THEATRE SUMMER CAMP 'PILIO 2025'
Will you step onto the chair of courage?
Facilitators Nikoletta Dimopoulou, Sonia Mologousi
Agios Ioannis Pilio Greece 26-31/8/2025
Main Workshop for adolescents (13-17 years)
Language Greek
Does someone climb onto a chair to see the world, or to be seen by the world?
As we find ourselves in a time and place where anyone feels entitled to judge what’s best for you, would you want them to make decisions for you too?
If you had something to say to the world, what would it be?
An ordinary piece of furniture found in every home, yet full of hidden symbolism, became the inspiration for the powerful work of Italian artist Davide Dormino and his monument “Anything to Say?”, presented at Alexanderplatz in Berlin. Taking this installation — dedicated to freedom of speech and to all those who dare to speak out — as our starting point, we ask: how easy is it really to find and use our voice?
For each person, these questions have different answers. And that is the essence of the chair.
Through techniques of devised theatre, performance, and personal storytelling, this workshop becomes a living forum of freedom and expression. Together, we will create our own “monument of speech”, inspired by the experiences, concerns, and dreams of individuals during adolescence. For those who wish, this is a space to become creators, speakers, and performers — in a space of expression, resistance, and participation.
Will you step onto the chair of courage?
Nikoletta Dimopoulou works with dramaturgy, performance, Applied theatre and Devised theatre methodologies and techniques. She holds a BA from the School of Drama, Faculty of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2010) and a Master in International Performance Research (MAIPR) from the University of Amsterdam and the University of Arts in Belgrade (2012). Since the last decade she has been working mainly with groups implementing performances and workshops. She creates environments of participatory theatre and performance practices for people with no, little or more experience in such practices. She explores different ways of experiential learning and representation by working mostly in intercultural working groups, co-creating environments of acceptance, intergenerational relationships and social inclusion. She has worked with Unaccompanied Minors (UAM), adult women and men on Lesvos island and Athens focusing on empowerment, resilience and orientation. She collaborates for the design of programmes, performances and the facilitation of workshops with the British Council, the Hellenic Network for Theatre/Drama & Education Network, Greek Council for Refugees, Simeio/Signal for Researching and Confronting the Far Right, Heterotopia museum theatre company in Greece. She is currently training in somatic, individual and group psychotherapy. Since 2016 she has been an active member of Boalitaria-Theatre of the Oppressed Activist Group and since 2022 of the Initiative Against Auctions of primary residence. She is the founder member of Processes of Performing Arts NGo [P.o.P. Arts].
Sonia Mologousi is a drama theoretician and theatre/drama pedagogue, graduate of the Department of Theater Studies of the University of Patras and the University of Warwick in the UK, where she completed her postgraduate studies on Drama/Theater in Education. She has volunteered with groups of children and young people in Greece (Hellenic Children's Museum, Life Roads) and abroad. She has also attended seminars on various dramatic techniques, Puppet Theater and drama/theater in education. She was a member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet- Gr, 2011-2014). As a drama pedagogue, she has been working in municipalities and primary schools since 2008 and has also facilitated workshops for children, teenagers, adults and teachers in collaboration with several Environmental Education Centers in Greece, the British Council, the 2nd Second Chance School of Korydallos Prison, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the National Theatre of Greece as well as TENet- Gr and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as part of the project " It could be me; it could be you; A Human Rights and Refugee Awareness Project ".
Organised by the Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Networl (TENet-Gr)
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| Cities | - Αγ. Γιάννης Πηλίου
- Αγ. Γιάννης Πηλίου
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| Facilitators | - Dimopoulou Nicoletta
- Mologousi Sonia
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