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Refugee Engagement and integration Through Community Theatre, (2016 – 18). acta Community Theatre (Bristol) in partnership with Rotterdams Wijktheater (Holland) and Centro per lo Sviluppo Creativo Danilo Dolci (Sicily); an EU Creative Europe community theatre programme for refugees to share their stories with host communities. Includes a festival of theatre made by refugees in Bristol, 26-29 March 2018.
REACT aims to:
Use participatory theatre as a tool to challenge prejudice and misconceptions, develop empathy, and promote intercultural understanding between refugees and host communities.
Develop personal and transferable skills in refugee participants, making positive improvements – building self confidence and self-esteem, presentation skills, language and communication, new friendships and awareness of host country cultures.
Promote the positive contribution of refugees to host countries.
Be a transnational project linking European community theatre organisations with other agencies connected to refugees.
Develop innovative approaches to delivering participatory theatre projects with refugees, to involve co-organising partners and wider sector.
Improve practice by sharing the methodologies of co-organising countries and other partners to voluntary and statutory agencies in field of arts, education and refugee support
Create new high-quality community theatre with participants from refugee communities in different countries, and perform this work to wider communities in which refugees are resettled.
Create models of good practice which can be replicated at local levels in other European countries, and disseminate learning to inform and influence new approaches to refugee integration across the European Union.
acta-bristol.com
Refugee Engagement and integration Through Community Theatre, (2016 – 18). acta Community Theatre (Bristol) in partnership with Rotterdams Wijktheater (Holland) and Centro per lo Sviluppo Creativo Danilo Dolci (Sicily); an EU Creative Europe community theatre programme for refugees to share their stories with host communities. Includes a festival of theatre made by refugees in Bristol, 26-29 March 2018.
REACT aims to:
Use participatory theatre as a tool to challenge prejudice and misconceptions, develop empathy, and promote intercultural understanding between refugees and host communities.
Develop personal and transferable skills in refugee participants, making positive improvements – building self confidence and self-esteem, presentation skills, language and communication, new friendships and awareness of host country cultures.
Promote the positive contribution of refugees to host countries.
Be a transnational project linking European community theatre organisations with other agencies connected to refugees.
Develop innovative approaches to delivering participatory theatre projects with refugees, to involve co-organising partners and wider sector.
Improve practice by sharing the methodologies of co-organising countries and other partners to voluntary and statutory agencies in field of arts, education and refugee support
Create new high-quality community theatre with participants from refugee communities in different countries, and perform this work to wider communities in which refugees are resettled.
Create models of good practice which can be replicated at local levels in other European countries, and disseminate learning to inform and influence new approaches to refugee integration across the European Union.
