FORUM THEATER WORKSHOPS AND PERFORMANCES What we did so far The last few months were very challenging for us. However, we managed to implement some creative activities with young people across the partner countries. The second activity explores participatory and NFIL methods and workshops on Forum Theater to recreate the past and to reevaluate the present. […]
On 7 December, the Price of Freedom and Democracy project consortium held its regular online meeting. The partners discussed the implementation of the workshops and the Forum Theater performances across the partner countries. After the positive evaluation of the activities, the consortium starter planning for the last activity of the project – the final international […]
On the 28th of November we have staged the performance The End of the Song at the I AM STUDIO in Sofia, Bulgaria. The performance was a result of a five-day workshop focused on raising awareness on the act of remembrance and on reflecting on the meaning of youth participation in addressing the rights and […]
6 young people devoted themselves for 5 days of workshops, crafting and performing Forum theater performance “What democracy means for me?” at Haus International Landshut, Berlin 15-21.11. Scenes revolved around daily social situations and created characters illustrated personas that most strongly experience diversity in democratic society. Participants during workshops interviewed pass-by citizens to build real life situations, did […]
Today our Laboratory for theater research of memory has started in Sofia. The young people got acquainted with verbatim techniques and discussed their positions on the project topics, debating and analyzing the meaning of freedom, democracy and human rights in the form of a small community of advocates. The workshop offers multidisciplinary approach to creative […]
The performance “To be or not to be” was staged on 15 November in the theatre “Menas” in Panevėžys. The performance was inspired by the classical play of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” and as an analysis of the broken human soul. On the other side of the Iron Curtain, Shakespeare’s literature and plays were a way to […]
The Forum Theater Workshop in Lithuania took place between 24 October and 8 November. Young people are now ready to take the next step and present the performance on 15 November. Last rehearsals before the premiere and unexpectedly the main actor who was supposed to play Hamlet disappears. Who will replace him when there are […]
The Forum Theater performance in the Czech Republic took place on 17 October, Sunday. The performance entitled My Greatest Wish was played by the young participant in the workshop during August. The close proximity of Czech Radio’s offices and the August time frame easily defined the topic of the theater workshop, which focused on the fight for […]
On 25 September, the first Forum Theater performance was held in Krakow. Young participants told a story about a family of dissidents, in which the grandfather was dissident repressed by the government during the times of communism. They showed a situation what women had to be “strong” and take care of families and take over […]
During Event 2, Polish participants were working using the methodology of Forum Theater on a spectacle about the influence of the communist times on modern families. They created a performance about a family of dissidents (grandfather was dissident repressed by the government during the times of communism). That created a situation what women had to […]