group, to which they belong.
Forum Theatre is a theatrical play, in which the problem is shown in an unresolved form. The audience (active "observers") is encouraged to focus on a specific problem or topic, to understand it, to understand it better and to try different possible solutions. The problem is always a symptom of oppression and usually involves a visible form of such oppression and the protagonist (protagonist), who is his victim. In its purest form and the actors, and the participating spectators are victims of such oppression. That is why they are able to offer different solutions as they are personally familiar with this type of oppression. After a show on stage, called "model", it is shown again in a hasty form, following the same order of events, until a member of the audience says : "Stop!”. He then takes the place of the protagonist and tries to overcome the oppression, tries to cause a positive change in the situation of the victim by changing his behavior in a way he thinks is appropriate.
This is an interactive form of competition between the participating spectators, who are trying to lead the stage (or the play) to a different end, in which the vicious circle of oppression is broken and the actors, who are visibly making efforts to bring the play to its original finale, in which the protagonist is defeated, and the oppressor triumphs.
(victim) → character → actor → public ← society
In place, where the actor meets the audience, in the theatrical space, society faces the scapegoat with a double degree of removal. Individuals, which make up the audience, They "leave" society and "stay" in the theater, where they play the role of society and react more as a group, than as individuals. The actor plays the character, behind whom stands the victim.
The host of this game is called "joker" and its function is to ensure the main course of the game and to train and guide the audience according to the rules., namely, to seek real solutions to real problems. It helps viewers discover a different way of thinking, to be critical of it, which they hear, see or feel. The role of the "joker" is reminiscent of the role of the trainer - not necessary, does not criticize, respects the suggestions of the participants, without choosing the direction. The Joker clarifies the messages, promotes the participation of all, gives free space for reflection and action. He is a trainer, someone who accompanies learners in the world of their knowledge, to the place, in which all participants change and learn, that they can change the world.
Through the Forum Theater we draw attention to the different possible variants of reaction in the same situation. Finding a solution as a starting point from the Forum Theater is not mandatory. It is more important to provoke a good debate, in which the maximum number of opinions can be heard. The discussion, the conflict between different ideas, arguments and counter-arguments must provoke, stimulate and improve the preparation of viewers for finding solutions in real life. Forum theater stimulates participants to take an active position in choosing behavior, increase coping skills in unexpected situations, providing an atmosphere of sincerity and trust and improving group interaction.
Brazilian director Augosto Boal develops and widely practices this theatrical technique, whose goal is to train and stimulate people to "play" an active role in their community. Thus, they can actively participate in social decision-making, economically, political and personal problems. Recognized by the United Nations through UNESCO as an official "tool for social change", The Forum Theater is extremely useful and useful for influencing the legislation and for creating an engaged and enlightened citizenship., respecting human rights and responsibilities.
Current priorities of non-formal education, which coincide with the priorities of the Forum Theater are:
- Preventive education - AIDS and HIV, aggression and violence, coping in an intercultural environment, etc.;
- Lifelong learning;
- Development of creative possibilities and potential of people of all ages and groups;
- Civic education.
In our country Forum Theater is applied when working with children and youth on projects in individual schools in Sofia and the country on topics mainly related to aggression and violence at school, domestic violence, sexual and reproductive health, when working for the prevention of human trafficking and drug addiction, etc.
Forum theater gives young people the opportunity:
- To create a supportive, motivating and stimulating environment for development, in which participants share freely about things, through which they pass at this contradictory age;
- To provide a long and sustainable space, with the opportunity to gain knowledge about themselves and others;
- To provide a secure environment for testing different opinions and suggestions regarding a specific problem, to share experiences, for learning and fun;
- To discover the positive qualities and talents in each participant, as well as to stimulate their expression in the world through activities and projects;
- To enrich the participants by giving them the experience of working in a group, group dynamics and a sense of personal responsibility and position in the group;
- Connect with young people from different social groups with a focus on sharing experiences and mutual enrichment;
- To inspire young people to participate in various socially significant projects initiated by themselves and their friends;
- To create a space for an intersection between the experience of adults and the energy of young people;
- To help participants enter the world of adults with clarity and confidence;
- To offer alternative education and training on topics, which are not widely covered in the curriculum as: SPIN and HIV, aggression and violence, coping in an intercultural environment, etc..
Working with young people is an inspiration and a challenge. Inspiration, because of the speed, with which they can also develop because of wisdom, which they carry - unencumbered by experience and marked by the genius of the new and different generation. And a challenge, because of the trepidation of whether you will attract their attention, will you be able to meet their needs and expectations, will you have an answer to all their questions.
Forum theater is an aspect of non-formal education because:
- Gives the opportunity to solve certain, specific social problems;
- It is aimed at the formation of specific social groups without the purpose of their certification;
- It goes through an experimental stage and is more practical than theoretical;
- Gives the opportunity to initiate programs and projects, which are relevant to the community;
- It allows for its flexible application and is aimed at a specific group with a specific problem;
- He is independent and uses all kinds of spaces and means for educational purposes;
- Accompanies lifelong learning;
- Encourages questioning and reflection based on mutual trust and respect.
Education today is not just a model of intergenerational continuity in learning and developing experience, nor is it merely a tool for personal development or professional training. Increasingly, it is also a model of recreational behavior or activity, compensatory development, type of information system, creative laboratory, option of social integration and identification, environment of self-improvement, self-affirmation and competition.
References:
Nikolaeva,FROM.(2008) Informal education. Philosophy. Theories. Practices. EX-PRESS
Boal, A.(2005) The Aesthetics of the Oppressed
Innovation in Literacy and Non Formal Education. –In; Literacy Watch BULLETIN, January 2001-N17
THIRD ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Vienna; 15 – 16 January, 2017
Host organization: ARGE tell bordersMeeting place: IFF Faculty for Interdisciplinary Research and Training, University of Klagenfurt, Schottenfeldgasse 29, 1070 Vienna
14.01.2017 - Saturday – arrival
15.01.2017, Sunday
10:30 check in
11:00 – 13:00 Discussion of the preparation of an e-brochure with a description of the applied methods
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
15:00 – 17:00 Discussions on the preparation and adoption of the interim report; conclusions
19:00 Dinner in Old Viennese inn Schilling, Burggasse 103 http://www.schilling-wirt.at/
16.01.2017, Monday
9:45 check in
10:00 – 13:00 What else do we need to achieve?? Training planning in Vienna
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 18:00 Sustainability (website, Facebook), quality assurance and measures to improve the results of EUPIN
19:00 Dinner in Inn to the city of Krems, Zieglergasse 37 http://stadtkrems.steman.at/
17.01.2017, Tuesday – departure
Stephansdom Belvedere - Klimt Tasks
TRAINING IN VIENNA
18-24 February 2017 r.
Host organization of the event: ARGE tell borders
18 February, Saturday - day of arrival
19 February, Sunday
13.00 Welcome and presentation of the agenda
13.30 – 16.00 Seminar "Learn to set boundaries", Jadzia Konopacka (POS)
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 – 16.50 “To dance”, Chania Yastrebzhska-Gzhela (POS)
16.50 – 17.50 Shiatsu, Angelica Brechlemacher (ARGE)
17.50 – 18.00 Feedback
19:00 dinner at Schilling inn, Burggasse 103 http://www.schilling-wirt.at/
20 February, Monday
13.00 Integration project IGOR, Brigitte Gadnik-Jiskra and Monika (ARGE / POS)
13 – 14.30 lunch, pizza, invitation from ARGE
14.30 – 15.00 Dance (POS)
15.00 – 16.00 Paper workshop, Maria Khalupova (SLOVAKIA)
16.00 – 16.30 Discussion / feedback
21 February, Tuesday
14.00 – 16.00 Music therapy, Chania (POS)
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 – 18.30 Jewelry workshop, Anja (SOZM)
22 February, Wednesday
10.00 – 11.30 Bread workshop (video), Anna Lalkowska (BASD)
11.30 – 12.30 Interview with Christa Poster (ARGE)
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch (Vietnamese cuisine)
14.00 – 16.00 Creative seminar, Violina (T-R FLOWERS)
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 – 17.30 film and seminar "Thai, Marchin (POS)
17.30 – 18.00 Discussion and feedback
19:00 Dinner in Inn to the city of Krems, Zieglergasse 37 http://stadtkrems.steman.at/
23 February, Thursday
10.00 – 13.00 Study of the urban environment and lunch
13.00 – 14.00 Evaluation and discussion
14.00 – 15.30 Lunch
15.30 – 17.00 Rehearsal of a dance group
24 February, Friday - departure
MAP OF DREAMS (Creative seminar)
Leading: Violina Vasileva-Alexandrova;
22.02.2017; Vienna
Who can it serve?: To social workers with a target group of elderly people, mostly women
Number of participants: Unlimited
Necessary conditions: Tables and chairs for all participants
Prior notice, that to participate, they have to choose their photo, who also like small items with positive emotional value for them, Natural materials (list, midički et al.).Materials:
Large sheets of A2 cardboard
Scissors
Sculpting tape
Glue
Magazines, newspapers, fliers
Pastels, colors, pens, markers;
Pieces of cloth, ribbons, Natural materialsDuration:120 min.
Institutions:
Against the background of quiet music, the presenter invites the participants to return mentally to their childhood, to remember what they loved to do, what they dreamed of.
Are these dreams related to specific individuals and objects?
How their dreams change over the years?
Do they still have some of their childhood dreams, who strive to achieve?
Have participants write their dreams on a piece of paper, related to at least 10 freely chosen by them, different areas of your life: health, faith, family, relationship, education, prosperity, glory, career, future, etc..
Each participant creates their own dream map, finds and decorates a special place for each of them.
It is good for each participant to send a positive message to the universe, or think of it together, write it on their cards and keep them close to your eyes, your hearts and minds.GETTING TO KNOW THE CITY OF VIENNA
under the direction of Felice Frank
Stephansdom (137 m) The dome is dedicated through 1147 r , at the very beginning of the entry of romance as a style in architecture. It is dedicated to St. Stefan, the first martyr, killed with stones in 31 AD, the time of the persecution of Christians in Jerusalem.
During World War II, the cathedral was saved from deliberate destruction by a captain Gerhard Klinkit, who disregards the orders of the city commander to “fire a hundred shells and leave only debris and ash “. On 12 April 1945 g., when the Soviet army entered the city, civilian robbers set fires to nearby shops. The winds spread the fire to the cathedral, the roof was badly damaged and collapsed. Fortunately, built protective brick arches around the pulpit, minimize damage to the most valuable works of art. Pummerin, the largest bell in Austria, was also damaged and many Austrian citizens made donations to a new bell and tiles.Restoration of this Gothic jewel began immediately and the cathedral was partially rebuilt in 1948 r. and completely - 23 April 1952 r.
To the left and right of the main entrance you can see two stairs, who wear the genitals on top of both sexes, which is very unusual for the Roman Catholic Church. Some historians think so, that they were probably built by hired builders, who built them according to their traditions. The columns correspond to Boaz and Jachin, two copper, brass or bronze columns, which stand in the portal The Temple of Solomon, the first temple in Jerusalem.
On the left side of the main entrance you can see two iron bars, which are Viennese standard measures for bed linen and tapestries. This allows traders to comply with local regulations.On the right side of the dome you can see the outline of the Chapel of Magdalene, built on the chapel of Virgil (13-you century, rediscovered in the 1970s, when the subway is being built).
St. Stevens Cathedral is reflected in the modern windows of Haas house (1990 g., by an architect Hans Holein).
Fun facts: The shops inside do no business, a specialist in Feng shui, from whom they sought advice, explain, that the building looks like a crooked picture of Picasso and the entrance, overhanging to the first floor, would not be too attractive to enter. So that, all small shops were closed and an international fashion company remodeled the entire interior and now customers use the side entrance.
Stick in the iron (stick in the iron) is the middle part of a tree trunk, called Nokteno, which hundreds of nails have knocked for luck since the Middle Ages.
The original spruce begins to grow around 1400 r. and split around 1440 r. Through 18 century was created Custom traveling blacksmiths and apprentices to knock nails in this tree for good luck.Pestsäule 1697 after an epidemic of smallpox, The memory column was created in a period of about 20 years by various sculptors. The Holy Trinity Column is considered High Baroque and was copied throughout Austria.
The Holocaust Memorial „Judenplatz“ is an initiative of Simon Wiesenthal and was designed by the British artist Rachel Whitered. The memorial commemorates 65 000 killed Austrian Jews during the Holocaust and was found at 25 October 2000 r. „This monument does not have to be beautiful, should cause pain.“
Crossing the narrow street of Haarhof, going through He nodded in the direction of the best neighborhood Kohlmarkt, we visit a famous confectionery shop Demel, where it was invented Sachertorte, to see how confectioners work.Hofburg is the former imperial palace, residence of the Habsburg monarchs, today the building provides exhibition halls for a large number of museums (for example a museum Sisi), as venues for events (e.g.. Big balls) or as the Office of the Federal President.
Heldenplatz The fate of the sculptor Anton Dominik Fernkorn reflects the possibilities, but also the pressure, to which the artists of the "ring" of the rulers are subjected. The idea of the Statue of the Archduke Charles as a horseman of Fernkorn is to make a static performance, for which he used monumental bronze for the first time. The figure has only two fulcrums.Thanks to the huge success, Fernkorn was receiving a second order. For the second sculpture of Prince Eugene he must use the horse's tail for balance. He cannot bear the physical and psychological strain of the task: Before finishing the statue, he was placed under medical supervision, and eventually spend the rest of his life in a madhouse.
Maria Theresienplatz (born 1717) It is sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Transylvania, Mantua, Milan, Lodomeria and Galicia, Austria, The Netherlands and Parma for forty years. She was the Duchess of Lorraine by marriage, Grand Duchess of Tuscany and the Holy Roman Empress. Franz Stefan was the husband of his wife. Despite her love for him and his position, Maria Theresa she never allowed her husband to decide state matters and was often rejected by council meetings, when they did not agree. Maria Theresa gave birth to sixteen children, thirteen of whom survived early childhood. She was so conservative in her management, as in religious, but carried out significant reforms to strengthen Austrian military power and bureaucratic efficiency. Introduced compulsory school attendance, elimination of torture in general, etc.. It doubled government revenues. The monument "Maria Theresia" is surrounded by the Natural History Museum, The Museum of Art History and the Museum Quarter. But we had other plans! We went to the tram stop, we changed the tram to the subway and finally got to the bus
Enjoy the beautiful view from the top of Kalenberg.FOURTH ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
8 – 10 June 2017 g.-
Malatsky and Istipolis, Bratislava - Slovakia
Host organization of the event:
Slovak Association of the Physically Handicapped District Center MalackyThe most important topics:
1) Welcome from the Slovak partners
Mrs. Viera Znechkova welcomes all participants in the meeting.
The project team notes the separation with Maria Chalupova with a smart minute.
Ms. Renata Biksadska was elected as the new Slovak project manager.2) Preparation of the online brochure
3) Preparation of the final report
4) Final meeting in Lodz: 27 – 29 July
5) Three new opportunities to apply for funding (reported by Anna Lalkowska)
6) EUROPASSES
All partners are reminded, that they must prepare their Euro-passes and send them to the coordinator.7) Conclusions.
The coordinator thanked the Slovak partners for their hospitality and professional preparation of the meeting.. The next steps in the development of the project are presented. The Slovak partner handed out certificates.PARTNERSHIP MEETING
27 -29 June, 2017 - Lodz, Poland
PARTNERSHIP MEETING
28 -29 September, 2017 - Sofia
EUPIN
European partnership for working with people at risk of social exclusion. The project focuses on the main issues, contained in the Europe 2020 guidelines - inclusive economic growth, which is characterized by a high level of employment and providing economic, social and territorial cohesion; the fight against poverty and social exclusion. The project includes the following goals: […] -
EDUCATHE+
2015EDUCATHE + Educational theater - a center of integration and proving the work potential of people with disabilities
Funded by the EU Education Program, training, youth and sports (Erasmus +), EDUCATHE + is a partnership project of eight organizations from six EU member states and one partner country, who strive together to improve the employment of people with disabilities through the means of educational theater. This method allows the development of key competencies in people with disabilities, at the same time helping to increase their visibility and breaking down prejudices in society - the main reason for the difficulties, which people with disabilities encounter in the labor market
The problems of people with disabilities are a social problem, to which the EU has paid special attention in recent years. This, which has not yet been achieved, is the lack of understanding among employers, that these people are not unable to work. As organizations with many years of experience in working with and for people with disabilities, we know, that this is due to a lack of interaction between people with disabilities and those without.
We know from many years of experience, that contacts between people with and without disabilities lead to higher levels of mutual understanding, cooperation and even employment, as well as to lower levels of prejudice and subsequent discrimination.
The main method, which we will use in the project is developed based on the principles, brought out through 2008 r. within a project "Educational theater - a place to overcome discrimination against people with disabilities - EDUCATHE". It provokes a rethinking of values in life, as in people with or without disabilities, so do their trainers. This is a method, open to new ideas and developments, which is especially important, given the different needs of the diverse local communities in the EU. that's why, this partnership aims to share methods and enrich them from the shared experience of the partners, to move from the field of non-formal education in the field of employment. Built on a proven method, which allows all partners to include their method, this partnership will give a new dimension and produce added value at European level for all, who participate in the partnership activities - students and trainers with and without disabilities, as well as indirectly - the general public, media and legislators (through our performances) - is therefore aimed at all stakeholders in this social problem.In general 40 days and 8 international educational seminars in performing arts, participants will conduct 112 mobility in the cities of partner organizations (31 which, made by people with disabilities); will share and develop practices and prepare 8 theatrical performances, presented to the general public in order to raise public awareness of the existing economic discrimination of people with disabilities. The performances will take place in places, symbolizing the link between the EU and the local country, followed by discussions between people with disabilities and the general public about opportunities and possible interaction to launch the first on the labor market. These performances will be recorded and distributed on our web platform http://upset.hr/en/e-platform/
and all, who are interested in working with (and for) disabled people and the use of the theater for educational purposes, you will be able to freely access online this knowledge and other materials, produced by this partnership: E + Toolbox, E + educational video, E + documentary.
The results of our partnership will be posted there throughout the project and will include practices, exercises, experience, interviews and methods, who share partners from their own experience. Sharing and enriching their own experience in integrating and promoting the employability of people with disabilities, the partners will create a new common methodology.Except for the seminars, which will produce public appearances, we will have three staff meetings, to ensure the quality of project management and a final press conference.
The current partnership is built on the values of democracy, transparency, equality and solidarity, which we will invest in conducting theater workshops, to overcome the social prejudices of increasing the employability of people with disabilities. In the performances we will make their abilities visible, to downplay their physical or mental difficulty in the eyes of employers - something, which we encourage other organizations to do as well. We see this partnership as the basis for building a common future network of organizations, who meet the needs of people with disabilities and work in the field of education and culture to improve their employability.
We use this opportunity, to invite all interested organizations and individuals, working with or FOR people with disabilities or other marginalized groups to contact and join us during the project and then - when we are planning the third step - disseminating the results of EDUCATHE + method and system for adult education throughout Europe.C1 = UPSET (Zagreb, Croatia)
C2 = INTEGRATION INCUBATOR (Ventspils, Latvia)
C3 = ARATOS (Thessaloniki, Greece)
C4 = MEDITERRANEAN UNIVERSITY (Antalya, Turkey)
C5 = OCEAN (Athens, Greece)
C6 = ADM (Siracuza, Italy)
C7 = TSVETE THEATER (Sofia, Bulgaria)
C8 = DE ZEYP (Brussels, Belgium)E + educational seminars and project meetings
The main activities of the partnership consist of international theater (and other performing arts) seminars and management meetings. Or, as Erasmus + he likes to call them - short staff trainings and transnational joint project meetings.
The main purpose of the seminars is to enable participants to develop or strengthen their "soft skills". (key EU competences), ending each with a public performance, thus making prejudices against people with disabilities in the labor market more visible to the public.
Meetings of project leaders are a means of live communication, where partners can discuss partnership issues, to plan future activities and develop the terms and conditions of successful cooperation.
The seminars will be held every two to three months in seven countries and eight cities: Zagreb (Croatia), Thessaloniki (Greece), Brussels (Belgium), Antalya (Turkey), Athens (Greece), Syracuse (Italy), Sofia (Bulgaria ) and Wenzpils (Latvia).
Each seminar will be a unique opportunity for the local partner to present their way of working in an international environment (which is often missing when working with the problems of people with disabilities), and also an opportunity for all partners, to combine, change, to explore and identify new methods to improve their own work.
Meetings of managers will be held three times: Zagreb (First date), Antalya (Interim meeting) and again in Zagreb (Final reporting meeting). The last meeting will include a press conference, where the results of all partners will be presented and the seeds of a new partnership (or even networking) will be planted.
E + REPRESENTATION
Theatrical & performative performances, created through educational seminars, which focus on the issue of employability and skills of people with disabilities and people, who work with them, are. an integral part of E + partnership. Skills are developed by combining non-formal education and the performing arts to achieve so-called 'soft skills' - important key competences. Except that they present the work publicly, performed by the participants, they also convey a positive message to the audience in the hall, and later to the general public and employers through videos of the performances, which are published on our E + platform.
Although our methods, expression styles and specific local themes, played by the participants, may vary, the main message of all performances in E + the partnership is for solidarity, integration and employment opportunities and employability of people with disabilities.
The performances of E + the partnership conveys the main message of independence, well-being, positive worldview, friendship, solidarity and inclusion - which will help participants get great new business ideas and boost their entrepreneurial spirit, which is why they play a crucial role in this partnership.
Everyone is welcome to attend our free performances (please, check the dates and places below) or, as an alternative, to join our performances online - through their videos.
C1 International Educational Seminar and presentation
UPSET (16.-21.11.2015.), Zagreb, Croatia: UNSEEN ABILITY
The first educational seminar of the partnership "Unseen opportunity" is based on drama-action. It will be held in Trešnjevka Cultural Center, Zagreb (Stara Trešnjevka Park 1, 10000 Zagreb).
Main objectives:
- increase the employability of people with disabilities by developing "Soft skills" (key EU competences) of the participants and enabling the labor market,
- raising the visibility of this social problem in society,
- raising awareness among the public and employers and stimulating discussions and debates,
- research on prejudices and stigmatization of people with disabilities in the labor market
The working meeting will start on November 16, 2015 and will end with a public presentation of 21 November 2015 g., in the famous European Theater Night, through which through 2014 r. only for one night - were reported 42 000 audience on 148 representation in 43 the city.
The workshop will be conducted by the coordinating partner UPSET theater. UPSET will use his drama-action approach, to encourage participants to participate in the theatrical process of intensive interaction between these, which are "without disabilities" and those, who are "disabled" by accepting self-chosen roles and reflexive thinking. Participants will go through exercises using the method of UPSET, which is built on a combination of the symbolic theater of Victor Turner (version of a tribal ritual), study the actions of Kurt Levin and other similar expressive performing arts (for example, contemporary dance), through which they will explore the topic and prepare their performance. UРSET drama-action is a method of research, based mostly on knowledge, experience and invested creativity, which the participants introduce in the process of searching for perspectives. Different exercises and theatrical practices will be combined, incl. contemporary dance, to develop a space of role freedom, intensive interaction and discussions of reflective thinking. The culmination of this process will be the final performance, which will be conducted by the participants.
The seminar will be conducted by a sociologist Ivan Hromatko and Natasha Yurisich, dance teacher and choreographer. In the end, at the workshop the results will be recorded and later published on the platform for dissemination and invitation to other persons and organizations to join us in a future network and / or use them in their work.
INVISIBLE ABILITY
11.21.2015; 20 o'clock (admission is free)
Trešnjevka cultural Center, Stara Trešnjevka Park 1 (TNT Theater Hall)The public performance "Invisible ability" is the final type of the seminar of the same name with the participation of people with disabilities and people, who deal with the problems of people with disabilities from Greece, Italy, Latvia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Belgium and Croatia, who are concerned about increasing the employability of people with disabilities and their skills. The seminar is held within the program „Educathe +“, KD2 Strategic partnerships.
The seminar is led by Ivan Hromatko and Natasha Yurisich, members of Stigmatization Prevention Association and Educational Theater and aim to explore some of the problems, faced by people with disabilities in the labor market and social life. The performance will present potential solutions to these obstacles.
The seminar will be conducted by the method of drama-action - innovation in the field of educational theater, which was designed by a sociologist Ivan Hromatko in his work on his doctoral dissertation, and then - enriched with movement and dance by the choreographer and dance teacher Natasha Yurisich.
In it, the participants will form an alternative and symbolic world, which will free them from everyday roles and give them the freedom to criticize everyday norms and values, as well as to carry out intensive interaction with each other. In this symbolic world, they will explore different social relationships and opportunities when changing roles - e.g.. entering that of an employer of a disabled person and attempting action, which go beyond stigmatization, sending external (public messages) and internal (awareness of personal skills and abilities).
Starting with the most famous words of all marginalized groups and individuals, "Nothing for us without us", participants will continue to actively create performances and cross the path of stigma; to pursue the inclusion and empowerment of people with disabilities; to oppose institutional discrimination and architectural barriers and to seek possible solutions to these problems
At the end of the performance there will be a discussion between the audience and the performers, in which they will get acquainted with the problems, faced by people with disabilities in seven European countries, but also their decisions, which could potentially be applied in Croatia.
Everyone is welcome!The hosts, assistants and volunteers:
Ivan Hromatko, Natasha Yurisich, Leila Younis, Ana Boinač, Vladan Korda
They present:
Amateurs and professionals from Latvia, Greece, Italy, Belgium, Bulgaria, Turkey and Croatia - participants in international theater and educational seminars on the employability of people with disabilities.C2 International working meeting
"Faces on stage, faces in front of the camera "
13.01-17.01.2016; Thessaloniki, Greece
The performance of the second workshop "Faces on stage, faces in front of the camera ", developed as an effective theater of expression, will be presented in Theater Aratos (Moscow 12, Thessaloniki).Participants will be trained to express their thoughts and feelings, using theatrical methods by Grotovski, Boal, Geschalt and Stanislavsky and thus they will try to overcome their differences.
The main goals of the seminar and the final implementation are:
To help participants be more confident in their daily lives,
To increase the employability of people with disabilities through the development of "Soft skills" (key EU competences) participants and give them an opportunity for the labor market,
To overcome differences and say NO to discrimination against people with disabilities.The performance on January 17 2016 will include people with disabilities and people, who deal with the problems of people with disabilities from Greece, Italy, Latvia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Belgium and Croatia, concerned with increasing the employability of people with disabilities and their skills. The seminar will be conducted by the partner of Educathe + Aratos Theater as a theatrical group specializing in theatrical improvisation emphasizes social issues, attitudes, reactions in our daily lives, human relations. Aratos is also an open-air theatrical community for teaching DCR and invisible disability people, who have various chronic diseases.
The performance on January 17 2016 will present the theater in a more social form, helping people express their feelings. The performance will be the end result of a method Geschalt (team and problem), method Boal (Theater of the Oppressed, Invisible theater), Grotovski (The purpose of the drama) and Stanislavski system (concept of emotional memory, for which an actor focuses internally, to depict the emotions of the character on stage).The seminar will be conducted by a director-actor-playwright and a journalist Vasilis Tsikaras and Eleni Gianniou, dance teacher and gymnast, qualified in specialized manipulations. And finally, at the seminar the results will be recorded and later published on the internet platform - to be disseminated and to attract other persons and organizations.
C3 International training seminar &
Public performance "Frames"
Brussels, Belgium; (15.03.2016 – 19.03.2016)
The object and starting point of seminar C3 will be the concept”The framework”.
What is the frame? What types of frames do we recognize? Which frames we make we feel as limitations, and which - as support and emancipation.
Stigma, underestimation, discrimination or exclusion from prejudice, ignorance and fear of the unknown or otherwise, represents reality for many people. Is this it, which happens in everyday life, at work or when looking for work. The seminar C3 “FRAMEWORK” aims to ENRICH the tools of the participants with and without (obviously) damage, to profile and express their own skills and talents and broaden the viewers' view by inviting them to look creatively at this, which the participants offer them.
The theater was deliberately chosen as a safe place to work in all intimacy, respect, trust and freedom of thought and action. The seminar begins with the collection of information and working materials from brainstorming sessions and interviews with participants on the topic "Framework". Personal experience, ideas, evidence, thoughts, feelings and problems, which come out of them, will be the building blocks of the future show. By means of theatrical improvisation, dance and stage sculpture participants will get to know themselves better and The "other". The material, received during the seminar will be prepared for public performance. This presentation contains a message to the audience, who was invited to a question and answer session with the participants after the show.
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C4 International working meeting:
"Infinity of the colors of the drama"
(18.09.2016 – 23.09.2016; Antalya-Adrazan, Turkey)
International workshop C5 "Viewing" &
Closing public presentation of the NGO O.C.E.A.N "Reactions"(30-1-2017 -3.2.2017):
The fifth training seminar of the partnership, called "Viewing" and the final public performance "Reactions", will be held in the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Chaidari ( Kolokotroni street 36, Tea, Athens, Greece) The meeting will be hosted by the NGO O.C.E.A.N..
The main goals of the C5 seminar are:
- Improving the employability of people with disabilities by developing "soft skills" in key competences (ES) of the participants, to give them opportunities in the labor market.
- Raising the visibility of existing discrimination against people with disabilities in the labor market to the general public, raising awareness among consumers and employers and provoking discussions and debates - Study of prejudices against people with disabilities in the labor marketThe "Looking" workshop deals with human diversity and invites participants (with and without disabilities) to build effective communication skills (active listening, empathy and deeper understanding), while communicating with the other, seeking convergence and inclusion. Disabilities should not be seen as a problem, and as a challenge for fruitful cooperation of individuals and communities, efforts should focus on removing barriers (organizational, structural, cultural, social, etc.) to make inclusion material. Instead of advising people with disabilities to change (by correction, therapy, etc.), to become part of society, society needs to become more open and flexible and respond equally to the human mosaic.
The result of the workshop will be a theatrical performance "Reactions" featuring 20 NGO volunteers O.C.E.A.N, half of them with great difficulty. The theatrical performance will be a tangible result of the group's work, carried out in the last one year. Volunteers work to build group identity and develop theater-specific skills. Members of other Greek groups will join the participants from the partner organizations and will jointly write the play and direct its staging and public presentation..
Our theater workshop will be a place of liberation from roles, of reflexive thinking and intense interaction between "People without disabilities" and The "disabled".
Participants will go through the method “Theater through Reflections”, which OCEAN used in his work.
It is based on three pillars:
• Before (the birth)
• Now (until)
• After (Beyond)
By deciphering this specific triptych, we can translate it, as follows:1. Preparation for work (Place / sphere)
2. Internal self-government / within the work environment
• intercultural relations and awareness
• time management
• Coping with stress
• cooperation and interaction
• adaptation and adjustment
3. Self-esteem: methods of organization, goalsMethodical tools, which will be used during the workshop are:
1. Improvisation: "Society": the integration process within each framework group / team
2. "Contact": Interaction and cooperation: "You and me"
3. BASIC TRAINING TOOL: "Think": Viewing:
• High level of time management
• respect for diversity
• sympathy
4. Improvisation: "Follow me"
• self-assessment and assessment
• goal and goal setting in skills and abilitiesThe workshop will be led by Dimitris Kacidoniotis: Biologist, musician and actor, Vasilios the Economist actor and director and Panayotis Zornacidis - actor and theatrologist.
The participants are both people with disabilities and teachers, which originate from eight partner organizations and seven European countries!
After the seminar, the results will be recorded and published later, inviting other individuals and organizations to use them in their work and join our future network.C6 International Educational Seminar "In Deep Waters" & Public presentation "Borders".
21.03 – 25.03. 2017 - Syracuse, Italy
The sixth training seminar is the workshop "In deep water" (21 – 24 March 2017) and the final performance "Borders" (25 March, 2017), will be held in Convent of the Retreat (Via V. Mirabella, 31 Syracuse, Italy)
The host will be an NGO Otherwise, project partner.The workshop "In deep water" deals with the economic inclusion of people with disabilities in society, inviting all participants to share good practices and learn how to use theater to teach the following key skills:
Initiative and entrepreneurship;
Social and civic competencies;
Cultural consciousness and expression;
Communication in a foreign language;
Communication in mother tongue.The workshop will focus on the real impact, which the local context has in the daily lives of people with disabilities (problems of people with disabilities in the local community) and the opportunity provided by an international seminar.
The workshop "In deep water" trying to answer the question: "What are the limits of the human being??“. Participants will explore what they are:
The boundary of the body
The limit of the voice
The limit of feeling
Using four short scripts, we will be faced with the limits of ourselves and the limits of relationships with others. Body, voice and feelings will give us emotions, which according to "Stolen" quote from D. Lynch:"Emotions are like a fish. If you want to catch a small fish, you can stay in shallow water. But if you want to catch a big fish, we need to go deeper. There they are huge and very beautiful. ".
The workshop will be held by Andrea Ibba, actor and director, in the historic area Ortija-Syracuse, enabling all participants to work in a historic place and at the same time to give publicity on the spot, which belongs to all European citizens.
The participants are people with disabilities and teachers, which come from eight partner organizations and seven European countries! The results of the workshop will be recorded and later published on an Internet platform, to be distributed and used by other individuals and organizations with a desire to join us in the future network
NPO Otherwise will join the members of the partner organizations for writing the play, its preparation and presentation in an open space to an audience
The show will be distributed, thanks to audio / a video, which will be uploaded to the internet, the press and all relevant media.C7 International training seminar and public presentation
"Life with masks"
The subject of our workshop will be the inner masks, which in life help us succeed or make us victims in different situations. These are patterns of behavior, which we apply, so that we can meet the challenges, before we reveal our essence ourselves.
Some of the masks help us achieve our goals, with others we cover up our vulnerability. They often block our consciousness and lead us to the same scenario over and over again, depriving us of the opportunity to receive the most important things: love, care, respect, connection with others.
The purpose of the seminar is to explore the masks, which we carry in different areas of our lives: love, family, career, communication with people with disabilities, society.
In the show "Life with masks" we will look for different points of view and use different approaches: makeshift dolls, face masks, forum theater. It will be based on personal experience, thoughts and feelings on this issue.
The program
Sunday, 11.06.2017
Arrival
19:30 "Welcome!» - meeting in a restaurant "Forum"
Monday, 12.06.2017
09:30 – 10:00 check in (St. "Yordan Yovkov" 13)
10:00 – 13:00 team building and brainstorming on the topic
(On. 15 minutes coffee break)
lunch
14:30 – 17:30 study of internal masks (On. 15 minutes of coffee break)
Tuesday, 13.06.2017
09:30 – 10:00 check in
10:00 – 13:00 work with face masks (On. 15 minutes of coffee break)
lunch
14:30 – 17:30 work with face masks (On. 15 minutes of coffee break)
Wednesday, 14.06.2017
09:30 – 10:00 check in
10:00 – 13:00 training for makeshift dolls
(On. 15 minutes of coffee break)
lunch
14:30 – 17:30 introduction of forum theater (On. 15 minutes of coffee break)
Thursday, 15.06.2017
09:30 – 10:00 check in
10:00 – 13:00 organizing the final script (On. 15 minutes of coffee break)
lunch
14:30 – 17:30 technical rehearsal (On. 15 minutes of coffee break)
Friday, 16.06.2017
Free time
14:00 – 17:00 general rehearsal (On. 15 min. Coffee break)
“Military History Museum”, st. "Church" 92)
18:00 presentation and discussion
21:00 “The Mill ”, Dragalevtsi
Saturday, 17.06.2017
departure
Video from the public presentation of the results of the workshop "LIFE WITH MASKS" you can see HERE
EDUCATHE+
EDUCATHE + Educational Theater - Center for Integration and Demonstration of Work Potential of People with Disabilities Funded by the EU Education Program, training, youth and sports (Erasmus +), EDUCATHE + is a partnership project of eight organizations from six EU member states and one partner country, who strive together to improve employment […] -
“Dolls against violence”
2015Prevention of peer violence. Presentation of the puppet forum theatrical performance to students at the initial stage in metropolitan districts with a predominant Roma population.
With the support of the Sofia Program "Culture" 2015 with the assistance of the Ministry of Interior
14.04.2015. Launches a project against violence in schools
The project is implemented with the active participation of GDNP and the assistance of The Sofia Municipality
The initiative was proposed and developed by Theatre Tsvete in collaboration with GDNP. Under the title Dolls Against Violence the project focuses on the prevention of violence in schools. An interactive puppet theatrical performance has been prepared for this purpose
The Flying Knight, which by the end of the year will be able to see the children from the primary school in general 15 metropolitan schools from the neighborhoods: Orlando, "Faculty", "Hristo Botev", Botunets, Filipovtsi, Kremikovtzi and "Friendship". Today, at the first performance, employees at DG National Police handed out a specially made flyer to the children's audience, which describes the basic rules for safety from violence.
The idea of the campaign is for the theatrical performance to provoke the students, and through them the parents, to comprehend personal responsibility and the problem of school violence. The aim of the organizers is to help build behavioral skills in children in the age group of 7 to 10 years - how to recognize violence in its various forms and to protect each other, how to behave in society, how to react in certain situations, how to resolve conflicts on the street. The project experiments with the forms of communication and presents its content through the active participation of its audience - children. It breaks the traditional form of "Educational theater" and a new interactive form for working with children is being created, which relies on dialogue, communicating directly with them and by presenting easily accessible and memorable information.On 7 December, 2015r. in front of the students of 106 Grigory Tsamblak Primary School, Sofia, The 15th performance of the forum theatrical puppet show took place The Flying Knight - last for this project. Dear guests of the performance were the mayor of the municipality Swelling, madam Eva Mitova and deputy mayor, madam Ani Barzanova.
Reality and fantasy intertwined on the stage, to make violence more recognizable, settled the daily life of our children. The jokes, who laugh, they are often not funny to everyone. Within the current project close 1500 audience from 7-10 years were emotionally sympathetic to their harassed peer and motivated to find a way to help him change events for the better.. Learning by doing and experiencing has a strong and lasting educational impact.
At the end of the performance, a uniformed police officer intervenes in the search for a solution. In this way, children learn how and what help they can seek from the police in such cases.
After the performance, a final press conference was held with representatives of the Ministry of Interior, Theatre Tsvete, principals of Sofia schools and media.
“Dolls against violence”
Prevention of peer violence. Presentation of the puppet forum theatrical performance to students at the initial stage in metropolitan districts with a predominant Roma population. With the support of the Sofia Culture Program 2015 with the assistance of the Ministry of Interior 14.04.2015. A project against violence in schools has been launched The project is being implemented with the active participation of GDNP and the assistance of the Sofia Municipality. The initiative is […] -
“THE SWORD OF THE Cricket”
2015according to the fairy tale of the same name Petya Karakoleva
together with theater "AMADEUS"A hilarious puppet story against violence for children from 3 up to 6 years of age, with direct involvement of the audience in the show.
Where it has been heard and seen Cricket not wanting to play his violin, but to swing his bow like a sword?
With us and you will see, and you will hear, that you will play in the fairy tale, in which this hero goes around the world to seek feats. And on top of that, he wins! But not because of his "saber strikes", but because everything, which he touches with his bow, sings.
And so, the adventures are convincing The cricket, and with him - the children in the audience, that the power of music is more powerful than that of muscle.Screenplay and direction: Tsvete Yaneva Music: Elena Metodieva Participate: Elena Grozdanova and Ivona Jeleva “THE SWORD OF THE Cricket”
based on the fairy tale of the same name by Petya Karakoleva together with the AMADEUS Theater A merry puppet story against violence for children from 3 up to 6 years of age, with direct involvement of the audience in the show. It has been heard and seen that Cricket does not want to play his violin, but to swing his bow like a sword? With us and will […] -
“And if it was you ?!”
2014Preparation and presentation at a student forum of theatrical performances on issues of concern to the participants.
With the support of Sofia Culture Program 2014
Students of the basic school course of 42 Hadji Dimitar Primary School, 44 Neofit Bozveli High School and 95 SOU “Prof.. Ivan Shishmanov ” - Poduyane region in the first two weeks of December will present theatrical performances, created by problems, which excite them.
On 1o.12.2014 from 13.15 the three performances were presented to classmates, parents and teachers on the stage of the community center "Revival", st. "Poduenska" 1a.
“And if it was you ?!”
Preparation and presentation at a student forum of theatrical performances on issues of concern to the participants. With the support of the Sofia Culture Program 2014 Students of the basic school course of 42 Hadji Dimitar Primary School, 44 Neofit Bozveli High School and 95 SOU “Prof.. Ivan Shishmanov ”- Poduyane region in the first two weeks of December will present theatrical performances, created by problems, […] -
"You decide!“
2014creating a forum theatrical performance against peer violence for children from 9 to 13 year.
With the support of Ministry of Culture
creating a forum theatrical performance against peer violence for children from 9 to 13 year.
Today, school violence has become so commonplace, that students often do not notice it. More often, everything is early ...
The didactic education system is clearly powerless to deal with the problem. The school principal's edifying words no longer help.
In the theatrical performance, which we want to create, students will see some of the most common scenes of school violence, will identify with the characters, will talk about their motivation and feelings at different points in the development of the story. When children empathize with the victim's emotions, they will be motivated to look for a way to alleviate her situation. With their active participation we will create other scenes, showing a different perspective on history. This way they will be able to rethink their opinion, to express their own experiences and thoughts. Experiential learning can lead to a deeper and lasting understanding, lead to a change in attitudes and thoughts.
We hope through our media partners newspaper Az-Buki and radio “Alma mater” to give maximum publicity to the results of the application of drama and theater techniques in the civic education of adolescents. Hopefully this provokes interest in Ministries of Culture and Education to the development of applied theater and its implementation in the school system.
To evaluate the effectiveness of this innovative practice, we will seek feedback from viewers. The questions will be printed on the flyers and they will be able to answer us electronically
24-27.02.2014 tour of "And what would you do??” in Berkovitsa and Montana
"You decide!“
creating a forum theatrical performance against peer violence for children from 9 to 13 year. With the support of the Ministry of Culture, a forum for theatrical performance against peer violence for children from 9 to 13 year. Today, school violence has become so commonplace, that students often do not notice it. Everything […] -
Documentary Theater Studio
2013Establishment of student theater groups for conducting non-formal civic education of peers by peers
With the support of the Foundation "Development of civic initiatives"
The project was implemented with the help of the Foundation Civic Initiatives Workshop in program "Rainbow", with the financial support of OUK Foundation and Velux Foundation
When?
01.04.2011 – 01.10.2013
Where?
In four schools in the area Swelling, Sofia
What?
With the active cooperation of the district administration Swelling the actors work in 4 schools and helped the theater groups created within the project to create and present to over 2000 their classmates 7 interactive theatrical performances.
On 30 May, 2013 in the community center "Revival" final against the conference "Theater against Violence" was held, at which the three performances of this year by the students from 42 Hadji Dimitar Primary School, 44 Neofit Bozveli High School and 95 SOU «Prof.. Ivan Shishmanov ». The performances are based on disturbing real cases shared by the participants. After playing them, the leading actor of the discussion invites the viewers to intervene in the presented cases., going on stage at a time of their choice and looking for a way to improve the outcome of the story by changing the victim's behavior - etc..forum theater. The method is innovative for our country and is an effective way to conduct non-formal peer education by peers..
Documentary Theater Studio
Establishment of student theater groups for non-formal civic education of peers by peers With the support of the Foundation "Development of Civic Initiatives" The project was implemented with the help of the Foundation "Workshop for Civic Initiatives" under the program "Rainbow", with the financial support of the OUK Foundation and the Velux Koga Foundation? 01.04.2011 – 01.10.2013 Where? At four […] -
3-daily training "Possible applications of game art techniques in pedagogical practice"
2013conducted within a project DOCUMENTARY THEATER Studio
with the support of the Foundation "Development of civic initiatives"
3-daily training "Possible applications of game art techniques in pedagogical practice"
conducted within the project "Studio DOCUMENTARY THEATER" with the support of the Foundation "Development of Civic Initiatives" -
Partner in the project "Educational integration of children and students from ethnic minorities"
2013-2014at the SOU "V. Vodenicharski" - from. Hayredin, reg. Vratsa Project of Ministry of Education
After the scene, the mayor threatened to fire a teacher, and the driver is still scared, that after he fired the headmistress, will fire four more teachers… The title scene "BULGARIAN PARTICIPATION" was presented at the meeting of teachers-parents in connection with the final activities of the project. The same project, on which close 100 children were free at sea last summer. The same project, on which many children went for free on 4 excursions. The same project, who raised the children's knowledge and taught them art. The scene was invented and played by the students participating in the student theater forum, led by professional artists from Sofia. Did the students guess what would happen after the scene, they named it "Bulgarian Destiny"?! After the scene, the director asks the mayor how the transportation of the parents will be organized the next day for the final conference of the project.. The answer was: to turn to the driver from the scene. So the next day, when there was a much richer program, the parents from the villages could not attend. In this answer the children , parents and artists from Sofia were amazed… What to do - Bulgarian fate ! We apologize for the poor quality of the recording.
Of “We learn together, we create together, together we travel to the Motherland” – Activity 6 – Student Forum Theater
Student Forum Theater. The intellectual and emotional engagement of young people with important social problems, provoking them to discuss and try possible solutions through the techniques of forum theater
- A group of 16 children from 5-you to 12 class.
- The children's meetings with the expert actors from the partner Flower Theater will be conducted in accordance with the prepared curriculum (once a month) within 3 days after 4 o'clock . Classes will also be held during the summer vacation.
Additional qualification of pedagogical specialists, related to methods of education and training in a multicultural environment - training in the application of art methods in pedagogical work. - training of two teachers
- We plan and "green School" for the participants in the student forum theater for 5 days from 18 participants. They will be prepared:
- 2 the show
- Two teachers
- The implementation of the activity is jointly with a partner 2- Association "Theatre Tsvete"
On 5, 6 and 7 In July, student classes took place forum theater
The activities of the student theater forum begin with The Rules
Today everyone made a doll, which shows his individuality. Role games. Drawings with closed eyes. Presentation of the cooking talk show. Teamwork. A modern interpretation of the tale "The three Little Pigs".
REPORT
For student activities Forum Theater in m. August 2013 r.
07.08.2013r. 1. Barometer- the barometer readings showed a low level of mood and this led us to do some warm-up exercises. 2.Warm-up- exercise to raise the tone. Everyone stood in a circle and one of all participants showed random exercise to warm up, and the others repeat. There are several participants, which show different exercises. After warming up, we moved on to the next task. Games of trust and teamwork 3. Billiard balls. Although the participants have played this game before, they liked it very much and wanted to practice it again. As a result, we realized that the relationships in the group had grown to a higher level, that between the participants was built gradually on- strong connection, a sense of responsibility between them and teamwork. In this game, they were much more confident than before and could trust each other much more easily. 4. Playing with chickens and a hunter One of the participants is a hunter and has to catch a chicken, and all the others are chickens. The condition is that everyone has their eyes closed. If there is a caught chicken, another chicken can save him by going under his feet, while the caught chicken stands still and signals that it has been caught with some sound, without speaking. This game is very suitable for team development, many of the participants were caught, but many of the other uncaught participants saved their teammates. After the game we discussed the game and some of the participants shared their opinion, that very often they saved, and others were often caught. After our questions whether they remember an identical situation in life, all participants expressed their opinion that they found themselves in various situations that made them feel like chickens and hunters. Of course, their examples were related to their daily life at school and family and their personal life experience.. After this game we continued, by reminding the participants again of the rules of stage play, the expression of feelings and emotions about the different roles in the fairy tales in which the participants play. We analyzed what has been achieved so far and what needs to change, work out and improve. We discussed with the participants, who were the audience of the fairy tale "Cinderella", what are the remarks and what are the good achievements of their teammates. As bystanders, they expressed an opinion, that the rules for working on stage are observed, but the expression of emotions in role-playing needs to be improved. We had the same discussion with the audience of the fairy tale "Snow White", they also expressed their views as bystanders, that there are scenes, in which the comic must be amplified,and in other scenes the rules of stage play are not observed. The participants were critical but also condescending to each other because they understand the seriousness and responsibility of their work and that it is not easy to be an actor and play a role with the appropriate lines., feelings and emotions, meanwhile to follow the rules of stage play, to know exactly when, from where and how to get in and out of the stage, to comply with the relocation of the sets, and with the change of scenes, the moods of the actors in the fairy tales change. 5. Presentation of fairy tales. First, the participants presented the story "Cinderella". Participating in it - Tanya in the lead role, Patricia in the role of the evil aunt; Stanimir, in the role of uncle; Velislava and Godiera in the role of the evil sisters; Stilian, in the role of Tanya's friend. The participants had learned their lines well, but some of them had difficulty playing scenes from the tale, which are associated with deeper emotions and feelings. Tanya did a great job, bearing in mind, that she had difficulty communicating with others and could not relax and trust her teammates. This role helped her to overcome these obstacles in her relationships with others, and showed that by taking responsibility to fulfill this role, you have to play your heroine as best you can and work with your team. Except that she did a great job, she found new friends to relax with, to share and have fun with. Patricia, in the role of the evil aunt, there were no remarks in the play of his heroine. He was doing superbly, he managed to capture all the nuances of his character's character. He also did well on stage rules, moving the sets and changing the scenes. Stanimir, in the role of uncle, encountered some concerns about the expression of emotions and feelings towards his wife in the play and his niece. He had learned his lines very well, but he did not strictly follow the rules of stage play. Velislava and Godiera did very well with their roles and remarks. They followed the rules of stage work and played the emotions of their characters well. After the rehearsal is over, we had a discussion with the participants in the story, achievements and unfulfilled goals. Rest The rehearsal of the next play has begun- "Snow White". The participants in it are: Vanessa, in the role of a mother of many children; Ralitsa- spoiled daughter at puberty; Galya- the smart and ambitious child; Christina- the good daughter; Nevelin- the future crazy husband; Stilian- the future husband major; Svetoslav- the future rich husband; Day- the evil social worker; Eva- the bank employee. Vanessa did very well in this role, because the character of the heroine was very close to hers. Ralitsa, Galya and Christina also did very well with their roles, strictly followed the rules of stage work, had learned their lines very well but had difficulty expressing the feelings and emotions of their characters. Nevelin was also very good at the role, he had trouble speaking loud and clear. Denitsa and Eva also did well, Denitsa in her role as a social worker, he fully entered into his role and played his character emotionally. Eva did well too. After the rehearsal, we discussed the progress and what exactly needs to be improved for the next rehearsal. The result of this fruitful day was, that the participants in both plays showed a high sense of responsibility for their roles and their team. They didn't feel awkward about it, that not only achievements are highlighted, but also the shortcomings of their game. They tried to be good at their performance on stage and listen to the advice of the audience, to your team and to us leaders. They were self-critical. That day ended with a barometer 6. Barometer- the participants showed a high mood from what was achieved during today's activities. 15.08.2013r. 1. Barometer - the mood was high and the participants were looking forward to starting the rehearsal of their stories. 2. Warm-up- we did some exercise to lift the tone. 3. Rehearsal of the plays We started first with a rehearsal of the play "Snow White". We set the sets, the participants orientated themselves much faster in the setting of the stage, they knew the scenes after which, when to enter and leave the stage. Except they knew their lines by heart, they had also begun to play their roles with the feelings of their characters, much better than the previous lesson. The audience from the other participants and we the leaders, we were delighted with their achievements. After the play we had a discussion, praising the great achievements of the participants. Holiday 4. Rehearsal of "Cinderella" The participants set their sets, they arranged the stage and began the play. They also did much better than the previous lesson. These participants ,who had to improve their game, they had tried and shown high results- they managed to capture and play the feelings of their characters in each scene. After the play, we discussed the achievements of the participants in the story. We highlighted the achievements, the positive change in their play on stage and of course what they need to change and improve for the next rehearsal. 5.Our class for the day ended again with a barometer,which showed that the participants were satisfied with what had been achieved.
21.08.2013r. 1. Barometer. Each of our activities starts with a barometer so that it can guide us what is the level of activity in the group and how to continue our work plan.. The barometer showed a low level of activity, therefore, we continued with moving exercises. 2. Exercise. Exercise for 15 min. They helped the group concentrate and move. 3.Touch three objects in the room. This game is again for warm-up but also for speed. The facilitator says to touch three objects in the room, which are located in different places , for time — until he counts to three. This game raised the mood in the group. 4. Locksmith. Speed game, resourcefulness, teamwork. One is a locksmith, standing with his back to the whole group. He has the right to say stop- and with this instruction everyone should freeze, he turns and if one of the participants moves he returns to the starting position. Participants must take the key and take it to the starting position without the locksmith seeing them. If that happens, they return the key. With this game, the group was ready for work. 5.Rehearsal of the fairy tale "Cinderella" The participants in this fairy tale played their roles with their feelings and emotions, followed the rules of stage play, they performed very well. 6. Rehearsal of "Snow White" And in this play the participants performed at a very good level. After both plays were presented, we had a discussion, as an open-air play was to take place in front of an audience in the village of Lozenets (Green School). We talked and discussed what concerns participants may have from presenting to a large audience. We discussed their future performance and what problems and concerns would arise. 7. Packing of the sets for their transportation to the village of Lozenets.
26.08.2013Green school Our work started at 16.00 after we arrived in the village of Lozenets. 1. Presentation of fairy tales. We set the sets on the open stage and prepared for the presentation of the stories to the audience. The first presentation was on the modern interpretation of the fairy tale "Cinderella"., and then the next fairy tale "Snow White". The participants had some concerns at first, but then they relaxed and played their roles as in the last rehearsals. They did very well and the audience was pleased with their performance. The trainers Violina Vasileva and Ekaterina Kazakova shared the leaders in front of the children and in front of us, that we have all done a great job. They were extremely impressed by the high level of stage play by the participants, the learned lines and the script of the tales. They shared that the fairy tales will be the basis for the creation of the student theater forum.
27-30.08.2013r. Green School 1. Creating scripts for the student forum theater from the fairy tale "Cinderella", as it concerns problems related to the life experience of school-age children and their relationships between them. The skeleton of the script was drawn up, scenes were added to it and new characters and roles were created. 2. Acting tasks and group sketches. Roles were given to all participants. They then had to play separate group scenes from the script.,using their own words and their own emotions. This created a real script for the play, in which the remarks came from the participants themselves, with their characters and relationships. The participants performed new group sketches and scenes from the play. During their performance, the participants had to understand, what is a group game, background on the stage and at the same time the audience to hear every line and see every role played with its emotions and feelings. As before, participants now had to follow the rules of stage play, when and how to enter the stage, to grab the audience's attention, to speak clearly and loudly, to be able to express feelings and emotions, to monitor the change of scenes and sets, to memorize their lines. 3.Rehearsals of the new play for the open-air forum theater. The participants performed the new play. Prepared by: Tsvetelina Hristova Mladenka Petrova
The activity of the student continues Forum theatre during the school year. The first performance in front of an audience is being prepared. Classes during the week are on Wednesdays and Thursdays for two hours under the guidance of teachers - Tsvetelina Hristova and Mladenka Petrova . In m. October(18,19 and 20.10) them. November (8,9 and 10.11) there were three-day rehearsals with the participation of teachers - Tsvetelina Hristova and Mladenka Petrova artists Ekaterina Kazakova and Violina Vasileva – Александрова.
Our friends from Flower Theater they had a jubilee - twenty years since its creation. We wish the whole team a lot of health and creative success!
"Student Forum Theater" in m. December 2013
They are conducted 12 hours with the participants in the activity. Svetlin Spasov Nikolov from 11 class. Krassimir Tikhomirov Trifonov is leaving - a participant, due to transfer to another school. Rehearsals were made with the participants in activity №6 of the play "Contemporary Interpretation of Cinderella" according to the prepared script. The participants did very well,they played the scenes much more confidently and were preparing for the premiere of the play in front of a wide audience. For m. January there are no changes in the target and non-target group. They were conducted in total 28 hours with the participants in the activity. Rehearsals were held on "Modern interpretation of the cinderella" 12 o'clock-08.01-22.01.2014 d. The students worked on creating comic sketches, using real events from their lives as a source of ideas. The trainers-teachers used the acting techniques and methods learned so far. They connected the individual comic sketches in a comic performance. A script was prepared by the participants in the activity. The children were enthusiastic about their newly created show. They worked vigorously and diligently on their new project.
For the month of February there are no changes in the target and non-target group of students in the activity . They are conducted 24 school hours with the participants in the Student Forum Theater. Rehearsals were made with the participants in activity №6 students took an active part in the show "Bulgarian destiny" according to the prepared scenario. worked hard and energetically on their new project. The participants did very well,they played the scenes much more confidently and were preparing for the premiere of the play in front of a wide audience. They are conducted 16 hours with the participants in the activity. There are no left and new participants in the activity for this period. Rehearsals were made with the participants in activity №6 of the play "Contemporary Interpretation of Cinderella" according to the prepared script, as well as rehearsals of the play "Bulgarian Fate". The participants did very well,they played the scenes much more confidently and were preparing for the premiere of the plays in front of an audience. They are conducted 24 hours with the participants in the activity. There are no left and new participants in the activity for this period. There are no absent participants during the classes. Rehearsals were made with the participants in activity №6 of the play "Contemporary Interpretation of Cinderella" and "Bulgarian Fate" according to the prepared script. The participants did very well and are fully prepared for the premiere of the plays. On 7 and 8 April was the final part of the project "Learning together, we create together, we travel together in the Homeland ”. The participants in the activity 6 - "Student Forum Theater" presented their performances to an audience. On 7 April were invited the mayor of the village. Hayredin, parents of students, their teachers and classmates as well as the whole public at the forum-theatrical performance "Bulgarian Fate". It was created entirely on the idea of the students from Vasil Vodenicharski High School , who wanted to show the problems, which they have in their daily commute to school. They presented the image of a driver, which crashes on broken roads in the region. The nurse also played, who is not at all interested in their pain, and only complains, that she was disturbed by them. They represented the Roma community, which only requires a tolerant attitude, but does not offer one. Through the performance, the young people made a mirror of society, which surrounds them with an appeal to them to shake off the complex of complaining and inactive people, which are justified only by the Bulgarian fate. The performance was extremely enthusiastic for the parents and they took an active part in the forum as they said, that it is high time to join forces and make some changes, rather than being silent and afraid of losing their jobs. When asked by the presenter what can be done, they replied, that these people in the scene are not doing their job well because they are not well paid, but with this unemployment in the region, there will certainly be staff, who will work responsibly for that money as well. You just have to fire some and hire quality people. These people expressed their opinion perhaps for the first time so openly to the mayor of the village. And perhaps for the first time he could hear them speak so frankly. They spoke especially passionately about healthcare, because only about a month ago tuberculosis had flared up in the village and this topic was very painful for them. After the show, when the school principal addressed the mayor with the question how the transport will be organized for the children and their parents for the next final day of the project, he told her to turn to the driver, a child from the play, he walked angrily to the exit, threatening to fire the teacher, who worked with the children and studied in a forum theater, so that he can continue working with them after the project. All this happened in front of dumb parents, teachers and children. So after the show there were two offended: the mayor of the village and one of the five drivers, who, without knowing how, without even watching the performance, recognized himself in the play. The purpose of the forum theater is to give publicity to the problems and initiative of the people to offer options for their solution.. This is what Augusto Boal did (the creator of the forum theater) and it is no coincidence that he was not loved by the authorities, on the contrary, he was persecuted by her. In that sense, this show did a good job. I hope the proverb no longer reigns in the village: The dogs bark their caravan. On 8 April, when we had to use the community center for the final concert - we could not enter, because the electricity was not repaired ( assuring us, that the municipality has called in technicians and has done its job). When they found out, that we are determined to play the second forum performance "Modern version of Cinderella" in front of the school, the current is fine. TV came, but the mayor no longer came, as well as the parents of the children from the neighboring villages were not evacuated. But the show was a success for the curious audience, who had already heard of the children's previous performance. The village of Hayredin had gathered to applaud the current brave actors and future rulers. Because we want it or not, the world will be changed by our children.
The Bulgarian destinyPartner in the project "Educational integration of children and students from ethnic minorities"
of V. Vodenicharski High School - village. Hayredin, reg. Vratsa Project of the Ministry of Education After the scene, the mayor threatened to fire a teacher, and the driver is still scared, that after he fired the headmistress, will fire four more teachers… The scene entitled "BULGARIAN PARTICIPATION" was presented at the meeting of teachers-parents in connection with the final activities of the project. The same project, by […] -
Speakers.Pro project of the Smart Foundation
2013preparation for successful professional realization. Partners – Facilitators of practical activities for acquiring knowledge and skills on how to be realized on the labor market
With the support of a program "Youth".
Speakers.Pro project of the Smart Foundation
preparation for successful professional realization. Partners - Facilitators of the practical activities for acquiring knowledge and skills on how to be realized on the labor market With the support of the Youth Program. -
An interactive puppet-dramatic performance
2013Creating an interactive puppet-dramatic show for education of non-violence and tolerance
With the support of the Sofia Program "Culture"
Violence at school is already so common, that children get used to it, they begin not to notice it. Victims alone cannot get used to it; usually these, which attract attention with their diversity..
School education is long outdated - didactic and does not engage children's emotions and creativity. Incomparably more boring than electronic games and action, full of violence. The search for and application of effective methods for reducing aggression among adolescents does not seem to concern anyone - not even the parents of the students., nor to modern teachers.
And as a result of this carelessness, society is shocked by the acts of cruelty, starting at an earlier age, instead of making an effort to find effective methods for educating humanity and tolerance in children.
At the first session of the Sofia Program "Culture" for 2013 year. to support the creation of cultural events, supporting the candidacy of Sofia and the South-West region for European Capital of Culture - 2019, received co-financing for the project “Creating an interactive puppet-dramatic show for education of non-violence and tolerance” on Flower Theater.
Thanks to the help received, as well as the volunteer work of the Flower Theater team and friends, the puppet show was created The Flying Knight. It presents the story of one 8 a one-year-old boy with an unusually wild imagination. The boy does not require the attention of parents and teachers, because it does not cause them problems. He remains unaccepted by his classmates because of his different behavior. Everyday events in school life have other dimensions for him. At the end of the performance, the spectators have the opportunity to join it and seek a solution to the presented problems. This is the so-called. forum theater.
Forum-theater gives viewers an incredible chance to try out in a safe environment different patterns of behavior in possible problematic life situations. The presenter invites the viewers to try to cause a positive change in the situation of the victim by entering his role at a time chosen by them and change his behavior in a more appropriate way., they think, way. This interactive theatrical form turns out to be not only highly rational, but also the emotional impact on the participating spectators. It was created by the Brazilian director Augusto Boal and is used worldwide as an effective tool for civic education. Forum theater is an innovative form of modern non-formal education for our country through applied theater. We believe, that our show worthily supports the candidacy of Sofia and the Southwest region for European Capital of Culture 2019.
What is happening on the stage is familiar to the audience. Such ridicule… But did our viewers wonder if everyone laughed? We exacerbate the sensitivity of children from primary school to violence, we teach them to recognize it in its various forms and to defend each other.
And when they can't - don't be ashamed to seek help.
But do they gain security for adult support?
If your children are not inclined to share, they are silent and tolerate violence, the abuser believes, that he is invincible and repeats, and triples… Infects others after itself. And if the violence is answered with violence, this creates a wave of aggression. A vicious circle ensues, from which it is very difficult to get out.
With this show we want to provoke children, parents and teachers to understand the personal responsibility of each one to this huge problem - school violence. Depending on the prevailing audience, it provides forum material from each of these groups.
Screenplay and direction: Tsvete Yaneva Scenography and dolls: Christina Nedeva - The Shrub Music: Vlada Yaneva Participate: Violina Vasileva-Alexandrova,Dana Andonova, Ekaterina Kazakova, Yanko Velkov - Lamb and 7-year-old Ivan Mutafchiiski
The show was realized with co-financing from
Metropolitan program "Culture" in support of the candidacy of
Sofia and the South-West Region European Capital of Culture - 2019 r.
An interactive puppet-dramatic performance
Creating an interactive puppet-drama show for the education of non-violence and tolerance With the support of the Sofia Culture Program School violence is now so common, that children get used to it, they begin not to notice it. Victims alone cannot get used to it; usually these, which attract attention with their diversity.. Schooling is long out of date - […] -
Renewal 3-day training in forum theater
2012for a renewed composition of the youth theater-discussion club "Eight +" city. Targovishte
Local funding
Renewal 3-day training in forum theater
for a renewed composition of the youth theater-discussion club "Eight +". Targovishte Local financing -
"Social inclusion of Roma in Bulgaria" - 2
2012-2013With the support of Foundations "Open Society", program "Art and culture"
When?
December, 2012 - August, 2013
Where?
the village of Dolni Tsibar, obl.Vraca
What?
Project #OR2012-0888 is a natural continuation of our work in from. Lower Ciber through 2011-2012 year
The project theatrical activity goes together with the project one 'Good luck' of MONM, so that the two mutually expand and enrich.
Main goal:
Lower Ciber to become a regional theater center again, as it was until 1992 r.
Tasks:
- Build a team of teachers, capable of producing quality student theater performances
Local teachers wanted to join: Valentina Assenova, Mirolyub Dimitrov, Dimitrina Dimitrova, Edi Dimitrov, Elena Boyanova and Iskra Lazarova. - Establishment of a local amateur theater troupe with its own name, rituals, repertoire, promotional materials
- Distribution and popularization of her theatrical production
basic activities:
- Three-day training of teachers for teamwork. Specification of the next project activities;
- 3 daily training in basic theatrical skills for students and teachers.
- Development of a program for interactive theater in order to conduct non-formal civic education:
- A fairy tale, dramatized for an interactive show - for the little ones.
- Forum theatre (FT) in actual cases for larger
- Production of advertising materials - printed and online
- Restorative rehearsals of "The scariest magic"
- Distribution of products outside the village
"Social inclusion of Roma in Bulgaria" - 2
With the support of Open Society Foundations, program "Art and Culture" When? December, 2012 - August, 2013 Where? the village of Dolni Tsibar, Vratsa region What? Project # OR2012-0888 is a natural continuation of our work in the village. Lower Ciber through 2011-2012 The project theatrical activity goes together with the one under the project "Success" of the Ministry of Education and Science, so the two mutually […] - Build a team of teachers, capable of producing quality student theater performances
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"Social inclusion of Roma in Bulgaria" - 1
2011-2012With the support of Foundations "Open Society", program "Art and culture"
When?
01.09.2011 – 31.08.2012
Where?
village Lower Ciber, obl.Vraca
What?
We had defined the goal of the project as “Realization of a program of theatrical activities, representing the Roma culture and the ability of the people of Roma origin of the whole society”.
We planned to collect our favorite stories, which the grandmothers in the village tell their grandchildren and introduce them. But the adults preferred not to talk about ethnic differences. They say; that they have long been integrated.
However, after completing their secondary or higher education, these studious Roma return to the unemployed Tsiber village 99% Roma population. Why?
A few days after the first meetings of the project happened “Katunitsa”. Strong anti-Roma protests began in Bulgaria. Nationalist parties used the occasion to incite ethnic hatred among thousands of adolescents
We were lucky to find the tale Kalo Mitras from Miroslav Klima, written on old gypsy tales. It tells of a king, who hates the Roma, and this hatred makes him lonely and unhappy forever. We could not find anything more appropriate!
In a show with fairy tale characters, songs and dances from the Roma ethnic group the young actors proudly announced: on stage "We are Roma". The message, which they convincingly sent to society crossed ethnic boundaries - "We all love in the same way!“
With a strong affinity for theater, residents of Lower Ciber were attracted by the hard work of creating the show with princesses, heroes, music, dancing and magic. Actors from different generations entered the show. At the premiere, the audience filled the hall of the community center and applauded the creators of the show. The mayor allowed the use of a municipal bus to tour the show and expressed the pride of the whole community for the wonderful work"Social inclusion of Roma in Bulgaria" - 1
With the support of Open Society Foundations, program "Art and Culture" When? 01.09.2011 – 31.08.2012 Where? the village of Dolni Tsibar, Vratsa region What? We had defined the goal of the project as “Realization of a program of theatrical activities, representing the Roma culture and the ability of the people of Roma origin of the whole society”. We planned to collect our favorite stories, which the grandmothers in the village tell […] -
Documentary Theater Studio”
2011-2013Establishment of student theater groups for conducting non-formal civic education of peers by peers.
The project was implemented with the help of the Foundation Civic Initiatives Workshop in program "Rainbow", with the financial support of the Foundation OUK and the Foundation VeluxWhen? 01.04.2011 – 01.10.2013
Where? In four schools in the Poduyane region, Sofia
What?
With the active cooperation of the district administration Swelling the actors work in 4 schools and helped the theater groups created within the project to create and present to over 2000 their classmates 7 interactive theatrical performances.
On 30 May, 2013 in the community center "Revival" a finalizing conference was held Theater Against Violence, at which the three performances of this year by the students from 42 Hadji Dimitar Primary School, 44 Neofit Bozveli High School and 95 SOU «Prof.. Ivan Shishmanov ». The performances are based on disturbing real cases shared by the participants. After playing them, the leading actor of the discussion invites the viewers to intervene in the presented cases., going on stage at a time of their choice and looking for a way to improve the outcome of the story by changing the victim's behavior - etc.. forum theater. The method is innovative for our country and is an effective way to conduct non-formal peer education by peers.
Documentary Theater Studio”
Establishment of student theater groups for conducting non-formal civic education of peers by peers. The project was implemented with the help of the Workshop for Civic Initiatives Foundation under the Rainbow Program., with the financial support of the OUK Foundation and the Velux Koga Foundation? 01.04.2011 – 01.10.2013 Where? In four schools in the Poduyane region, Sofia What? With the active […] -
"There, where there is violence "
2011-2013Assimilation of new drama techniques; Preparation and dissemination of a theatrical program for prevention of violence among adolescents
With the support of EC - program Daphne III
The international project is funded
from the program Daphne III of the European Union
Leading organization: Coffee Drama / Theatre in Education Company - Hungary
Partner: Sigma Art - Romania
When?
01.05.2011 – 30.04.2013
Where?
In the whole country
What?
The main task in it is the acquisition of new skills for the application of theater in education and their application in the prevention of violence among young people..
"Comment this!“ is presented 57 times in Sofia and in the country before approx. 1800 students of age 12 – 16.
The case begins as a love story between Ivan and Stella, which disregarding Facebook's privacy changed to violence. It is based on a real case. Teenagers are involved in the process of creating the story and building the characters through various techniques. The duration of the program is 90 minutes.
The young people are really excited and engaged in the case, which they complete themselves. They shared, that their participation in this program has changed their responsibility as Internet users and that of the person next to us
On 30 May, 2013 in the community center "Revival" a finalizing conference was held Theater Against Violence, on which the results of the project were presented. Video material from their application, as well as instructions for their use, are provided to interested teachers upon request from theatre_tsvete@abv.bg.
"There, where there is violence "
Assimilation of new drama techniques; Preparation and dissemination of a theatrical program for prevention of violence among adolescents With the support of the EC - Daphne III program The international project is implemented thanks to funding from the Daphne III program of the European Union Leading organization: Coffee Drama / Theater in Education Company - Hungary Partner: Sigma Art - Romania […] -
"With an open heart"
2009-2011International study of the possibilities for application of different types of arts as a means of socialization of various marginalized groups.
With the support of Lifelong learning program - Grundtvig
Where?
Portugal, Poland, Italy, Lithuania, Bulgaria
When?
1 September, 2009 – 1 September, 2011
What?
International study of the possibilities for application of different types of arts as a means of socialization of various marginalized groups.
As a result of this partnership, the project website was created http://open-h-art.eu/ as a virtual hub for these, for whom the application of art in the social and educational sphere is of interest. It is open to all, who want to contribute to its enrichment."With an open heart"
International study of the possibilities for application of different types of arts as a means of socialization of various marginalized groups. With the support of the Lifelong Learning Program - Grundtvig Kude? Portugal, Poland, Italy, Lithuania, Bulgaria When? 1 September, 2009 – 1 September, 2011 What? International study of the possibilities for application of different types of arts such as […] -
Art-Social Children's Center
2009-2010Socializing art activities of 3 groups of children with various special needs (auditory, visual and intellectual) and other peers.
With the support of NGO Support Fund - Bulgaria
Work with children with special educational needs
Where?
SOUDNZ "Louis Brail", 28 SHOW "Aleko Konstantinov, 4to PU "Prof. D. Katsarov" Sofia
When?
1 April, 2009 – 30 June, 2010
What?
5-daily training for preparation of student volunteers, thanks to which we had the real help of 15 enthusiastic young girls with different future professions - speech therapists, kinesitherapists, special educators.
Socializing art activities of 3 groups of children with various special needs (auditory, visual and intellectual) and other peers.
Work on building an art-socializing methodology
The work on the project was monitored and analyzed by university professors and described in a collection "Our experience".
Art-Social Children's Center
Socializing art activities of 3 groups of children with different special needs (auditory, visual and intellectual) and other peers. With the support of a fund for support of NGOs - Bulgaria Work with children with special educational needs Where? SOUDNZ "Louis Brail", 28 SOU "Aleko Konstantinov, 4then PU "Prof. D. Katsarov" Sofia Koga? 1 April, 2009 – 30 June, 2010 What? […] -
Art with Difference
2009-2010International project of theater companies, working with people with disabilities
With the support of the EU - program “Culture 2007- 2013”
Work with children with special educational needs
Where?
Italy, Hungary, Great Britain (Scotland), Germany, Bulgaria
When?
1 October, 2008 – 30 June, 2010
What?
- Theatrical activities to create a show with people with special needs.
- National and international tours. Theater festival in Italy.
- Meetings for international exchange of experience in Italy and Bulgaria.
On 7 and 8 June, 2010 r. children with hearing impairments from 28 SHOW presented in Italy to a large audience theatrical performance "Mowgli". The young actors were highly applauded and rightly felt like stars.
On 30 May, 2010 r. instead of the children from 4the Auxiliary School "Prof.. Dimitar Katsarov », the performance "The three Little Pigs" had to be taken out by their deputies from the regular schools. Their team expresses its sincere gratitude for the great diligence and excellent performance. But this does not diminish our great regret of the fact, that those for whom this award was intended - the actors from the 4th auxiliary school , I didn't get it, entirely through the fault of the school management. But at least they felt how much they were liked and loved 19 May, when the wonderful original performance was presented on the stage of the community center "Miladinovi brothers".
On 27 April, successfully passed the premiere of "Ali Baba" of children with visual impairments at school Louis Braille - Sofia.
Art with Difference
International project of theater companies, working with people with disabilities With the support of the EU - program “Culture 2007- 2013” Working with children with special educational needs Where? Italy, Hungary, Great Britain (Scotland), Germany, Bulgaria When? 1 October, 2008 – 30 June, 2010 What? Theatrical activities to create a show with people with special needs. National and […] -
Youth Agora
2009Forum theatrical performances and printed and video materials for trafficking prevention, drugs and domestic violence; With the support of Sofia Culture Program
The project is realized thanks to co-financing from Sofia Culture Program
When?
January February, 2009
Where?
Sofia, community center "Slavic talk"
What?
Theatre Tsvete presents forum-theatrical performances, aimed at preventing trafficking, drugs and domestic violence as a form of non-formal civic education.
Compilation and distribution of accompanying informational printed and video materials.
Young
family, where it all starts beautifully and with love, falls into a crisis situation, when a man loses his well-paid job. Helplessness in the face of financial impasse triggers jealousy, after aggression. Does the woman have to work, when she is expected to be a housewife as well? Is it possible to reach out to someone, for whom you claim, that he is your favorite person?
Is there a justification for domestic violence?? As far as a compromise is possible?
Forum theater does not give an unambiguous answer to these questions, but is open to all, who want to try on stage how to deal with this situation.
Peter
is of 18. He studies and struggles with life in the big city on his own. He falls in love for the first time and is ready for anything for his girl. Unfortunately, Lina is addicted to drugs. To help her, when in crisis, Peter commits a crime. Can love justify this?? Do you have a choice if you like?
Maybe you are familiar with this situation or you just have something to say?
Forum theater offers real problem situations on stage, in which there is no single answer. Come on, see if you want - try.
Sofia is of 15 years and like every girl dreams… In her quest to be independent and achieve her dreams on her own she makes a mistake, falls into trafficking and is forced into prostitution abroad.
And if you were in her place? Are you sure?, that you would say "not" at the decisive moment?
Forum theater gives you the opportunity to test yourself in a completely realistic situation.
Youth Agora
Forum theatrical performances and printed and video materials for trafficking prevention, drugs and domestic violence; With the support of the Sofia Culture Program, the project was implemented thanks to co-financing from the Culture Culture Program.? January February, 2009 Where? Sofia, Chitalishte "Slavyanska Beseda" What? Flower Theater presents forum-theatrical performances, aimed at prevention of […] -
"Open your eyes!“-2008
2008-2009Building youth units, conducting trafficking prevention through attractive theatrical methods in Blagoevgrad, Kyustendil and Dupnitsa
With the support of Balkan Trust for Democracy
Where?
In the cities of Blagoevgrad, Dupnitsa and Kyustendil
When?
1 October, 2008 – 30 June, 2009
What?
Young participants and their leaders are provided with thematic videos and trained to discuss appropriate patterns of behavior in the various phases of trafficking - stocking., transportation and sexual exploitation. With these materials they attend local schools, causing awareness of the seriousness of the problem by their peers.
Police officials provide information on the assistance, which state institutions provide.
V 4-daily training in forum theater young people are trained to stage various cases of trafficking in women. In the discussions, who follow the performances the spectators are provoked to realize the exceptional importance of the personal decision for the development of the critical situation.
The participants present the created theatrical performances to their classmates, parents, teachers and representatives of local authorities.
"Open your eyes!“-2008
Building youth units, conducting prevention of trafficking through attractive theatrical methods in Blagoevgrad, Kyustendil and Dupnitsa With the support of the Balkan Trust for Democracy Where? In the cities of Blagoevgrad, Dupnitsa and Kyustendil When? 1 October, 2008 – 30 June, 2009 What? Young participants and their leaders are provided with thematic videos and trained to lead a discussion […] -
5 daily training of students for the application of art techniques when working with children with SEN
2008conducted within a project Art Social Center
With the support of NGO Support Fund-Bulgaria
time 1 day 2 day 3 day 4 day 5 day 7.30- 09.30
breakfast breakfast breakfast breakfast 09.30- 11.00
1and session Energiz.igri
1and session Theatrical games
1and session Working with fairy tales
1and session Sculptors
10.00- 11.30
Flower arrives
free time free time free time free time 11.30- 13.00
2session Dating games 2ra session Theatrical games
2ra session Games for younger children
and children with intellectual disabilities
2ra session Generalization.
Discussion
13.30- 14.30
Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch 14.30- 16.00
ACCOMMODATION OF VOLUNTEERS
free. time free. time free. time DEPARTURE 16.00- 17.30
1and session Detection. Dating games.
Agreement
3and session Teamwork games
3and session Puppet studio
3and session Clowns
17.30- 18.00
free time free time free time 18.00- 19.30
4and session Teamwork games
4and session Puppet studio
4and session Clowns
20.00- 21.00
dinner dinner dinner dinner 21.00- Role games Role games Associations 5 daily training of students for the application of art techniques when working with children with SEN
held within the project "Art Social Center" With the support of the Fund for Support of NGOs-Bulgaria hour 1 day 2 day 3 day 4 day 5 day 7.30- 09.30 breakfast breakfast breakfast breakfast 09.30- 11.00 1session Energy games 1st session Theater games 1st session Working with fairy tales 1st session Sculptors 10.00- 11.30 Mr. "Flower" arrives in his spare time […] -
Youth Network of Citizens of Europe Theater and Discussion Clubs - 2
2008-2009Expanding and strengthening the network. Training of young coaches in forum theater
With the support of Trust for civil society in CEE
Where?
In the cities of Zlatograd, Gotse Delchev, Blagoevgrad, Veliko Tarnovo, Gorna Oryahovitsa, Targovishte, Sofia
When?
1 April, 2008 – 30 June, 2009
What?
The aim of the second phase of the project is to expand the established network and create potential for sustainability. On the one hand, the number of clubs has increased, on the other hand, the knowledge and skills of some of the first participants in the forum were deepened, so that in the future they themselves will be trainers in forum theater, able to prepare new entrants for clubs.
Activities:
Training on 42 young people for trainers of their peers in forum theater
Building new youth theater and discussion clubs in each of the cities with the direct assistance of trained volunteers
Creating and presenting theatrical performances on the most exciting local youth issues, motivating her to actively participate in resolving them
19they are a theater-discussion club have more than 150 representation in front of more than 8 000 young people in their native places and throughout the country. They make websites. Print information materials. They win a lot of fans. Their work is promoted by the local media. They receive proposals for inclusion in the projects of other non-governmental organizations.
On 26, 27, 28 June, 2009 g., all youth clubs gathered in Sofia for the second edition of Agora - festival for youth social theater. 250 boys and girls joined the final stage of the project. On the stage of "Slavic talk" in the center of Sofia of young actors, aged from 13 to 25, carried out 19 forum theatrical performances, created on the basis of real, experienced stories. They encouraged the audience to be a participant in the show and to join in with ideas for solving the problems on stage.. And the problems are many: lack of communication with parents, domestic violence, aggression at school, social indifference, ecology, corruption… Openness in the way, by which young people share and discuss their problems captivates the audience. Come and see, and if you decide - play it! Theater Forum gives the audience a unique chance to try different patterns of behavior in a safe environment. Young people learn to be socially active and to assert their beliefs in realistic situations.
From the media:
Fury and adrenaline between the slaps
Published by: Emil Minev on 6/24/09 • Categories: News and Events
Young people resolve conflicts like in a game
From the 26th to the 28th of June over 150 young people from all over Bulgaria will gather in Sofia, to take part in the second national festival of the social theater "AGORA". The festival will be a real art marathon, since within 3 days on the stage of the community center “Slavic Conversation” as many as nineteen forum theatrical performances will be shown in the capital. The youth, aged from 13 to 25 years, will look with the help of the audience for alternative ways to solve their daily problems. Domestic violence, aggression at school, ecology and human relationships are some of the most common topics, developed into performances based on real events, experienced by the participants in the theatrical discussion groups. Rage, "Adrenaline" and "Between the slaps" are the titles of three of the nineteen performances, which will represent the young Bulgarians from Sofia, Blagoevgrad, Gotse Delchev, Gorna Oryahovitsa, Veliko Tarnovo, Targovishte and Zlatograd.
The festival “AGORA” is the final activity of the second phase of the project "Citizens of Europe",
realized by Flower Theater and funded by The Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe. Under this project the team of Flower Theater train over 40 youth leaders, to promote the techniques of forum theater and to create new theater-discussion clubs in their cities. Because of the noble and positive influence, which this type of social theater has on the audience and its participants, project manager Tsvete Yaneva was awarded a prize for Inspirational leader of the ceremony for awarding the first in Bulgaria awards for personal development "Essence", which took place on June 14 in Modern Theater in Sofia.The second festival of the youth social theater “AGORA” will open on June 26 with a press conference and a round table beginning 14:00 in the hall of the community center "Slavic Conversation" on the street. G.S. Rakovski 127.
Youth Network of Citizens of Europe Theater and Discussion Clubs - 2
Expanding and strengthening the network. Training of young coaches in forum theater With the support of the Trust for Civil Society in CEE Where? In the cities of Zlatograd, Gotse Delchev, Blagoevgrad, Veliko Tarnovo, Gorna Oryahovitsa, Targovishte, Sofia When? 1 April, 2008 – 30 June, 2009 What? The aim of the second phase of the project is to expand the established network and create […] -
"Open your eyes!” 2007
2007Building youth units, conducting prevention of trafficking through attractive theatrical methods in a risky border area - Madan, Rudozem, Smolyan, Zlatograd
with the support of The World Bank
"Open your eyes!” 2007
Building youth units, carrying out prevention of trafficking through attractive theatrical methods in a risky border area - Madan, Rudozem, Smolyan, Zlatograd with the support of the World Bank -
Theater for teenagers with special needs
2007Preparation and presentation of joint theatrical production of children and youth with intellectual disabilities and primary school students in Bansko
With the support of Association "Choice", Bansko
Where?
Day house- for children and young people with intellectual disabilities - city. Bansko
When?
September - December, 2007
March- June, 2003What?
2007 - Preparation and performance of a theatrical performance "Red Riding Hood", together with students from the initial course of the local high school on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Center.
2003 - Preparation and performance of a theatrical performance "The three Little Pigs", together with students from the initial course of the local high school at the city holiday concert on the occasion Children's Day
Theater for teenagers with special needs
Preparation and presentation of joint theatrical production of children and youth with intellectual disabilities and primary school students in Bansko With the support of the association "Choice", Bansko Where? Day house- for children and youth with intellectual retardation - town of. Bansko When? September - December, 2007 March- June, 2003 What? 2007 - Preparation and export […] -
"Everyone in the square!“
2007Dissemination of the street mold notion of tolerance "We and it" in multiethnic regions of the country
"Everyone in the square!“
Dissemination of the street mold show for tolerance "We and it" in multiethnic regions of the country -
Participation in the WIN campaign & YOU HELP
2007Participation in the campaign YOU WIN & YOU HELP to increase access to information for people with disabilities.
Sponsors: Eurofootball and The state cash lottery
Participation in the WIN campaign & YOU HELP
Participation in the WIN campaign & YOU HELP to increase access to information for people with disabilities. Sponsors: Eurofootball and the State Monetary Lottery -
Street mold performance and youth discussion
2007December 1 - International Day for Prevention of Spin and STD Street mold performance and youth discussion in Tryavna Invitation from Municipality of Tryavna
Street mold performance and youth discussion
December 1 - International Day for Prevention of AIDS and STI Street mold performance and youth discussion in the town of Tryavna Invitation from the Municipality of Tryavna -
Street mold performance
2007December 1 - International AIDS and STI Prevention Day
Street mold performance and youth discussion in Tryavna
Invitation of the MunicipalityStreet mold performance
December 1 - International Day for Prevention of AIDS and STI Street mold performance and youth discussion in Tryavna Invitation of the Municipality -
National youth network of theater and discussion clubs “Citizens of Europe” 1
2006-2007Build a network from 7 youth club in Bulgaria for conducting non-formal civic education among their peers
With the support of Trust for civil society in CEE
Where?
In the cities of Zlatograd, Gotse Delchev, Blagoevgrad, Veliko Tarnovo, Gorna Oryahovitsa, Targovishte, Sofia
When?
September.2006 - October.2007
What?
Activities:
- Meetings with the local community in each of the seven cities to provide project support.
- One-week training in forum theater, journalist and project writer 150 young people and educators. Printing a manual for practical work of young volunteers
- Conducting a survey to determine the most exciting local youth social topic
- Building a forum theatrical performance on this topic
- Issuance of advertising and information materials to each club; appearances in the local media
- Overview of the youth clubs in Plovdiv with performances in front of the local audience - May, 2007
- Dissemination of youth forum theatrical performances.
- Youth Social Theater Festival “Now” - Sofia, sept. 2007
Specific measurable results:
- 150 young people and youth educators,trained in forum-theatrical skills
- Handbook of the young trainer
- Respondents on average 100 their peers from the city to define the most painful youth problems
- Advertising materials of youth clubs
- Media appearances
- 7 built youth forum theatrical performances
- 60 youth forum theatrical performances in front of more than 6000 the spectator-participants
Except in their cities, the young people performed in Petrich, Sandanski, Simitli, Kresna, Zlataritsa, Gabrovo, Smolyan, Indigenous people, Dryanovo and Batak, and in Plovdiv and Sofia all clubs showed their theatrical production.
Community assessment:
Our actors became stars, in front of which the spectators are waiting in line for an autograph! At the discretion of their teachers, professional theater performances have not had such a strong impact on their graduates as that of the youth forum theater performances. As a result of the implemented project, the young participants and their leaders, were invited to participate in the projects of other local NGOs. The media are responsive to these attractive youth performances. Parents and teachers appreciate the positive change, occurred in their children
Is it applicable?
“This type of training module is very interesting and different, at the same time accessible and naturally fascinating I felt great. Loaded, satisfied, real living, filled with positive emotions. Meetings and sections were the most emotional thing of my life; The game together brought the rainbow into the gray everyday life… Every day was infinitely colorful”
Possibility for multiplication
The project proves, that the idea works. We would like it to be realized on a national scale; one of the forms of extracurricular activities in every school; an integral part of the activity of any school or community center theater staff
On 27.06.2008 the project was awarded with first prize in
National Competition Major ’07
of the Oil Centernormal education as the most successful youth project of the year
We play with the Flower Theater
Maya KISOVA , CAPITAL, 22.12.2006
Whether it is a question of pedagogical adequacy or another confirmation of the theories of cyclicity, but adolescence always requires special attention. The desire for independence and not always the right choice of direction are the same for all generations, and we all know the provocations - sects, traffic, drugs, communication problems due to the powerful penetration of virtual reality…
Twelve years already the team of Flower Theater, directed by the director Tsvete Yaneva, is a real mediator in the social and educational sphere. Interactive art and drama techniques imply flexibility and efficiency in establishing and perceiving values. Why? First of all, direct didactics is avoided. Next - the scenario approach is millimeters from the real situation. And the main goal is to turn young people from passive viewers into active participants.
What does one of their performances look like?? One of the topics of their latest project "National Network of Youth Theater and Discussion Clubs" Citizens of Europe " is the prevention of human trafficking. Pantomime sketches present the situation, which pushes a 15-year-old girl to the wrong step. Poverty of parents, tense atmosphere, deceptive job posting, bad advisers in the face of pseudo-girlfriends, naivety and not long after - prostitution abroad, violence, destruction of personality. Immediately after the show the joker Polyxena Kostova vigorously engages the audience in a discussion, but commenting on the wrong steps does not exhaust the desire to participate. The bravest take the stage and "Correct" the situation, to change the line of action. How, for example, a father can express his difficult emotional state from this, that he has been unemployed for several months? Should his low self-esteem necessarily lead to a scandal?? Isn't it better for the painful silence in front of the worn-out clothes of the grown girl to flow out in a conversation of mutual understanding?? Aren't parents the best advisors in the choice, if the young person wishes to work outside school hours? The eighty minutes pass imperceptibly, and the atmosphere never repeats itself.
Similar performances Flower Theater organized in Blagoevgrad, Veliko Tarnovo, Gorna Oryahovitsa, Gotse Delchev, Smolyan, Sofia and Targovishte. They became an occasion for the formation of theater-discussion clubs from 15-20 youth and local supervisors. The project is under the patronage of Trust for Civil Society in Central & Eastern Europe. The theater encourages these clubs to contact each other and exchange experiences. Their goal is to study and formulate the informal local social situation. And this will probably be an occasion for a new script and a new show…
What could be better than that?Flower Theater invites you to the Festival of Youth Social Theater
On 20 September 2007, from 14.30 in Sredets House of Culture, Sofia is opening AGORA YOUTH SOCIAL THEATER FESTIVAL, final stage of the project National Youth Network of Citizens of Europe Theater and Discussion Clubs, initiated by the NGO "Flower Theater" and realized in seven cities of Bulgaria thanks to the kind support of the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe
We invite everyone, which are related to the education of young people in Bulgaria to participate in the work of the Round Table on the topic "Civic education", with which the event begins.
Immediately after it in the theater hall the forum theatrical performances of the participants begin. Created by young people on issues of concern to their peers, the performances were distributed in the respective cities in order to motivate the youth activity in resolving them and to draw the public's attention to them..
You can see:
On 20 September from 15.30
* "Invisible violence" - city. Blagoevgrad . For forced communication in the family and at school.
* «When you are 14» - city. Gotse Delchev For the soullessness.On 21 September from 10.30
* "Clear" - city. Targovishte About the connection between the garbage in the park and the purity of the soul
* "Voice" - city. Veliko Tarnovo On domestic violenceOn 21 September from 14.30
* «Entertainment - where?» - city. Gorna Oryahovitsa Problems for municipal authorities and youth
* "Traffic" - city. Zlatograd For human traffickingOn 22 September from 10.30
* "I want attention!» - city. Sofia About family problems
* "From the diary of life" - Theater Studio "Bell", Sofia For the price of the choiceThe project is an attempt to create a model for conducting informal civic training on the approach «Peers train peers». The opinion of students and educators is very important to us.
WE ARE EXPECTING YOU!
Admission is free
National youth network of theater and discussion clubs “Citizens of Europe” 1
Build a network from 7 Youth Club in Bulgaria for conducting non-formal civic education among their peers With the support of the Trust for Civil Society in CEE Where? In the cities of Zlatograd, Gotse Delchev, Blagoevgrad, Veliko Tarnovo, Gorna Oryahovitsa, Targovishte, Sofia When? September.2006 - October.2007 What? Activities: Meetings with the local community in each of the seven cities […] -
“A soap tale” distribution
2006Dissemination of the educational performance "Soap Tale" in children's homes, deprived of parental care. With the support of the Directorate „Theater, variety and circus experience " at Ministry of Culture
“A soap tale” distribution
Distribution of the educational performance "Soap Tale" in children's homes, deprived of parental care. With the support of the Theater Directorate, variety and circus experience ”at the Ministry of Culture -
"Soap fairy tale" in children's homes
2006Dissemination of the educational performance "Soap Tale" in children's homes, deprived of parental care.
With the support of the Directorate „Theater, variety and circus experience " at Ministry of Culture"Soap fairy tale" in children's homes
Distribution of the educational performance "Soap Tale" in children's homes, deprived of parental care. With the support of the Theater Directorate, variety and circus experience ”at the Ministry of Culture -
"The court with open doors"
2006-2007A series of forum theatrical performances, informing young people about changes in Bulgarian legislation and their practical application.
Part of the "Initiative to strengthen the judiciary" on United States Agency for International Development.This is how we titled the series of forum theatrical performances, with which we go around towns and villages. Because we believe,that it is very important for young people to know what the laws are, which operate in our society and how they are applied in practice. Raising their awareness of the work of the courts will create security for the protection of their interests.. And this is the most serious reason for building a positive motivation for their inclusion in the social and economic life of the country..
The performances are part of the United States Agency for International Development's Judicial Strengthening Initiative.
"Family puzzle" is the first show in the series, with which we present to the public the law on protection against domestic violence adopted only a year ago. We presented the premiere to magistrates from all over the country at the National Institute of Justice in Sofia. We presented it in courtrooms, community centers and schools in the capital, city. Gotse Delchev, from. German, Varna, General Toshevo, Haskovo and Stara Zagora in front of no less than 1200 audience.
We hope the story, which we present, to provoke reflection on the rights and responsibilities in family life to these, who are about to take them. The performance acquaints the young audience with the laws in force in our country, which protect the rights of each of the partners, sanctioning
possible violators. Young people will not only see, but they will participate in a court hearing themselves, in which disturbed family relations are settled after domestic violence. The spectators involved in the performance will share from the stage to what extent, they think, Sda's intervention gives a new chance to people with severe family problems.Director: Tsvete Yaneva
Performers: Poliksena Hardalova , Nikolai Dogramadzhiev, Violina Vasileva, Yordanka Andonova, Ekaterina Stoyanova
Joker: Yavor Kostov
Duration: around 80 min.
In September, 2006 The second performance "The Dose" started its tour, acquainting the public with the enacted by 01.01.2005 law, introducing probation as an alternative to imprisonment.Probation is a set of restrictive measures, which are applied without depriving the convicted person of liberty. Yes, although he was wrong and convicted, man does not sever ties with the world. In this way, it can be useful to society, for his family, for my self.
We present the story of one 17 one year old, who is subject to his emotions, misunderstanding. Frightened for the life of his abstinent drug addict, he commits theft. Can love justify the crime committed?? How will the young man's life continue from here? What awaits him in the courtroom? Is this the help, which the girl needs? These are the problems, which our forum-theatrical performance will raise among the young spectators.
The court from another angle
Convention on Human Rights
is the new bible of our societyConversation with Tsvete Yaneva, director and director
of theater and social studio "Flower Theater"– Why did you decide to do interactive theater??
– My friend worked with an orphanage, at the same time I ran a student theater studio. We decided to mix the two groups, for the purpose of integration. Later she left for the United States and the project remained entirely in my hands. Then I felt an endless love from these children. And that shouldn't sound pretentious, for there was indeed a flicker of air, when we stood facing each other on stage.
– Doesn't social orientation devalue theatrical art??
– This, what we do is different from pure theater. Our performances go on like this, as much as the audience wants. The whole time, in which the show goes there 15 or 20 minutes of pure theater. The rest of the time, things are more of a documentary, we also use different techniques, consistent with psychology, philosophy and other scientific techniques. We make a compilation between theater and science. Of course, we are not the creators of these techniques, but we are still proud, that already 12 we have been practicing them for years. The technique "Theater forum" is a wonderful way to revive young people's interest in society's problems.
– Your new project "The court with open" doors is aimed at high school and college students. Is it easier to work for people, who live in a normal environment?
– It turns out, that all young people in our country have many problems. Unfortunately, there are no structures now, to educate young people in civic consciousness. At one time, for example, there was a Komsomol, and before that - classes in religion. Group forms are now missing, through which young people can learn civic motivation. Today, no one deals with their preparation for entering society. They don't even understand what is good and what is bad, they do not know what the consequences of their actions may be. No one talks to children about moral priorities.
– How do you think, this gap in upbringing can be filled?
– My vision is, that it is time to find a foothold again. I hope, the new bible of our society to become the Convention on Human Rights. Young people need to know what rights and responsibilities they have. They must be able to protect themselves, when someone tried to take away their right, but also to respect the rights of others. They need to know which institutions can help them.Flower Theater trying to build a foundation for a new civic education, through non-traditional forms, through art. All our efforts are aimed at creating interest, especially among the "kalpazans". That's why we focused on topics, related to this, which happens in court. We want the younger generation to know the laws, which operate in our country and how they are applied in practice.
The show "Family puzzle" considers the consequences of domestic violence. The main target group of the theater studio for this project are high school and university students.
The audience follows the story of a family. There are no good and bad heroes, black and white characters. The beginning comes with a lot of love. The two young men are getting married. He works and supports the family, she takes care of the household. Their child is born. Everything is wonderful so far, in which the husband is dismissed. He is a graduate microbiologist, but he had to start as a general worker on a construction site. The environment is completely uncharacteristic of him. However, the money is still not enough and she also goes to work. The wife earns more than her husband, but is often late at night. He is jealous, he starts drinking a lot and scandals are inevitable. Then comes the first slap. Soon after, the beating.
The theatrical miniature is over and it's time for the interactive game. The actors talk to the audience and challenge them to choose the most appropriate outcome. They are prepared to play several finals. Often a person from the audience comes on stage, to play any of the roles, usually to the victim. The technique "Theater forum" allows viewers to act in an alleged problematic situation, but in a safe environment. Whatever they decide will not have fatal consequences in reality. This is a workout for life's problems. The aim is to reach the most positive solution to the problem situation, by applying different patterns of behavior.
The first question, which put the actors is where to seek help the beaten wife - in the police, with a lawyer, at the doctor, to go to his mother or go to court. The audience chooses what to play next. However, the purpose of the show is to draw the audience's attention to the possibility for the woman to apply to the court for protection of her rights.. Then the wife's meeting with a lawyer takes place, which lists the possible solutions to the problem - divorce or claim under the law on domestic violence. The wife has to decide with the help of the audience which one to choose. And because the fact lies in the prehistory, that the two spouses still love each other, divorce is dropped as the less acceptable option. However, the troupe is prepared to complete the show in both ways. The final is in the courtroom, where the judge rules on the case, whatever he is.
The benefit of all this is, that the viewers receive information about the current legislation in Bulgaria and about what is happening in the courtroom. The purpose of the performance is to divert its audience from the idea of self-destruction and to direct it to the protection of rights., according to the laws and through the judicial institution - court.
"Family puzzle" is the first performance in the series "The Court with Open Doors". After the topic of domestic violence Flower Theater will develop performances for football hooliganism, human trafficking, discrimination on a minority basis, addiction.At the premiere of the show, the audience decided to end the family story with a domestic violence law process.
The husband was sentenced not to live in his home 6 months and attend a course of treatment for alcohol dependence.The creators of Flower Theater work for the inclusion of young people in our country in
active civic promotion network
on Convention on Human Rights."The court with open doors"
A series of forum theatrical performances, informing young people about changes in Bulgarian legislation and their practical application. Part of the "Agency for Strengthening the Judicial System" of the United States Agency for International Development. This is how we titled the series of forum theatrical performances, with which we go around towns and villages. Because we believe,that it is very important for young people to know what they are […] -
"Artists for Peace in the Balkans - 2006"
2006New meeting of Balkan artists and directors at the International Theater Festival in Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina. Outdoor theatrical performances in historic places in the city.
With the support of European Cultural Foundation and International Institute of Theater, USAWhen?
13 – 31 August. 2006
Where?
Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
What?
- Presentation of the renewed joint theatrical production Honey and Blood(2005) at the International Festival in Mostar
- Revival of 3 emblematic places for Mostar through open-air theatrical performances
- Exchange of skills and ideas
"Artists for Peace in the Balkans - 2006"
New meeting of Balkan artists and directors at the International Theater Festival in Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina. Outdoor theatrical performances in historic places in the city. With the support of the European Cultural Foundation and the International Theater Institute, USA When? 13 – 31 August. 2006 Where? Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina What? Presentation of the renewed joint theatrical production "Med […] -
Improving the sexual and reproductive health of young people in Bulgaria
2005Trainers in the project of UN Fund for the population UNFPA
Improving the sexual and reproductive health of young people in Bulgaria
Trainers in a project of the UN Population Fund UNFPA -
"Open your eyes!“ 3
2005Training of trainers on prevention of human trafficking of young people from Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Bulgaria
With the support of European Youth Foundation to Council of Europe - Strasbourg
"Open your eyes!“ 3
Training of trainers on prevention of human trafficking of young people from Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Bulgaria With the support of the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe - Strasbourg -
"It's wonderful, that we are different!“
2005Training and supervision in the application of interactive art techniques in tolerance education for school teachers, applying integrative training.
Implemented with the support of Save The Children - Great Britain
"It's wonderful, that we are different!“
Training and supervision in the application of interactive art techniques in tolerance education for school teachers, applying integrative training. Implemented with the support of Save The Children - UK -
"Interactive techniques in education"
2005Training of pedagogues of children, deprived of parental care
Initiated by The Association for Pedagogical and Social Assistance for Children FICE-Bulgaria
Implemented with the support of Dutch Embassy - Sofia; MATRA CAP program
Where?
Kazanlak, Veliko Tarnovo
When?
April - June 2005
What?
Training for pedagogues of children, deprived of parental care for the application of game art techniques in their pedagogical work
The training took place in 2 module by 5 days. Every day contained more 4 sessions by 90 min + 45 min. at the end of the day - for sharing and discussions
TRAINING PROGRAM:
FIRST MODULE:
A task: Participants to be able to build practical skills in their graduates for teamwork.
DAY 1:
- Introduction
- Dating techniques (self-knowledge, self-acceptance, self-expression, self-affirmation). Language of facial expressions, gesture and body
- Energizing games
- Exercises for concentration and attention
DAY 2:
- Provoking empathy, sympathy, trust.
- Tolerance and care for the partner, operation
- Acting sketches in pairs. Basic rules of stage behavior
DAY 3:
- Tasks for creativity development, related to fine arts, music, literature
- The arts as a means of social communication. Sending and reading messages
DAY 4:
- Working with matter. Different techniques and material for making dolls
- Construction of a theatrical sketch.
- Basic rules of stage behavior in puppet theater
DAY 5:
- Contemporary interpretation of a fairy tale. Preparation of the performance - structure and scenography
- Playing a show
- Discussion on the conducted 5-day training. Setting tasks for independent practical work of the participants
SECOND MODULE:
A task: Participants to be able to apply drama- and theatrical techniques to prevent or solve current youth problems.
DAY 1:
- Image theater (message visualization (problems, emotion, a wish) through sculptures of human bodies)
- Presentation of the implementation of the set tasks for independent work through the means of the image of the theater. Problems. Needs. Solutions
DAY 2:
- Role-playing and simulation games - training for real life. Assess the problem from different points of view. Awareness of their own rights and responsibilities
DAY 3:
- Working with a metaphor. Playback theater
- Principles for conducting playback theater
DAY 4:
- Forum-theater. Putting a real problem on stage. Rules for choosing a story
- Forum-theater. Search for a positive solution to a problem. Principles of conducting a theatrical discussion
DAY 5:
- Forum-theater. Technique, suitable for forum presentation
- Discussion on the conducted 5-day training. Questions. Polls. Contacts
"Interactive techniques in education"
Training of pedagogues of children, deprived of parental care Initiated by the Association for Pedagogical and Social Assistance for Children FICE-Bulgaria Implemented with the support of the Dutch Embassy - Sofia; MATRA CAP Program Where? Kazanlak, Veliko Tarnovo When? April - June 2005 What? Training for pedagogues of children, deprived of parental care for the application of game art […] -
“Puppet techniques when working with young people”
2005Facilitating international training for social workers and artists in Denmark
With the support of European Commission – Youth Program
“Puppet techniques when working with young people”
Facilitating an international training for social workers and artists in Denmark With the support of the European Commission - Youth Program -
International youth exchange in sensitive theater
2005Participation of our volunteers in International youth exchange in sensitive theater in Wales, Great Britain
With the support of the EU - program “Youth”
International youth exchange in sensitive theater
Participation of our volunteers in the International Youth Exchange in Sensitive Theater in Wales, United Kingdom With the support of the EU - program “Youth” -
"Kukliniada"
2005Participation of our volunteers in International youth exchange In Spain
With the support of the EU - program "Youth"
"Kukliniada"
Participation of our volunteers in the International Youth Exchange in Spain With the support of the EU - Youth Program -
Summer children's workshop on puppet theater
2005at the festival in Charleville-Miser, France. Local funding
Summer children's workshop on puppet theater
at the Charleville-Misier festival, France. Local funding -
Street mold performance and youth discussion
2005December 1 - International AIDS and STI Prevention Day. Street mold performance & youth discussion in Targovishte
Invitation to aboutTargovishte municipality
Street mold performance and youth discussion
December 1 - International AIDS and STI Prevention Day. Street mold performance & youth discussion in Targovishte Invitation of the municipality of Targovishte -
The Woman's Name
2005Theatrical performance, provoking discussion in society about women's rights; included in the project of the association "Women for Present"
With the support of Dutch Embassy, program Matra Kap
The Woman's Name
Theatrical performance, provoking discussion in society about women's rights; included in a project of the association "Women for Present" With the support of the Dutch Embassy, program Matra Cap -
Participation in mold performances in municipal events
2005-todayAt the invitation of the municipalities
Participation in mold performances in municipal events
At the invitation of the municipalities -
"Self-motives"
2005folklore street mold show
"Self-motives"
folklore street mold show -
"Artists for Peace in the Balkans - 2005"
2005Meeting of socially engaged theater companies from Bosnia & Herzegovina, Srbia, Albania, Macedonia, Kosovo, Greece, England, USA and Bulgaria for exchange of ideas, theatrical techniques and joint construction of a Theatrical Performance for Contemporary Balkan Social Problems ("Honey and blood")
With the support of the Swiss Cultural Program “About Helvetia” and ArtsLink (USA)When?
May - June, 2005
Where?
Blagevgrad and Sofia
What?
- Discussions on the main Balkan problems. Selection of themes for theatrical production
- Exchange of theatrical techniques and ideas
- Creating the show Honey and blood on selected topics
- Public theatrical demonstrations and discussions
"Artists for Peace in the Balkans - 2005"
Meeting of socially engaged theater companies from Bosnia & Herzegovina, Srbia, Albania, Macedonia, Kosovo, Greece, England, USA and Bulgaria for exchange of ideas, theatrical techniques and joint construction of a Theatrical Performance for Contemporary Balkan Social Problems ("Honey and blood") With the support of the Swiss Cultural Program “About Helvetia” and ArtsLink (USA) When? May - June, 2005 […] -
"Windows"
2005Theatrical performance, informing the public about the new measure introduced in the Bulgarian penal system - probation
With the support of British Council - Bulgaria -
"Soap Tale"
2005Health education show for the little ones
The puppet tale introduces children to diseases, to which unclean food and unwashed hands lead.
Large lizards have long since disappeared from Earth. But in our story, children will help raise and educate a newly hatched Dinosaur, who knows nothing about our world.
Hygienic habits, which the children have already acquired, will be reinforced in the role-playing games offered to them in the performance. And their sympathy for the sick Dino, who does not love purity, builds children's respect for hygiene.Screenplay and direction: Tsvete Yaneva Scenography and dolls: Nadezhda Yotsova Music: Jeni Lacheva Participate: Violina Vasileva-Alexandrova and Georgi Mavrov "Soap Tale"
Health-educational show for the little ones The puppet tale introduces the kids to the diseases, to which unclean food and unwashed hands lead. Large lizards have long since disappeared from Earth. But in our story, children will help raise and educate a newly hatched dinosaur., who knows nothing about our world. Hygienic habits, which the children have already acquired, will […] -
"We and It"
2005Street puppet show with an interactive part for educating the little ones in tolerance
Created as part of a project "Socially Inclusive Europe" of the British Children's Human Rights Organization Save the ChildrenTwo long-legged BIRDS do not accept the friendship of the short SNAKE. But it is the small stature that helps the hero to drive away the EVIL WIND, who attacks their eggs.
The performance is followed by an artistic game with masks of children from the audience, in which they try ways to establish friendly contact with different beings.
Directing: Tsvete Yaneva Dolls: prof. Maya Petrova, Nina Staneva and Petar Chekurov Music: Elena Metodieva and Andrey Drennikov Participate: Violina Vasileva-Alexandrova,Dana Andonova, Ekaterina Kazakova, and Konstantin Kostov "We and It"
Street puppet show with an interactive part for educating the little ones in tolerance Created within the project "Socially Inclusive Europe" of the British children's human rights organization Save the Children Two long-legged BIRDS do not accept the friendship of the short SNAKE. But it is the small stature that helps the hero to drive away the EVIL WIND, who attacks their eggs. After the performance follows […] -
Dolls Against Violence
2004Training of young volunteers from SNC MediaArt, Ohrid - Macedonia, for the application of puppet-theater techniques in social work
FROM support for Allavid
Dolls Against Violence
Training of young volunteers from SNC "MediaArt", Ohrid - Macedonia, for the application of puppet-theater techniques in social work With the support of Allavida -
"I'm good - You're good"
2004Consulting a youth project in the town of. Gotse Delchev for forum-theatrical performances against school violence
With the support of S.E.G.A. Foundation.
"I'm good - You're good"
Consulting a youth project in the town of. Gotse Delchev for forum-theatrical performances against school violence With the support of the SEGA Foundation. -
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Danish Road
2004Introduction to the good practices of SECOND CHANCE schools in Denmark
With the support of the EU - program “Youth”
Danish Road
Introduction to the good practices of SECOND CHANCE schools in Denmark With the support of the EU - program “Youth” -
Art and Dreams
2004Facilitating a creative puppet studio of International youth exchange in Matosinhos, Portugal
With the support of the EU - program “Youth”
Art and Dreams
Facilitation of a creative puppet studio of the International Youth Exchange in Matosinhos, Portugal With the support of the EU - program “Youth” -
"Improvised dolls from everyday objects"
2004Creative workshop for socializing students at school "Second chance"– Copenhagen .Invitation to the school
"Improvised dolls from everyday objects"
Creative workshop for socialization of students in the school "Second Chance"– Copenhagen .Invitation to the school -
Like fingers on a hand
2004Forum-theatrical performance in defense of human rights at the arts festival Apollonia with the participation of young people with various difficulties and youth leaders from Bulgaria, Macedonia and Serbia
With the support of European Youth Foundation, Strasbourg
When?
September, 2004
Where?
Sozopol, Bulgaria
What?
One week young people with different sensitivity to the world, but the same activity in life they lived together, shared problems and dreams, cried and sang…
In the process of work, the most painful topics for the group turned out to be domestic violence, problems between different generations, misunderstanding of "Special needs" by society. Working on different situations on the topic "us and violence", using different theatrical techniques, the young people created and presented at the international arts festival Apollonia the show "Like fingers on a hand". Students from the Sozopol schools were included in the inextricably included discussions.
Foundation Apollonia expressed a desire for artistic performances of people with disabilities to find a place in each of its publications in the future.
DIARY:
THE HANDS HAVE ESTABLISHED THEMSELVES AS AN EXPRESSION OF SPEECH IN THE GROUP. WE DEMONSTRATED THE SET TASKS, PROVIDING WITH GOOD ARTICULATION THE RULES FOR THEIR IMPLEMENTATION. MANY OF THEM THE YOUNG PEOPLE HAD TO FILL WITH THEIR EYES CLOSED.
Like fingers on a hand
Forum-theatrical performance in defense of human rights at the Apollonia Arts Festival with the participation of young people with various disabilities and youth leaders from Bulgaria, Macedonia and Serbia With the support of the European Youth Foundation, Strasbourg When? September, 2004 Where? Sozopol, Bulgaria What? One week young people with different sensitivity to the world, but they lived the same activity in life […] -
"Listen to us!“
2003Art training on Convention on the Rights of the Child of young people - volunteers from the town of. Gotse Delchev in order to provide support in the fight against school dropouts of children from socially disadvantaged families, mostly girls from minority groups.
With the support of Canadian Local Initiatives Support Fund
Where?
Gotse Delchev
When?
April - June 2003
What?
Training on 18 young people from gr.Gotse Delchev and s. Breznitsa under the program of the sustainable long-term project "Tomorrow starts today". The project is aimed mainly at strengthening the motivation for continuing education in areas with mixed populations and building a lasting atmosphere of tolerance between parents., school and local government.
On 10 children from families with economic difficulties material assistance was provided for the study 2003/2004 r.
The youth team gave interactive presentations for finding lasting positive solutions to youth problems, related to education, in the village of Breznitsa, The village of Ablanitsa and the town of Gotse Delchev in front of more than 800 their peers.
The created interactive performance remains and will be used for civic education and solving youth problems in the schools of the region..
The young people presented on stage positive solutions to the problem
"I want to keep learning, but…"
There is no school in our city…
we have no money…
my parents don't allow…
I have little success…
I don't know where…
I'm not wanted…
I am not a child of an important person…
not in Bbulgaria…
I have no citizenship…
That would separate me from my boyfriend…
I'm pregnant…
I will get married…
I was not accepted…
if my girlfriend came with me…
I'm not for the big city…
not this, what my parents want…
I have no conversion here…
I do not know what…
family care is more important…
I have no choice…
I do not meet the requirements…
have to work…
without entrance exams…
my boyfriend is against…
I'm afraid to be alone in the big city…
the political situation does not allow…
"Listen to us!“
Art training under the Convention on the Rights of the Child of Youth - volunteers from the town of. Gotse Delchev in order to provide support in the fight against school dropouts of children from socially disadvantaged families, mostly girls from minority groups. With the support of the Canadian Local Initiatives Support Fund Where? Gotse Delchev When? April - June 2003 […] -
"Tomorrow starts today" - 2
2003Establishment of youth theater-discussion clubs for protection of the rights of the Child in the town of Lukovit and the town of. Berkovitsa
With the support of the United Dutch Foundations
When?
January - May, 2003
Where?
Berkovitsa and Lukovit
What?
Second stage of the training of young leaders to explain the rights of the child among their peers through drama- and theater- technicians. Providing assistance at the beginning of their practical activities in places.
Participants: 50 young people from schools and social homes
SURVEY:
Is there anything, which has changed as a result of your participation in our project? What?
Yes, There is something ,which changed me. I changed in relation to people,which showed me many things , I began to trust them.
Something, which you won? What?
I gained good acquaintances, with whom we keep in touch ; I won many beautiful moments filled not only with a lot of work , but also laughter.
Something, which you lost? What?
I have lost nothing.
Would you like us to continue working together?
Yes, I will continue to work with the Flower Theater, because they taught us many things in life.
What would you change in our meetings??
I would not change anything , I like your organization. Everything, what you do is accurate and tidy.
What topics would you like us to include in them??
I can't say what topics I want to include, because we ourselves have worked on many issues and problems.
Have you acquired new skills at our training?? What? You intend to use them?If yes, as?
Yes , I acquired new skills. I learned upstairs- below to be an actress, I learned to listen to others, to solve some problems. I don't know if I will use them.
Do you like to keep meeting with the band? What?
Yes, I like meeting the band with that , that we work , we solve a case, we understand each other and in this way we get out of the boring everyday life.
How would you like to change your individual meetings??
That's why I didn't think about it, but maybe nothing - I like it that way.
Do you want to change the world with something?, in which you live? Does it seem possible to you? If yes, as?
Yes, I would like to change it to have more good, more smiling people and less violated rights not only of the child, but also to man.
Would you take up our work??
Yes, with the greatest pleasure I will undertake your work , because it's great to meet new people, to teach them something and hear their thoughts.
Pavlina Plamenova Alexandrova
"Tomorrow starts today" - 2
Establishment of youth theater-discussion clubs for protection of the rights of the Child in the town of Lukovit and the town of. Berkovitsa With the support of United Dutch Foundations When? January - May, 2003 Where? Berkovitsa and Lukovit What? Second stage of the training of young leaders to explain the rights of the child among their peers through drama- and theater- technicians. Providing assistance […] -
"Universal embrace for peace"
2003Facilitation of socializing art activities of families - victims of 11 September in Borovets.
With the support of Rotary Club - USA, Bulgaria, Turkey
When?
2003
Where?
Borovets
What?
One week inclusion of 60 man, family members of the victim of 11 September 2001 in a variety ART ATELIER in order to relieve the received stress and encourage new inclusion in social life.
Art therapy techniques are associated with different types of art. There were dance classes in our one-week camp, music, traffic, art, fashion design and dolls. We facilitated the activities of the last two workshops, and the rest were led by American colleagues.
Art is a unique way of transmitting the universal and individual human experience - without an element of obligation, moralizing and obsessive-compulsive disorder; without claim to objectivity, truthfulness and instructiveness; without setting mandatory pragmatic goals. Unlike the exact forms of science, art retains enough uncertainty. This gives the participant the opportunity to draw his own conclusions and, depending on your life experience and potential, to perceive in different depths the messages sent to him . Interactive art techniques are game, which makes them fun and attractive for all participants. That is why it is very suitable for working in mixed groups of social origin and circumstances..
"Universal embrace for peace"
Facilitation of socializing art activities of families - victims of 11 September in Borovets. With the support of the Rotary Club - USA, Bulgaria, Turkey When? 2003 Where? Borovets What? One week inclusion of 60 man, family members of the victim of 11 September 2001 in various ART WORKSHOPS in order to relieve stress and encourage new ones […] -
"Forum theater in adult education"
200311 European countries jointly publish a package of training materials for forum presenters - theatrical performances
With the support of Lifelong learning program - Grundtvig.
Where?
Wales - Bulgaria - Denmark - Romania - England - Portugal
When?
2003 – 2005
What?
Developed by the Brazilian director Augusto Boal, forum-theater is a specific set of techniques, created to teach people how to play an active role in their community.
The project aims to study the results of the use of theatrical approaches in adult education in different European communities in Romania, Great Britain, Denmark, Portugal, France, Estonia, Lithuania, Italy and Bulgaria, in cooperation with like-minded people from Macedonia and Serbia, and in particular in the implementation of Forum theatre as a means of promoting civic activism. The experience of adult educators was summarized, using forum-theater when working in different communities and a universal model for its application in different target groups was sought.. The results of the project are summarized in a training guide for trainers “Adventures In Forum Theatre”, translated into the respective language on the websites of the participating organizations.
Adventures in Forum Theatre by Lucian Branea – issuu (English)
Adventures in the forum theater (Bulgarian language)
There are three basic techniques, which could overlap and interact, and the choice of one or the other of the three types depends on the situation, in which the work is performed and the purpose of the theatrical process. These three types are :
Image Theater
Invisible theater
Forum theatreFundamental for all three types is the participation of people with and without theatrical experience, no age restrictions, floor, race, social, cultural and religious affiliation. Exceptional democracy, accessibility and the wide range of means of expression made by "Theater of the Oppressed" provokes discussions and is an attempt to resolve personal, social and human problems.
"Image Theater" is a series of exercises and games, which puts participants face to face with truths about between human relationships in the family and society, without the use of the word speech. The image (sculpture) eliminates censorship of the brain , in which words place us. The images are independent of language and cultural barriers and as Boal shows, they often spontaneously reveal unexpectedly universal truths.
The Invisible Theater includes the audience as an actor, without her suspecting, that he is a participant not in a real dramatic scene, and in the theater. It is a means of stimulating discussion, engaging people with problems, in the form of a public forum. The public is free to take any position and offer any way out of the situation, without having the feeling, that she was taught. "Theater of the Oppressed" - never be didactic with its audience, but to emphasize the process of mutual research and learning.
Forum theatre is a theatrical play, in which a problem that excites the audience is shown in an unsolved form. Viewers are invited to suggest and play different solutions. Thus, they gain experience from the shared case.
On 29.11.2007. The Center for Human Resources Development held a Valorization Conference of Sectoral Programs "Leonardo da Vinci" and Grundtvig. The project of the Flower Theater “Forum theater in adult education” was awarded a quality certificate.
"Forum theater in adult education"
11 European countries jointly publish a package of training materials for forum presenters - theatrical performances With the support of the Lifelong Learning Program - Grundtvig. Where? Wales - Bulgaria - Denmark - Romania - England - Portugal When? 2003 – 2005 What? Developed by Brazilian director Augusto Boal, forum-theater is a specific set of techniques, […] -
Theater for teenagers with special needs
2003Preparation and presentation of joint theatrical production of children and youth with intellectual disabilities and primary school students in Bansko
With the support of Association "Choice", Bansko
Where?
Day house- for children and young people with intellectual disabilities - city. Bansko
When?
September - December, 2007
March- June, 2003What?
2007 - Preparation and performance of a theatrical performance "Red Riding Hood", together with students from the initial course of the local high school on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Center.
2003 - Preparation and performance of a theatrical performance "The three Little Pigs", together with students from the initial course of the local high school at the city holiday concert on the occasion Children's Day
Theater for teenagers with special needs
Preparation and presentation of joint theatrical production of children and youth with intellectual disabilities and primary school students in Bansko With the support of the association "Choice", Bansko Where? Day house- for children and youth with intellectual retardation - town of. Bansko When? September - December, 2007 March- June, 2003 What? 2007 - Preparation and export […] -
“Smiling faces”
2003Facilitating creative art activities for adolescents at risk in Timisoara, Romania
With the support of “Allavid”
“Smiling faces”
Facilitating creative art activities for adolescents at risk in Timisoara, Romania With the support of “Allavid” -
"Open your eyes!“ – 1 phase
2003Forum of theatrical performances for prevention of human trafficking in Sofia and Ruse, together with The Geese Theatre Company, Great Britain
With the support of the British Council - BulgariaForum theatrical performance
for the prevention of trafficking in young womenCreated by the actors of the English Social Theater “The Geese Theatre” based on real events and stories of Bulgarian girls victims of trafficking, the play presents a familiar story. Deceived, that he will find a well-paid job abroad, The girl confidently goes after her "employer" - a trafficker, who confiscates his identity documents and forces him into prostitution. Trivial. But human trafficking does exist! "Open your eyes!“ reflects the whole process of trafficking - from deception and building trust, which traffickers take advantage of, through violence and the systematic psychological abuse of the "breaking" period to the emotional and psychological effects of imposed slavery and sexual violence.
The lack of words in the show allows the audience to take it very personally, putting in it its own details. The masks, live music and lighting effects have a strong impact and provoke their activity in the next forum theatrical discussion. The host invites viewers to try to "save" the girl, became a victim of human trafficking, as in the replay of a moment of the performance chosen by them, they take on her role and change her behavior for the better, they think, way.
Forum-theater gives young viewers an incredible chance to try out in a safe environment different patterns of behavior in potentially problematic life situations.
The performance was realized by our English colleagues and adapted by the team of Flower Theater in the framework of a joint project of International Organization for Migration and the British Advice - Bulgaria.
Directing: Louise Haywood and Tsvete Yaneva Joker: Poliksena Hardalova Live music: Lubomir Brashnenkov, Svetoslav Ivanov and Dragomir Valchev Participate: Violina Vasileva-Alexandrova, Dana Andonova, Ekaterina Kazakova, Nikolai Dogramadzhiev and Yavor Kostov; "Open your eyes!“ – 1 phase
Forum of theatrical performances for prevention of human trafficking in Sofia and Ruse, together with The Geese Theater Company, Great Britain With the support of the British Council - Bulgaria Forum theatrical performance for prevention of young women from human trafficking Created by the actors of the English social theater "The Geese Theater" based on real events and stories in Bulgarian […] -
"Theater in the hot spots of the planet"
2003Theatrical tour of the United States on Romeo and Juliet and "Grandma's Tales". Video lectures. Workshops Dolls Against Violence and "Improvised dolls" in universities in 7 the state.
With the support of Arts International and the organization of Bond Street TheatreWhere?
USA - New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, Ohio, West Virginia, Connecticut, Washington
When?
Sept - November, 2003
What?
- Theatrical tour of Romeo and Juliet Joint non - verbal production of Theatre Tsvete and Bond Street Theatre – NY
- Theatrical performances of the Bulgarian folklore puppet show "Grandma's Tales".
- Meetings with university youth in 7 the state; Video lectures "Theater in the hot spots of the planet"; Workshops Dolls Against Violence and "Improvised dolls from objects of our everyday life"
- Facilitation of socializing art activities for families, victims of 11 September
- Charity performance at a nursing home in Brooklyn, new York
Press reviews:
THE BEST PERFORMANCE IN THEATER PROJECT - BALTIMORE FOR 2003/2004
Romeo and Juliet as a project of non-governmental organizations
Theater project– Baltimore, Bond Street Theater– New York and the Bulgarian Theatre Tsvete offered production, which presents Shakespeare's classics in a "shameless" way, shortening the immortal "Romeo and Juliet" of Bard to about 10 order. She was well received in Macedonian refugee camps, and captivated the imagination of the Baltimore audience.
All skeptics (including us) we learned from this exceptional combination of facial expressions, dolls and choreographic dances, that motion theater is not necessarily a field of work for unemployed dancers. The artists act as a disciplined team, and the brilliance of this production - thanks in part to the unconventional use of lighting and décor - throws the gauntlet to the host city of Baltimore.There are a lot of theatrical performances now, which are not included within the worn Broadway; a new look is given to the "classical" plays, which we all know and love. But do we have to wait for theater groups like "Flower", to find out what could happen, when motivated professionals get to work?
This is a completely non-verbal and visual version of Shakespeare's tragedy. It combines the interesting puppetry skills of the actors from Theatre Tsvete - Bulgaria and the physical theater of Bond Street Theater - New York. The play looks deeply at the tragedy, caused by the hostility of the neighbors and truly reveals the situation, in which young people are placed in many regions today. These young people are forced to choose between love and violence, which is their obligation under kinship laws. The play was created specifically for a tour of post-war Kosovo, which was followed by visits to Bosnia, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania. "Our show brings a spirit of hope, that true love is eternal - a message needed by the young audience. "
“This performance of Rumeo and Juliet is everything else, but not usually. The mixture of clothes, movement, ultraviolet and countercurrent, and sound reveals the story of conflict and love in the most innovative way.
There are moments of strong drama, comic situations, and from the very beginning - completely unexpected things. My family was so surprised and pleased with the colorful show, as much as I do.
The duration of the show is about one hour and twenty minutes. The speed, with which history unfolds changes, keeping it constantly in tension. Although, that we all know history and can predict events, its presentation is in such an unexpected way, that you are a prisoner of drama and characters.
After the show you can meet the actors in the corridor. This is a wonderful and diverse group of young people., gifted and enthusiastic people. ”
Two exceptional companies combine their talents, to create a nonverbal version of "Romeo and Juliet", which is being played for the first time in refugee camps in Kosovo, Serbia and Bosnia. The performances in Washington will take place in the historic Tacoma Theater from 30. October to 2 November.
Theatre Tsvete, famous puppet theater from Sofia, Bulgaria and Bond Street Theater, known for its dynamic physical style, created a play, based on images, using the power of symbols, to tell the story. Original live music accompanies the play. The story comes to life with dancing, molds, game with swords and striking light effects. Ordinary objects are used in an unusual way, to achieve captivating images and rhythms. And despite, that the play is a tragedy, the performance weaves an abundance of comic moments into the actual text.
The play traveled among war-torn theaters in Kosovo, Serbia and Bosnia. "Romeo and Juliet" presents directly the tragedy of a neighbor standing against the neighbor and really expresses the situation, which includes young people from many regions of the world today, who are faced with the choice between love and violence
The audience commented, that the nonverbal qualities of the play increase its intensity, allowing each person to feel the scenes through the prism of their own experience.
The performance ends with a touch of rebirth. The spirits of Romeo and Juliet in the form of dolls appear, playing a delicate and ethereal ultraviolet dance, they unite into one whole and disappear. This message of hope has resonated with the public in the Balkans and Europe and can now be received by the Washington public.. According to the press of different countries, this production leaves a trace of living images behind.
One hundred percent hit… The show was marked by laughter and applause. ”
Daniel Simpson, New York Times, USA"Theater in the hot spots of the planet"
Theatrical tour in the USA of "Romeo and Juliet" and "Grandma's Tales". Video lectures. "Dolls Against Violence" and "Improvised Dolls" workshops at universities in 7 the state. With the support of Arts International and the organization of Bond Street Theater Where? USA - New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, Ohio, West Virginia, Connecticut, Washington When? Sept - November, 2003 What? Theater tour […] -
"Artists for Peace in the Balkans - 2002"
2002Expanding the cross-border theatrical language of Balkan actors through the exchange of experience and skills in the field of physical and puppet theater. - joint theater project with Bond Street Theatеr, new York.
With the support of Arts International"Artists for Peace in the Balkans - 2002"
Expanding the cross-border theatrical language of Balkan actors through the exchange of experience and skills in the field of physical and puppet theater. - joint theater project with Bond Street Theater, new York. With the support of Arts International -
Working with youth leaders to organize Health Festivals in the Roma neighborhood Faculty - Sofia
2001Working with youth leaders to organize Health Festivals in the Roma neighborhood Faculty - Sofia
- Part of the project of Bulgarian Association for Family Planning and Sexual Health
Working with youth leaders to organize Health Festivals in the Roma neighborhood Faculty - Sofia
Working with youth leaders to organize Health Festivals in the Roma neighborhood Faculty - Sofia - Part of the project of the Bulgarian Association for Family Planning and Sexual Health -
"Really free"
2001Informal training of young people at risk for sexual and reproductive health instructors
with the support of UN development program through Bulgarian anti-spin coalition
When?
September - December, 2001
Where?
SUPZ "Knyaz Boris 1", city. Sofia (young people with intellectual disabilities);
DMFFU "Prince Boris 1", city. Onion (girls and boys with permanent physical disabilities);
CBS "Hr. Botev ", the village of Podem, okr. Pleven (girls with deviant behavior).
What?
Informal training for safe sexual behavior and reproductive health through drama- and theater techniques of adolescents at risk:
- Breaking stereotypes and taboos. Building trust and respect in the group;
- Necessary knowledge of diseases, sexually transmitted;
- Practical skills training, necessary to prevent STDs (Sexually transmitted diseases);
- The right to say "NO"
- Theatrical discussions of case studies on the topic
DIARY:
“If I could say NO, I wouldn't be here”
Zornitsa - CBS "Hr. Botev ", the village of Podem
CONDOM = Kon + House
Have you ever read…A Tale of Spin?
(created especially for the project)
The whole kingdom of Man celebrated its national holiday - the Night of Love. No one guessed, that the insidious enemy will cross the border of his Body, taking advantage of the love intoxication of the border guards.
The virus HIV slipped in without any problems. And according to the preliminary instructions for destruction, went straight to the Military Academy. Here, the future defenders of the Body - the young White Blood Cells - were traditionally trained.
HIV slipped unnoticed into the classroom, who was about to graduate. Huge thick books of Kingdom history were piled up in the Professor's chair. Numerous battles with various invaders of the Human Body were described in them. On them the young defenders learned how to recognize the enemy and how to fight him.
Young scouts from the T-cell family, even at night they did not take the transceiver helmets off their heads. With them they would go around the whole kingdom and call the army, if they find an enemy.
Then the numerous regiments of brave men would arrive - most of them their cousins, also of the genus White Blood Cells. They would destroy the enemy and save the defenseless peaceful cells of the Human Body. At the Military Academy, they were now studying martial arts. And the experience of the battles, it would be recorded and passed on to the next. The training of the numerous fighters of the mighty army of the Immune System was excellent.
HIV he thought. They were many, he- myself. Destroying the whole kingdom seemed like a daunting task for a single virus. The Human Body was large and unmistakably structured. And the young T cells were infinitely loyal and diligent..
But HIV he was so smart, as evil. And he chose the right tactic. To win, the virus decided to turn the T cells themselves into helpers, to turn others like themselves into their helpers, to convert…
The next morning the old Professor was found asleep forever. He entered the class instead HIV
"I'm sorry for the costly loss.", students. But her teaching is a teaching - to check how far we have taken her.
Open the log.
"The scouts.". What's up, boys? You're going to work soon, but?
"That's right."!
"The kingdom needs heroes like you."! - The boys had more surgery. "Between us.", the most responsible service is yours. He continued HIV "Your helmets must always be in full combat readiness.".
The boys, confident in its serviceability, they readily handed over their helmets for inspection.
- I can not believe! Your transmitters are silent. Where is the signal?Anxiety"? YOU must keep the Army on the alert at all times! Do you want viruses to destroy the Human Body??
- Ama Profesore…
"Shut up."! Military court for you!
When a week later the young T cells graduated, their helmets squeaked "Anxiety" The whole time. Entered the service, young T cells passed on the new knowledge to older colleagues.
The scouts from the next class are the new professor HIV train in the same way. The signals from their helmets forced the disciplined fighters to constantly chase a non-existent enemy in full combat gear - to the east., westwards, north and south… Great Army Immune System, began to faint. "Anxiety", "Anxiety" - from many places! We need fighters!
The borders of the kingdom remained unguarded and numerous viruses - colds - invaded the Body, flu, bronchopneumonia…
The situation began to become catastrophic! The body was suffering from SPIN
One day the weakened Army once again arrived in vain. There was no virus. Anger gripped the fighters.
"The scouts drained our strength for real battles."! They help viruses deal with the Human Body
"Death to the enemy."! T-cell death! The fighters shouted and pounced on the scout
The horrifying news numb the Kingdom. The advice of the most experienced scouts was convened. Scouts - enemies of the Kingdom of Man? How so? Why?!!!
They began to remember the common moments in their lives - yesterday, last week, last month, continuous military action, reproach of their last teacher… Stop! The signal "Anxiety". The army - always on the alert! They leafed through the yellowed textbooks. Nothing like that!
HIV he had turned T cells into enemies of their own Kingdom! They had become traitors!
The Kingdom's army could no longer cope with the numerous invading viruses
HIV successfully completed its task.Human Body was destroyed!
"Really free"
Informal training of young people at risk for sexual and reproductive health instructors with the support of a UN development program through the Bulgarian Anti-Spin Coalition When? September - December, 2001 Where? SUPZ "Knyaz Boris 1", city. Sofia (young people with intellectual disabilities); DMFFU "Prince Boris 1", city. Onion (girls and boys with permanent physical disabilities); VUI […] -
"We will make our dreams come true"
2001Training of young people from minority groups in Bulgaria, Macedonia and Serbia to explain the Convention on the Rights of the Child through drama and theater- technicians
with the support of EEuropean Youth Foundation to Council of Europe - Strasbourg
"We will make our dreams come true"
Training of young people from minority groups in Bulgaria, Macedonia and Serbia to explain the Convention on the Rights of the Child through drama and theater- techniques with the support of the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe - Strasbourg -
"Tomorrow starts today" - 1
2001Training of young leaders from areas with mixed ethnic population in Convention on the Rights of the Child.
With the support of Canadian International Development Agency
When?
October, .2001
Where?
Fisherwoman
What?
Training of young leaders from areas with mixed ethnic population (Berkovitsa, Targovishte, Harmanli, Lukovit and Gotse Delchev) to explain the rights of the child among their peers through drama- and theater- technicians.
The training program includes:
- team building games;
- theatrical tasks for acquaintance and comprehension of the rights of the child and the connections between them;
- role-playing games to resolve cases of violated rights;
- organizing and conducting interactive youth theatrical discussions to find a positive solution to real social problems;
- writing projects to find support for participants' ideas for future youth initiatives.
"Tomorrow starts today" - 1
Training of young leaders from areas with mixed ethnic population under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. With the support of the Canadian International Development Agency? October, .2001 Where? Ribaritsa What? Training of young leaders from areas with mixed ethnic population (Berkovitsa, Targovishte, Harmanli, Lukovit and Gotse Delchev) to explain the rights of the child among their peers through […] -
Balkan Creative Theater
2001Theater tour in multiethnic regions in Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania in order to establish contacts with like-minded educators and actors for future initiatives to overcome ethnic hatred.
With the support of European Youth Foundation - Strasbourg
Balkan Creative Theater
Theater tour in multiethnic regions in Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania in order to establish contacts with like-minded educators and actors for future initiatives to overcome ethnic hatred. With the support of the European Youth Foundation - Strasbourg -
Participation in the National Concert Program for People with Disabilities at the Satirical Theater
2001- Sofia on 3 December - International Day of Persons with Disabilities of the artistic program of the graduates of DMMTFUZI "Prince Boris I" and other peers from the town of. Onion
Charity project of Flower Theater
Participation in the National Concert Program for People with Disabilities at the Satirical Theater
- Sofia on 3 December - International Day of People with Disabilities of the artistic program of the graduates of DMMTFUZI "Prince Boris I" and other peers from. Lukovit Charitable project of the Flower Theater -
"We will build a wonderful world"
2001Social adaptation of the graduates of the Home for girls and boys with permanent physical problems and preserved intellect "Prince Boris I " - city. Lukovit with their peers from local schools
With the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, program MATRA KAP
Participation in the National Concert Program in The satirical theater - Sofia
in honor of International Day of Persons with Disabilities - 3 December
of the alumni of the Home for girls and boys with permanent physical disabilities "Prince Boris I" and other peers from the town of. Onion
Charity project of Flower TheaterWhere?
Home for girls and boys with permanent physical disabilities "Prince Boris I", Onion and Satiric theater, Sofia
When?
May - December, 2000
What?
Building contacts between alumni of DMFFU "Prince Boris I" and their peers from the town of. Onion
- Meetings with local administrative authorities, principals and teachers from the schools in Lukovit for joint work
- Creating mixed work teams - children and youth with physical disabilities and their peers from schools in the city. Preparation of a joint artistic program.
- Big carnival procession with over 700 participant in honor of The Feast of the National Awakeners - 1 November. Competition for the best theatrical costume and theatrical performance of the participants on the stage of the community center "Consciousness"
- Participation in the concert program for International Day of Persons with Disabilities,organized by Center for Independent Living
- "Dance of the Flowers" – Performance of children in wheelchairs and their peers from high schools in front of a large audience in the capital's theater.
- "Old grandmothers in modern times" - comedy theatrical sketch
- Anti-drug - theatrical impression in ultraviolet lighting, accompanying song of The cat Kalki.
DIARY:
- MANY OF THESE CHILDREN ARE FOREVER ABANDONED BY THEIR PARENTS BECAUSE OF PHYSICAL PROBLEMS, WITH WHOM THEY WERE BORN. MOST ARE ROMA. EVERYONE IS FORGOTTEN BY SOCIETY.
- ON THE ASPHALT IN THE YARD WE ARE RECOGNIZED BY AN INSCRIPTION WITH CABINET AGAIN: "THEATER FLOWERS - WELCOME FOREVER!“ THE RAIN THREE LARGE LETTERS, AND THE CHILDREN WRITE THEM AGAIN, AND AGAIN…
- “WHO HAS A WHEELCHAIR, TO COME ON STAGE!” THE CHILDREN INVENTED THEIR ROLE! THEY TURNED THE TROLLEYS INTO SNOWWORKS AND "DEEP PEOPLE BREAK UP"
- 6 IN THE MORNING. EVERYTHING FOR THE CARNIVAL IS FINALLY READY! LET YOUR FRIENDS BE ALIVE AND HEALTHY, WHO CAME TO HELP US! THE CHILDREN WILL BRING US COFFEE IN 7. WE HAVE MORE GOALS 60 MINUTES! WE WILL SLEEP FAST!
8.00. WE ARE ALREADY “DECORATED” IT'S TIME FOR THE CARNIVAL WORKSHOP TO OPEN. THE MOST IMPATIENT ARE ALREADY WAITING WITH A BUN IN HAND. WE ARE NEEDING TO NEGOTIATE THE THEATER PROGRAM AND PREPARE MORE THAN THE MARCH 100 MAN! WE BEGIN WITH THE TEACHERS, TO WIN THEM AS ASSISTANTS.
WE DRESS PRINCESSES, ROBBERS AND WITCHES. WE TIE TAPES, WE PUT CROWNS, WE BELT OURSELVES. WE ARE CLEANING, WE COMB, WE MAKE UP.
KATETE HAS ARRANGED WHEELCHAIRS WITH DUNAPREN AND TURNED THEM INTO A TRAIN.
ARRIVED AND THE DONKEY TROLLEY, WHICH WE LOAD WITH CHILDREN, FOR WHICH WALKING IS DIFFICULT..
APPROACHING 12.30. WITH A LITTLE DELAY AND A BIG SHUMOTEVITSA WE LEAVE FROM “PRINCE BORIS I“. THE FIRST IS THE DRUMMER, THE DONKEY FOLLOWS HIM, THEN THE TRAIN AND THE OTHER TROLLEYS. AND AROUND THEM WALK PEDESTRIANS AND OUR 3-METER COCKILARI. OVERWHELMED POPLY OUR MINIBUS - IT TAKES THE BREATH OF THE TIRED..
WE GO CONSEQUENTLY THROUGH EACH OF THE THREE SCHOOLS. MANY COSTUME CHILDREN ARE WAITING FOR US EVERYWHERE. THEY FOLLOW US, AND AFTER THEM - FRIENDS AND RELATIVES. HUGE CARNIVAL PROCESSION!
THE MAYOR STOPPED THE MOVEMENT IN THE CITY CENTER. THEY ARE REMOVING US FROM THE YARDS, WHISTLE, THEY CALL… THE WHOLE CITY LAUGHED!
THE CHITALISHTE CANNOT CATCH THE MANY SPECTATORS. THE ACTORS HARDLY MAKE A WAY TO THE STAGE. WE PRESENT THE HOLIDAY PROGRAM ON THE EVENT OF THE NATIONAL AWAKENERS 'DAY, FOR WHICH WE HAVE BEEN REHEARING FOR A LONG TIME
"YOU ARE THE MODERN PEOPLE'S AWAKENERS!“ - THE DIRECTOR OF THE HOME TELL US ON THE STAGE MARIA TODOROVA
AFTER THAT IT HAPPENED, WHICH THE CHILDREN CONSIDERED IMPOSSIBLE . WITH DOLLS AND COSTUMES THEY PLAY ON THE HUGE SOFIA STAGE!
ICO: "THIS IS THE HAPPIEST DAY IN MY LIFE!“
"We will build a wonderful world"
Social adaptation of the alumni of the Home for girls and boys with permanent physical problems and preserved intellect "Knyaz Boris I" - town. Lukovit with their peers from local schools With the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, MATRA CAP program Participation in the National Concert Program at the Satirical Theater - Sofia in honor of the International Day of […] -
Creating an interactive drug prevention web page
2001in joint work of a youth organization from Southeast Europe with the support of the EC – The program East-East
Creating an interactive drug prevention web page
in joint work of a youth organization from Southeast Europe with the support of the EC - East-East Program -
"Dangerous Love"
2001Street mold show at the National Happening on the International Day for Combating HIV and SPIN, 1 December.
With the support of Development program at the UNThree startling witches flirt with passers-by on the street and give away «Your business cards» - humorous verses about Gonorrhea, Syphilis and Spin. In the grotesque dance show, the spectators witness the action between sexually transmitted diseases and condoms., met on love night. Unusual characters with gigantic stature definitely attract the attention of viewers and take them to a discussion to prevent this serious problem.. In the 45-minute conversation, the actors try to break the stereotypes in the behavior of young people.. The aim is to overcome the shame of seeking medical help; to change a misunderstood delicacy and trust in intimate communication.
The performance is a great finale of a previously conducted training of young people on the topic “Diseases, sexually transmitted”.
Leading the discussion: Irina Dragolova – psychologist Participate: Violina Vasileva-Alexandrova, Dana Andonova, Ekaterina Kazakova and Konstantin Kostov "Dangerous Love"
Street mold show at the National Event on the International Day against HIV and AIDS, 1 December. With the support of the UN Development Program, three startling witches flirt with passers-by on the street and hand out "their business cards" - humorous poems about Gonorrhea, Syphilis and Spin. In the grotesque dance performance, the spectators witness the action in between […] -
Post-Conflict Theater in the Balkans- 2
2001Balkan tour of Romeo and Juliet; Theatrical activities with children from different ethnic groups and with disabilities
With the support of ArtsLink & Trust for Mutual Understanding - USAPost-Conflict Theater in the Balkans- 2
Romeo and Juliet Balkan Tour; Theatrical activities with children from different ethnic groups and with disabilities With the support of ArtsLink & Trust for Mutual Understanding – САЩ -
"Let's lend a hand in the games!“
2000Training of Balkan pedagogues and social workers for application of interactive art techniques in their work.
The project was initiated by a foundation "Concepts - Bulgaria" and realized with the support of European Youth Foundation to Council of Europe - Strasbourg
Where?
Golden Sands.
When?
19-26 June, 2000 r.
What?
Training of pedagogues, social workers, actors and youth leaders from regions with mixed ethnic population in Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania
Applying drama- and theater- techniques in teaching adolescents tolerance
Basic modules in the training program:
- Seminar of like-minded teachers from different Balkan republics. Analysis of country-specific problems in the lives of adolescents. Discussion-summary of the problems of the Balkan youth.
- Training in the use of theater and drama - methods in the education of children in the spirit of tolerance work with children. To learn to enable the natural friendship between children, emerging in games to overcome ethnic hatred by forming groups of adolescents (at the age of 9-14) in places with ethnic tensions. Practical application of the acquired skills when working with a group of children under the guidance of our specialists and trained pedagogues. Apply problem solving methods (exchange of experience).
Practical work with children
- Good morning, The sun! - Sports games and dances;
- Let's lend a hand in games! - Art activities of children's choice in acting modules, music, dance and applied arts under the guidance of pedagogues. Cooperation between the different groups for a theatrical performance
- A look at Bulgaria - walks and excursions
- Our common home - Let's make things even more cozy and cook dinner together
- Starry evenings - dinners for contacts, competitions, new friendships, sketches, and discussions of positive behavior, representation, and discos. Build fresh self-confidence, respect, tolerance and trust among adolescents.
CREATIVE BALKAN THEATER
With the support of European Youth Foundation to Council of Europe, Strasbourg
Where?
Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania
When?
September - November, 2000
What?
Practical continuation of the training from Golden Sands.
Discussion of future joint activities with local organizations on the problems of adolescents.
"Let's lend a hand in the games!“
Training of Balkan pedagogues and social workers for application of interactive art techniques in their work. The project was initiated by the Concepts Foundation - Bulgaria and implemented with the support of the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe - Strasbourg? Golden Sands. When? 19-26 June, 2000 r. What? Training of pedagogues, social workers, actors and youth leaders […] -
"For a new psychoclimate in the Balkans"
2000training for positive conflict resolution between adolescents from multiethnic regions in Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania. With the support of Bahá'í International Community - Public Information Office in Paris.
Where?
Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania
When?
July-October - 2000 r.
What?
Training for positive conflict resolution of adolescents from multiethnic regions: Interactive youth theatrical discussions "Happy Hypo Show"
Topics:
- Can you win love by force?
- Are intercultural conflicts inevitable??
- Love without borders
- The neighbor - friend or foe?
- Word or sword - what to choose?
- Is voluntary work necessary for society??
- Life - battle or cooperation?
- Who is right? Do we have to fight for the truth?
DIARY:
Blagoevgrad - topic n 6
Question: Who donates - the poor or the rich?
Award-winning answer: „The Good One.
At the request of the management of the youth center, we prepared a presentation and discussed a topic 2. In Tetovo from 50 years there are only two mixed marriages between Christians and Muslims. Both families leave the city.
"For a new psychoclimate in the Balkans"
training for positive conflict resolution between adolescents from multiethnic regions in Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania. With the support of the Bahá'í International Community, a public information office in Paris. Where? Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania When? July-October - 2000 r. What? Training for positive conflict resolution of adolescents from multiethnic regions: Interactive youth […] -
"Surprise Theater"
2000Health education puppet one-man show for the youngest of the actress Violina Vasileva,
In which Uncle Doctor will explain to children the meaning of such scary words as X-RAY, INJECTION, Anesthesia, OPERATION… So as not to startle them anymore.
Others are terrible things. The history of The tiger cub, which growled at Rabbit, Winnie the Pooh and The butterfly, shows to children, that it's scariest to be without friends."Surprise Theater"
Health education puppet one-man show for the little ones of the actress Violina Vasileva, In which Uncle Doctor will explain to children the meaning of such scary words as X-RAY, INJECTION, Anesthesia, OPERATION… So as not to startle them anymore. Others are terrible things. The story of the Tiger, which growled at Rabbit, The Bear and the Butterfly, shows to children, that it's scariest to stay […] -
"Post - Conflict Theater in the Balkans"- 1
2000Joint theatrical production of Romeo and Juliet from Bond Street theater – NYC. Theater tour and art workshops with children from different ethnic groups in post-war Kosovo
With the support of ArtsLink & Trust for Mutual Understanding - USAFacilitation of the First Balkan Reconciliation Youth Seminar, in Plovdiv
Organized by UNESCODIARY:
- UNICEF asked us to help raise children's awareness of the dangers of mines
- The enmity of Monteci and Capuleti - an analogue of the Balkan bloody drama
- Mass graves, flies, crows and ruins…
- They warn us not to speak Bulgarian on the street.
- At night we travel with KFOR security.
- Submission on Romeo and Juliet in Presevo. The priest's staff with a Christian cross made the whole hall jump and jealous of the stage. We became scared and sad.
"Everything worked in perfect harmony - the scenery, the music, pantomime, jazz, comedy and other elements. "
Mehmed Latifi, "Facts" -
Gillian, KosovoThis "Romeo and Juliet" was an extraordinary human tragicomedy . She conveyed a special message of love to the audience, peace and tolerance between people. "
Arif Muharemi, “Koha Ditore”-
Pristina, KosovoThe project was named the best project of ART LINKS for 2000 year in the United States
"Post - Conflict Theater in the Balkans"- 1
Joint theatrical production of "Romeo and Juliet" with Bond Street theater - NYC. Theater tour and art workshops with children from different ethnic groups in post-war Kosovo With the support of ArtsLink & Trust for Mutual Understanding - USA Facilitation of the First Balkan Reconciliation Youth Seminar, in Plovdiv Organized by UNESCO DIARY: UNICEF asked us to […] -
"Sun Tale"
1999Theatrical work and performances by young people from ДДЮЛРГ - city. Dupnitsa
With the support of Balkan Air Company, Bulgaria.
"Sun Tale"
Theatrical work and performances of the young people from DDULRG - town. Dupnitsa With the support of Balkan Air Company, Bulgaria. -
"Theater for children in refugee camps"
1999Theater tour in refugee camps in Macedonia with performances and workshops for Kosovo children.
With the support of European Youth Foundation - Strasbourg
Where?
Macedonia - refugee camps Stenkovec-2, Haymaking, Chegrane, Unforgiven
When?
July,1999 r.
What?
This specific task required special training.
We were warned, that we will play in front of thousands of children in the middle of the field. We rented mascots and prepared with them "A Forest Tale.
And we had a mini version - "Who conquered the Sun.?“ with dolls, sounded in Albanian.
From UNICEF we were asked to work to raise children's awareness of the dangers of mines, which awaited them when they returned to their homeland. We were helped by trainers from European Cultural Foundation. In the game "Mine field" the kids trained without panic to trust this one, which is supposed, that he knows how to safely leave the danger zone.
The games, which we selected for our direct work with children, they led them to tolerance and mutual aid.
Each activity ended with a working meeting with the children's educators, in which we gave them the rules of the game, translated into English, and they had the opportunity to ask us questions.
For his work in the refugee camps in Macedonia, Flower Theater received a special thank you letter from UNICEF - Skopje
DIARY:
UNEXPECTEDLY MOM AND DAD TO GRAB YOU FROM THE BED.
THEY CARRY THEM SOMEWHERE.
YOU, WHO WAS ASKED TO EAT, YOU ARE HUNGRY NOW.
YOU, WHO WERE SLEEPING, YOU ARE TIRED NOW.
YOU ARE SICK, SCARY AND SAD…
STENKOVEC HE VISITED US WITH A SAND TURNADO, 40º HEAT AND 2000 CHILDREN! THEIR CAMP DAILY
FROM THANKSGIVING AND LOVE, OUR CHILDREN SING SONGS - ALL ABOUT THE WAR.
THANK YOU, SHUM MIR, FAMILIES…."Theater for children in refugee camps"
Theater tour in refugee camps in Macedonia with performances and workshops for Kosovo children. With the support of the European Youth Foundation - Strasbourg Where? Macedonia - Stenkovets-2 refugee camps, Haymaking, Chegrane, Unforgiven When? July,1999 r. What? This specific task required special training. We were warned, that we will play in front of thousands of children in the middle of the field. We rented mascots […] -
"Drama in the education of children at risk"
1999-2000in DSU "Assen Zlatarov", Sofia
Pilot project in Bulgaria on a program The Art of Social Change, European Cultural Foundation - Amsterdam
Where?
Home for children and adolescents, deprived of parental care Asen Zlatarov - Sofia
When?
October,1999/ May, 2000
What?
- Work with children and adolescents - victims of family, inter-age, ethnic or sexual violence.
- Building trust and personal responsibility. Sharing and discussing personal and social issues.
- Building intolerance to violence. Mutual assistance.
- Theater training in three different age groups. Finalizing the results of the work through the performances "The three Little Pigs", "The beauty and the beast" and Pilot show.
DIARY:
EIGHT MONTHS OF WORKING TOGETHER. EIGHT MONTHS WAITING FOR THIS DAY!
A TRUE SCENE, SPARKLING EYES, MUSIC, MAKEUP, COSTUMES, MASKS, LIGHTS…
AND SUDDENLY… ONE OF THE BOYS TRAGICALLY LOSES HIS MOTHER.
THE EYES DARKEN. THE MASKS FALL. THE LIGHTS ARE EXTINGUISHED.
BUT TRAICHO DECIDES - HE WILL PLAY! HE WILL PLAY FOR HIS FRIENDS.
AFTER THE PERFORMANCE, THE AUDIENCE GETS ON ITS FEET. EVERYONE CRY….
"Drama in the education of children at risk"
in DDU "Asen Zlatarov", Sofia Pilot project in Bulgaria of the Art for Social Change Program, European Cultural Foundation - Amsterdam Kde? Home for children and adolescents, deprived of parental care "Assen Zlatarov" - Sofia When? October,1999/ May, 2000 What? - Work with children and adolescents - victims of family, inter-age, ethnic or sexual […] -
Christmas theater tour in social homes
1999With the support of Culture Foundation to Ministry of Culture
Christmas theater tour in social homes
With the support of the Culture Fund at the Ministry of Culture -
"Creative Journey"
1997-1998theatrical work for building positive stereotypes of behavior in social everyday life with homeless children from home "Faith, Hope and Love and deprived of parental care - in DDU "Ran Bosilek".
Creative journey of homeless children
executors of the foundation project "Free and democratic Bulgaria"
and Soros Center for the Arts
Where?
Center for work with homeless children "Faith, Hope and Love - Sofia
and DYU "Ran Bosilek" - Sofia
When?
November, 1997/ May,1998 r.
What?
Theatrical work on topics, close to the life experience of the participants. Building positive stereotypes of behavior in social everyday life.
Center for work with homeless children "Faith, Hope and Love - Sofia
WORK WITH CHILDREN, THEY DID NOT MEET THE HUMAN IN MAN, ABLE TO SURVIVE, UNSCIENCED TO BUILD.
Games and exercises for attention and confidence.
Positive communication.
Important life skills
Sketches with dolls from excerpts from "Pinocchio", songs and dances. Lisa Alice and the Cat Basilio - symbols of the dangers in the lives of little tramps.
DSYU "Ran Bosilek" - Sofia
Dolls express this more easily, what children want, but they do not have the courage to share.
Construction of a puppet theatrical performance based on the memories of the participants.
Constructive joint activity is a way to solve many interpersonal problems.
DIARY:
- THE POLICE BROUGHT THE KITTEN. HE DOESN'T KNOW HOW OLD HE IS, BUT HE WAS BIGGER THAN EMO, BECAUSE HE COULD BEAT HIM
- WHAT A HUNGER FOR LOVE - THERE ARE NO TIME FOR WORK FROM KISSING! WHERE IS MY NECKLACE?
- THERE IS A FUNERAL AT HOME. YESTERDAY, SKINARS BEAT ASEN. IF YOU DON'T KNOW THEM, YOU WILL THINK THIS WILL KEEP THEM IN THE BUILDING.
- THE MAGIC OF THEATER CONTROLS EVEN THE GALPING ATTENTION OF THE LITTLE WANDERERS. SURPRISE FOR THE SPECTATORS WAS THEIR SUCCESSFUL PERFORMANCE ON THE STAGE OF NADEZHDA CULTURAL HOME
"Creative Journey"
theatrical work for building positive stereotypes of behavior in social everyday life with homeless children from the home "Faith, Hope and Love "and deprived of parental care - in the Children's Home" Ran Bosilek ". Creative journey of homeless children executors of the project of the Free and Democratic Bulgaria Foundation and Soros Center for the Arts Where? Work center […] -
"A Tale of Winnie the Pooh"
1998Joint puppet production with a theater house "Marietta and Marionette"
"A Tale of Winnie the Pooh"
Joint puppet production with Marietta and Marionette Theater -
"Distribution of theatrical production in regions, detached from cultural life "
1998With the support of National Theater Center to Ministry of Culture
"Distribution of theatrical production in regions, detached from cultural life "
With the support of the National Theater Center at the Ministry of Culture -
Positive social adaptation of children at risk in 5 Home from the Lovech region
1997-1998working with Roma children to control domestic violence;
With the support of Foundation „Development of civil society ”
My very good friend, the director, invited me to complete the project together "The soul of the object", conceived as a joint theatrical activity of children from the Home for Children and Adolescents (DYU) "Ran Bosilek" and children from the nearby district. "Revival", where I ran a student theater studio. I readily accepted.
But before the project starts, she went to the United States forever, and I had to do the work myself. More precisely, together with my little daughter.
The emotions from my relationship with the children were too strong. Instead 3, I stayed with them 9 months. There was no more giving up. I wanted to take care of all the sick children in the country who lack love, to give them mine, to feel, that they have a friend, who loves them… I wanted to teach them to love. Violence, among which they lived, it was horrible!
I wrote my first project "Socializing cultural program" for the whole of Bulgaria! I was ready to eradicate evil all over the country at once! Strange, my good intentions were not appreciated.:( I remembered, that I have to "cut" my program into small pieces. And I handed two "Socializing cultural programs" for two regions, in two foundations.
At that time, two other very good friends of mine, directors, sharing my social excitement, won the support of the Civil Society Development Foundation for their project "Positive social adaptation of children at risk". It included training for everyone, who would take this difficult path, and also a field for expression in 5 DDU in the Lovech and Sofia region.
Flower Theater it was him, who set out on this difficult path.
It happened like that, that during 300 - hour training at Dr. David Yeroham "Psychodramatic and art techniques when working with children, victim of violence ", after a long wait, we received a message at the same time, that both of my "Socializing Cultural Programs" - a charity fund - have been approved Raina Kabaivanska support its implementation in 6 DDU in the Montana area, and support for 5 DDY in Kyustendil region, took Center "Open Education"
WHEN?
And so, in October, 1997 began our unforgettable baptism of fire - 16 day tour c 16 various social homes
WHERE?
Every day in a new home, with different children, with the same diagnosis: SICK OF LACK OF LOVE. – 16 Home for children, deprived of parental care in Kyustendil district, Montana, Lovech and Sofia
WHAT?
Because the DDU were built in places as far away from civilization as possible, we are trying to make going there a cultural event for the local community. In the pre-sent information about the upcoming visit is written our offer to play "Grandma's Tales", performance with international awards, in the village community center or the gym of the social home in front of a wide audience.
Such an organization had been made in only two places. In most cases, pedagogues at DDU become graduates who have not found another job and they are not interested in this job.
The theatrical performance was the calling card, with which we introduced ourselves to the children. Of course, we won their sympathy and interest in our art and they willingly joined the endeavors, which we offered them.
And that, which we offered them,it was to do theater together. In the theater, everything depends on everyone - on this one, who is on stage and from this one, which illuminates it; from the one who dances and from the one, who plays the music; from the one who makes the dolls, of this, who pulls the curtains. Whether the performance will be successful, is important for everyone. And it happens, when everyone understands, that each is no less important than the other. Theater is a powerful tool for building teamwork skills.
To alleviate the completely new task for these children "Making theater", we used the very familiar tale "Red Riding Hood". It provides a basis for all discussions, which we wanted to do with the children - violence, trust, thanks….
Usually the children in a home were in between 50 and 120. And we - five. He collects so much Lada. We divided the children into interest groups: actors, set designers, singers and dancers. They chose which one to join. "Scenographers" made under our guidance dolls-copies of ours, with which The "actors" they rehearsed. These were colored cardboard dolls and light slats, which then remained for them , with wishes for new performances. There was a fifth group - these, who did not want to get involved in anything. The smallest, which didn't make her the best- the easy one. A rehearsal followed, representation, applause, discussions, surprised teachers and aunts…
And after, after dinner, the last part of our program was coming . I don't know what to call her. We kept announcing it as a disco, and it turned into an evening of sharing experiences and artistic experiences. A very small proportion of foster children are real orphans; most are so-called. social orphans - children at the expense of their family; unwanted and discarded. Children, who know and expect their parents, and they do not come.
And so - day after day of 13.00 to 23.00 - in the heavy air of unclean orphanage buildings. Among countless stories, which sound like a thriller, but are the reality of children, who embrace us with hope, that we can take them with us, to become their parents…..
But the next day we are gone. We were just a meteor in their darkness. I hope they keep the light and remember our meeting! At least in the memories to have a light.
In our desire to give warmth to as many children as possible, my projects provided for one-day visits to the maximum number of homes. This is not the right strategy.
From 23.00 to 13.00 is the rest of our working time - this one, in which we tell each other, we share, we analyze, we reshape. If I fall asleep, I wake up from nightmares. Truly a baptism of fire.
We felt a huge difference in the results of our work with children, with whom we met in three consecutive months in the implementation of "Positive social adaptation of children at risk".
No matter how much time we spend on children, it is never enough. But we must try to plan it that way, to be of maximum use to them.
This, that they had an expectation for our next meeting, motivated them to be active in the performance of tasks, which we set for them for independent work. There was time to think and continue the conversation. There was a time for friendship to develop. There was time for a trial.
Each of our visits began with a puppet show, which began to bring at least a dozen more outside children, which we rejoiced from the heart! (After "Grandma's tales" followed "Who conquered the Sun.?“ - a puppet show against violence with the participation of the spectators and "Snow Adventures" - interactive Christmas performance about friendship.)
Within this project we conducted School of Tolerance for over 350 children. Participants were divided into 2 age groups:
-6 – 12 year. . Building a theatrical performance based on problem situations set by us, whose solution the children have found together. So in the five social homes under the same initial conditions we received 5 various performances.
-12 – 18 Discussions on current social issues. Construction of a musical-satirical Christmas show.
DIARY:
TWO SKIN-CUT CHILDREN COME TO THE GROUND. ONE SCREAMS. – DON'T BEAT HIM! - SHOUTS THE OTHER. – THE BOYS DON'T BEAT THE GIRLS! - EXPLAINS THE SCREAMER. – WE PLAY ON RAPE.
THE GOOD MY FAIRY, WELCOMING INSPIRATION THE MAGIC STICK, IS A GIRL WITH SADISTIC ATTITUDES, AND HUGGED FOR PROTECTION ANI - ONE OF HER PERMANENT VICTIMS. NEW ROLES - NEW RELATIONSHIPS
Positive social adaptation of children at risk in 5 Home from the Lovech region
working with Roma children to control domestic violence; With the support of the Civil Society Development Foundation, my very good friend, the director, invited me to complete the project "The Soul of the Subject" together., conceived as a joint theatrical activity of children from the Home for Children and Adolescents (DYU) Ran Bosilek and children from the nearby district. "Revival", where I led […] -
Socializing cultural program for children from 5 DDY in Kyustendil region
1997With the support of the Center "Open Education" and center "Open education"
My very good friend, the director, invited me to complete the project together "The soul of the object", conceived as a joint theatrical activity of children from the Home for Children and Adolescents (DYU) "Ran Bosilek" and children from the nearby district. "Revival", where I ran a student theater studio. I readily accepted.
But before the project starts, she went to the United States forever, and I had to do the work myself. More precisely, together with my little daughter.
The emotions from my relationship with the children were too strong. Instead 3, I stayed with them 9 months. There was no more giving up. I wanted to take care of all the sick children in the country who lack love, to give them mine, to feel, that they have a friend, who loves them… I wanted to teach them to love. Violence, among which they lived, it was horrible!
I wrote my first project "Socializing cultural program" for the whole of Bulgaria! I was ready to eradicate evil all over the country at once! Strange, my good intentions were not appreciated.:( I remembered, that I have to "cut" my program into small pieces. And I handed two "Socializing cultural programs" for two regions, in two foundations.
At that time, two other very good friends of mine, directors, sharing my social excitement, won the support of the Civil Society Development Foundation for their project "Positive social adaptation of children at risk". It included training for everyone, who would take this difficult path, and also a field for expression in 5 DDU in the Lovech and Sofia region.
Flower Theater it was him, who set out on this difficult path.
It happened like that, that during 300 - hour training at Dr. David Yeroham "Psychodramatic and art techniques when working with children, victim of violence ", after a long wait, we received a message at the same time, that both of my "Socializing Cultural Programs" - a charity fund - have been approved Raina Kabaivanska support its implementation in 6 DDU in the Montana area, and support for 5 DDY in Kyustendil region, took Center "Open Education"
WHEN?
And so, in October, 1997 began our unforgettable baptism of fire - 16 day tour c 16 various social homes
WHERE?
Every day in a new home, with different children, with the same diagnosis: SICK OF LACK OF LOVE. – 16 Home for children, deprived of parental care in Kyustendil district, Montana, Lovech and Sofia
WHAT?
Because the DDU were built in places as far away from civilization as possible, we are trying to make going there a cultural event for the local community. In the pre-sent information about the upcoming visit is written our offer to play "Grandma's Tales", performance with international awards, in the village community center or the gym of the social home in front of a wide audience.
Such an organization had been made in only two places. In most cases, pedagogues at DDU become graduates who have not found another job and they are not interested in this job.
The theatrical performance was the calling card, with which we introduced ourselves to the children. Of course, we won their sympathy and interest in our art and they willingly joined the endeavors, which we offered them.
And that, which we offered them,it was to do theater together. In the theater, everything depends on everyone - on this one, who is on stage and from this one, which illuminates it; from the one who dances and from the one, who plays the music; from the one who makes the dolls, of this, who pulls the curtains. Whether the performance will be successful, is important for everyone. And it happens, when everyone understands, that each is no less important than the other. Theater is a powerful tool for building teamwork skills.
To alleviate the completely new task for these children "Making theater", we used the very familiar tale "Red Riding Hood". It provides a basis for all discussions, which we wanted to do with the children - violence, trust, thanks….
Usually the children in a home were in between 50 and 120. And we - five. He collects so much Lada. We divided the children into interest groups: actors, set designers, singers and dancers. They chose which one to join. "Scenographers" made under our guidance dolls-copies of ours, with which The "actors" they rehearsed. These were colored cardboard dolls and light slats, which then remained for them , with wishes for new performances. There was a fifth group - these, who did not want to get involved in anything. The smallest, which didn't make her the best- the easy one. A rehearsal followed, representation, applause, discussions, surprised teachers and aunts…
And after, after dinner, the last part of our program was coming . I don't know what to call her. We kept announcing it as a disco, and it turned into an evening of sharing experiences and artistic experiences. A very small proportion of foster children are real orphans; most are so-called. social orphans - children at the expense of their family; unwanted and discarded. Children, who know and expect their parents, and they do not come.
And so - day after day of 13.00 to 23.00 - in the heavy air of unclean orphanage buildings. Among countless stories, which sound like a thriller, but are the reality of children, who embrace us with hope, that we can take them with us, to become their parents…..
But the next day we are gone. We were just a meteor in their darkness. I hope they keep the light and remember our meeting! At least in the memories to have a light.
In our desire to give warmth to as many children as possible, my projects provided for one-day visits to the maximum number of homes. This is not the right strategy.
From 23.00 to 13.00 is the rest of our working time - this one, in which we tell each other, we share, we analyze, we reshape. If I fall asleep, I wake up from nightmares. Truly a baptism of fire.
We felt a huge difference in the results of our work with children, with whom we met in three consecutive months in the implementation of "Positive social adaptation of children at risk".
No matter how much time we spend on children, it is never enough. But we must try to plan it that way, to be of maximum use to them.
This, that they had an expectation for our next meeting, motivated them to be active in the performance of tasks, which we set for them for independent work. There was time to think and continue the conversation. There was a time for friendship to develop. There was time for a trial.
Each of our visits began with a puppet show, which began to bring at least a dozen more outside children, which we rejoiced from the heart! (After "Grandma's tales" followed "Who conquered the Sun.?“ - a puppet show against violence with the participation of the spectators and "Snow Adventures" - interactive Christmas performance about friendship.)
Within this project we conducted School of Tolerance for over 350 children. Participants were divided into 2 age groups:
-6 – 12 year. . Building a theatrical performance based on problem situations set by us, whose solution the children have found together. So in the five social homes under the same initial conditions we received 5 various performances.
-12 – 18 Discussions on current social issues. Construction of a musical-satirical Christmas show.
DIARY:
TWO SKIN-CUT CHILDREN COME TO THE GROUND. ONE SCREAMS. – DON'T BEAT HIM! - SHOUTS THE OTHER. – THE BOYS DON'T BEAT THE GIRLS! - EXPLAINS THE SCREAMER. – WE PLAY ON RAPE.
THE GOOD MY FAIRY, WELCOMING INSPIRATION THE MAGIC STICK, IS A GIRL WITH SADISTIC ATTITUDES, AND HUGGED FOR PROTECTION ANI - ONE OF HER PERMANENT VICTIMS. NEW ROLES - NEW RELATIONSHIPS
Memories of Tsvete Yaneva
Socializing cultural program for children from 5 DDY in Kyustendil region
With the support of the Open Education Center and the Open Education Center, my very good friend-director invited me to complete the Soul of the Subject project together., conceived as a joint theatrical activity of children from the Home for Children and Adolescents (DYU) Ran Bosilek and children from the nearby district. "Revival", where I ran a student theater studio. I readily accepted. But before […] -
Socializing cultural program for children from 6 Montana Home for Children and Adolescents
1997With the support of a charity fund Raina Kabaivanska
My very good friend, the director, invited me to complete the project together "The soul of the object", conceived as a joint theatrical activity of children from the Home for Children and Adolescents (DYU) "Ran Bosilek" and children from the nearby district. "Revival", where I ran a student theater studio. I readily accepted.
But before the project starts, she went to the United States forever, and I had to do the work myself. More precisely, together with my little daughter.
The emotions from my relationship with the children were too strong. Instead 3, I stayed with them 9 months. There was no more giving up. I wanted to take care of all the sick children in the country who lack love, to give them mine, to feel, that they have a friend, who loves them… I wanted to teach them to love. Violence, among which they lived, it was horrible!
I wrote my first project "Socializing cultural program" for the whole of Bulgaria! I was ready to eradicate evil all over the country at once! Strange, my good intentions were not appreciated.:( I remembered, that I have to "cut" my program into small pieces. And I handed two "Socializing cultural programs" for two regions, in two foundations.
At that time, two other very good friends of mine, directors, sharing my social excitement, won the support of the Civil Society Development Foundation for their project "Positive social adaptation of children at risk". It included training for everyone, who would take this difficult path, and also a field for expression in 5 DDU in the Lovech and Sofia region.
Flower Theater it was him, who set out on this difficult path.
It happened like that, that during 300 - hour training at Dr. David Yeroham "Psychodramatic and art techniques when working with children, victim of violence ", after a long wait, we received a message at the same time, that both of my "Socializing Cultural Programs" - a charity fund - have been approved Raina Kabaivanska support its implementation in 6 DDU in the Montana area, and support for 5 DDY in Kyustendil region, took Center "Open Education"
WHEN?
And so, in October, 1997 began our unforgettable baptism of fire - 16 day tour c 16 various social homes
WHERE?
Every day in a new home, with different children, with the same diagnosis: SICK OF LACK OF LOVE. – 16 Home for children, deprived of parental care in Kyustendil district, Montana, Lovech and Sofia
WHAT?
Because the DDU were built in places as far away from civilization as possible, we are trying to make going there a cultural event for the local community. In the pre-sent information about the upcoming visit is written our offer to play "Grandma's Tales", performance with international awards, in the village community center or the gym of the social home in front of a wide audience.
Such an organization had been made in only two places. In most cases, pedagogues at DDU become graduates who have not found another job and they are not interested in this job.
The theatrical performance was the calling card, with which we introduced ourselves to the children. Of course, we won their sympathy and interest in our art and they willingly joined the endeavors, which we offered them.
And that, which we offered them,it was to do theater together. In the theater, everything depends on everyone - on this one, who is on stage and from this one, which illuminates it; from the one who dances and from the one, who plays the music; from the one who makes the dolls, of this, who pulls the curtains. Whether the performance will be successful, is important for everyone. And it happens, when everyone understands, that each is no less important than the other. Theater is a powerful tool for building teamwork skills.
To alleviate the completely new task for these children "Making theater", we used the very familiar tale "Red Riding Hood". It provides a basis for all discussions, which we wanted to do with the children - violence, trust, thanks….
Usually the children in a home were in between 50 and 120. And we - five. He collects so much Lada. We divided the children into interest groups: actors, set designers, singers and dancers. They chose which one to join. "Scenographers" made under our guidance dolls-copies of ours, with which The "actors" they rehearsed. These were colored cardboard dolls and light slats, which then remained for them , with wishes for new performances. There was a fifth group - these, who did not want to get involved in anything. The smallest, which didn't make her the best- the easy one. A rehearsal followed, representation, applause, discussions, surprised teachers and aunts…
And after, after dinner, the last part of our program was coming . I don't know what to call her. We kept announcing it as a disco, and it turned into an evening of sharing experiences and artistic experiences. A very small proportion of foster children are real orphans; most are so-called. social orphans - children at the expense of their family; unwanted and discarded. Children, who know and expect their parents, and they do not come.
And so - day after day of 13.00 to 23.00 - in the heavy air of unclean orphanage buildings. Among countless stories, which sound like a thriller, but are the reality of children, who embrace us with hope, that we can take them with us, to become their parents…..
But the next day we are gone. We were just a meteor in their darkness. I hope they keep the light and remember our meeting! At least in the memories to have a light.
In our desire to give warmth to as many children as possible, my projects provided for one-day visits to the maximum number of homes. This is not the right strategy.
From 23.00 to 13.00 is the rest of our working time - this one, in which we tell each other, we share, we analyze, we reshape. If I fall asleep, I wake up from nightmares. Truly a baptism of fire.
We felt a huge difference in the results of our work with children, with whom we met in three consecutive months in the implementation of "Positive social adaptation of children at risk".
No matter how much time we spend on children, it is never enough. But we must try to plan it that way, to be of maximum use to them.
This, that they had an expectation for our next meeting, motivated them to be active in the performance of tasks, which we set for them for independent work. There was time to think and continue the conversation. There was a time for friendship to develop. There was time for a trial.
Each of our visits began with a puppet show, which began to bring at least a dozen more outside children, which we rejoiced from the heart! (After "Grandma's tales" followed "Who conquered the Sun.?“ - a puppet show against violence with the participation of the spectators and "Snow Adventures" - interactive Christmas performance about friendship.)
Within this project we conducted School of Tolerance for over 350 children. Participants were divided into 2 age groups:
-6 – 12 year. . Building a theatrical performance based on problem situations set by us, whose solution the children have found together. So in the five social homes under the same initial conditions we received 5 various performances.
-12 – 18 Discussions on current social issues. Construction of a musical-satirical Christmas show.
DIARY:
TWO SKIN-CUT CHILDREN COME TO THE GROUND. ONE SCREAMS. – DON'T BEAT HIM! - SHOUTS THE OTHER. – THE BOYS DON'T BEAT THE GIRLS! - EXPLAINS THE SCREAMER. – WE PLAY ON RAPE.
THE GOOD MY FAIRY, WELCOMING INSPIRATION THE MAGIC STICK, IS A GIRL WITH SADISTIC ATTITUDES, AND HUGGED FOR PROTECTION ANI - ONE OF HER PERMANENT VICTIMS. NEW ROLES - NEW RELATIONSHIPS
Socializing cultural program for children from 6 Montana Home for Children and Adolescents
With the support of the Raina Kabaivanska Charitable Foundation, my very good friend-director invited me to perform the project "The Soul of the Object" together., conceived as a joint theatrical activity of children from the Home for Children and Adolescents (DYU) Ran Bosilek and children from the nearby district. "Revival", where I ran a student theater studio. I readily accepted. But before the project starts, […] -
"Pizho and Penda"
1995interactive puppet show
"Pizho and Penda"
interactive puppet show -
"Snow Adventures"
1995Christmas puppet interactive show for the little ones
"Snow Adventures"
Christmas puppet interactive show for the little ones -
Participation in our and international theater festivals
1994 -
"Who conquered the Sun.?”
1994an interactive puppet show for the little ones against violence
"Who conquered the Sun.?”
an interactive puppet show for the little ones against violence -
"The soul of the object"
1994joint theatrical activity of foster children, deprived of parental care and other peers
With the support of a charity fund Raina Kabaivanska
"The soul of the object"
joint theatrical activity of foster children, deprived of parental care and other peers With the support of the Raina Kabaivanska Charitable Foundation -
"Christmas Tale"
1993 -
GRANDMA'S TALES
1993Musical folklore performance for children from 4 to 104 years with improvised dolls made of authentic objects from the village life
Babi, grandparents… They all gathered to put their grandson to sleep. But it wants a fairy tale! E, no way…
And the old men turn the objects of the chamber into fairy-tale characters. A towel rooster eats a lion from a sunflower, Broom witches turn a gourd king into a donkey, A dragon from a belt fights with a hero from spoons…
For them, it seems like the time is long gone, many years…
They are so playful, that they forget about the girl and are left alone, it falls asleep.Combining the daily problems of adults and children with funny stories, folk songs and dances, the show makes everyone laugh.
Screenplay and direction: Tsvete Yaneva Music: Methods Ivanov Participate: Violina Vasileva-Alexandrova, Ekaterina Kazakova, Mary Carney, Poliksena Hardalova and Konstantin Kostov The show received three nominations at the national review of puppetry in Bulgaria Kuklar95 - for directing, ensemble acting performance and for a complete performance.
He is the winner of the International Jury Award - for best director and
The Children's Jury for the most interesting show and
International Puppet Festival PIF'96 in Zagreb;
with the award of the Croatian Television at the festival in Šibenik in 1997 and the award for most creative show in 2000 r. In Torun, Poland.
It has been honored with special attention as the "festival event" in Dior, Hungary in 1996. He was applauded in Belgium, Slovenia, Italy, Macedonia, Serbia and Albania.GRANDMA'S TALES
Musical folklore performance for children from 4 to 104 years with improvised dolls made of authentic objects from the village life Babi, grandparents… They all gathered to put their grandson to sleep. But it wants a fairy tale! E, there is no way… And the old men turn the objects from the chamber into characters of fairy tales. A towel rooster eats a lion from a sunflower, Witches […]