Project Description
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 play and performance to engage social issues, heal trauma, stimulate imagination and possibility, generate community, and build bridges.
Today people from diverse cultures, histories, backgrounds, religions and ideologies are living together in Europe. How do we respond—creatively, collaboratively, playfully, performatorily—to this diversity and to the many other concerns arising in this historical moment? How do we go beyond analysis, critique, and advocacy to collectively (re)creating our daily lives, our relationships, and our pedagogical, educational and political assumptions and practices?
PPLG ignited among its participants and their communities a collective movement, nourishing homegrown initiatives and creating new spaces of belonging across borders and cultures. Responding to this movement and the current historical moment in Europe and the world, we are announcing: Play, Perform, Learn, Grow 2019 Bridging Communities, Practices and the World.
Play, Perform, Learn, Grow (PPLG) 2019 is co-organized by East Side Institute, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Lesvos Solidarity and Epineio Institute. PPLG will bring together educators and researchers, therapists, social scientists, artists, psychologists and movement practitioners, social and youth workers, performance activists and community organizers – refugees, migrants and locals, and all others who are seeking new, and often performatory, ways to address the pain, alienation, and violence of our times. PPLG will also focus on the exploration of methodologies that support educational, therapeutic, academic, artistic and community initiatives to discover dialectics in between polarities, capture complexities, articulate and perform new kinds of relationships.
PPLG invites you to co-create conversations and methods to bridge our communities, practices and the world.
- How can communities build and be built across borders (physical, cultural and social)?
- How do diverse communities co-create new spaces of belonging and new culture?
- How can the creative use of language discover and articulate dialectics between polarities?
- How can different academic, educational, therapeutic and artistic practices cross borders, learn from and enrich each other?
- What creative opportunities for personal, community and social development can be found in disruption and chaos?
- In what ways can performance, play and the arts engage and possibly transform the politic of otherness and antagonism?
- How can imaginative and embodied practices help us converse with polarised aspects of the world and ourselves? What are the possibilities and limitations of the creative methods we use?
- How is the activity of bridging captured and nourished in arts, poetry and myths?
- How can play and performance create alternatives to authority and the knowing paradigm?
www.pplg.org
Register HERE, Early Bird fees until 6th September 2019. Discounted Students fees available:
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