Partners
Balamos Teatro
Balamos Teatro operates nationally and internationally with specific projects at the University, public school of all grades, facilities of physical, mental and neurological disease, recovery communities of drug addicts, penitentiary institutions, blighted neighborhoods. In particular, it is involved in: - promotion and dissemination of theatrical culture through targeted pedagogical projects - staging of theatrical performances and performance events - creation of theater workshops - promotion and organization of performances, theater reviews and cultural events - management and promotion of theater training courses - coordination and interchange with theatrical and cultural institutions nationally and internationally In the last 3 years Balamos Theatro has taken part in 2 Erasmus+ programs. The KA227 Strategic Partnership program “ATTACH- the ArT of Theatron As a second Chance” and the “TEAPOT - Tools for Education with Artistic Perception for Open Transmission program”.
University of Thessaly
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (DECE) is one of the leading departments of Univeristy of
Thessaly. It belongs to the School of Engineering of UTH. It was founded in March 2000. Its annual enrollment is
approximately 200 undergraduates, including transfer and special status students, and 50-60 graduate students. There are
21 faculty members, 4 emeritus processors, 5 lab teaching staff members and approximately 35 PhD students at DECE.
The mission of DECE is to promote the advancement of Electrical, Computer and Communication Engineering through
education and research. Furthermore, by providing educational, training and research opportunities in these disciplines,
DECE aims to fully prepare its graduates for successful careers in their chosen field or the continuation of their studies and
research in other top institutions. To that end, DECE offers a constantly evolving five-year undergraduate program which
covers a vast range of topics in Information Technology.
Theatre De L’ Opprime
Nested in a former furniture-shop-turned-theatre, the Theater of the Oppressed organizes training courses and workshops, artistic research labs, rehearsals, and creations. Since 1998, the company, led by Rui Frati, has continued to develop its own work, while hosting and co-producing with the theatre, dance, and music companies. The company’s programming promotes contemporary drama and newly emerging troupes while remaining focused on established directors and texts, as well as theatre for young audiences. Nevertheless, the core of the Theatre and its company is the method of the Theatre of the oppressed. The method and techniques of the Theatre of the Oppressed were developed by Augusto Boal in Latin America in the 1970s. His goal was to draw visibility to social and political conflicts by giving a voice to marginalized groups who were facing oppression under totalitarian regimes of the time. Boal’s method is composed of six techniques including Forum Theater, Image Theater, Rainbow of Desire, Invisible Theater, Journal Theater and Legislative Theater. The main technique used is called «forum-theatre»: focusing on a contemporary issue, the company of actors creates and performs a scene with a negative outcome. The audience, through prompting from the director, is then invited to reflect on how best to resolve the onstage conflict. Audience members become « spectActors » and join the scene through confrontation and interaction with the other characters, thereby inspiring new ideas, alternatives, and a willingness to change the situation. By working together, the actors and audience find new solutions for the conflicts portrayed on stage. Each year, the stage professionals who take part in the company, create and perform a play of a contemporary author. They focus especially on performances combining theatre and music. Other projects include «forum-theatres», workshops, and training courses in different environments: prisons, schools and universities, community centres, local authorities, businesses, etc. These interventions allow the company to build and retain a new audience by making theatre more accessible to more people. Though it is based primarily in France, the company has also traveled to countries including Italy, Brazil, Palestine, Burundi, Iran, Taiwan, Morocco, Romania, Portugal, Chile, Mexico, Spain, England and Germany for both performances and workshops. Since 2010, the Théâtre de l’Opprimé’s team weekly attends the La Santé Prison in Paris and the Centre de Peine Aménagée in Villejuif (among others), to direct a Forum-Theater workshop for a group of about 12 to 25 prisoners. The company also intervenes punctually in high-security prisons in the Paris region. The theatre is used to working with prisoners using theatre to develop their creative skills and work on their personal development and behaviour to facilitate their integration to the society once they are freed. In the last 5 years Theatre De L’ Opprime has taken part in 2 Erasmus+ program. In 2018-1-IT02-KA204-048304 called “WIP – Work In Progress” and in “ATTACH – the ArT of Theatre as A second CHance” along with a number of this proposal’s partners.
Sigma Art
SIGMA ART Cultural-Artistic Foundation, according to its Cultural-educational (theatre and drama in education programmes and workshops) and Artistic (seniors, adults and young people performances) activity, is the first institution of "Theatre and Drama in Education" in Romania, nationally and internationally recognized, which is an important formal and informal segment of Education in Europe. SIGMA ART Foundation, founded in 1995, runs in Romania an international cultural-educational and artistic resource and research centre which offers support to seniors, adults, young people, socially disadvantaged groups as inmates, street children a.s.o. and artists; and to other organizations with similar objectives. SIGMA ART Foundation promotes a strong emphasis on cultural diversity and equal gender opportunities. The foundation aims to improve the access and participation for everybody in the European Union culture, recognizing that culture is a key factor in social integration and citizenship building process (social cohesion). Besides the performance productions, is committed in Social theatre activities as well as in Education. Social theatre is considered a powerful mean of inclusion, an opportunity for the community to promote lifelong learning and dialogue. In the field of Education, SIGMA ART Foundation promotes theatrical activities linked to the “family learning” concept; by involving senior adults as parents or teachers in children’s informal education activities, SIGMA ART Foundation aims to improve the drama communication inside the family and school in order to break the gap between generations and to increase the personal development of young generation through educational drama and theatre tools. SIGMA ART Foundation involves its target groups in analysing social, intercultural and moral problems through workshops and performances. In addition to this, through EU exchanges of good practices in different trans-national meetings, each partner offered valuable experiences to others, numerous visits to local related organizations, multilingual videos, websites, multimedia online newsletters and leaflets which disseminated the project’s results.
APICCO Community
APICCO – Artistic Partnership in Community’s Creative Opening is a social-art association created in 2013 and developed into a Social Cooperative Enterprise in 2017 - aiming at the promotion of rehabilitation of vulnerable groups (detainees and former detainees, disabled, migrants and refugees, unemployed, women excluded from the labor market, homeless people, etc.), through artistic creation, training and collaboration. APICCO support independent cultural expression, culture for social change, awareness campaigns, social cause festivals, initiatives for social integration, community projects, cultural and educational programs within Greek Correctional Facilities and cities throughout Greece. APICCO is comprised of artists, scientists and former prisoners, with a variety of nationalities, ages and educational backgrounds sharing stories, ideas, emotions and visions. The organization has already a performing ensemble made of actors and amateurs who are trained of theatre- making by using DRAMA IN EDUCATION and other methodologies based upon the backgrounds and talents of their members. They can perform instantly using an image, a plot, a theme, a character, historical documents, an entire novel or a single line as a point of departure. The performances “ METAMORFOSIS” , “Xaska”, “ First Attempt : Tragedy” were creating with that method. Apicco’s directors and educators have implemented long lasting theatrical workshops for inmates, correctional officers, ex-offenders and students of formal/ non-formal education, creative writing activities within prisons, physical and psychological empowerment programs and benefiting over 2000 individuals the last 9 years. This consortium of 6 selected partners from 4 different European countries was primarily formed in the basis of the needs arising for this project and their enthusiastic involvement in drama and theatrical activities inside prison premises in the last 10 (maybe more) years. All partners are active in their respected field and committed to the specified tasks of this project. They comprise a consortium which have the capacity and motivation to establish a viable project, collaborate in any effective manner for its completion and produce tangible work packages for the understated subject of prison theatre.