HOW WE WORK
The arts are capable to transcend spaces and places “how I would like the world to be.”
Giving marginalised groups the opportunity to be witnessed in their individual totality and uniqueness will enrich their exploration of their creative potential as well as their expression and, in accordance with the concept of empowerment, reduce their societal marginalisation. On these grounds, practitioners and participants are collaborators by exploring individual skills, interests and needs, so that all those involved are necessary and recognised parts of the group´s creation.
Expressiveness developed through participatory arts engagements must not remain contained in a safe space, but may reach out to the public as well. The particular importance of creating spaces where these groups can explore their expression becomes clear within the context of an exclusionary society.
There is of course the question how such a space needs to be constructed in order to enable collective, and thus individual empowerment, so that it contributes to social change. It becomes clear that the structures an organisation applies to its spaces and which practitioners apply to their projects are shaping the environment the participants are involved in. Get in touch with us to learn more how we can support you in creating such spaces.
A bit about the founder: Kristina Werner
A BIT OF BACKGROUND
Kristina is a theatre maker and creative arts facilitator in education and community settings working in the UK, Czech Republic, Lithuania and Germany. She was part of the creative team of Green Meadow, a documentary theatre production about the closure of Ignalina Atomic Power Plant, which is shown in the National Drama Theatre Lithuania. In 2015, she graduated from the MA Applied Theatre in London, in which she explored the ways in which theatre and performance is created by diverse groups of people. Over the past ten years, she has worked across art forms in projects with young people with learning disabilities, intercultural groups, old people in care homes and with refugees. Her purpose is to facilitate greater access to performance arts and to give opportunity to voice each person´s concerns in their own terms.
APPLIED THEATRE
Brief Introduction
