Description
With our project we reflect on the remembrance – to be more exact, the absence of remembrance - of the series of murders against gypsies in 2008/2009, and along with this, we make the gypsies and non-gypsies living together a topic for high school students. The aim of our project is to create open forums, where this topic is possible to discuss and think through with the tools of theatre, through a safe, fictional frame. Above the five complex Theater in Education performances, the target groups – high school students (3 classes) and adults (their parents, teachers, friends) become members in creating and performing a street performance. By our project, we can expect to think through together if we need to remember somebody, if he became a victim only because of his origin, and also, how (or do we) have any responsibility in somebody’s death whom we never met? This all is hard to measure in numbers… at the end of the project, multiple number of people can get to know about the topic than the actual participants by the short movie made about the street performance with artificial and pedagogical points of view.
Summary of project results
Káva's project reflects on remembrance – more exactly, the absence of remembrance - of the series of murders against gypsies in 2008/2009, and making the coexistence of gypsies and non-gypsies a topic for high school students. The aim of our project is to create open forums, where this topic is discussable through a safe, fictional frame. Above the five complex TiE performances, the target groups – students (3 classes) and adults (their parents, teachers, friends) become members in creating and performing a street performance. In the project, the following questions have been discussed: is there a need to remember somebody who became a victim of murder just by his ethnicity, and do we have any responsibility in somebody’s death that we never even met? Our aim is to decrease negative attitudes, and to strengthen our awareness of our responsibility of action. At the end of the project, a short film was made connected to the performance, made with aesthetic and pedagogic terms.
Summary of bilateral results