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2015 - “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 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.

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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.

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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.