Conference 2025 Workshops

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

For workshop details (description, day, time, language, facilitators' CVs, etc) click on the title.

HOW TO RESERVE A PLACE IN WORKSHOPS 
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.
Check language, date, hours, before reserving a place
Note: all workshops are offered in parallel sessions in the same time slot each day. Participants may choose one each day


 

 

 

The Red Lantern Festival, or How the Emperor’s Maidservant changed his Mind and Saved the People

The Red Lantern Festival, or How the Emperor’s Maidservant changed his Mind and Saved the People

Athens, 21/03/2025, conference workshop, John O’ Toole

Event date: 3/22/2025 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM Export event


 

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

WORKSHOP

Athens Conference “Theatre/Drama & Inclusive Education”
21-23 March 2025

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

Language: English

Limited number of participants

 

The workshop is addressed to teachers of all levels and specialties as well as to animators of youth groups with little or no experience in theatre pedagogical techniques.

 

Abstract:  
This drama is for children between 5 and 8 years old (or with appropriate adaptation for disability) based on one of the many explanations for the now world-wide annual Red Lantern Festival.

The participants will take a full part as endangered townspeople working with the Jade Emperor’s humble maidservant to prevent the angry, lonely Emperor from destroying the town and its people. They will collaborate to deal with the problems and dangers, then take decisions to try and help the Emperor change his evil thoughts to kindly ones.

 

Note: The workshop is experiential, participatory, includes exercises, games, improvisations, role plays with possible physical contact and movement in space and on the ground. For this reason, it is necessary for participants to:

  1. wear comfortable clothes and shoes for movement exercises in the space

  2. bring with them... a small pocket notebook and fun and appetite for experimentation!

 

John O’ Toole. Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia

John O’Toole is an Australian drama and arts educator, formerly Professor of Drama and Applied Theatre at Griffith University, and Foundation Chair of Arts Education at University of Melbourne. He has been teaching, researching and writing on drama and applied theatre for fifty years, with all ages, and on six continents. He has written and co-written over twenty books, including student textbooks, teachers’ texts, research and research methods in the arts. He was Lead Writer for The Arts and for Drama in the 2013 Australian National Curriculum. He is active in curriculum and professional association development, founder-member of Drama Queensland and Drama Australia, and Convenor of IDEA 95 triennial Congress. In 2002 he received the American Alliance for Theatre and Education Lifetime Research award. In 2014, he was awarded membership of the Order of Australia (AM) for his services to drama education

 

 

 
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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