The Pathway
Trust Tour will evolve the previous youth exchanges into an 18-months project (2021-2022), to share the partners’ collective database of experience. The end result: designing methodologies and theatrical performances, to inspire others to develop their own intercultural projects and teach them how to succeed in that endeavour. The project will re-explore and re-define the methods in question, keeping in mind the current political and social context.
In order to produce easy-to-use and high-quality methodologies, the partners will organise 4 European workshops (1-week). In each partners country, young people – with a migrant background or not – will gather to test the methodology and to design a theatre performance altogether.
Together with experienced artists, they will stage new narratives created through intercultural co-creation. The methodologies will be “formalized” through video tutorial. At the end of each workshop, the theatre works will be performed in front of a local audience and will be filmed, to illustrate the methodology and reach a large audience.
In addition, local promotional events will be organised after each workshop, by each partner in their own city, to share the methodology and adapt it to their country.
The methodologies will propose 4 different approaches to design an intercultural creative workshop with European youth.
4 European workshops
Participants
Each European workshop will gather 12 participants from the 4 project partners, for a week of activities. 8 participants will be young people from the partners’ network (volonteers, young artists, students, any engaged citizen….) and 4 among them will have a migrant background. The 3 other participants will be workshop leaders and will bring expertise in the design and/or management of intercultural youth exchanges. Local population may also be invited in these workshops.
Activities
These 1-week workshops will offer various artistic activities to the participants. Mornings will be dedicated to exploring the methodology developed by the host partner. Afternoons will offer a space of writing and rehearsing a performance, using the methodologie at stake.
At the end of the workshop, a promotional event will offer a space to present the methodology to the local audience and a moment to perform the play created during the workshop.
4 Methodologies
Theater Dortmund method
How to design an artistic theatre workshop questioning trust through a theatre experience based on the roots of initiatory journeys in the Mediterranean tales? This methodology will enable participants to search for common roots, through the example of Ulysse’s Odyssey. Theatre techniques will be used to develop trust, solidarity and shared cultural space.
Teatro Rigodon method
How to design an artistic theatre workshop questioning trust through a theatre experience based on the first European novel gathering 100 stories inspired by western and eastern stories combined? Based on the Italian author Boccaccio Decameron, this methodology will enable participants to create their own story questioning migration, gender equality and resilience.
Transplanisphère method
How to design an artistic theatre workshop questioning trust, by creating a documentary artistic pathway through contrasting social environments? Inspired by different contexts and spaces, the methodology will enable participants to build a new relationship with each other but also with the public space, in order to reinvent a common future altogether.
ExQuorum synthesis
How to design an artistic theatre workshop by putting the 3 methodologies in perspective. By combining these different contexts and inspirations, this methodology will provide a comparative and qualitative analysis of the corpus. It will enable participants to engage in historical and socio-political reflection through analysis, dialogue and creative processes.
Timeline
Online Kick-off meeting with all the partners, coordinated by La Transplanisphère, to launch the project and plan the different steps of the project.
Design of the first methodology by La Transplanisphère based on a documentary artistic pathway.
Partners and participants meet online to test and learn the methodologies and create a theatrical performance with the French method.
The participants perform the performance they have created during the workshop at an event open to the public and filmed. This is then published.
Design of the second methodology by Theater Dortmund, based on Idomeneus in Greek mythology and adaptation work from an existing text.
Partners and participants meet online to learn the German method.
The participants perform the performance they have created during the workshop at an event open to the public and filmed. This is then published.
Regular intermediate online partner meetings. These meetings are used to assess the progress of the project and plan the next steps.
Design of the third methodology by Teatro Rigodon, based on the body, travel and space.
ExQuorum drew on the other three methods to develop its method based on memory, territory and local community.
The participants perform the performance they have created during the workshop at an event open to the public and filmed. This is then published.
Partners and participants meet in Rieti and Rocca Sinibalda to learn the Italian Method.
The participants perform the performance they have created during the workshop at an event open to the public and filmed. This is then published.
Local promotional events were organised in each partner country to promote the methodologies to their local audience.
Final partners meet online and evaluate the project.
The Trust Tour methods will soon be freely available and will offer you the opportunity to conduct artistic and intercultural workshops with young people!