"Theater Makes Politics"
Chiliomodi, Corinth Greece, 24/8/2024, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Supplementary/afternoon workshop for adults as part of the Theater Summer Camp 2024
Facilitator: Katerina Alexiadi
Language Greek
"Theater Makes Politics" (TMP) program (Erasmus+ 2022-2025) explores how theater can influence the political thinking and attitudes of contemporary European societies. More specifically, the purpose of the program is to empower and encourage youth workers to incorporate methods in their work that will help them deal with anti-democratic attitudes such as racism, nationalism, intolerance, and religious fundamentalism. In addition, it aims to enrich the set of available methods and tools for addressing these concepts with techniques from the field of theater pedagogy and other performing arts.
TMP is implemented in Greece by the Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr). The partners are Bundesverband Theaterpädagogik e.V. (BUT), Germany (Project Coordinator); La Transplanisphere (LT), France; Ex-Quorum - Associação de Divulgação de Eventos Culturais (EQ), Portugal; Centre for Intercultural Dialogue Association (CID), Republic of North Macedonia; and Stadt Theatre Dortmund (STD), Germany.
The purpose of this particular workshop is to explore the concepts of racism, populism, far-right extremism, and anti-refugee rhetoric, and to ask the participants how they perceive these concepts as well as to explore the perspectives of others. In this effort, the participants will:
- Recognize their perspectives on these topics
- Explore the perceptions of others
- Recognize and relate to the concepts
- Look into contemporary reality documents that will be shared
- Create artistic compositions
Katerina Alexiadi is a secondary school Language teacher in the Experimental Musical High School of Pallini. From September 2014 to September 2019, she had been a Cultural Project Coordinator in the Directorate of Secondary Education of Eastern Attica. She holds an MA in Theatre Studies–Musicology of the University of Athens/Theatre Studies Department and an MA in Cultural Management in Panteion University in the Department of Communication, Media and Culture. She has followed the two years course of Music and Movement Education Orff-Schulwerk offered by Moraitis School. She has studied classical singing, harmony of music and classical and contemporary dance. She has participated in performances inspired by Euripides' tragedies Troades, Bacchus, Medea, with the Ops Theater group of Katerina Papaiakovou and in dance performances. She has worked with children's theater groups and organized performances. She has participated as a member of the Organizing Committee and as a speaker at international conferences. She is a member of the Educational Group "To Skasiarcheo" and participated as a trainer in the Pilot Program for the implementation of Freinet Pedagogy. She is a member of the Hellenic Theatre/Drama Education Network (TENet-Gr) and a member of the editing committee of the “Education & Theatre” Journal. Since 2018 she is coordinator and trainer of the program "It could be me, it could be you?" of Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr)
Organised by the Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr)
Info: info@theatroedu.gr / ++306541600