Presentation of the 2013 Artists at Schools Project: Non-Private Theatre: Scandal in a Good Family
Forum theatre performance and professional consultation (in world cafe format)
The objective of the Artists at Schools is to raise and deploy the concept of democracy and its principles of operation within art-critical pedagogical practices, with the concurrent use of the potentials of art and critical pedagogy. In 2013, two school programs were realized within the framework of the project.
Non-Private Theatre: Scandal in a Good Family
Forum theatre performance and professional consultation (in world cafe format)
Time: April 4, 2014, 6:00-10:00 pm
Venue: Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit. hu, 1068 Budapest, Király utca 102.
Program:
6:00-6:30 pm Brief introduction, screening of a short film (15 min)
6:30-8:30 pm Forum theatre performance
8:30-9:00 pm Break, food courtesy of the Non-Private Theatre
9:00-9:45 pm World cafe-style professional consultation
Within the framework of the Artists at Schools project, the Non-Private Theatre (NPSZ), for an entire school semester, played, experienced, created art, conjured tricks, conversed, wrote texts, and improvised with the young students of the first-year waiter class of the Mándy Iván Vocational School of Budapest. It is these experiences that we would like to share and think about together.
During the course of the evening, we will present the performance written and directed by the students (using the tools of the forum theatre). Afterwards, participants will be invited to a professional exchange of experiences. The film shot at the school will also be presented. There will be coffee and food available, courtesy of the Non-Private Theatre.
VIOLENCE, JUST TALK, OPPRESSION, I’LL KICK YOU OUT, HAIR CUTTING, “CIPI”, ABORTION, BEAN, and PELLET
What did we do once a week in the ninth grade class? We arrived with big plans and then continuously re-planned: sometimes we felt that not even a week was enough to get over the fact that we were present in a classroom. There was nothing for us to do but to give ourselves over to the class for an hour and a half each week and to trust that their encounter with the forum theatre would be a positive experience—a catharsis—for them as well. Will they be using it as a balm, a magic ointment? Could our vantage point serve as their protective box—could theirs be ours?
