WOVEN THEATRE PROJECT مشروع فوفن المسرحي
Internationale Theatre project with refugees
Erbil/Berlin
Forced migration and war are deeply and generationally interwoven with the emotional-cultural life and experience. Families are no longer able to show their children, or to even feel themselves, what should be basic human qualities: empathy, resilience, a keen eye towards the environment, commitment, personal contentment, and trust and interest in others. In various theatrical workshops, e.g., puppetry, physical theatre, body and rhythm, or mime, we provide input for intellectual debate and develop common tasks. Our approach is playful, as well as action and body-oriented. This opens up new perspectives and possibilities for action and creates access to emotions. We work with refugee adults who come from a theatrical or pedagogic background. We give them the tools of theatre and how to impart this knowledge to children. In this way we locally weave self-empowerment structures in order to connect local people and refugees so that they can integrate themselves into the new society through the instrumentof theatre. Theater as a dialogue, cultural exchange and job perspective.
Our concept
Erbil
The theatre project, in partnership with the Goethe Institute, is directed towards refugee children and adults, mainly from Syria, who are staying at refugee camps in the Independent Region of Kurdistan in Iraq. We work together with two camps, each with about 6,000 families. The theatre workshops take place on the grounds of the Goethe Institute Iraq / Connection Office Erbil.
Berlin
With our funds from the theatre sector we hope to offer refugees the opportunity to gradually free themselves from their precarious situation and to change their perspectives. In doing so, we rely on the transformative power of the theatre, supported by trauma processing therapy theories. We support and stimulate their personal strength and reawaken their cultural rootedness.
Rostock
Coming soon
Moataz, 32, project assistant
The children’s parents find the project great and are very grateful that their children are a part of it. They are calmer, more balanced and happier. They play more and have become better at entertaining themselves and their siblings.
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