Making Space 13th, 14th 15th on December 2024, January, February 2025 at 13.00 CET, for 13' minutes Online, on Zoom In times of increasing violence and uncertainty we are making space to connect with our body, imagination and each other through ritual, silence, movement, and poetry.   Online creative sessions to inspire and ignite connection with our body, imagination and each other through ritual, silence, movement and poetry. Participation is free and open to all! 9 sessions of 13 minutes each on Zoom You can take part in as many sessions as you wish. 13, 14, 15 in December, January, [...]

PhotoActing our Stories: Participatory Photography and Theatre for Communities 8 and 15 February 2024 The Cockpit, Studio1 Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH London     We invite you to a 2-days workshop exploring Participatory Photography, Participatory Theatre and their combination as creative tools for community work, to encourage participation, inclusion and dialogue. The visual and embodied languages will offer different opportunities to honour our lived stories and to activate our collective imagination to co-create and transform, to envision and enact new ones, exploring together how a Photo-Theatrical community work can support personal and community participatory processes. The workshop will include a combination [...]

Participatory Theatre for Communities 23 - 24 September 2023 CUMO, Kiss József utca 12, 1081 Budapest   How can theatre encourage participation, inclusion, dialogue? How can it become a tool for community work? We will experience Participatory Theatre through a playful and embodied introduction to a combination of practices: Image Theatre, Forum Theatre, Playback Theatre, Embodied Storytelling and elements of Dramatherapy. Honouring the lived stories of the group and activating our collective imagination, we are going to explore together how a theatrical process can become a participatory means for personal/community transformation. The workshop will offer resources to all those engaging communities with creative [...]

Embodying our Stories: Introduction to Participatory Theatre 5 and 12 September 2023 The Calder Theatre 51 The Cut, SE1 8LF London   How can theatre be a tool to embody our individual stories, to collectively create new ones and to encourage participation, inclusion and dialogue in community work? The workshops will introduce Participatory Theatre through a playful and embodied introduction to a combination of practices: Image Theatre, Playback Theatre, Forum Theatre, Embodied Storytelling. Honouring the lived stories of the group and activating our collective imagination, we are going to explore together how a theatrical process can become a participatory means for [...]

My Stories, Our Story: Participatory Theatre Workshop 12 and 19 June 2023 The Calder Theatre 51 The Cut, SE1 8LF London   How can we use theatre tools to acknowledge and embody our personal emotions, our individual stories? How can our stories be told and honoured on stage and in the group? How can we listen, recognize and resonate with them, finding non-verbally ways to co-create a new collective story, staging and transforming it in a group and participatory process? We will work with theatre games, exercises, improvisation and drama activities from methodologies of participatory theatre: Image Theatre, Playback Theatre, Forum Theatre, Embodied Storytelling, elements of Dramatherapy. The workshop will offer resources to all [...]

Staging participatory storytelling 2023 @RAD, Mytilini - Lesbos We invite you to a 2023 open participatory theatre process Mityilini, Lesbos, hosted in RAD. We will enjoy storytelling, we will embody our stories and we will collectively co-create new ones. We will explore how the stories can be transformed on stage and how these resonate in the audience: in a performatory, collective and participatory process. We will work with theatre games, exercises, improvisation and drama activities from methodologies of participatory theatre: Image Theatre, Forum Theatre, Playback Theatre to connect, tell and acknowledge each other’s stories, to co-create and transform new ones collectively. The workshop [...]

Participatory Theatre open workshop: @RAD, Mytilini - Lesbos We invite you to an open participatory theatre workshop, to experience theatre games and activities as tools to acknowledge and embody our emotions and our stories, and to listen and honour the stories of the group, in a collective and participatory process. We will work with theatre games, exercises, improvisation and drama activities from methodologies of participatory theatre: Image Theatre, Playback Theatre, elements of Dramatherapy, to connect to each other, acknowledge, honour and embody non-verbally our personal and collective emotions and stories. The workshop is open to anyone, and no previous theatre [...]

10 - 12 September 2021 Play Perform Learn Grow 2021: Creating Belonging in Times of Pandemic www.pplg.org ANAMUH is proud to be co-organizing Play Perform Learn Grow (PPLG). PPLG is an international gathering, a grassroots conference, and a growing global community. PPLG 2021 - Creating Belonging in Times of Pandemic, happened online on 10-12 September 2021 bringing together 300 people from 50 countries, from all around the world, to craft new possibilities of belonging through play, performance, dialogue, art and community rituals. The global pandemic increased our sense of separation—from our jobs, our schools, our friends, our families, from nature and from the world as we know [...]

RAISE YOUR HAND  An Online Interactive Performance Event www.eventbrite.com/e/136975857477 Online, 27 March 2021 We invite you to join us online on March 27 to share an exciting Forum Theatre performance of Raise Your Hand ONLY If You Know the Right Answer – created and performed by Rangbhumi (A Happy Playground) theatre group and young people 12-14 years old from Mumbai, India. The interactive performance will open a dialogue about the difficulties students and teachers face as they grapple with systems and pressures in school and at home and provide an excellent introduction to Theatre of the Oppressed and its relationship to [...]

Participatory Theatre to honour our common fabric and our individual stories 21-22 November 2020 The online workshop will propose experiential activities, games, scenes that will invite us to an embodied and imaginative exploration. Connecting with our body and emotions, we will explore through our interactions the common fabric in which we move and co-create it at the same time, each from our different positions. The group process will take place in the separate “boxes” of Zoom, exploring how as “boxes”/Individuals we are parts of an organism that we form/transform, and at the same acknowledging and honouring what each individual brings: stories, [...]

COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE Workshop Introduction to Commedia dell'Arte mask work www.commediadellarte2020-anamuh.confetti.events London, 15-16 February 2020 The 2-days workshop is an excellent opportunity to explore the potential of the body, to get an introduction and experience the work with the traditional Masks of Commedia dell'Arte through embodied and imaginative activities. The work is based on the discovery of the world of Commedia dell'Arte, the study of the masks and the characters, the relationship between characters, between Servant and Master, experiencing the universality of this theatrical language. The participants will have a possibility to experience a self-discovery work. We will explore what the specific [...]

www.david-diamond-greece-anamuh.confetti.events 19-23 September + 3-6 October 2019 | Thessaloniki, Greece ANAMUH organizes a Theatre for Living Power Play, led by the renowned theatre director David Diamond. The Power Play will be performed as interactive Forum Theatre and it will contribute to create the international conference Play, Perform, Learn, Grow (PPLG): Bridging Communities, Practices and the World, Thessaloniki, Greece, 4-6 October 2019: www.pplg.org. David Diamond Power Play is organized by ANAMUH - Arts for Dialogue (www.anamuh.org), in collaboration with Theatre for Living (www.theatreforliving.com) and Play, Perform, Learn, Grow (www.pplg.org).               Climate Change And Our Polarizing World As [...]

4 - 6 October 2019 | Thessaloniki, Greece Play, Perform, Learn, Grow 2019: Bridging Communities, Practices and the World www.pplg.org ANAMUH is supporting organization of PPLG, an international conference/ festival gathering people from more than 30 countries so far who are seeking new - and often performatory- ways to address the pain and alienation of our times, re-create their lives and build new kinds of communities. The first Play, Perform, Learn, Grow (PPLG) conference took place in Thessaloniki, Greece in April 2018 in response to the refugee crisis. It brought together 130 people from 30 countries, mostly, but not exclusively from Europe, who are using [...]

Dramatherapy Introduction to Drama and Movement Therapy www.dramatherapy-anamuh.confetti.events Budapest, 6-7 April 2019 Dramatherapy is a form of psychotherapy that uses theatre, movement, music, myths, poetry and other arts to create spaces for healing, belonging and transformation. Through the support and the guidance of the therapist the person or the group crafts a creative and safe environment, to explore themselves and how they relate with each other, expressing emotions and cultivating insights through embodiment, imagination and play. Dramatherapy is being regulated by the British Association of Dramatherapists and the Health Professions Council. The aim of this introductory course is to offer the [...]

    Participatory Youth Theatre in collaboration with Refugee Trauma Initiative Thessaloniki, Greece   ANAMUH in collaboration with Refugee Trauma Initiative Greece organises in Thessaloniki, Greece, a series of participatory theatre workshops for youth that will give a possibility to experience collectively how, through theatre tools, we can create a space for self-awareness, empowerment and dialogue. The participatory workshops creates a safe space to an integrated group of young refugees and locals in Thessaloniki, where to explore, create, connect, re-connect with oneself, and with the others, in a creative, constructive and proactive group process. We will introduce Forum Theatre, rooted in the research method [...]