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The goal ofthe nongovernmental Organization ApsArtfrom Beigrade was to conduci creative dramatic work with the convicts and inmates ofthe correctional facilities and prisons in Serbia. This type of applied theatre practice in the form of drama workshops has started in 2006 in the Special Prison Hospital in Beigrade.The workshop partidpants were mostly the convicts, drug users on thè compulsory rehabilitation program. This workshop managed to surpass the frame of an ad hocartistic project and to impose itself as a continuous method in the process of rehabilitation and re-socialization ofthe convicts. Besides working at the Special Prison Hospital, ApsArt continúes its activities with convicts in other prisons and correctional facilities, and in special institutions for drug and alcohol addiction treatment.

TRUTH OR CHALLENGE

Interactive performance with presentation ofthe NGO CentarEß

Written and directed by: Duska Übovic

Cast: Dina Patarcic, Nevena Boroja, Vojislav Arsic, Dusan Smiljanic Light design: Tijana Mijalkovic

Sound design: Uros Knezevic Make up: Milena Nenadic

Performace„Truth or Challenge?" is interactive performance in which thè actors share their confessions and communicate with thè audience in the form of monologues. The maìn goal is fighting against discrimination.The performance explores the feelings of people who live with HIV/AIDS. The Centre for Promotion of Healthy Styles of Living - Center EB, is a nongovernmental, humanitarian Organization, Its work is based on education of young people about HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases and reproductive health, and it is dedicated to the fight against stigmatization and discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS. The Organization operates on national level and, besides Beigrade, where thè head office is located, there are also regional teams in Cacak, Nis, Leskovac and Subotica.

The program Theatre ES, namely the usage of drama in education, is a reiatively new approach to young people, and it proved tobe successful in this country. This program can be divided into prepararon of performances and drama workshops. So far, three premieres have been presented, and these performances continued to live afterwards as well. The best known performance is„Truth or Challenge?", interactive performance about the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS.The purpose of drama workshops is the inclusión of target group into creating preventive activities for themselves. In this approach, young people create a short performance after which, with the help of fadlitators, a discussion will be held with the actors and thè audience. Center ES, within the Global Fond Project, held a series of workshops with soldiers in the barracks ofthe Army ofthe Republic of Serbia. Center ES is a pari ofthe global Y-PEER network (Youth Peer Education Network) and it delegates its members into the national Secretariat ofthe Network, as well as the Advisory Board. The peer education is implemented according to the Y-PEER network Standards, which are supported by the Ministry of Education and Sports, Ministry of Health, UNICEF and UNFPA.

Thursday, September 20

11:00-17:00

Cultural Institution "Vu к Karadzic"

Performance "You are not Alone", with work presentation and workshop, and video works of "Justart", make the starting point for discussion and presentation ofthe activities ofthe NGO that deal with performing art projects in education and interdiscipiinary alternative artistic theatre projects.

YOU ARE NOT ALONE

Performance with workshop and work presentation, Performing and Visual Arts Studio SIVU Iskorak, Beigrade, Serbia

Author of the project: Diana KrzanicTepavac, drama educator and performance director

Moderators of thè workshop/after thè show discussion: Ana Mijalkovic Blagojevic and Maja Lazic, leaders of Psychology workshop of DOB Partidpants in thè performance and discussion: members of Drama Studio SIVU Iskorak

The subheading ofthe "You are not Alone" presentation is -from thè book„Peach Leaf medicine" to the workshops focusing on the topic of inclusión. Presentation, performance and workshop with discussion are intended for children and young people, parents and experts in education of young people, interested in implementation of dramatic forms.

The focal point of these encounters is the performance „You are not Alone", performed by young peers who clearly show us how good it is to live in the world in which the principies of acceptance and creation exist, versus the conflict and destruction.The performance is the central pari of a wider educational project focused on inclusión. The project consists of performance, and drama and psychology workshops. it is an example ofthe transformaron and the usage of literary plot in the work with and for young people, and the capabilities of drama/theatre in upbringing, education, and