ARTS 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 initiate a circle of reflection on racism, discrimination, as well as conflicts that are part of the integration of women of African descent in the diaspora.
Afro-Diasporic Body Workshop
Barbara Lussi Carvalho [Brazil / Germany]
Wednesday, June 21, 10:00 AM–12:00 PM
Institute for Art Play [Bulevar vojvode Mišića 43]
Barbara Lussi Carvalho is a dancer, actress, and teacher of theater and dance. She has been working in Frankfurt am Main since 2010 and is a member of the Antagon collective TheaterAKTion. Previously, she studied theater pedagogy at the Federal University
in Bahia (UFBA) in Brazil. She is currently pursuing a master's degree 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 do reality and human rights creatively refract through theater? Tolerance, cooperation, trust, and equality are integral parts of working in the theater as well as human rights, which are realistically realized only in relation to others. The situation of performance often stimulates understanding of the causes of an event. We will deal with theatrical techniques (viewpoints), exercises in groups, and role-playing situations from life and offer ways to use theater in working on topics about human rights. We will seek answers to the questions: how do theatrical techniques develop relationships among people, respect for diversity, and the desire to get to know others? How can theater transform disagreement into dialogue, rejection into cooperation, fear of social change into a creative act?
Intersections: Theater Techniques and Human Rights, JADRANKA ANĐELIC [SERBIA]
June 22 – 23, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM
UK Steamer [Captain Mishina 6a]
Jadranka Anđelić is a director and co-founder of DAH Theater. From 2008 to 2019, she lived and worked in Brazil, where she was the artistic director of the International Festival of Women in Performing Arts – MULTICIDADE, in Rio de Janeiro in 2015 and 2018.
In 1997, she and Dijana Milošević received the Luigi Pirandello Award, an award that Eugenio Barba shared with the directors. She is the recipient of the Otto Rene Castillo Award for engaged theater in New York (with Dijana Milošević)
in 2007, as well as the ERSTE Foundation INTEGRATION Award for the project Invisible City, in 2009. She has toured with her plays and workshops throughout Europe, Brazil, Greenland, Mongolia, Morocco, New Zealand, the USA, Singapore
and Great Britain.
In this workshop, Karolina Spaić analyzes the process of creating a solo performance that is based on the performer's autobiographical material and simultaneously 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 phases of the creative process and give you insight into how you can start working on an independent
solo performance. There is a possibility that the works will be shown at the ExploreZ festival, in May 2024, in Amsterdam.
Working on a solo performance – from autobiographical material to a universal story, Karolina Spaić [Netherlands]
22-23. June, 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, Netherlands. She has directed numerous multidisciplinary performances that have been performed 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, she works with artists from all over the world, who create their authentic theatrical language. In 2020, she was named a Knight of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Order of Orange-Nassau.
The Perkuin Art School "Walls of Hope" is an international project in the field of art and human rights for education, conflict resolution, crime prevention, diplomacy building, community development, and preservation of historical memory. 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 a voice to participants who have survived political violence, those who have been forgotten or deliberately silenced.
Walls of Hope
Painting murals with Claudia Bernardi [Argentina]
June 20-24, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM,
Silos [Dunavski kej 46]
Claudia Bernardi is a graphic artist and installation artist, oriented towards working with communities, creating 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 worked with victims of political violence in Latin America, Europe, and the United States for more than thirty years. In 2005, Bernardi founded the Perquin School of Art, 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 art and diversity studies at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, USA.
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