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Theatre Makes Politics # Theatre Power Politics (TMP)  

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 create 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 fake news
  3. Religious fundamentalism: Islamic fundamentalism 
  4. Religious fundamentalism: 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, Lisbon 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)

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The TMP project in Greece:
Main Partner: Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr)
Coordination & Management for TENet-Gr: Katerina Alexiadi (coordinator), Vassia Kossiva
Consultant & Immlementation for TENet-Gr:  Nikos Govas, Costis Papaioannou, Christina Zoniou, Giouli Douvou, Antonella Hira, Babis Baltas, Giorgos Moschos, Marios Koukounaras-Liagis, Vassilis Klisiaris, Nazir Nazar
 

Local Associated parners in Greece:
-SIGNAL (Simeio)-researching and confronting the far right
-PROTA12 - Initiative for Article 12
-SKASIARCHIO – an educators group for the Freinet pedagogy in Greece
-Trikala Youth Theatre
-Patras Youth Theatre 

Info: info@theatroedu.gr / www.Theatroedu.gr / ++30 210 6541600

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Theatre Makes Politics (TMP)

Theatre Makes Politics (TMP)

Chiliomodi Greece 24/8/2024 pilot workshop for teachers, Katerina Alexiadi

Event date: 8/24/2024 5:30 PM Export event

"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