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“Let’s create our own Way of Globalization”
(quote from a South African participant
in the expert exchange meeting ”Communicating in Conflicts”
in Summer 2003)
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Amani
Peoples’ Theatre | Nairobi, Kenya
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Aarohan Theatre | Kathmandu,
Nepal :
Community
Arts Project | Cape Town, South Africa
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DOMINO
– Civil Courage in the Limelight | Halle/Merseburg, Germany
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Ellis
& Bheki | Durban, South Africa
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GRIPS
Theater | Berlin, Germany
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InterACT
| Graz, Austria :
Kamoto
Community Arts | Lusaka, Zambia
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LAG
Spiel und Theater (Regional Association for Play and Theatre)
| Berlin, Deutschland
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Mothertongue
Project | Cape Town, South Africa
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RAAbenschwarz
| Berlin, Germany
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Themba
HIV/AIDS Project | Johannesburg, South Africa
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University
of Malawi, Department of Fine and Performing Arts | Zomba,
Malawi :
World
Community Services (Weltfriedensdienst) | Berlin, Germany
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Young
People for Change | Durban, South Africa
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Amani Peoples’ Theatre Nairobi,
Kenya
Amani People's Theatre (APT) is an association of artist peace
builders that employs participatory methodologies - including
Forum Theatre - to create the space for reflection around issues
of conflict transformation and peace building. The theatre-for-peace
process integrates education, entertainment and research in
exploring context specific conflict issues and enhancing the
search for creative non-violent responses to conflict. APT mainly
works with grassroots and middle level community in both rural
and urban Kenya. The educational, therapeutic and mediative
elements of African indigenous theatre as well as the theories
of the Brazilian educators Paulo Freire and Augusto Boal inspire
the work of the group. APT was one of the major contributors
to the expert meeting and exchange ”Communication
in Conflicts” which took place in Summer 2003 in Berlin.
Together with the Mothertongue Project in Cape Town and sabisa,
APT will conduct the workshop and performance during the International
Conference on Peace Education in Munich in February 2004.
www.aptkenya.org
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Aarohan Theatre Kathmandu,
Nepal
Aarohan Theatre Group is a performing artists' organization
established in Kathmandu in 1982 as a non-political, non-religious
organization. It is active in the fields of stage and street
theatre, television, radio, as well as training/workshop activities
in the performing arts. Aarohan believes all forms of art are
for the welfare of the human being. To contribute to an honest,
fearless, aesthetic and healthy society by promoting social
justice, pluralism and democracy through theatre is the main
goal of Aarohan.
Aarohan has conducted training/workshops in approximately 60
districts in Nepal on the preparation, performance and management
of instructive Kachahari (Forum theatre) and street plays. Offering
practical knowledge about theatre, these workshops aim to apply
this knowledge towards the transformation of society and customs.
The primary objective of such workshops is to generate expertise
on theatre techniques with theatre workers and social activists
as well as to impart necessary knowledge to prepare and perform
issue based street theatre and Theatre of the Oppressed. Aarohan
has also prepared and broadcast 15 Tele-films and 3 long Tele-serials
for Nepal Television. Aarohan plays have been performed at international
festivals in India, Bangladesh, Russia, Denmark and Norway.
www.aarohantheatre.org
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Community Arts Project Cape
Town, South Africa
The Community Arts Project (CAP) was founded in 1977, in order
to establish a forum for artistic activities resisting the restrictions
of apartheid. Today the project offers training in fine and
performing arts for unemployed youth. The training enables young
people to gain skills in various artistic genres, in order to
be able to earn their own living. Mandla Mbothwe, a trainer
and theatre practitioner with CAP, was one of the participants
in sabisa’s exchange programme ”Communicating
in Conflicts” in 2002. Mandla Mbothwe is currently
lecturer at the University of Cape Town involved with the conceptualisation
of their Community Arts Programme.
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DOMINO – Civil Courage in
the Limelight Halle/Merseburg, Germany
DOMINO is a cultural and theatre pedagogic project to promote
civil courage, social inclusion and emancipatory cultural community
work. DOMINO’s activities were focused on the Saxony-Anhalt
region of Halle-Merseburg in 2002 and 2003. They included: practical-oriented
training series for teachers, social workers and other multipliers;
international meetings of theatre practitioners in Halle-Merseburg;
action theatre in public spaces and street theatre events, in
which the participants (young people from the region) depicted
their viewpoints about the social problems in their lives. The
DOMINO project was provided research and evaluation support
by the Department of Theatre and Media in Education of the School
of Applied Sciences, Merseburg. The aim of the project was to
promote self-confidence, civil courage and social engagement
using theatre in education methods. One of the main issues dealt
with in the project was that of coping with violence. DOMINO
co-operated with sabisa during the expert exchange meeting ”Communicating
in Conflicts” in June 2003, during which it organised
a street theatre event in Merseburg.
www.domino-x.de
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Ellis & Bheki Durban,
South Africa
The duo Ellis Pearson and Bheki Mkhwane conceive their own theatrical
performances based on day-to-day experiences of people in South
Africa. Their performances are mostly open-air, and the duo
is widely travelled and internationally present at theatre festivals
and cultural events. The performances are characterised by an
expressive use of the body, humour and an active integration
of the audience. Thematically the plays deal with historical
and political issues, addressing all age groups. Social commitment
forms the core of their theatrical practice. The pair train
young actors who have no access to formal education, perform
in areas where there are no theatres, and work with groups from
rural areas and townships, producing performances and shows
of diverse ranges. Bheki Mkhwane was a participant in the sabisa
exchange programme ”Communicating
in Conflicts” in 2002 in Berlin. He conducted a workshop
on ”The Theatre of Imagination”, a method used by
Ellis&Bheki, and performed his play, ”Solomon’s
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GRIPS Theatre Berlin, Germany
GRIPS Theatre grew out of the ”Reichskabarett” during
the student protest movement in West Berlin as an emancipatory
children’s theatre company and gained widespread acclaim
with plays such as ”Ein Fest bei Papadakis”, ”Max
und Milli” and ”Linie 1”. GRIPS productions have
been performed in 40 different languages. The special characteristic
of this theatre company is its method: plays, themes, actors
and depicted conflicts are located where the audience actually
is; GRIPS aims to work with the problems, desires and needs
of its audience. Its approach is to depict realities, draft
out hopes, create space for courage. With its aim to be actively
involved in transforming educational policies and practices,
GRIPS takes up current debates and encourages young people to
participate in public life. The theatre company is a partner
of sabisa in the projects on child labour: ”Roll
up your sleeves (In die Hände gespuckt)” and on
children in violent conflict: "Gewalt
im Spiel".
www.grips-theater.de
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InterACT Graz, Austria
InterACT was founded in 1999 in Graz in Austria as a theatre
in education project aiming to combine political engagement
with love for theatre work. It uses theatre and scenic play
as a tool in cultural communication, for reflection, change
and empowerment and aims to encourage social participation and
a sense of creative independence. InterACT has conducted a series
of theatre in education workshops, interactive events and socio-cultural
projects. The group has been a partner of sabisa in the exchange
programmes, "Communicating
in Conflicts" in 2002 and 2003.
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Kamoto Community Arts Lusaka,
Zambia
Kamoto Community Arts is a community-based organisation formed
in 1990. It is a theatre, music and dance ensemble, comprised
of theatre for development practitioners and professional actors
and dancers. Kamoto Arts' Participatory Performance Practice
(PPP) addresses the experiences and interests of the communities.
It uses theatre for conflict resolution, problem analysis and
needs assessment with an emphasis on community participation
and a focus on traditional performance. The focus area of work
is both urban and rural Zambia. Kamoto participated in the expert
meeting and exchange programme, ”Communicating
in Conflicts” in Berlin during June 2003.
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LAG Spiel und Theater (Regional
Association for Play and Theatre) Berlin, Germany
Berlin Regional Association for Play and Theatre views itself
as an umbrella organisation of theatre in education practitioners
based in and around the German capital. Main areas of work of
the organisation are: promoting creative theatre in education
and community theatre work in public institutions of cultural
education, for example in crèches, schools and socio-cultural
institutions, in leisure activities for youth and senior citizens
as well as in the corporate sector. Activities of the LAG cover
training, exchange programmes and expert meetings. It offers
comprehensive services, which are generally available to any
interested parties. Being a charitable public interest group,
the LAG offers all members the possibility to be involved in
the lobby and representative activities of the organisation.
During sabisa’s expert exchange programme in Summer 2003,
LAG conducted a public discussion evening, presenting examples
of German theatre in education praxis and investigating possibilities
of exchange with African theatre practitioners.
www.lagstb.de
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Mothertongue Project Cape
Town, South Africa
The Mothertongue Project (formed in 2000) is a collective of
women performing artists who contemplate the sacred in and through
performance. Their work explores the keys to the empowerment
of women and practical processes of healing and transformation
through the power of storytelling and performance. The focus
being on empowering the audience to discover and recover their
own resources for self-healing. The collective combines techniques
such as physical theatre, storytelling, breathwork, ritual and
music/sound to tap into the body’s own wisdom and the wellspring
of personal dreams and universal archetypes.
The Mothertongue Project participated in sabisa’s exchange
programme of theatre practitioners ”Communicating in Conflicts”
in 2002 as well as 2003. Together with Amani People’s Theatre
and sabisa, the Mothertongue Project is co-facilitator of a
workshop and performance during the International Conference
on Peace Education in February 2004 in Munich.
www.mothertongue.co.za
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raabenschwarz Berlin, Deutschland
The forum theatre group raabenschwarz was started in Spring
2001, following a series of workshops by facilitators from the
Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed in Rio de Janeiro with
a group of Roma refugees in Berlin, under the auspices of a
local refugee support group (whose German acronym RAA gave rise
to the name of the theatre group, which literally means ‘black
as a raven’). The group focuses thematically on the lives
and problems faced by refugees and asylum seekers in Berlin,
using forum theatre as a creative tool and impulse for political
action. raabenschwarz holds forum theatre performances in a
wide range of sites, ranging from educational institutions to
refugee hostels to municipal administrative offices.
www.forumtheater-rabenschwarz.de
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Themba HIV/AIDS Project Johannesburg,
South Africa
Themba HIV/AIDS Project has been delivering performances and
interactive theatre to schools, community based organisations
and businesses in Gauteng since February 2002. The focus is
influencing behaviour to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. Themba
primarily targets young people and parents. The Interactive
Themba Theatre (ITT) process uses a range of interactive theatre
techniques including Forum Theatre, dramatherapy, psychodrama,
theatre games, improvisation, formal teaching methods, play
devising, play directing and performance. The young actor-educators
from Soweto, Tembisa and Alexandra have contributed to making
ITT a process specific to the South African HIV/AIDS context.
Themba HIV/AIDS Project participated in sabisa’s expert
exchange programmes "Communicating
in Conflicts" in 2002 and 2003.
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University of Malawi – Department
of Fine and Performing Arts Zomba, Malawi
University of Malawi – Department of Fine and Performing
Arts started around 1982, as a break away drama section that
joined Fine Art and Music Sections. It has been associated with
advancement of theatre in Malawi, both in its commercial and
Conflict Resolution aspects. The Department was the first to
hold participatory theatre workshops, under the name Chancellor
College Travelling Theatre, on labour issues at Mbalachanda
Tobacco estates in the Northern Region of Malawi. Since then,
this method was adopted by both governmental and non-governmental
organisations in Malawi. It runs workshops for community groups
on how to use theatre in conflict resolution, and NGOs like
Project Hope, Africare Malawi, PSI International, UMOYO Health
Network etc. have been beneficiaries of training offered by
it. Of late, Mufunanji Magalasi, Linje Manyozo, Joe Chimwenje,
and David Kerr have gone with students to do workshops with
communities themselves on varied social problems such as poverty,
HIV/AIDS, and need for inclusion of common villagers' voices
in NGO development.
The Department of Fine and Performing Arts participated in sabisa’s
exchange programme of facilitators ”Communicating
in Conflicts” in June 2003.
sabisa was also represented at a conference organised by the
Malawi University Dept. of Fine and Performing Arts in September
2003.
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World Community Services Berlin,
Deutschland
World Community Services (Weltfriedensdienst e.V./ WFD) is a
development co-operation organisation with its head office in
Berlin. The charitable organisation was founded in 1959 and
began its activities in the context of anti-fascist reconciliatory
work. Currently, the organisation supports grassroots initiatives
in Africa, Latin America and in Palestine, in addition to focusing
on public information campaigns in Germany on developmental
issues. WFD seeks to apply developmental approaches and ideas
as rigorously to contemporary post-industrial Germany as it
would to any country of the South. Thus in its human rights
section, WFD also focuses on promoting an ecological sustainable
agriculture in Germany, and campaigns against racism. WFD is
one of the officially recognised bodies in the framework of
the recently initiated ”Civil Peace Service”. WFD
was a partner of sabisa during the expert exchange programme
”Communicating
in Conflicts” in 2002 and 2003,
as well as in the workshop ”Short
stories for long moments of peace”.
www.wfd.de
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Young People for Change Durban,
South Africa
Young People for Change creates awareness on various socio-cultural
issues, primarily on HIV/AIDS education. Young People for Change
uses different art forms: drama, dance, music, poetry and storytelling
in conveying messages that engulf the youth around the townships
of Durban in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. The focus group is
youth up to 26 years from disadvantaged communities.
Young People for Change participated in sabisa’s exchange
programme ”Communicating
in Conflicts” in 2003 in Berlin.
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