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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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

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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. 

To check your local time, visit the following link. 

You can follow the event on a live stream on our Facebook page or join the Zoom meeting. 

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Adriana Nichting's drawing of the March 12 session of THE (HI)STORY OF IDEA

We invite you to the next African Theatre Webinar with the topic "Creating New Spaces Together: Ways of Collaboration in a Multi-Perspective World". 

Date: 23rd March

Time: 4 pm UTC/ check your local time here

Featuring:  

Prof. Mercy Mirembe Ntangaare (Department of Performing Arts and Film Makerere University, Uganda) 

Prof. Marion Kuester (Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Rostock, Germany. Rostock University, Germany)  

The webinar will also feature a picture show of Adriana Nichting's drawings of the African Theatre Webinar. 

Join the webinar via link below: 

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The World Alliance for Arts Education (WAAE), a global network for associations - including IDEA - representing arts educators worldwide, notes with grief the ongoing conflicts that cause such havoc and pain for human beings. This violence denies youth and their communities the simple experiences of peace, education, and culture without which no one can thrive. The WAAE advocates for international collaboration and understanding, and such irresponsible and unprovoked violence are an assault on all those who seek to enable education, cultivate culture, and promote peace.

WAAE, in recognition of the human rights to peace, education, and culture, strongly condemns all violence and conflicts. Recognizing an urgent need for peace education, WAAE urges leaders and individuals to endeavor to give peace a chance, especially through arts and cultural learning. We acknowledge the power of arts education to develop consciousness and foster harmony between individuals, society and environment.

The WAAE sends its thoughts and expresses its solidarity to the millions of arts educators in areas of conflict and around the world who are working for peace, showing compassion, using the power of the arts to foster and transform humanity through our schools, communities, and societies.

The WAAE pledges to support arts educators who harness the power and potential of education through the arts to promote peace. We challenge all arts educators around the world to continue to work together for a strong international community of arts education fostering collaboration, inclusion, empathy, and compassion for all.

10 March 2022

Advocating For Arts Education Worldwide https://www.waae.online/  

The word "peace" written in different languages

The second session of the online event THE (HI)STORY OF IDEA was held on Saturday, 12th March at 12 pm (Noon) UTC. 

Although the plan is for each session in the series to take place the last Saturday of the month, we had to postpone the second session due to unexpected circumstances. The third session will be held as planned on Saturday, 26th March.

The featured guests of the second session were Stig A. Eriksson, one of the founders of IDEA and part of our association from the very beginning, a Professor Emeritus in drama and applied theatre at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, at the Institute of the Arts in Bergen, Norway; and Anj Heruela, a drama/theatre teacher from the Philippines, the director of Young IDEA from 2013 till 2017, a member of PETA and the creative and Strategy Director in Ant Savvy Creatives. 

The dialogue between guests was in a form of a walk through the IDEA memory lane through a critical lens, and a glimpse into what the future of IDEA could look like.

The session host was Sanja Krsmanovic Tasic and the technical host Borisav Matic. 

You can watch the recording of the streamed video at  the following link. 

Stig A. Eriksson presenting the work of IDEA in its early days in the 1990s

Stig A. Eriksson, Sanja Krsmanovic Tasic and Anj Heruela (clockwise from the top left) at the event 

The first session took place on 29th January at noon UTC as an intergenerational and intercultural dialogue between Maria van Bakelen (Netherlands/France), the Honorary President of IDEA and IDEA President from 1992-1998, and Miao Bin (China), Drama Teacher & Head of Art Education of Tianfu No.7 High School Primary Section, Chengdu, China.

You can watch the recording of the event at the following link. 

The 9th IDEA World Congress under the slogan DRAMA 4ALL. Drama for tall and small. Celebrating drama in a changing world will be held in Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland, on the 4th – 8th of July 2022.  We welcome all drama/theatre educators, cultural workers, theatre artists, researchers, teachers and students from all over the world to this common arena for inspiration and development. It is hosted by FLISS (The Icelandic Drama in Education Association) and the University of Iceland, School of Education (UI). 

It is an honor for FLÍSS and UI to have the opportunity of hosting an international congress of that size on the subject of drama/theatre and education in collaboration with IDEA. Iceland is one of the leading countries when it comes to implementing drama in compulsory education. In 2013 drama was established as a key learning area in the arts in Icelandic basic education and is, in the curriculum, presented both as a subject and as a method in teaching other subjects.

By hosting the congress FLISS and the UI aim to celebrate drama as a subject in its own right in compulsory education as part of the curriculum

Registration began on 3rd January and is going well. The situation with Covid is starting to improve and we are now looking forward to brighter times.

The deadline for early-bird registration is on the 3rd of April. The deadline for paper and workshop proposals was on the 15th of January.

Many interesting proposals were sent, and the directors of projects have started to plan further the academic program. The deadline for applications for the Solidarity Fund was on the 1st of February when those who are in need had the chance to apply.

Venues for the Congress opening ceremony and performances have been secured and it is a pleasure to announce that the opening ceremony will be held in the Reykjavík City Theatre, and for those interested in social gatherings, the Congress club will be in the basement of The National Theatre.

The Congress committee looks forward to the summer. 

You can find more detailed information regarding the Congress on the 9th IDEA World Congress website: https://ideaiceland.com/  

Also, the Instagram page of the Congress is now up and we invite you to follow it and share it: https://www.instagram.com/dramaiceland2022/ 

We are looking for participants for the next young IDEA Lab in Iceland between June 24 and July 4th, 2022! The participants can be young theater educators, theater makers and practitioners, or students in those fields aged between 20 and 32 years old, that are interested in taking part in a cross-cultural exchange with other young professionals on the topic of Theater for all! 

The Lab 2022 will be a place to meet, work and learn from each other, while artistically researching the topic of “Theater for all: “Reclaiming our physical body: How can we make theater for all possible in times of a crisis?”

The participants will explore cross-cultural theater practices through peer-to-peer workshops, will artistically research the topic of the conference and create a performance of the generated artistic material.

If you are interested in participating, you can find more information here and apply by filling out the following form.  The deadline for applications is 25th February.