The fifth session of THE (HI)STORY OF IDEA webinar will take place on Saturday, 21st May at 7:30 am UTC on Zoom.

The event is conceptualized as an intergenerational and intercultural dialogue that examines IDEA history through a critical lens, but also with an aim of tracking the evolution of drama/theatre education and directing its future. 

The featured guests of the fourth session are Prof (Dr) Samuel Leong (Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia) and Dr. Zeki Özen (Turkey). The session host is the IDEA President Sanja Krsmanović Tasić.

Professor (Dr) Samuel Leong was the inaugural Director of Research at IDEA. He led a multifarious, interdisciplinary and international career for over 40 years spanning education, performance, health, media, technology, business and administration. He is co-founder of the UNESCO HK’s Glocal Peace Centre and former Director of the UNESCO Observatory for Research in Local Cultures and Creativity in Education in Hong Kong. He has contributed to over 100 publications, including the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Educational Psychology, Routledge International Handbook of Creative Learning, Creative Arts in Education and Culture, Oxford Handbook of Technology and Music Education, Routledge International Handbook of Intercultural Arts Research, and Changing Policy-making Process in Greater China.

Zeki Özen was born in 1980. In 2033, he graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Elementary Education. During his university education, he became interested in drama in education. He held various positions in the field of facilitation/training and social communities. Between 2004-2005, he worked as a volunteer worker in Mourne Grange Camphill Community with disabled people in an educational and living institution in Northern Ireland. In 2005, he completed the Drama Teaching Program run by the Turkish Contemporary Drama Association. Between 2005-2011, Zeki was a student at Ankara University Institute of Educational Sciences Creative Drama Master’s Program. During the same years, he was a board member at the Turkish Contemporary Drama Association. He worked as a drama teacher in different Private Schools during 2005-2010. Since 2010, Zeki has been working at Ankara University Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Elementary Education. In 2018, he completed his Ph.D. study at Ankara University, Institute of Educational Sciences, Department of Fine Arts Education. He still continues to carry out studies as a research assistant at Ankara University Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Elementary Education. He still takes the responsibility of being a board member in Çağdaş Drama Derneği (Contemporary Drama Association) and IDEA. He is working as General Secretary of Contemporary Drama Association and also Director of Research of IDEA.

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Topic: THE (HI)STORY OF IDEA Webinar on 21st May

Time: May 21, 2022 07:30 AM Universal Time UTC

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International Arts Education Week is designated by the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to be May 23-29, 2022. The below information will help you promote the week to networks of arts/culture and education stakeholders. This year, the topic of the international week of arts education is PEACE! We wish to collect the voices of art educators to spread out during the celebrations of the International Arts Education Week during May 23-29, 2022. 

Call For Action: Ring the Bells for Arts Education

The Ring the Bells for Arts Education action will take place again, this time as a WAAE initiative. We ask you all to join us on Monday 23rd of May at noon, by ringing bells or sounding other instruments as a sign of support for arts education. It will be a 24-hour world action, as we pass the time zones at noon. We also ask you to record a short video, or take a photo of the action and post it on your Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or LinkedIn account, with the hashtags:

#BellsForArtsEd #ArtsEdWeek #WAAE #IDEA #INSEA #ISME #WDA

Ring the Bells for Arts Education, 12pm 23rd May

Call For Contributions: WAAE Open HOUSE

During the 2022 International Arts Education Week, the world Alliance of Arts Education will organize a series of webinars related to Arts Education and Peace. If you want to share your ideas and work with others, on the topic, you can send us a presentation for the Open House live session on the 26 May at 20.00h (CEST) or for the asynchronous presentations on the 27 May.

Please fill out this form to send your presentation. 

Save the DATES: WAAE Webinars

23 May|

Ring the Bells

Opening Webinar: Arts Education for Peace

24 May|

Featured Film: Devaradiyaar in Sadir : The life and Art of Muthukannammal

25 May|

A Webinar with Tintti Karppinen from Finland, who dedicated her life to peace education through art education

26 |27 May

Open House

28 May|

Stories about the Alliance! A webinar with the founders of the World Alliance for Arts Education.

29 May |

Closing session/reflections …with WAAE leaders

Check the times of the webinars HERE. 

Register HERE to attend the webinars. 

CALL FOR ACTION: MAP the Field! 

Help us to map the field and the diversity of approaches to arts education: Make a mp4 one minute video about practices illustrating the contribution of arts education in the lives of children, youth and adults. WAAE will showcase it in a global scale through WAAE virtual space. 

Support the participants of the Young IDEA Lab 2022!

The next project of Young IDEA that brings young theater-makers and educators together to devise a performance is happening from June 24- July 6 in Reykjavik!

Young people from 7 different countries will take part, but not all have the means to support their travel costs, that's why we need you!

With your donations, young theater-makers and educators from Togo, the Philippines and South America can travel to Iceland and experience a cross-cultural exchange, create a performance and make their voices heard through their art! 

Please consider donating now under: https://gofund.me/f790a5c0 

More information about the project www.youngidea.org/projects-3

The 2022 IDEA General Council Meeting will take place during the Worldwide Congress in Reykjavik, Iceland from 4th-8th July. Registrations for the GCM are now open and IDEA members are encouraged to submit motions for the meeting. 

Please, see the following documents in the attachments below:

1. Invitation letter to the 2022 GCM and the preliminary agenda, written in English, French, Spanish and Chinese

2. Registration forms in English, French, Chinese and Spanish - to be sent by 6th June 2022

3. Forms for motions, one in English, French and Spanish and the other in Chinese - to be sent by 23rd May 2022

4. GCM proxy form, in case you can't make it to Iceland and you wish for another member to represent you and vote in your name

GCM 2022 Invitation Letter.docx

REGISTRATION English.docx

REGISTRO Asamblea general .docx

REGISTRATION French.docx

REGISTRATION, Chinese.docx

2022 GCM Motions; English, French, Spanish.docx

2022 GCM Motions, Chinese.docx

2022 GCM Proxy vote.docx

Stop Ecocide, Start Good Living!

Arrête l'écocide, commence le bon vivre!

Pare el ecocidio, comience el buen vivir!

Pare ecocídio, começa bem viver!

The second session of the webinar series Stop Ecocide and Start Good Living! is taking place on Zoom on 7th May from 12pm to 2 pm UTC. Join us, invite your colleagues and let us all act together through art and education to save our world!

Lire en français: Français_Arrête l'écocide, commence le bon vivre!

Leer en español: Español_Pare el ecocidio, comience el buen vivir!

Theatre Education to Stop Ecocide and Start Good Living!

Theatre education in schools and communities enables us, students and teachers, to create, produce and perform the futures we envision. Can we each act, together, on time, to save our world?

This series of three webinars places performance at the heart of South-North dialogues to achieve three aims in times of ecocide and climate collapse:

● To view an Amazon-German students-theatre project collaboration as an example, to see how we might work in the space between Ecocide and Good Living.

● To view a Global project collaboration and six communities in crisis to see how students' theatre projects in schools might act globally in our local place, between Ecocide and Good Living.

● To identify diverse strategies and develop plans for theatre education for Good Living through collaborative projects in and between different regions across the world.

This webinar series, proposed by Joachim Reiss and Tonio Kempf (former and actual presidents of BVTS), has emerged from a long collaboration between Brazilian (ABRA) and German national associations of theatre educators and drama in school, inspired by Amazonian projects (coordinated by former IDEA President, Dan Baron Cohen).

Webinar 1 - held on Saturday, April 9th, 2022

Webinar 2 - Saturday, May 7th, from 12pm to 2pm UTC - Context and example of Global Multicultural Collaborative Project

Webinar 3 - Saturday, June 4th, from 12pm to 2pm UTC

After the end of each webinar, there will be an Open Space of 30 minutes where participants can continue the conversation in the chat if they wish. 

Participation in the first webinar is not a condition for participation in the second one - everyone is welcome! 

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Topic: Stop Ecocide - Start Good Living! Webinar on 7th May 12pm UTC

Time: 7th May 2022, 12pm - 2pm UTC

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The fourth session of the webinar THE (HI)STORY OF IDEA will take place on Saturday, 30th April at 12 pm (noon) UTC on Zoom. Please, join us and invite your colleagues, so we can all together map the history and future of drama/theatre education through IDEA's story.

The event is conceptualized as an intergenerational and intercultural dialogue that examines IDEA history through a critical lens, but also with an aim of tracking the evolution of drama/theatre education and directing its future.

The featured guests of the fourth session are Dan Baron Cohen and Andreea Jicman, while the session host is Zeki Ozen, IDEA Director of Research, and the technical host is Borisav Matic, the IDEA Administrator.

Dan Baron Cohen is a community performance educator and eco-cultural activist of Welsh-Quebecois origin, who has lived in the Brazilian Amazon city of Marabá since 2008.

In 1998, a visiting professorship at the University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, launched collaborations with landless, indigenous, trade-union and university communities across Brazil. He has dedicated the past 24 years to developing his Transformance pedagogy (transformation through performance) in collaboration networks in Africa, Asia, Latin America, North America and Europe.

Between 2001-2012, Dan contributed to the International Council of the World Social Forum. Between 1998-2004, he served as President of the GMC of IDEA and between 2004-2010, as President of the EC. In this capacity, Dan co-founded and chaired the World Alliance for Arts Education (2006-2010), collaborating with UNESCO.

Today, Dan prioritizes his 12-year Rivers of Meeting project in the Afro-Indigenous village of Cabelo Seco, nurturing youth-led community cooperatives. These performance educators coordinate solar-energy, medicinal plant gardens, street libraries and cinemas, and workshop courses in their Community University of the Rivers, to nurture a paradigm of education based on ecopedagogies for sustainable community.

Dan has published essays, poems, videos and the books: Theatre of Self-determination, Cultural Literacy, Harvest in Times of Drought, and the Rivers of Meeting Pedagogies.

Andreea Jicman is an associate professor at UNATC „I.L. Caragiale” at the Center for Pedagogical and Didactic Training from February 2021. She is also collaborating with different private and public schools for theatre workshops.

Over time, she has worked with people ranging in age from 3 years to adults, in contexts of non-formal or formal education, thus gaining experience in working with various groups. During the past few years, she was part of the coordination and implementation team of several activities (conferences, exploratory seminars, workshops) and educational projects implemented by the Theatre Pedagogy MA within the Acting Department of “I.L. Caragiale” UNATC.

She graduated the BA in Communication (SNSPA) and the MA in Theater Pedagogy (UNATC). In February 2021 she presented her doctoral thesis entitled “The art of theatre for social inclusion”, an argument in favor of adapting and applying theatrical methods and techniques to facilitate an inclusive climate within the educational environment. The aim of her research interest is to identify concrete ways to use theatre for educational purposes and as a tool for cultural intervention.

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Topic: THE (HI)STORY OF IDEA Webinar on 30th April

Time: Apr 30, 2022 12:00 PM Universal Time UTC

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IDEA and the IDEA Congress in Iceland will hold a webinar on ZOOM on April 20 from 14: 00-15: 30 UTC to introduce the activities of the Special Interest Groups at the Congress. (Check your local time here). 

At the webinar, the leaders of the Special Interest Groups (SIG) who will be at the conference will introduce themselves and the issues that will be addressed there.

The following eight SIG groups will be introduced:

1. Drama and theatre in a multicultural world – Wendy Lathrop Meyer and LI Dequan

2. Drama and theatre in kindergarten and primary schools. – Merete Sörensen and George Belliveau

3. Youth: Drama and theatre in secondary education – Annemari Untamala and Hanna Saari

4. Strategies, tactics, steps for drama/theatre as a school subject – Joachim Reiss and Nancy Stella Franco Rendon

5. Teacher Training in drama and theatre – Larry Schwarts and Monica Prendergast

6. Theatre for community development – Silvia Vammaro and Marianne Nødtvedt Knudsen

7. Drama for peace education – Tintti Karpinen and Zeki Ozen

8. Drama and theatre in Science, Technology and new Media – Liliana Galvan.

Each moderator has about 5-10 minutes to introduce their project. After the presentations, there will be time for questions and discussions.

The activities of SIG groups are an important part of every IDEA conference. Many issues concerning the progress of theater in school work and the social context are discussed and dissected. These groups often continue to work after the conference ends, and sometimes they live from one conference to another. By working in a SIG group, it is possible to be influenced by others and promote progress in acting in society.

We encourage everyone interested in the Special Interest Groups to come to the webinar

IDEA, FLÍSS and The University of Iceland

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Topic: Webinar on SIGs for the IDEA Congress in Iceland

Time: Apr 20, 2022 02:00 PM Universal Time UTC

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Theatre Education to Stop Ecocide and Start Good Living!

Español_Pare el ecocidio, comience el buen vivir!.docx

Français_Arrête l'écocide, commence le bon vivre!.docx

Theatre education in schools and communities enables us, students and teachers, to create, produce and perform the futures we envision. Can we each act, together, on time, to save our world?

This series of three webinars places performance at the heart of South-North dialogues to achieve three aims in times of ecocide and climate collapse:

● To view an Amazon-German students-theatre project collaboration as an example, to see how we might work in the space between Ecocide and Good Living.

● To view a Global project collaboration and six communities in crisis to see how students' theatre projects in schools might act globally in our local place, between Ecocide and Good Living.

● To identify diverse strategies and develop plans for theatre education for Good Living through collaborative projects in and between different regions across the world.

This webinar series, proposed by Joachim Reiss and Tonio Kempf (former and actual presidents of BVTS), has emerged from a long collaboration between Brazilian (ABRA) and German national associations of theatre educators and drama in school, inspired by Amazonian projects (coordinated by former IDEA President, Dan Baron Cohen).

Webinar 1 - Saturday, April 9th, 2022, 12pm UTC

Context and Example of Global South-North Collaborative Projects

Webinar 2 - Saturday, May 7th

Webinar 3 - Saturday, June 4th

Check the local time of the event here and join the webinar via the Zoom link below.

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Topic: Stop Ecocide - Start Good Living! Webinar on 9th April 12pm UTC

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Dear friends,

Isn‘t now everyone preparing for the IDEA Congress in Reykjavík, Iceland, 4-8 July?!  

Registration is now in full swing and we would like to remind those who are interested that the early bird registration ends on 7th April.  It is always good to be able to register before that time to get a good price. If you have any questions, please write to the conference committee at contact@ideaiceland.com We would also like to draw your attention to  our website where all the information on the congress are: https://ideaiceland.com/ 

Congress organizers

Note: the early bird registration was extended from 3rd April to 7th April because of some technical issues that arose on the Congress website. 

The third session of the online event THE (HI)STORY OF IDEA will be held on Saturday, 26th March at 12 pm (noon) UTC.

The event is conceptualized as an intergenerational and intercultural dialogue that examines IDEA history through a critical lens, but also with an aim of tracking the evolution of drama/theatre education and directing its future. 

The featured guests of the third session are Larry O'Farrell and Nefeli Angeloglou. 

Larry O' Farrell is Professor Emeritus and past holder of the UNESCO Chair in Arts and Learning, Faculty of Education, Queen's University, Canada.  Larry served two terms as President of IDEA.  He has presented keynotes, research papers, and workshops in more than 30 countries and has published hundreds of scholarly articles, abstracts, chapters and books. As General Rapporteur for the 2nd UNESCO World Conference on Arts Education (Seoul, Korea, 2010) Larry was responsible for writing The Seoul Agenda:  Goals for the Development of Arts Education. 

Nefeli Angeloglou is a Greek theater maker and pedagogue working in Germany. She works with children, teenagers and adults using digital media, sound and stage elements and is passionate about democratic and feminist work integrated into school and pedagogical concepts.

The session host is Zeki Ozen, IDEA Director of Research, while the technical host is the IDEA Administrator Borisav Matić. 

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Topic: THE (HI)STORY OF IDEA 26th March 2022
Time: Mar 26, 2022 12:00 PM Greenwich Mean Time
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Adriana Nichting's drawing of the March 12 session of THE (HI)STORY OF IDEA