Jekyll2020-04-15T13:54:22+00:00https://compass.org.ge/feed.xmlCompass{"name"=>nil, "email"=>nil, "twitter"=>nil}Greetings from Telavi!2020-03-18T00:00:00+00:002020-03-18T00:00:00+00:00https://compass.org.ge/forum/theatre/2020/03/18/greetings-from-telavi<p>The training course took place in Telavi, from the 10 to the 16 of March. Unluckily, due to the fact that I was attending another training, I had the possibility to participate from the third day. I met the other participants during a typical cultural dinner. There were 26 people in total, coming from Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Poland, England and Slovakia.</p>
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<p>On the 13th of March, my first day, we started with a physical warm-up, together with music. After that, it started the first session, focused on creative processes and their importance in every kind of work.</p>
<p>There has been an interesting discussion about it, and an explanation about the importance of the constructive criticism, of the absence of judgment and of the collaboration, sharing and supporting each other’s ideas. In order to better understand these concepts, association games and activities about re-designing and presenting and alternative function of a given object were made. It has been really nice and challenging to sit down in groups, thinking, and brainstorming together about how many possible functions and object can have and how many possible ways to imagine it there can be!</p>
<p>The second session, that took place in the afternoon was about Applied Theatre, which is the application of theatrical techniques as an educational tool. It was interesting to understand how playing refers to become a child again. Different games and activities were made, in order to understand the importance of non-verbal language, contact, expression and adaptation to the situation. Then we did different activities about instant improvisation, which taught us how to act without thinking too much and how to work in the moment and with the moment. After that, small plays were performed by all the participants.</p>
<p>The day ended with groups of reflections between the trainers and the participants, sharing how we felt during and after the activities, which challenges we dealt with, what we liked and what we didn’t.</p>
<p>During my second day, the 14th of March, other improvisation activities, connected with emotions, were done. Each person had to personify different emotions. Unluckily, the training had to be stopped due to major causes that forced most of the participants to go back to their home countries. I felt sad to not have had the opportunity to attend all the activities of this training but, at the same time, I have been really happy to participate in such an interesting, even if short, experience. It has been challenging and it inspired me a lot, other than giving me some more ideas about the topics we dealt with.</p>{"name"=>nil, "email"=>nil, "twitter"=>nil}The training course took place in Telavi, from the 10 to the 16 of March. Unluckily, due to the fact that I was attending another training, I had the possibility to participate from the third day. I met the other participants during a typical cultural dinner. There were 26 people in total, coming from Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Poland, England and Slovakia.PROJECT KICKS OFF!2020-03-07T00:00:00+00:002020-03-07T00:00:00+00:00https://compass.org.ge/forum/theatre/2020/03/07/project-kicks-off<p>In order to create the structure and the guidelines for quality youth work in the field of Gender Equality, applying in it new tools, as the Forum Theatre techniques, a Kick-Off Meeting took place in Tbilisi, Georgia, on the 21st and 22nd of January 2020. It aimed to go through the project, its aims and objectives, creating the time frame for all the stages, organizing the action plan and distributing responsibilities.</p>
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<p>Firstly, if focused on getting to know the different organizations participating, coming from Georgia (AYPD-Compass), Armenia (APY: Armenian Progressive Youth), Azerbaijan (YHM: Yuva Humanitar Merkezi), Poland (Polanda Association), Slovakia (Saplinq), England (OTW: Oldham Theatre Workshop). It followed a description of the project - crosswords activities that use improvisation and theatrical techniques to promote gender equality - and its structure. The project includes 6 mobility activities and 3 capacity building activities.</p>
<p>Therefore, during the meeting the partners decided places and dates of each activity, timelines, deadlines for the lists of participants, reports and guidelines. It followed a sharing of expectations from each participant. In general, this project has been considered as an interesting challenge that brings new knowledge in the fields of gender equality and forum theatre and raises awareness about it, together with the willing of collaboration with different organizations from other parts of the world. Roles and responsibilities were then distributed. Afterwords, it was talked about the website and the visual identities, and how to promote social network pages about the project.</p>
<p>During the second day, the focus was on the action plan. Therefore, the participants agreed on the communication channels and the best way to be in contact with each other. Last part of the meeting was focused on budget and finances, with detailed information about mobility expenses and capacity building expenses, challenges and solution.</p>
<p>This first step of the project ended with a typical dinner with all the participants.</p>{"name"=>nil, "email"=>nil, "twitter"=>nil}In order to create the structure and the guidelines for quality youth work in the field of Gender Equality, applying in it new tools, as the Forum Theatre techniques, a Kick-Off Meeting took place in Tbilisi, Georgia, on the 21st and 22nd of January 2020. It aimed to go through the project, its aims and objectives, creating the time frame for all the stages, organizing the action plan and distributing responsibilities.PREPARATION FOR TRAINING2020-03-06T00:00:00+00:002020-03-06T00:00:00+00:00https://compass.org.ge/forum/theatre/2020/03/06/preparation-for-training<p>Due to the time limits and distance trainers’ team was holding constant skype/jit.si/zoom/messenger meeting to prepare and plan the best possible training program for the participants coming to the first mobility of PERFORMATOR.</p>
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<p>The aims of the training were:</p>
<p>- Raising the youth workers’ competences in working on gender topics;</p>
<p>- Increasing the international dimension to gender-related topics;</p>
<p>- Introducing the Forum Theatre as a tool of non-formal education;</p>
<p>- Discussing the plans for fellowship activity;</p>
<p>This activity will help the educators/youth workers to gain the needed competencies is preparing the participants for future steps.</p>
<p>after many hours of working, this is the final training program</p>{"name"=>nil, "email"=>nil, "twitter"=>nil}Due to the time limits and distance trainers’ team was holding constant skype/jit.si/zoom/messenger meeting to prepare and plan the best possible training program for the participants coming to the first mobility of PERFORMATOR.