Project presentation - European Theatre Convention
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Project presentation - European Theatre Convention
Project presentation © Iko Freese / drama-berlin EUROPOLIS 2050 : Theatre Youth Forum Stage your European dream ! 11-21 June 2010 An initiative of the Bad Hersfelder Festpiele under the patronage of the European Theatre Convention The European Theatre Convention would like to thank the Bad Hersfelder Festpiele and the ETC partner theatres for their collaboration and the unique opportunity they provided for the young people. This report aims at giving an overview of what it has been done during the project 1 INDEX 1. The project………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….......p.3 2. The participants………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…….p.3 3. Project management…………………………………………………………………………………………………….…….p.3 4. Youth Forum: working schedule……………………………………………………………………………..…….....……p.5 5. Youth Forum: venues and presentation….……………………………………………………………………………….p.5 6. Logistics……………………………………………………………………………………...……………………………..…..p.7 7. Communication of the project……………………………………………………………….……………………………...p.7 8. Summer academy……………………………………………………………………………………………………..……..p.10 9. ETC certificate………………………………………………………………………………….…………………..…………p.11 10. Evaluation questionnaire………………………………………………………………………………………….………..p.11 11. Program of the performance…………………………………………………………………………………….…………p.13 12. ANNEXES……………………………………….……………………………………………………………...……………...p.14 Annex I List of the participants Annex II Communication of the project a The Festival brochure b Articles from the Hersfelder Zeitung c Flyers Annex III ETC Certificate 2 1. The project : EUROPOLIS 2050 - Theatre Youth Forum: Stage your European Dream The project has been initiated by the Bad Hersfelder Festpiele under the patronage of the European Theatre Convention. The idea was to gather over 50 Young People from five European and neighboring to work together with theatre directors and professionals to stage a performance around the theme: „Europe in 40 years“ from June 12 to 20, 2010 as part of the Bad Hersfelder Festival. The presentation of the working result – the performance – launched the opening of the new theatre building, a former factory hall (Schilde Halle). 2. The participants See annex I Number of young people: 43 (including 4 people dedicated to video recording) Number of group coordinators: 4 Artistic directors: 3 Project coordination: 3 (1 from ETC, 2 from Bad Hersfeld) Artistic Director of the festival 1 professor from the Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities 1 teacher from Bad Hersfeld TOTAL number of people involved : 56 ETC participating theatres CROATIA: The Zagreb Youth Theatre 8 young people + 1 coordinator FINLAND: Helsingin Kaupunginteatteri 6 young people + 1 coordinator GERMANY: Bad Hersfelder Festival 16 young people 4 for the video recording (pupils from Bad Hersfeld + 1 trainee from B.Braun Melsungen) 5 from the United World Colleges 4 trainees from Kali (sponsor of the festival) 3 pupils from Bad Hersfeld GREAT BRITAIN: Nottingham Playhouse 5 young people + 1 coordinator ISRAEL: The Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv 8 young people + 1 coordinator 3. Project management Role of the Bad Hersfelder Festpiele - Organisation and financing of the Theatre Youth Forum (accommodation, transfers, meals, etc) and artistic concept and development (rehearsals and performance venues) - Summer academy Role of the ETC - Project coordination between the project partners, the Youth Forum participants and the artistic team - Collection of information (departure and arrival information for each groups) - Communication with Bad Hersfeld - Preparation of project booklet with relevant programme information - Allocation of ETC subsidies to partner theatres (EUR 100 per participants for maximum 10 people per group) 3 Role of partner theatres - Selection of participants - Communication with participants - Providing group coordinators - Partly payments of travel costs Preparation of the Youth Forum The European Theatre Convention installed a google group on April 29th 2010 so that every participant could interact with each other, share documents, video, music, before the Youth Forum started. The google group allowed Katja Heiser (the artistic director) to be in contact with the young people and to prepare the Youth Forum together with the participants. They had the opportunity to exchange personal information such as favourite songs or favourite poems in order to feed into the workshops. Number of members : 47 4 4. Youth Forum: working schedule 5. Youth Forum: venues and presentations REHEARSALS Buch Café 1 small theatre with a stage and 1 big space, 1 bar 5 PERFORMANCES Street performance in Bad Hersfeld on Saturday 19th of June 2010 to advertise the performance on Sunday. Theme : typical walk of each nationality. 150 flyers distributed. Performance at The Schilde Halle on Sunday 20th of June 2010 at 11.00am A huge old industrial hall (former Babcock-Hall). 150 people attended the performance Duration: 1,15 hour A cocktail has been offered by the sponsor K + S Kali GmbH after the performance 6 6. Logistics Accomodation Families: 12 people Jugenbildungsstätte: 5 people (2 coordinators, 2 Croatian and 1 Israeli) Youth Hostel: 21 (Finnish, Croatian and English) Meals The Festival kantine provided the meals for lunch and dinner. 7. Communication of the project See annex II - The Festival brochure (Annex II a) Press conference A press conference has been held on Thursday 10th of June 2010, two days before the official opening of the festival and the beginning of the project. Present : Holk Freytag: Festival Director Maren Dey: project & PR manager Katja Heiser: Artistic Director Nikolaus Kinsky: co-artistic director Elsa Varenne: project coordination European Theatre Convention Leonora Frohnapfel: project assistant Bad Hersfelder Festspiele Anna-Sophia Rothacker: project assistant Bad Hersfelder Festspiele Ulla Morgner: Teacher Bad Hersfeld 4 trainees from K + S Kali GmbH Peter Euler K+S Kali GmbH Ivonne Balduf (Communication K+S Kali GmbH) Journalists - 6 articles from the Hersfelder Zeitung and 3 articles from Kreisanzeiger (Annex II b) Flyers realized by the Bad Hersfelder Festpiele (1 for the Summer Academy, 1 for the performance) (Annex II c) Video Pupils from Bad Hersfeld recorded the whole project and the performance. A video will be edited and distributed to ETC member theatres. 7 - ETC website (http://etc-cte.org/base.php?code=205) 8 - ETC facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100000780439133) 9 - Europolis Facebook page : Europolis 2050 Bad Hersfeld (http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=121376611236210&ref=ts) A Facebook page has been created by Lukas Spielberger, one of the young people so that the young people could stay in contact with each other after the project and share their pictures. 8. Summer academy 10 Sunday 13th June 2010, 10am, Buch Café Theme: Prejudices Prof. Jörn Rüsen (Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities), Holk Freytag (Artistic director of the festival) Monday 14th June 2010, 10am, Buch Café Theme: Europe in the 20th century: from mass killings to the society of solidarity. Prof. Jörn Rüsen (Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities), Holk Freytag (Artistic director of the festival) Wednesday 16th June 2010, 10am Buch Café Divided into 3 groups Moderation: Prof. Jörn Rüsen, Holk Freytag, Nikolaus Kinsky, Katja Heiser, Jori Pitkänen Public speeches Monday 14th June 2010, 6.00pm, Schilde Halle Theme: Humanism in a globalized world: because you are a human being, you have rights. Prof Dr. Helwig Scmidt-Glintzer, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Straub, Moderation: Stefan Keim, Cultural journalist Young people: Anisah Osman-Britton (UK), Henriette Scholz (DE), Dana Ben Dov (IL) Tuesday 15th June 2010, 6.00pm, Schilde Halle Theme: Wars, natural catastrophes and public debts: what are the mental conditions for young people? Prof. Dr. Jürgen Reulicke, Prof. Dr. Lutz Niethammer, Moderation: Holk Freytag Young people: Lihi Avgar (IL), Lea Kliem (DE), Lizzy Whines (UK) 9. ETC certificates See Annex III An ETC certificate has been distributed to all the participants which awarded them with the title: Young ETC ambassadors. 10. Evaluation questionnaire. A questionnaire has been realized in order to have some feedbacks from the young people about their experience in Bad Hersfeld. EVALUATION QUESTIONNAIRE 1. What are the key words of your experience? Fun = 15 times New, surprise, different, change, one of a kind = 5 times Interesting, fulfilling, encouraging, challenging, life changing = 5 times Successful, nice, fandabidousy, good times, entertaining, lovely, amazing, great, wonderful, awesome, brilliant, fantastic = 15 times Teaching, educational = 2 times 11 Friends, good people, friendship, new friends = 15 times 2. What did you most benefit from? Theatre Very good Good OK Not so good 33% 48% 12% 6% Bad Meet other cultures 69% 30% Be in a foreign country 48% 33% 3% 27% 21% Work with professionnals 48% 3. Did your perception of the other cultures changed after this week? 54% 33% 13% 4. Did your perception of Europe and international relations changed after this week? 24% 51% 24% 5. Have you been encouraged to learn a new language? If so, which one? YES = 84% // NO = 16% German = 42% / Hebrew = 36% / Finnish = 36% / English = 27% / Croatian = 18% / French = 6% 6. Will you continue theatre when returning home? YES 100% 7. Comments (Relevant sentences) “Absolute amazing people with strong opinions and much talent. I loved working with people from everywhere and I wish it was longer! The experience was tiring yet strengthened my love for theatre/world.” “I’ve had lot of fun.” “Meeting people from all over Europe has been educational, enjoyable, and moving. I have loved the relationships I have built with these peoples and how we have broken cultural barriers. I am glad to have dropped my prejudices and made new friendships that will continue!” “It was a life changing experience.” 12 11. Programme of the performance 13 ANNNEXES Annex I List of the participants…………………………………………………………...p.15 Annex II Communication of the project a The Festival brochure………………………………………………………………………p.17 b Press Articles………………………..………………………………………………………p.19 c Flyers ………………………………………………………………………………………..p.25 Annex III ETC Certificate…………………………………………………………………...p.26 14 Annex I List of the participants ETC participating theatres CROATIA, Zagreb Youth Theatre Denis Bosak Tea Devcic Nina Franuloviç Rea Kamenski Bacun Sandra Kuhar Iva Olujic Ana Šefcek Iva Tuda FINLAND, Helsingin Kaupunginteatteri Elina Hirvonen Laura Karppanen Elsa Laukkanen Sami Liippola Petter Lundberg Sinna Raittila GERMANY, United World Colleges Lea Kliem Henriette Scholz Lukas Spielberger Clara Vogt Josh Widera GERMANY, Auszubildende / Trainees K + S Kali GmbH Sebastian Huchel Susann Reding Steven Trautvetter Kim Zier GERMANY, Auszubildende / Trainees B. Braun Melsungen Tobias Scholl (Video) GERMANY, Schüler / Pupils from Bad Hersfeld Carolin Bartz Hanna Nöding Lisa Kimpel ISRAEL, The Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv Danna Ben Dov Dana Fried Ortal Granski Alexandra Kochman 15 Shahar Krausz Yossi Levi Shir Rubin Lihi Schvartz - Avgar UNITED KINGDOM, Nottingham Playhouse Shannon Anstee Ciaran Brown Gemma Caseley-Kirk Anisah Osman-Britton Lizzy Whynes Group Coordination Ori Egoz (The Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv) Jori Pitkänen (Helsingin Kaupunginteatteri) Beth Shouler (Nottingham Playhouse) Desanka Virant (Zagreb Youth Theatre) Ulla Morgner (Bad Hersfeld) Video Documentation Niclas Dodson Lisa Kimpel Linda Mohr Tobias Scholl Anne Schröder Artistic and logistic staff Katja Heiser Nikolaus Kinsky Jori Pitkänen Elsa Varenne Leonora Frohnapfel Anna-Sophia Rothacker Maren Dey Artistic Director co-artistic director co-artistic director project coordination European Theatre Convention project assistant Bad Hersfelder Festspiele project assistant Bad Hersfelder Festspiele project & PR manager, Bad Hersfelder Festspiele 16 Annex II Communication of the project a/ The Festival Brochure 17 18 b/ Press articles 19 20 21 Press articles from Kreisan Zeiger 22 23 Festspiele Jugend spielt http://www.kreisanzeiger-online.de/index.php?artikel=49467 Beeindruckende Darbietung des Jugendforums Bad Hersfeld. „Dobar dan“, „Shalom“, „Welcome“, „Guten Tag“, „Hyvää Päivää“ – gleich zu Beginn der Matinee des Internationalen Jugendforums wurden die Besucher mit babylonischem Sprachgewirr begrüßt. Kein Wunder, bei einer Darbietung von Jugendlichen aus fünf verschiedenen Nationen. Eine Woche lang hatten sich die 40 Jugendlichen im Rahmen des 1. Internationalen Jugendforums der Bad Hersfelder Festspiele Gedanken zur Zukunft Europas gemacht, die sie am Sonntagvormittag einem beeindruckten Publikum präsentierten. Zunächst einmal wurden aber die verschiedenen Klischees der einzelnen Länder parodiert. So wird Kroatien offenbar nur von Greisen bewohnt, die gerne in der Sonne herumsitzen, während die Engländer stets fröhlich Tee trinken, obwohl es dauernd regnet. Behäbig bratwurst-gesättigt präsentierten sich die Deutschen, energiegeladen und zynisch die Israelis, nordisch-depressiv die Finnen. Zentrales Thema der Präsentation war „Kommunikation“. In humorvollen Szenen zeigten die Jugendlichen, wie sich Europa mit Handy und Internet immer mehr vernetzt, während Sprachbarrieren wie auch die Mentalitätsunterschiede sicher weiter bestehen werden. Dass die Jugendlichen der Internet-Generation keine Verständigungsprobleme kannten, zeigte sich hingegen schnell. Und schließlich kam auch die Musik als universelles Kommunikationsmittel zum Tragen: Durch Trommeln auf Rohre und Metallpfeiler brachten die Jugendlichen die Schilde-Halle lautstark zum Klingen. Gekonnt wurden anschließend die Zukunftswünsche und -sorgen dargeboten, von „Love & Peace“ bis zu „Im Jahr 2012 werden wir alle sterben“ reichte die Bandbreite. Und einer brachte schließlich auch seine Hoffnung zum Ausdruck, dass Deutschland Fußball-Weltmeister wird – da steht der Völkerverständigung wohl nichts mehr im Wege. (jpl) 24 c/ Flyers Flyer for the performance Flyer realized for the summer academy 25 Annex III ETC certificate 26