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
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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
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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)
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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 29 th 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
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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
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PERFORMANCES
Street performance in Bad Hersfeld on Saturday 19 th 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 20 th 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
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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 10 th 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.
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- ETC website (http://etc-cte.org/base.php?code=205)
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- ETC facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100000780439133)
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- 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
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Sunday 13 th June 2010, 10am, Buch Café
Theme: Prejudices
Prof. Jörn Rüsen (Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities), Holk Freytag (Artistic director of the festival)
Monday 14 th June 2010, 10am, Buch Café
Theme: Europe in the 20 th 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 16 th June 2010, 10am Buch Café
Divided into 3 groups
Moderation: Prof. Jörn Rüsen, Holk Freytag, Nikolaus Kinsky, Katja Heiser, Jori Pitkänen
Public speeches
Monday 14 th 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 15 th 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.
1. What are the key words of your experience?
Fun = 15 times
New, surprise, different, change, one of a kind = 5 times
EVALUATION QUESTIONNAIRE
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
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Friends, good people, friendship, new friends = 15 times
2. What did you most benefit from?
Theatre
Very good Good OK Not so good Bad
33% 48% 12% 6%
Meet other cultures
69% 30%
Be in a foreign country
48% 33% 3%
Work with professionnals
48% 27% 21%
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.”
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11. Programme of the performance
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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
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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
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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
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a/ The Festival Brochure
Annex II Communication of the project
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Press articles
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Press articles from Kreisan Zeiger
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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)
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c/ Flyers
Flyer for the performance
Flyer realized for the summer academy
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Annex III ETC certificate
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