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The proposed workshop’s fundamental aim is to ‘discuss’ with the participants, in theory and in practice, a drama/theatre approach of a liberating emancipatory education that is envisioning the creation of a world without war, social injustice and power relations. The workshop draws on the theoretical framework of Peace education, Education in and for conflict, moral imagination, social imaginaries and applied drama/theatre.Converting the above theoretical background into praxis, in the proposed workshop, through selected drama/theatre conventions (image theatre, improvisation, reportage, voices in the head etc.) as well as different stimuli (photographs, comics, video, literature texts), we will research on the three different forms of violence: direct, structural and cultural. The aim is for the participants to explore the visible and hidden forms of oppression, to have the potential to challenge normalized viewpoints and through critical consciousness and empowerment construct new social imaginaries and seek for social change.
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Martha Katsaridou, Koldo Vio
Martha Katsaridou is Assistant Professor of Drama/Theatre Education at the Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Thessaly, Greece. She studied Pedagogy, Acting and Theatre Education in Thessaloniki and London. She has designed drama workshops, taught in seminars and has worked as a director and assistant director in performances with children and teenagers. She has published a book and articles on Applied Drama in international journals. Her research interests involve Applied Drama/Theatre as a learning medium and a tool of social research and intervention.
Koldobika Vío works in different projects of Applied Theatre all over the world, and has given workshops and educational interventions in international projects and in different universities as the postgraduate programme of Applied Theatre of Ramon Llull University-Spain, of Porto University-Portugal and of Academy of Music and Theatre/Klaipeda University-Lithuania, or as Instructor in annual training courses"Psychology and Art" at University of the Aegean-Greece. He also works as a theatre director both with children, adolescents, community and professional groups. As well he has worked in the National Theatre of Northern Greece as director and as professor at the Drama School.
