Theatre Forum - You create your reality! (7-15.11.2024)
Get ready for this training course in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia!.
The training course "Theatre Forum - You create your reality" is the implementation of many years of experience of Diligo trainers in the field of participatory theatre, August Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, specifically one of its branches - Theatre Forum, into the professional life of five European partners with the aim of professional growth and development in creative work with youth.
The content of the training focuses on finding effective tools for strengthening youth at a given developmental stage - tools that will support youth, increase their self-awareness, self-acceptance and competence for finding solutions in their life.
The tools of August Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, specifically the tools of the participatory Theatre Forum and Paolo Freire's pedagogy offer young people the possibility of self-reflection (awareness of their situation and acceptance of it), problem definition (situation analysis and focus on the essential), sharing their problem, searching for a solution and creating new reality.
Here are the tools we will share in the training:
- Basics of the Theatre of the Oppressed by August Boal, its branches (Legislative Theater, Newspaper Theater, Invisible Theater, Rainbow of Desires, etc.)
- Theatre Forum as a participatory form of the Theatre of the Oppressed (we bring a specific problem to the stage, by involving the audience we look for solutions together)
- Basics of Paolo Freira's pedagogy (development of critical thinking, pedagogy of the oppressed, etc.)
- Basics of working with a group and theatrical form - Basics of facilitating the process of change (facilitating the process of finding a solution between the audience and the actors, developing facilitator competencies)
Objectives of the project:
- Increase the competence of youth workers through theater and expressive artistic approaches in creating an open dialogue with youth, defining their problems and finding solutions to their life situations
- Equip youth workers with proven work procedures based on A. Boal's Theater of the Oppressed, Forum Theater and Paolo Freir's pedagogy
- Using shared methods to support the efficiency, persistence and professionalism of workers in the process of integrating youth into a prosperous life.
The training course for youth workers will take place from November 8 to 14, 2024 at Centre of Independent Culture Záhrada in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia.
Travel days: 7 of November and 15 of November, 2024 (full availability during all these days is needed).
When?
November 7th, 2024/ arrival day
November 8th, 2024/ The 1st working day starting at 9am in Záhrada (Centre of Independent Culture)
November 15th, 2024/ departure day (after breakfast)
Travel costs
Travel costs are covered by Erasmus+ and are reimbursed on the end of the training course. For participants coming from Austria by train/bus (green travel) max. 285€/ per participant.
Accommodation and food is included (breakfast, lunch and dinner).
Záhrada, Centre of Independent Culture (Banská Bystrica)
The town of Banská Bystrica Banská Bystrica is a city in Central Slovakia located on the Hron River in a long and wide valley encircled by the mountain chains of the Low Tatras, the Veľká Fatra, and the Kremnica Mountains. Banská Bystrica is the sixth most populous municipality in Slovakia and is an economic, administrative and cultural center of Central Slovakia, and the seat of the Banská Bystrica Self-Governing Region.
Záhrada, Centre of Independent Culture Záhrada is a culture centre – space for presentation and creation of contemporary art with open programming (dance, theatre, music, education, residencies). It strongly supports civil activities of young people and a meeting place of various communities. The adjacent garden park is a recreational zone used for sports all year long. Záhrada is a base and a scene for the community theatre Divadlo z Pasáže and SKOK! NGO that works in favor of education in the area of contemporary dance. https://www.zahradacnk.sk
The host
The Diligo organization is a non-profit organization bringing together professionals from the environment of informal youth education through tools such as theatre, visual arts, music, games and nature. Their priorities are the inclusion of excluded groups population into the majority society, taking into account geographic, economic, social or political exclusion. They follow up on experiences with youth in re-education centers, in children's homes, with homeless people, with persons in jails, with people with mental or combined disabilities, or with young people in elementary or secondary schools. They create creative workshops based on theater techniques with elements of drama therapy/art therapy, we share approaches of social theater that bring solutions in difficult situations and help to reflect our life paths clients.
The organization works with August Boal's Theater of the Oppressed method, with the Hero's Journey method, with council circles and others. Diligo was founded by a group of non-formal education trainers with extensive experience with Erasmus+ projects and builds on the many years of experience of its members in the field of art, therapy, counseling, accompanying youth or of informal education itself.
Webpage: www.diligo.sk
If you are interested in joining this training course, please sign up here and we will get back to you as soon as possible!
Please, get in touch with us ONLY if you have FULL AVAILABILITY to travel and be present during the whole training course, NO EXCEPTIONS are possible
Registration link: https://forms.gle/x1d8mSE6kH7sTgmn7
*This project is co-funded by the Erasmus program of the European Union*
