Theatre Makes Politics (TMP) - Conference

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Theatre Makes Politics (TMP)
Cooperation project in the field of theatre, education and citizenship
Erasmus+ 2022-2025
 Partners:  Bundesverband Theaterpädagogik E.V. (BUT) Germany (Coordinator),
La Transplanisphere (LT) France, Ex-Quorum (EQ) Portugal, Center for Intercultural Dialogue (CID) North Macedonia, Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr) Greece, Stadt Theatre Dortmund (STD) Germany

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TMP Conference / Multiplier Event

Dortmund Germany

25-27/10/2024

"Play.Power.Society"

Annual conference of the Bundesverband Theaterpädagogik e.V. (BUT) in cooperation with Dortmund Theatre

Organiser: Bundesverband Theaterpädagogik in cooperation with Theater Dortmung 

Participants: Approx. 100-150 people

FRIDAY 25/10/2024 (KJT)
13:00-16:30 BuT general meeting

all others: Arrive from 16:00, registration and coffee

17:00 Opening of the conference: Welcome by representatives of BuT, KJT, Managing Director of Theater Dortmund Bühne

17:30 Exchange I - Playful impulse as an introduction Stage

18:00 Content impulse: Lecture (Wilhelm Heitmeyer, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence) followed by discourse Stage

19.00 Dinner Catering by external provider

20.00 Performance of the KJT, "Der Entstörer" - followed by an evening at the conference bar

 

SATURDAY 26/10/2024 morning (Theatre Dortmund, Schauspielhaus)

9.00 a.m. Morning training - warm-up and speed dating.

9:30 a.m. Presentation of the workshops/ organisation and bringing to the rooms Stage Schauspielhaus

10:00 Workshop Phase I 

13:00-14:30 Lunch break / Catering, Labsal?, Foyer Schauspielhaus on site?

SATURDAY afternoon (Theatre Dortmund, Schaupielhaus)

14:30 "Return match" of the students of the FH Dortmund, Foyer Schauspielhaus

15:00 Impulse lecture II, e.g. "Theatre pedagogy in political education" Prof. Dr. Melanie Hinz, UDK Berlin - Bühne Schauspielhaus

16:00 Coffee and cake break in the foyer

16:30-18:00 Workshop Phase II 

18:00-18:45 Bringing the workshops together, theatre stage

19:00-20:00 Evening buffet in the Schauspielhaus foyer

20:00-21:30 Multimedia presentation of the handbook "#Theatre.Makes.Politics" / Interview with TMP partners from Europe, questions and answers. Theatre stage

21:30 Party (with DJ) at the Acting Institute

 

SUNDAY, 28/10/2024 (Dortmund Opera House, Foyer Opera)
09.00 Morning training, warm up

9:30 Project Pool (practical examples of theatre pedagogy in the context of political education)  - Opera Foyer

11:30 Coffee break

11:45 World Cafe, discourse on topics from the field of "Theatre pedagogy in the context of political education" Foyer Opera House

12:45 "Return match" of the students of the FH Dortmund - Foyer Opera

13:00 Closing forum, end of conference - Opera foyer

13:30 Lunch (conclusion)

14:15: Estimated end (latest 15:00)

 

 

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Theatre Makes Politics (TMP)  (in short)
an Erasmus+ Youth Project 2022-2025

Main partners
-Bundesverband Theaterpädagogik e.V., (BUT), Germany (Project Coordinator)
-La Transplanisphere (LT), France
-Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr), Greece
-Ex-Quorum - Associação de Divulgação de Eventos Culturais (EQ), Portugal
-Centre for Intercultural Dialogue Association, (CID), Rebublic of North Macedonia
-Stadt Theatre Dortmund (STD), Germany 

 

Main areas of concerns: TMP proposes to originate a creative response on anti-democratic forces in European societies.
The consortium of partners considers it is extremely important that youth workers working with young Europeans are able to use creative tools to question how populists and extremists  try to manipulate them.

The project explores how some groups create opposition up to enemyship to other groups, be they refugeexpected es, muslims, “unbelievers”, LGBTQ+ a.s.o.

The expected  results: TMP  develops creative worktools, a handbook, an a network, in order to empower youth workers to be able to shift perspectives in their concrete work, and to help young people to find a deeper understanding of people who are “different”, overcoming prejudices and discover the pleasure of exchanging, playing and acting with people they would otherwise never meet.

The project’s objectives are:
- To empower and encourage youth workers to integrate methods into their work that will help them to address antidemocratic attitudes, such as racism, nationalism, intolerance, as well as religious fundamentalism in all its forms.
- To enrich the set of methods and tools available for youth work in the above fields with techniques from the field of theatre pedagogy and other performing arts.
- To create a core of youth trainers/ workers who have skills to tackle these sensitive issues in their work, and who also can act as multipliers

The project will address the 4 following issues using theatre/drama and performing arts:

1. Far-right extremism and populism: Racism and anti-refugees' rhetoric
2. Far-right extremism and populism: Conspiracy theories and disinformation
3. Religious fundamentalism: Islamic fundamentalism 
4. Christian religious dogmatism and politics

The steps:
a) 4 face-to-face Research Workshops (Paris – Montreuil France, September 2022: religious extremism, Lesvos Isl Greece, October 2022: racism, refugees, xenophobia, nationalism, Evora Portugal November 2022: Christian religious dogmatism and politicsm, Skopje, North Macedonia, January 2023: Conspiracy theories and fake news)
b) Research & Writing Groups
c) Drafting a manual
d) Presenting the manual to selected youth workers
e) Testing the methodology with Youth Groups
f) Re-writing the manual & work-tools
g) Dissemination events (local conferences)

Implementation period 1/3/2022-1/3/2025

Project ID No:  2021-2-DE04-KA220-YOU - 000049944
(Erasmus+ Cooperation partnerships in youth 2021, Round 2)