3 Tromsø Dialog 2011 with two exciting side events
Tromsø Dialog 2011 has the pleasure of presenting two exciting side events for the festival. The theater camp Future Voices is an international theater project with participants and instructors from all over the world. The concept has been prepared by HATS, in cooperation with Julian Boal, after the initiative made by Rune Lundy, producer in the Norwegian Theater Council.
Department of Culture to examine poverty issues in cultural organizations.
The framework for the symposium will be the concept ”World Cafe”. This is a method whereby large groups can talk about difficult questions with dialogue.
The participants gather in a large room and sit in groups around small tables. Two facilitators lead the program through questioning the participants. All those around the table take part and reach agreement on a shared question which they present to the rest of those present. The next phase involves moving to another table and gathering to look at a different question. The people moving to a new table will vary during the session.
We would like to bring in a new dimension to this concept through introducing ”World Arena”, where we will bring strong personalities with a significant personal engagement together to meet in a new arena.
On a global level we seek presenters who represent contrasting values in regard to poverty. On the one hand someone who has large material wealth, but who gives from their own abundance to charitable causes. On the other hand someone with a non-materialistic position.
On a national level the opposing views will be represented by two different attitudes to the significance of culture in working with poverty. Locally, the presenters will be passionately engaged people with differing points of view from the Tromsø region.
The moderator will have the important task of bringing the presenters together in dialogue. The moderator will together with these persons explore new questions brought to light when two leading lights meet on an equal basis.
In the debate on poverty the focus is often on action, on varying measures and activities, and the questions asked often center on ”How?”. In this symposium we wish to focus on “Why?” and to see whether new perspectives come to light when two differing points of view meet.
The values which emerge from this session will form the basis for the questions which are asked during the last part of the World Café.
organization and collaborator in Tromsø Dialog 2011. Julian Boal, the son of Augusto Boal, has been a part of the development of the project along with HATS. The theater camp is a pilot project which HATS hopes will make a regular meeting point for professional theater exploration, and to create lasting, international networks, with the base in Northern Norway. The camp focuses on the coming theater artist generation, and asks: How can theater be a tool in the social debate? How can we care for and ensure that the young voices are heard? Future Voices consists in 2011 of four parallel workshops where one is introduced to forum theater as a method, gets to produce and perform own forum plays, see professional forum plays from India (www. janasanskriti.org), and gets to participate in the international AITA/IATA festival, Tromsø Dialog 2011.
Please find registration form for the festival and congress here!
The 2011 theme is DIALOGUE and our aim are to promote peace through the medium of theatre. The name of the festival is hence Tromsø DIALOG 2011.
We aim to initiate dialouges across borders and to keep the dialogue open: Together for theatre - together for peace!
