Jouni Piekkari Centre for Extensions studies University of Turku

1. Jouni Piekkari (editor)
EU Joint Actions
EUROPEAN
COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-
GENERAL
EDUCATION AND
CULTURE
SOCRATES,
LEONARDO AND
YOUTH
PROGRAMMES

2. DRAMA
- a WAY
to Social Inclusion
Practical project descriptions for drama workers

3. Drama – a second
chance to learn

4. Introduction

5. What is Drama Way?
We wanted to:
•share insights to work with young people
•promote social inclusion of youth
•create networks and visibility of drama work
•develop new innovations of participatory drama
•identify locally important themes
•initiate small scale pilot drama projects
The glimpses that you see here are from:
• Drama Way mini-projects
• Drama Way national workshops and final seminar
• from other projects of the Drama Way
European team members - previous or current

6. Reasons
and methods

7. Why do we use drama
as an alternative tool for learning?
•Play is an essential element of human life
•Chance to ”play seriously” through drama
• An alternative method to combat learning difficulties
•Through its holistic approach drama can
sometimes have profound impact for self-esteem
•A tool for empowerment and social inclusion
• drama is learning together – in a social context
•Participatory drama is active creating of meanings
and understanding – not passive learning

8. in more detail available as a Power Point at www.tkk.utu.fi/dramaway/
Some Genres of applied and interactive
drama
The minister landing
with his helicopter
in the Middle of
starving villagers
after a destructive
super cyclone
Natya Chetana
Theatre,
Bhubaneswar,
India
Theatre-for-Awareness / Theatre-for-Development

9. CUCUFATE ’96
Directed by Luis Cruz, Portugal

10. Cucufate’ 96
•Celebratory drama
•Site-Specific theatre
•Drama, myths and ritual forms

11. Projects
in the four countries

12. Estonia

14. Visits at Tallin’s Center
for the Children at Risk

15. Youngsters exchanging drama games with the European Drama Way people

17. Forum theatre on TV youth program “The
Fist”
The young
Harrasser-in-role,
Interviewed in the studio
(left) A young woman
Harrassed at the bus stop
(above)
Estonian youngsters made interactive theatre
On TV about important themes of their society

18. SPARTACUS
social theatre
festival
Participants improvise images
of school violence
(Above)
Problems with the teachers,
whose mentality
is still from the Soviet times
(Right)

19. Role-playing
traditional wedding
at Hiiumaa Island

21. Spain
Catalonia

22. Clowns campaign for clean clothes

23. Clean Cloth Clowns
at their home base -
Interactive performance
at Third World
Solidarity organisation
SETEM,
Barcelona (right)
Spanish-Portuguese
Co-operation of clowns
in Estonia:
Fair trade education
by David and Marco
(left)
Are your clothes contaminated by injustice?

24. Project coordinator David Martínez, Teatro LaNaveva

25. Prision ”La Modelo”,
Barcelona, Catalonia
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Uncovering the conflict.
Prisoners exploring decisions through drama

26. h omenter
otTheatre C
a’eTdent
P ep n
d
In
Barc elona
in R aval,

27. School for parents Click image for video clip!
A forum theatre
Performance for
the children and
their parents
In a school with
high percentage
of immigrant families
Directed by
Jordi Forcadas
Pablito is an immigrant boy in a new country where
Nobody Plays football – only TRIPILINGI!

28. Other projects by Pa’Tothom:
•Sessions of interactive theatre
•Invisible theatre with the immigrant youth
•Theatre project with
the immigrant children of Raval

29. Portugal

30. BA AL 17

31. Interactive class
Learning about drama literature

32. Youth & job – Equality of rights
A forum theatre performance by
Young unempolyed of rural Portugal
in Serpa
Directed by Marco Ferreira,
BAAL 17 theatre group

33. Sonho de Amanda - Amanda´s Dream
A young lady
from Alentejo
volunteers
to help organising
A village festival
In her home village,
but the mayor
puts down
her ideas and
refuses to give
funding for the
project.
A forum theatre demo performance realised by BAAL 17 theatre
group in Drama Way workshop in Serpa, Portugal

34. Finland

35. Vapaa pudotus – Free fall
participatory drama for drug prevention

36. How to use imaginary photographs
as a starting point to drama stories?
Photos as therapy
Photo as a step to drama

37. From the
photos
to drama –
Moods
from the
Barcelona
workshop

38. Art, educators and the communities
-A participatory approach
in more detail available as a Power Point at www.tkk.utu.fi/dramaway/
A seasonal mask carneval started up a participatory planning project in a housing area
in Nokia, Finland

39. SAMPOCAK
Finnish
folk myths
&
Balinese Trance
rhythms

40. Sampocak thrills the participants of International seminar of Drama Way in Turku

41. KULLERVO
Social Exclusion of youth in the mythology
A wandering drama
process in the
Vuohensaari
Island in Salo,
Finland

42. New York, New York.
Parents making choices about their careers and children
A process
drama
pretext
An advertisement of an imaginary town ”Meadows” made by
the workshop participants in Drama Way in Salo, Finland

43. ALEKSI
How do I know someone is using drugs?
Aleksi´s class mates
get a permission to organise
the most amazing school party
of all times.
However,
Aleksi causes unexpected
trouble to his class mates.
How do they handle the situation?
Should they ask for help?
From whom?
Role-on-the-Wall from
A process drama pretext

44. The End

45. Photos by:
Paulo Chaves, Tarja Ervasti , Marco Ferreira,
Ulla Halkola, Leena Jokinen, Titi Lillqvist,
Jouni Piekkari,, and Drama Way team

46. The book &
more resources
available for free at:
www.tkk.utu.fi/dramaway