"Feeling how the seed of Education and/or Art was planted in us"

Athens, 1/7/2023, workshop, ITAP Conference, Christina Stouraiti

HELLENIC THEATRE/DRANA & EDUCATION NETWORK (TENet-Gr)

Conference: Sustainable models of Teacher - Artist Partnerships (TAP) in 21st century Education:
communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity
Athens, Greece, Friday 30^th June, Saturday 1^st July and Sunday 2^nd July 2023 (site specific event)

Workshop 

Saturday 1^st July 2023 at Serafio City of Athens
 

“"Feeling how the seed of Education and/or Art was planted in us”

Christina Stouraiti, applied theatre facilitator, Greece

Workshop of improvisation in Playback Theatre.

Getting familiarized with some structural components, roles and forms of the interactive 

improvisational Playback Theatre, sharing our own thoughts, memories, experiences, visions of arts education and of an education supported with collaborations between Teachers and Artists. We leave with a powerful social tool and with techniques that we can apply directly in the school context if we want to explore what needs our group has and work on the issues that concern them.   

Christina Stouraiti is a graduate of Preschool Education from the  University of Ioannina, Greece. She has a Master's degree in "Applied Theatre" (Drama in Education and Theatre in the Community), from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, UK. She has been working in educational projects and programmes, drama and puppetry workshops in a variety of school, theatre and cultural institutions, within education and community settings in Athens.    For more than a decade she has been creatively involved in Playback Theatre, \which is an interactive improvisational genre of theatre, as a conductor and playbacker in the field. She is an active member of the Panhellenic Network for Theatre in Education.