The Projects

An awareness raising project, targeting the educational community, on human rights and refugee issues using experiential learning, theatre and educational drama techniques.

Erasmus+ /Sch 2-23-2026

Teaching mathematics using drama
The project's purpose is to overcome the obstacles in the way of teaching and learning mathematics at EU level.

"Why violence?"

Theatre-in-Education project about violence and coexistence in school.
The project will be implemented in twelve schools of the Municipality of Thessaloniki, in six primary and six secondary schools, in the school year of 2024-2025. 

The games of others
Theatrical performance & drama pedagogy project

In collaboration with the Municipal Regional Theatre of Patras, it will take place in schools of Achaia region between October and November 2024.

The 4 colours

 Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-GR) and the Project for the Promotion of Self-help of Aristoteleian University of Thessaloniki collaborate for the development of actions based on the Theatre of the Oppressed and Forum Theatre. 

Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-GR), "Skasiarheio" Pedagogical group and the "Point for studying and facing far-right" organize intervention actions around Greece, aiming to raise awareness among the local communities and especially to support members of the educational community.

Escapes... from every addiction. A drama pedagogy project / forum theatre performance for schools about decision making and prevention

"349΄ yet..."

Forum Theatre Performance - Drama Pedagogy Project about school violence for primary and secondary education students, teachers, parents
Paithea Drama Pedagogy Group, in collaboration with the Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network

Our Cherry Orchard is also wonderful!

Theatre-In-Education project & interactive Forum Theatre play for high school students, university students, educators, parents, citizens.

The effort of a young activist as she struggles to save a wetland from destruction.

The multicolored immigration of the butterfly

Interactive Forum Theatre Performance & Drama Pedagogy Project for secondary education students, educators, parents
The workshop-performance deals with issues such as solidarity, acceptance of the "other" and facing xenophobia.

"YOU have them stay with you!"

A forum theatre performance & drama pedagogy project for High school students, university students, teachers, parents
The play debates issues such as solidarity, acceptance of “the other” and dealing with xenophobia. It addresses teenagers, teachers and members of the broader educational community and attempts to set the participants against personal and social attitudes, ideals, wishes and responsibilities, inviting them to intervene during the performance and offer solutions.

Sustainable art, sustainable growth

A program that aims to promote sensitivity of students (eight school groups of primary and secondary education) about the effect of human activity on the urban or rural environment, through art.

A training course for Cultural Youth Workers in using movement methods to work with young people
Erasmus+/Youth project
Coordinator Partner: Crooked House Theatre Company, Ireland

International Teacher-Artist Partnership (I-TAP-PD) PD

"ODYSSEY - for our own life"

An educational tool for teachers who want to imbue an experiential dimension to the teaching of Odyssey and connect it to the contemporary era, with the aim to attract the interest of students to the homeric poem.

"The Quarantine Dialogues: names, stories, poems - TOGETHER" is an action directed to teenagers from the refugee and local population by the Hellenic Theatre / Drama & Education Network, with the collaboration of UNHCR in the context of the "TOGETHER" action of the project "it could be me; it could be you".

Aegean Monologues

​The Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network in cooperation with the International Drama/Theatre & Education Association - IDEA and with the support of UNHCR Greece have set March 21st, 2017, as the International Action Day for the "Monologues across the Aegean Sea." Artistic events, performances, public readings, school festivals and youth events will take place around the world on the said date on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
 

"Let's go to the Theatre!"

Selected theatrical plays for the members of the Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network

Reading Club for Theatrical texts

The "Reading Club" is an action that started in 2019 with the initiative of the Northern Greece Office and continues to take place in several other areas.

...with the National Theatre

A series of experiential Drama Pedagogy workshops aimed at Theatre Professionals, in the context of the project "Theatre, Education and Society", which was organised by the Adolescent Scene of the National Theatre

"Together"

With the view to create opportunities and preconditions for coexistence and meeting between local student population and refugee children accommodated in different locations and facilities, joint creative actions are designed and promoted by the Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr) and UNHCR Greece.

These include activities such as common art workshops for local and refugee youths, visits to museums, street happenings, attendance to music, dance and theatre performances etc. Such activities can facilitate intercultural communication, breaking the ice between the two populations, fighting fear and stereotypes, while mitigating the sense of marginalization among the refugee population.

"I didn't mean it!" draws tools from performance and applied theatre in order to invite the audience, both women and men, to create together the dramaturgy of 4-minute video in live broadcast.

The Walk

A 3,5 meter high puppet with the form of a 9-year-old refugee girl will travel for 8.000 klm, crossing Turkey and Europe, from July to November 2021. 

The Walk with Amal is a mobile - peripatetic arts festival where a multitude of state, humanitarian and artistic institutions and organisations participate, from European as well as Asian countries under the auspices and coordination of Good Chance from the United Kingdom.

The young participants had the opportunity to work in teams, to do a series of drama and dance workshops but also other cultural activites, with the aim to acquire relevant skills and come into contact with good practices for the empowerment of a mixed group and the teaching of techniques of motion and speech.

In the context of Erasmus+ Key Action 1, Mobility of Youth Workers Training Project.

From May 2017 to December 2020, in collaboration with Action Aid Hellas, at Epikentro (Epicenter) space, 28 Drama Pedagogy projects were designed and implemented (515 experiential workshops) with an outreach of 1.850 persons. 

"Global Curiosity is a partnership between three European partners: in UK (Curious Minds), Greece (The Hellenic Theatre/Drama and Education Network -TENet-Gr) and Poland (The Malopolska Institute of Culture in Krakow). All three partners share the belief that there is a pressing need for young people to be able to think critically, behave compassionately and act democratically. We also believe that creativity and curiosity are vital to this."

Pilot action of intercultural education in the arts and techniques of video, photography, editing, interviewing, script writing and representation.

The action aims at empowering young people, facilitating social coexistence and inclusion. It creates a safe environment in which young people have the opportunity to interact, share ideas, experiences, techniques, reflect on issues that concern themselves and their communities, to explore them collectively in artistic ways and means and to express their own proposals for social justice.

(Karolos) Koun in Exarcheia
Occupation and Resistance

Artistic tribute, Historical walk – Performance, Artistic Coffee Shop in collaboration with the Pedagogical Team "Skasiarheio"

LΟGOS: on stage words with meaning

Crooked House Theater Company
For 30 participants from Greece and Ireland

The project, founded by Erasmus+, is a creative gathering of artists from Ireland and Greece for the search for ways theatre can reveal contemporary social issues.

Videomuseums

The local network/collaboration of schools «Videomuseums» is implemented in East Attica Secondary Education Directorate as an action within the project  "Education & Audiovisual expression: photo-cinema".

It aims to create and develop processes that lead to the production and exchange of audiovisual messages and the creation of "videomuseums".

Theatre and Prison
"Roles in life - roles in theatre"

Suppose you are asked to create, together with your friends, a short drama or a short video in order to show to others elements of your own culture that you, as a group, consider important for your lives now.
What would you choose to record and to share with others?”

A group of video/drama educators together with teachers and their students from Athens Greece and Istanbul Turkey decided to explore this challenge! 

mPPACT - Methodology for a Pedagogy
with the Student and Performative Arts in the Center

The program is related to the theme of «identity» in a Europe that is constantly changing. The world is transformed economically, socially and culturally through the process of globalization. Education and teachers in all European countries are in turn facing these huge changes. Behavioral models are changing, and it is obvious that teacher-centered methods are completely ineffective for student development. Children and young people should be trained in such a way that they are able to cope with the challenges of "tomorrow" and to perceive "different".

You, as well as I

...exploring diversity through theatre

The Project aspires to touch on the very important and multifaceted theme of diversity, which young people of all ages experience in various aspects. 

Young Theatrical Voices

Youth Theatre Camps

A program for young people since 2005 and includes a theatrical camp especially for young people from Greece and abroad

Acting Up – a Training Course for Youth, Ireland

An Erasmus+/Youth in Action Project

Theatre, regardless of the language one speaks and the society in which one lives, is a part of culture that unites us, helps us approach the other, to learn and create true bonds.

for children and adolescents

The Thessaloniki International Fair, the leading institution of prestige and promotion of the city, completes 81 years of operation and with love and respect for art and children, it organizes the 4th Theatre Festival for children and teenagers with a competitive character.

Radical Hope!

"Young people, Theatre, Radical Hope and Moral Imaginary: an intercultural research of theatre pedagogy, performance and active citizenship"

An international research project in collaboration with scholars, artists and schools in Canada, Greece, the United Kingdom, India, and Taiwan.
2014-2018

Making Space in - between cultures

in collaboration with the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts and the Drama School of Athens Conservatory

Creating a space-per-culture youth exchange program: Panhellenic Network for Theatre in Education, Liverpool Instite as Performing Arch and the Drama School of the Athens Conservatory

Literary workshop

"The students write!"

Adolescent Theatre intra muros

Collaboration in performances for adolescent audiences and production of a drama pedagogical program and material for teachers.

The responsibility of man as a member of an egalitarian state, the search and the rendering of law, the consequences of actions, the momentum of youth, the limits of society, issues that have preoccupied man since the beginning of his conscious life will come alive from the school book to the stage of theatre and within the classroom of the school, turning Antigone of Sophocles into a work that speaks for today.

A Youth In Action 4.3 Project organised by Asociación Cazalla Intercultural, Spain

The aim of the TC is that of giving support in starting a new thematic of youth exchanges that would promote the defending and promoting of the human rights, the fighting against discrimination, racism and xenophobia through the street theatre, and that would develop the participants/ competences (knowledge, abilities and attitudes) of combining these two working areas that are almost never put together in training projects of European dimension.

Gaza Monologues

in collaboration with Ashtar Theatre in Palestine

From November 2009 to April 2010, with the help of a drama pedagogue and a psychologist, 32 young people and young people of 13-17 years in Gaza edited and recorded as monologues their experiences, thoughts, hopes, dreams and fears during and after the invasion and war in December 2008. The approach was made with the help of techniques of the Theatre of the Oppressed of Augusto Boal, Dramatherapy and Storytelling.

Lysistrata and the war

International project 2003

On 3/3/03 around the world, tributes were made to the anti-war work of Aristophanes. Artists, students, universities, troupes, clubs, simple groups joined voices against the war with the help of "Lysistrata".

3, 2, 1 We are filming!

In this program children are involved in the process of shooting a film. The aim of the program is to familiarize students with the means and techniques of both theater and cinema through playing and to experience the joy of creation, of teamwork and cooperation.

Education & Drama
Internships for university students

Internship program of students of Theatre Studies of the University of Athens in Middle- and High-Schools of Attica

In collaboration with the Cultural Issues of Secondary Education Directorate of East Attica

March-May 2002

Lavrio: a theatre of memory and history

The Program aims mainly at students of all levels of the area to strengthen their relationship with history, the anthropogeography and the particular characteristics of their municipality through Theatre and other forms of Art (visual arts, photography, music, dance, etc.).

INDRA Network

A global network of young people, artists, educators and others who set the goal of utilizing the arts as a means of peaceful transformation of conflicts around the world.

The vision of INDRA is to break stereotypes, prejudice, inequality with the language of theatre; to build bridges to develop empathy and positive relationships regardless of borders. 

The days of Sokolów Malopolski

From 8-15 July 2006, in Rzeszwu in Krakow, Poland, an international youth and school group festival was successfully held, titled "the days of Sokolów Malopolski".

Social ARTpreneurship
for Innovative Solutions

An Erasmus+ KA1 Youth project
15 – 22 June 2015, Barcelona, Spain
Project Co ordinator: INCA Catalunya – International Network for Culture and Arts

During this 7 day workshop at the location Linars del Valles (Barcelona), we approached the topic of "Social Entrepreneurship".

The orange with the safety pin

Drama Pedagogical Program and performance 
Having laughter, humor, body, rhythm, acrobatics and improvisational music as the driving lever, the performance is a new proposal for artistic expression and communication.

The performance is presented in collaboration with «Arsis» (Social youth support organization), the Papafio Children's Support Center, the Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network, the Panhellenic Scientific Association of Theatrologists and is under the auspices of the Hellenic Federation of Groups and Centers for UNESCO.

A Manual to change the world

collaboration with the Quasi Stellar - Apostolia Papadamaki dance group

December 2005

I do believe you!

Drama pedagogical project with techniques from Forum theatre and the subject of lack of communication and aims in adolescence

Chios 2004-2005

Borders: intercultural dialogue in Europe

European Youth programme 2008-2010

60 young immigrants from 6 different countries in Europe, through their participation in a theatrical group, will attempt to cross the language borders, to strengthen their social consciousness and to deconstruct the fear of the "other".

If the student won't come to Sophocles

The ancient drama of Sophocles meets traditional music

Drama pedagogical Project

Rafina, Attica, 2007-2008

The project is aimed mainly at secondary school students and  young people who participate in cultural heritage institutions (Theatrical groups, conservatories, traditional music associations, etc).

Five stained afternoons

a drama pedagogical programma about diversity
Komotini 2007

How easy is it to change a situation; Heroes are who they are and their opinions hardly change. But if things were handled a little differently, would the future be any less bleak? The children identified with the protagonist of the play, a teenager who likes modern music and is crazy about football and tried to help him in the problem he is facing. "All I want is for you to respect my options" he yells at their faces. "I hear me. Are you listening to you?" he asks by claiming communication.

Playing out the stories of the world

Drama Pedagogy Program

Athens, 2010-2011

The program "Playing out the stories of the world to change the world" was designed and implemented by the Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network with the support of the General Secretariat of the New Generation under the auspices of the «Support Program for Initiatives for Youth».

The journey of Odysseus - classical and modern quests

European Leader Programme in Italy
Calabria, festival 1- 5 May 2006

The title refers to a historical and cultural journey, inspired by the wandering of Odysseus. The issues that were approached were the exploration of new places, the approach of other people's culture, migration. And all of this ends up on the road to the search for our own self.

Great Harvest of Hope

A YoungIDEA International Project
2010, Greece & Brazil

The purpose of the program "Great Harvest of Hope" (GHoH) was on the one hand to give young people of the world a step to put their voice forward, on the other hand, to allow the world to listen to them. This communication was made through art, through theatre and music, as speech is not the only means of communication of man.