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22 nd SEPTEMBER, 11.00 Belgrade Youth Centre. Americana Hall 'k ACTS OF GOODNESS AS A CASE STUDY Workshop Moderators: Erika Isaksson and Lisa Nowotny, Backa Teater Duration: 90’ The workshop is intended for young people interested in stage arts and conceived as a preparation for the production of Acte of Goodness to be presented at Bitef Polyphony 2014. The workshop has three parts: introduction to performing arts for young audiences in the Swedish context and the model of Backa Teater with the presentation of work with young people, as a source of knowledge about today's society. The purpose is to help the young and their teachers to embrace contemporary performing arts and questions based on the universal moral philosophy. It is followed by practical work and exercises which this model uses in working with young and adult individuals. This will be followed by time for questions and comments. Supported by the Swedish Institute SI

22 nd SEPTEMBER, 11.00 Parobrod Cultural Institution CEDEUM, Belgrade, Serbia ★ SCHOOL FORUM THEATRE FOR SCHOOL WITHOUT VIOLENCE Workshop for pupils and teachers Moderators: Aleksandra Jelič, Miroslav Nikolič. Nermin Ahmetović Coordinator: Ljubica Beljanski-Ristić Duration; 90' (22 nd September, following days to be agreed) The workshop for pupils and their teachers is intended as support and an initiative to empower and enrich the training module for the Forum Theatre within the School without Violence programme conducted in schools across Serbia. It should extend the training to new programme forms and media such as film, plays and theatre productions. The issues raised by the play Penal Saturday and the production of Acte of Goodness will encourage the participants to tell their own stories and form a basis for small Forum stages and interaction with the audience in the Open Forum. During the preceding years Bitef Polyphony steadily cultivated Forum Theatre in its programme thereby acting as a promoter and presenter of the evolution of the Theatre of the Oppressed of Augusto Boal as a specific new theatre tendency and a very efficient theatre technique for social action. The first workshop of the School Theatre Forum during Bitef Polyphony was organised by CEDEUM in 2005 as a regional cooperation project. The moderator was Ivana Marijančić, Forum coach of the Croatian Centre for Drama Education in Zagreb. Supported by UNICEF and the Unit for the Prevention of Violence of the Ministry of Education and Science, Serbia (School without Violence programme)

22 nd SEPTEMBER, 11.00 Circus tent in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade Cirkusfera, Belgrade, Serbia ★ PROJECT: CIRKOBALKANA Circus workshop for young people Duration: 120' (22 nd -25 th September, every day at the same time) The production Oldness and workshops offering secondary school pupils to become participants rather than only the audience in new circus is a part of the Cirkobalkana project. These workshops in a circus tent organised as a circular training will offer space in which every attendant will be able to learn different circus disciplines and props. Following that, the attendants will be able to choose a discipline they will accord more of their time. Instructors and coaches; Vladana Manić, Hristina Šormaz, Sanja Radulovič, Ivana Koraksić, Uroš Kuridža and Milan Manić, experienced circus artists and performers Supported by the French Institute, the Embassy of France in Belgrade, the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade and Secretariat for Sport and Youth of the City of Belgrade

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