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Erasmus + Strategic Partnership KA2
Artistic Citizenship Education Through Community Theatre Practice Project period February 2020 - August 2022 Partners: Káva Cultural Workshop, Hungary Parforum, Hungary Bürgerbühne Dresden, Germany Bergen Borgerscene, Norway Link to the Cathing the moment handbook: English Norwegian Link to the Cathing the moment online toolkit: English Norwegian From Bergen Borgerscene: Vibeke Flesland Havre, artistic leader Hjørdis M. Steinsvik, producer |
Although community theatre projects usually have a special focus on certain social and/or moral issues and are created with the intention of having a short/long-term effect on the community they work with, the field has faced the challenge of evaluating the success of these projects due to a lack of general validating and quality assessment system (and due to the duality of aesthetic expectations and social effectiveness). This project design aimed to create an international partnership to develop a validating system specifically for (adult) community theatre projects.
In the framework of an ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnership we intended to team up with experienced partners in the field of community theatre to work together in a 3 year long period in order to discuss the experiences and possibilities of evaluating, validating community theatre projects with the outcome of a handbook and toolkit helping new community theatre projects.
The main objective of our project has been to create and share an evaluation methodology in a democratic system (in the equal relation of theatrical and sociological professional) which are acceptable and sound from sociological perspective, but are also applicable by theatre practitioners - without the necessary involvement of sociologists.
In the frames of this project design, we have targeted non-formal educational forms (community theatre projects) through which participants (the audience/participants of the projects) learn indirectly (e.g. active citizenship, democratic citizenship, personal skills etc.). In this context, other practising experts creating community theatre projects can be also considered as subjects of adult education.
They intellectual products of the project are the Catching the moment handbook and toolkit - an evaluation methodology collection and a handbook for theatre experts and sociologist researchers who take part in creating community theatre projects for adults. Our secondary target groups are the stakeholders and decision-makers who support, evaluate and describe community theatre projects. For them the development of this project would be specifically useful.
Activities conducted though the project:
- transnational circulation (partner organizations visiting each other)
- workshops (partners introducing themselves and discussing validation with invited experts)
- development of an intellectual product (developing an evaluation toolbox and a handbook for community theatre projects)
- a pilot project concucted by each partner (described in the handbook)
Photos (by Sebastian Dalseide, DNS) from Bergen Borgerscene's pilot "Karantenetanker: Alle trærne er opp ned" (All the trees are upside down), performed at The National Stage, Bergen, March 2022.
In the framework of an ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnership we intended to team up with experienced partners in the field of community theatre to work together in a 3 year long period in order to discuss the experiences and possibilities of evaluating, validating community theatre projects with the outcome of a handbook and toolkit helping new community theatre projects.
The main objective of our project has been to create and share an evaluation methodology in a democratic system (in the equal relation of theatrical and sociological professional) which are acceptable and sound from sociological perspective, but are also applicable by theatre practitioners - without the necessary involvement of sociologists.
In the frames of this project design, we have targeted non-formal educational forms (community theatre projects) through which participants (the audience/participants of the projects) learn indirectly (e.g. active citizenship, democratic citizenship, personal skills etc.). In this context, other practising experts creating community theatre projects can be also considered as subjects of adult education.
They intellectual products of the project are the Catching the moment handbook and toolkit - an evaluation methodology collection and a handbook for theatre experts and sociologist researchers who take part in creating community theatre projects for adults. Our secondary target groups are the stakeholders and decision-makers who support, evaluate and describe community theatre projects. For them the development of this project would be specifically useful.
Activities conducted though the project:
- transnational circulation (partner organizations visiting each other)
- workshops (partners introducing themselves and discussing validation with invited experts)
- development of an intellectual product (developing an evaluation toolbox and a handbook for community theatre projects)
- a pilot project concucted by each partner (described in the handbook)
Photos (by Sebastian Dalseide, DNS) from Bergen Borgerscene's pilot "Karantenetanker: Alle trærne er opp ned" (All the trees are upside down), performed at The National Stage, Bergen, March 2022.
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