ART AND HUMAN RIGHTS 2023 WORKSHOPS
In the Afro-diasporic body workshop, we will awaken the perception and empowerment of our body through the rhythm of Afro-Brazilian percussion and movements. We will start from the experiences of our own body to start a circle of thinking about racism, discrimination and conflicts that are part of the integration of women of African origin in the diaspora.
Afro-diasporic body workshop
Barbara Lucy Carvalho [Brazil / Germany]
Wednesday, June 21, 10:00–12:00
Institute for Artistic Dance [Bulevar Vojvode Mišića 43]
Barbara Lucy Carvalho is a dancer, actress and theater and dance teacher. She has been working in Frankfurt am Main since 2010 and is a member of the Antagon collective TheaterAKTion. She previously studied theater pedagogy at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) in Brazil. He is currently studying master's in choreography and performance in Giessen. Since 2017, she has been the artistic director of the International Women's Theater Festival IN FRANKFURT.
Photo by Mahfam Nozhatshoar
How are reality and human rights refracted in a creative way through theater? Tolerance, cooperation, trust, equality are integral parts of work in the theater as well as human rights, which are realistically realized only in relation to others. The performance situation often stimulates the understanding of the cause of an event. We will deal with theater techniques (viewpoints), group exercises and role play of situations from life and offer ways to use theater in work on human rights issues. We will look for answers to the questions: how do theater techniques develop relationships between people, respect for diversity, the desire to get to know others? How to transform disagreement into dialogue, rejection into cooperation, fear of social changes into a creative act through theater?
Crossroads: theatrical techniques and human rights, JADRANKA ANĐELIC [SERBIA]
June 22 – 23, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM
UK Steamer [Captain Mishina 6a]
Jadranka Anđelić is the director and co-founder of DAH Theatre. From 2008 to 2019, she lived and worked in Brazil, where she was the artistic director of the International Festival of Women in the Performing Arts - MULTICIDADE, in Rio de Janeiro in 2015 and 2018. With Diana Milošević, she received the Luigi Pirandello Award in 1997, an award that Euđenio Barba shared with female directors. She won the Otto Rene Castillo Award for engaged theater in New York (with Diana Milošević) in 2007, as well as the ERSTE Foundation INTEGRATION Award for the project No/Visible City, in 2009. With her performances and workshops, she toured throughout Europe, Brazil, Greenland, Mongolia, Morocco, New Zealand, USA, Singapore and Great Britain.
In this workshop, Karolina Spaić analyzes the process of creating a solo performance that is based on the autobiographical material of the performer and at the same time becomes universal in order to communicate with the audience. The workshop offers answers to these questions: where to start, what steps to take and what awaits the performer-creator in this work process and personal journey? Karolina will take you through the different stages of the creative process and give you an insight into how you can start working on an independent solo show. There is a possibility to show the works at the ExploreZ festival, May 2024, in Amsterdam.
Working on a solo performance – from autobiographical material to a universal story, karolina spaić [the Netherlands]
June 22-23, 2:00 PM–5:00 PM
UK Steamer [Captain Mishina 6a]
Karolina Spaić is a theater director, founder and director of ZID Theater (2001) and the ExploreZ festival in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She has directed numerous multidisciplinary plays that have been played in many countries. She graduated from the Department of International Theater at the Academy in Utrecht. Through specialization at the International School of Theater Anthropology (ISTA), led by Eugenio Barba, she developed an intercultural approach to theater. At ZID, he works with artists from all over the world, who create their own authentic theatrical language. In 2020, she was appointed a Knight of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Order of Orange-Nassau.
Perquin School of Art "Walls of Hope" is an international art and human rights project for education, conflict resolution, crime prevention, diplomacy building, community development and historical memory preservation. Known as the "Perquin Model", this initiative has been successfully implemented in Guatemala, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Switzerland, Germany, Northern Ireland and the United States. Through the creation of joint murals, public art projects, urban interventions, the focus of each art project is to give voice to the participants who survived political violence, to those who were forgotten or deliberately silenced.
Walls of hope
Mural painting with Claudia Bernardi [Argentina]
June 20 - 24, 11.00 - 17.00,
Silos [Dunavski kej 46]
Claudia Bernardi is a graphic designer and installation artist, oriented towards working with communities, who creates at the intersection of art and human rights. Born in Argentina, Bernardi herself experienced the terror of the military junta (1976−1983), which led to 30.000 "disappeared" (desaparecidos). Bernardi has been working with victims of political violence in Latin America, Europe and the United States for over thirty years. In 2005, Bernardi founded the Perquin School of the Arts, Walls of Hope in El Salvador, a community-based and collaborative art initiative that reaches children, youth and adults. Bernardi is a professor of community arts and diversity studies at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, USA.
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