"R-Lab"

R-Lab
Refugee Laboratory

 

 

R-Lab (Refugee Lab) is an Erasmus+,  project KA210-ADU - Small-scale partnerships in adult education (KA210-ADU)

Duration: 1/10/2025-30/9/2026

The objectives:

- Facilitate the access of refugees (newcomers) to non-formal education via artistic methodologies, designed for the work with vulnerable groups in multicultural contexts.

- Stimulate an interdisciplinary exchange between social work and art,

- Develop an intercultural exchange about artistic methods used in the work with refugees between four institutions, representing three European countries.

Target groups
The main target group of R-Lab are the refugees (newcomers) and the local communities living in the surroundings of the partner institutions.  All partner organisations are either directly working with refugees in their respective cities or are collaborating with newcomers associations or schools whose student body also includes young new comers.

What to do

In Paris, Berlin in Athens the project will offer free workshops developed by the training course participants

Partners

SINGA Paris, France (Coordinator)
La Transplanisphere France
Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr), Greece
Sur Mesure Germany

Coordinantion in Greece: Nikos Govas
+30 210 6541600, info@theatroedu.gr
Advisory team: Christina Zoniou, Giorgos Bekiaris, Antigoni Tsarbopoulou
Management: Vassia Kossiva
 

Actions

R-Lab: ‘‘Photonovel - Creating a Photo-Novel through Storytelling and Theatre’’

R-Lab: ‘‘Photonovel - Creating a Photo-Novel through Storytelling and Theatre’’

Thessaloniki Greece, 18/9/2026, Workshop, Amandine Thiriet & Pierre-Jérôme Adjedj

Ημ/νίες Εκδήλωσης: 18/9/2026 6:00 μμ - 8:30 μμ Export event

R-Lab - Refugee Laboratory / Erasmus + Project KA210-ADU

THESSALONIKI GREECE

‘‘Photonovel - Creating a Photo-Novel through Storytelling and Theatre’’ 

Workshop for teachers and youth facilitators
 
Thessaloniki Greece, 18 September 2026, 18 :00 - 20 :30
Venue : Thessaloniki SolidarityNow Center, Ioanni Koletti 25D, 1st Floor, (opposite One Salonica)
Facilitators Amandine Thiriet & Pierre-Jérôme Adjedj
Offered by Sur Mesure (Germany)
Supported by SolidarityNow
Language: English (French, German and Greek if necessary)

FREE.  Limited spaces. APPLICATIONS HERE
Priority to members of the Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr)


Short description:
Using storytelling, narrative techniques, and theatre skills, we will co-create a story illustrated by self-taken photographs of acting poses. This photo-novel will be based on the words and stories the participants wish to share and will be presented to an audience at the end of the workshop.
While the photos are taken using minimal equipment (mobile phones), participants will learn and apply image-building and acting techniques to expand their possibilities for self-expression. The goal is to discover a new, more detached way of expressing intimate stories.
The workshop is organized into four parts:
•    Storytelling: Sharing and selecting a common story.
•    Planning: Identifying the main steps of the narrative (using storytelling skills) and working on image composition.
•    Photoshoot: Developing acting and emotional expression skills while taking photos.
•    Finalizing: Selecting and arranging the best images, and writing the accompanying text.
 
Amandine Thiriet (author, musician, singer,actress) studied literature. She has 25+ years experience as performer, writer, and educator — teaching French literature and theatre, and performing in french and german theatre productions on war, exile, and resistance, and as a singer-song-writer. She co-created the installation « A mur découvert » and developed educational music workshops methodology for children in Berlin.

Pierre-Jérôme Adjedj (photographer, video artist, former theatre director) studied philosophy and cinema, has 20+ years of experience writing and directing theatre plays, and 10+ creating exhibitions and multimediale installations based on testimonies and memory — including « A mur découvert » (about theBerlin Wall) and « Eclats DDR / RDA Splitter » with the french historian Nicolas Offenstadt, as well as « Standing for Freedom », exhibition dealing with scientific and artistic exile. He has taught dramaturgy 15+ years at university level.
With sur Mesure, They both attended as partners in several Erasmus+ Projects : Creative Commune (France, Germany, Italy) in 2023, Lotus Project (France, Germany Greece) in 2025 and R-LAB (France, Germany, Greece) in 2026. 
 

Organised by: Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network - North Greece Office
INFO: info@theatroedu.gr / 2106541600
 

 

R-LAB Partners

SINGA Paris, France (Coordinator)
La Transplanisphere France
Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr), Greece
Sur Mesure Germany