Conference 2025 Workshops

Workshops on Friday and Saturday are 2,5 hours, on Sunday are 2 hours long, for a limited number of participants.

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The available places in each Workshop are limited.
Reserving a place in a WORKSHOP will take place after the general Conference Registration via a personal email.
Priority will be given based on the order of the date of Conference Registration.

After you have completed the Registration process, you will receive a personal email. This email will be sent based on the priority of your registration date and will allow you to choose the workshop you wish to attend.
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Note: all workshops are offered in parallel sessions in the same time slot each day. Participants may choose one each day


 

 

 

"POWER!" Exploring and blocking racism within and around us

"POWER!" Exploring and blocking racism within and around us

Athens, 21/03/2025, conference workshop, George Moschos, Olga Orfanidou

Event date: 3/21/2025 4:30 PM - 7:00 PM Export event


"POWER!" Exploring and blocking racism within and around us

 

George Moschos, Director of Youth Engagement Scheme YES, CAMHI, Greece

Olga Orfanidou, primary school teacher, Greece

 

 

WORKSHOP

At Athens International Conference "Theatre/Drama & Inclusive Education"

Athens 21, 22, 23 March 2025

Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr)

 

Language: Greek

Limited participation

 

Short workshop description

The workshop is part of the themes of inclusive and anti-racist education in the broader context of acceptance of diversity. It is addressed to teachers of primary and secondary education, as well as to animators of adolescent theatre groups. It aims to foster awareness and to develop dialogue about situations and incidents from everyday school life, which create dilemmas that teachers often face. Through this, it seeks to reflect and to stimulate the formulation of proposals on how overt and covert prejudices and various forms of racism can be addressed.

 

After an initial warm-up, a first introduction to the topic and getting to know the participants through a series of exercises takes place. Then, a short scenario is presented, which can be used in schools to highlight existing non-inclusive and racist perceptions and practices. Role-playing, drama and forum theatre techniques are used to approach the different dimensions of the issue and also to bring the role of teachers into specific elaboration and reflection. A fictional story with role-playing characters is presented, in the development of which a teacher attempts to manage conflicts and racist attitudes in the classroom by proposing a participatory group activity to the children. However, on the one hand she faces difficulties in communicating with them, and on the other hand she is challenged by colleagues and the school administration. A sudden event further complicates the situation and raises issues of power and culture in a school community. These issues are brought to the group of participants for reflection and elaboration.

 

The workshop is based on the experience of thematically related workshops, for teachers and students, which have been implemented in recent years by the two facilitators. New dimensions are constantly added to it in the approach to the above issues, mainly resulting from the interaction within the workshops and broadening the perspective of the participants. During the workshop, the aim is to highlight and elaborate practices, methods and tools that can be used in the classroom or in groups of adolescents to raise awareness about the unintentional or intentional reproduction of stereotypes and attitudes that entail the exclusion of persons with specific characteristics of race, origin, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, disability, appearance, etc.

 

The innovative element of the workshop lies mainly in the joint search by the participants for elements of responsibility and self-criticism on the part of teachers, which may escape their usual perspective in the daily reality of the school and whose identification may be hindered by the pressures in which they are called upon to carry out their mission.

 

Note: The workshop will be conducted in Greek.

Participants are requested to wear comfortable clothes and to be available to step into roles and discuss their experiences in a reflective mood.

The workshop includes exercises with possible physical contact.

 

 

 

George Moschos studied law in Athens and criminology in London. He was trained in self-awareness and relational skills, adult education, organisation of youth clubs and theatre pedagogy. He has worked to support and empower children and adolescents, advocate for youth rights and trained professionals as well as volunteers in his areas of expertise. In 2003 he was appointed as the first Children's Ombudsman (Deputy Ombudsman for Children's Rights) and served in this position until 2018. He has been facilitating drama workshops for children since 1985 continuously. He is a member of the Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network and the Association for Article 12 (InArt12/PROTA.12). Since 2022, he has been director of the Youth Engagement Scheme YES of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Initiative (CAMHI).

 

Olga Orfanidou studied Political Science, Pedagogy, Social Anthropology and Theatre and at postgraduate level Gender and New Technologies in Education. She attended and participated in many experiential seminars, workshops, conferences and working groups. She is member of the Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network and the Association for Article 12 (InArt12 / PROTA.12). As an educator, she has worked in elementary schools, high schools, general high schools and EPAL, in a Second Chance School, as a Refugee Education Coordinator and in the therapeutic community of KETHEA Exodus. She designed and implemented many educational projects, coordinated a European Comenius project and participated in Erasmus+ projects. Her educational and research interests include primary prevention of addictions and violence, the inclusive role of schools and the fight against social exclusion through the use of performing arts in schools.

 
FRIDAY 21/3/2025, 16.30-19.00

"The Raft Game"
Georgia Antoniou,
teacher at 5th High School Corfu Greece
Angeliki Kladi teacher at 5th High School Corfu Greece
Language: Greek
Room: 5405 (wheelchair accessible)

The acceptance of self through the affirmation of others
Lambros Arapakos, social worker, Greece
Giouli Douvou, theatre pedagogue, Greece
Language: Greek
Room: 131 (no wheelchair accessible

"we all can…supporting diversity through enhancing the general self-confidence of adolescents in secondary education"
Aikaterini Asimidou, teacher, Music School of Piraeus, Greece
Antonios Lenakakis, Professor of Theatre Arts and Education, Department of Preschool Education Sciences, Faculty of Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Angelos Souliotis, music teacher,  Music School of Piraeus, Greece
Language: Greek
Room: 5407 (wheelchair accessible)

"Biography Based Language Teaching Through Creative Drama"
Ferah Burgul-Adıgüzel Assoc. Prof. Gazi University Gazi Faculty of Education, Turkey
Language: English
Room: 132 (no wheelchair accessible)

"The theatrical educational model through the neurological approach of acting"
Annita Capousizi, 
Instructor of the inclusive performing arts, Artistic director of the theatre group ARTimeleia, Greece

Language: Greek
Room: 5404 (wheelchair accessible)

"Oficina Manta plus democracy and modern slavery"
Hugo Miguel Coelho
, ExQuorum, Portugal
Language: English
Room: 127 (no wheelchair accessible)

"I am Malala - a process drama approach to address gender-based violence in classrooms"
Adam Cziboly, 
associate professor Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway
Language: English
Room: 310 (wheelchair accessible)

The Navel of the Earth- A workshop on inclusion” 
Maria Frangi,
University of Patras Department of Theatre Studies, Greece 
Language: Greek
Room: 313 (wheelchair accessible)

"Lotus Project yoga meets poetry"
Bruno Freyssinet 
artistic director of Transplanisphere France
Foteini Dimitriou Yoga Family Violet Alignment school, Greece
Language: English/Greek/French
Room: 311 (wheelchair accessible)

"Who Was My Granny"
Sunčica Milosavljević, theatre director, drama pedagogue, Serbia
Nataša Milojević, drama and dance pedagogue, Serbia
Mladen Brekić, Youth Drama Club POKUS, Serbia
Sara Prodanović, Youth Drama Club POKUS, Serbia
Language: English
Room: 5204-nykton organon (wheelchair accessible)

"POWER! - Exploring and blocking racism within and around us” 
George Moschos,
Director of Youth Engagement Scheme YES, CAMHI, Greece 
Olga Orfanidou, primary school teacher, Greece 
Language: Greek
Room: 410 (wheelchair accessible)

"A Thousand Languages of Dance: Dance as a Tool for Inclusion"
Maria Papadopoulou,
Movement Teacher / Trainer, InDancEdu, Greece
Language: Greek
Room: Estiatorio (wheelchair accessible with some difficulty)

"Journey to the Water"
Tríona Stokes, 
Drama Lecturer, Maynooth University, Ireland
Language: English
Room: 312 (wheelchair accessible)

"Devised Theatre - new meanings and new narratives"
Sofia Vgenopoulou, child psychiatrist, director, theatre educator-group animator, Greece
Language: Greek
Room: 409-chorodias (wheelchair accessible)

 

 


SATURDAY 22/3/2025, 09.30-12.00

"The things couldn't fit in my suitcase"
Ömer Adıgüzel, Prof. University Faculty of Educational Sciences, Turkey
Zeki Özen, Assoc. Prof.  Ankara University Faculty of Educational Sciences, Turkey
Language: English
Room: 131 
(no wheelchair accessible)

"Uninstall the installs: deconstructing the roots of fascism"
Katerina Alexiadi, 
educator, drama teacher Greece
Vasilis Klissiaris educator, drama teacher Greece
Language: Greek
Room: 5405 
(wheelchair accessible)

"Theatre as an Awareness Practice: 1955 - 2024, a Bus Ride"
Maria Olga Athinaiou
, Theatre Practitioner, Processworker, Greece
Language: English
Room: 5404 
(wheelchair accessible)

"Oratio Mix, intercultural dialog at school"
Noémie Besace
, artist, pedagogue, France
Bruno Freyssinet, artistic director Transplanisphère, France
Language: English/French
Room: 132 
(wheelchair accessible)

Theatre with singing as a vehicle
Aris Biniaris, 
Director, actor, Greece 
Language: Greek
Room: Estiatorio 
(wheelchair accessible with some difficulty)

"Embodied Storytelling: Exploring Kathabhinaya for Empowering Vulnerable Social Groups"
Janardan Ghosh, 
story performer, creative director, education officer, India
Language: English
Room: 409-chorodias 
(wheelchair accessible)

"Everyday stories through trace, movement, and sound” 
An inclusive approach inspired by local pedagogy, kinesiology, and the work of Trisha Brown.

Vagelis Kolotsios, educator, Greece
Elina Vafeiadi, educator, Greece
Language: Greek
Room: 127 
(no wheelchair accessible)

"The prince and the prince"
George Konstantinidis, Child Psychologist, Actor, Volunteer at the Rainbow School, Greece
Elena Skarpidou, Sexual Education Trainer, Head of Education Department at the Rainbow School, Greece
Language: Greek
Room: 5407 
(wheelchair accessible)

"Devising as a Process of Inclusion and Developing Group Harmony" 
Sanja Krsmanović Tasić, 
choreographer, dance-theatre practitioner, Serbia 
Language: English
Room: 5204-nykton organon 
(wheelchair accessible)

"The Red Lantern Festival, or How the Emperor’s Maidservant changed his Mind and Saved the People"
John O’ Toole, Professor University of Melbourn, Australia
Language: English
Room: 410 
(wheelchair accessible)

Truth or Lie’ - simple responses to a complex world
Lutz Pickardt
director, theatre pedagogue, BuT, Germany
Language: English
Room: 313 
(wheelchair accessible)

"Elements of applied theater and technique by Ivana Chubbuk 12 Tools in drama pedagogy on examples of scenes from plays by A.P. Chekhov"
Arma Tanovic-Brankovic Professor on Academy of Performing Arts, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Language: English
Room: 311 
(wheelchair accessible)

"One Well, One World: Activating Water Justice in the Global Textile Industry"
Philip Valle 
Lecturer - Department of Theatre and Dance, California Polytechnic State University, USA
Phyllis Wong Lecturer - Department of Theatre and Dance, California Polytechnic State University, USA
Jenna Brock Student, Research and Teaching Assistant - California Polytechnic State University, USA
Sara Sjoblom Student and Research Assistant - California Polytechnic State University USA
Language: English
Room: 312 
(wheelchair accessible)

“Me, You, Together!” 
Eirini Zoi,
philologist, drama teacher, Greece 
Foteini Papacharalampous, psychologist, psychotherapist, Greece 
Melina Hadjigeorgiou, drama teacher, educator, Greece 
Language: Greek
Room: 310 
(wheelchair accessible)

 


SUNDAY 23/3/2025, 09.30-11.30

“Getting into improv theatre”
Frank Hohl, theatre pedagogue, Germany
Language: English
Room: 313 
(wheelchair accessible)

Where is mum? - Applying Drama for Gender Equality Education” 
Martha Katsaridou,
Assistant Professor of Drama/Theatre Education at the Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Thessaly, Greece 
Koldo Vio, Drama Educator, Theatre director, Greece/Spain 
Language: English /Spanish/Greek
Room: 132 
(no wheelchair accessible):

“Codes Under the Shadows”
Aglaia Naka,
drama-pedagogue, Greece
Christos Rachiotis, actor, animator, teacher, Greece
Language: Greek
Room: 127 
(wheelchair accessible)

"Play Jam"
Eleni Papaioannou, Movement Educator, Choreographer, Performer, Greece
Language: English
Room: 131 
(no wheelchair accessible)

“Talking about the ideas of hate in the classroom” 
Kostis Papaioannou,
director ofSIMEIO: for the Study and Confrontation of the Right-Wing Extremists”, Greece 
Aspasia Kalisora, teacher, member ofSIMEIO: for the Study and Confrontation of the Right-Wing Extremists”, Greece 
Language: Greek
Room: 5204-nykton organon 
(wheelchair accessible)


 

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