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Small World Theatre and the Centre for Performance Research have combined to present a 2 day workshop: Theatre for Development. The venue for this 2 day workshop will be the Creative Mwldan Centre Clos Y Bath House, Cardigan, Ceredigion in beautiful, historic, coastal West Wales Saturday and Sunday 27th and 28th of March. This is part of the new media centre at the newly expanded Theatr Mwldan site. Small World Theatre has been based in this wonderfully picturesque part of Wales for 25 years. From here they have toured Africa and Asia pioneering work on Arts and Culture for Development (ACD) projects. The course aims to share their participatory practice and experience in using the arts, drama and puppetry and other creative media in developmental practice. SWTS overseas work has included: <sum> Full scale touring puppet productions in Arabic as the educational and motivational component of a community forestry project in the Sudanese desert. A 15 year project helped produce a forest in the desert. <sum> Puppet training with a Kenyan NGO working with disabled children in a Nairobi shantytown. <sum> Work in Hong Kong refugee camps and detention centres <sum> Shadow puppetry with street children in Vietnam <sum> Training in setting up an ACD company in Zambia <sum> Participatory street theatre in Nepal <sum> Training 10 Tanzanian actors in participatory drama for development, creating 50 performances in marginalised communities concerning women’s participation in the democratic process. <sum> The rights of the child in Ugandan 6 schools with 180 participants using forum theatre techniques. <sum> AIDS orphans in Uganda requested SWT training in puppet making storytelling, ACD techniques and giant processional puppet making. UK work has seen the company present long running development education programmes in schools across the UK. The themes included: desertification, urban migration and child rights, refugee issues, multicultural awareness. Their project Diogel?/Safe? works with integration of refugees and asylum seekers in host communities in Wales. The company also work with regeneration of communities using the arts and theatre in on going projects in West Wales Link to websites: www.smallworld.org.uk www.thecpr.org.uk Here is the good bit : this training will reflect Small World theatre’s participatory approach so participants can e-mail the company (smallworld@enterprise.net) suggestions on the content and direction of the training. Please highlight which areas of Arts and Culture for Development interest you and we will endeavour to include suggestions into this introductory course. TO BOOK A PLACE TEL: 01970 622133 EMAIL: cprwww@aber.ac.uk |
| small world theatre / centre for performance resea web site: www.smallworld.org.uk |
| e-mail: cprwww@aber.ac.uk |
Thursday, February 26, 2004 |
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