Climate justice. Action. Theater. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Climate justice. Action. Theater.

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Social dialogue; Environment and climate change; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

Climate justice. Action. Theater. is the contribution of activist theatre makers to recent climate justice movements who united together in order to form an international movement of activist theatre-makers working with the methodology of Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) in the field of adult learning.
It is a new transnational, mostly European forum theatre movement dealing with climate justice that intends to have members all over Europe.
The main goal of the project is to create an international, diverse, multiplying community of activists and theatre-makers who are striking to advocate about the topic of climate justice and social justice by using various forms of artistic expression, though focusing on forum theatre and theatre for dialogue by the year 2022.
Forum Theatre has been successfully used all over the world to mobilize for social movements and create operating strategies for social movements.
The project focuses on the following objectives:
1. Creating a community of theatre practitioners who are focused on intersecting issues of climate justice and social justice in the adult education work through establishing operating, long-lasting platforms for community ideas exchange between partnering organization (regular theatre groups of practitioners)
2. Facilitating safe dialogue spaces between the general audiences and artivists (art+activism professionals) through national performances and international project meetings;
3. Generating and documenting materials that will serve for learning and growth of the future generations that are specifically focusing on the intersecting topic of climate justice and theatre;

The urgent need for opening the dialogue on the topic of climate justice in contemporary European society is indisputable. Hence, providing more spaces in engaging local communities into the dialogue on questioning these issues is demanded. In this project, we will provide a bridge between the present conversations and discourses on the topic of climate justice and local communities of individuals who perhaps were not deeply introduced to the topic before.
This particular project will be focusing on three main target groups and will involve over 1100 primary and secondary beneficiaries including people with fewer opportunities in European society (individuals with cultural differences, individuals with a disability):
1.Theatre activists and practitioners dealing with climate justice to enhance their capacities in training activists within the network.
2.Communities of activists, theater for social/ecological justice practitioners, and those who would like to get connected with these topics;
3.General audiences from the represented countries, who will be engaged in the conversations on the topic of climate justice and social justice;

Climate justice is a global issue, though it is also a social justice issue as it intersects with topics such as sexism, racism, and capitalism (consumerism, class, neo-imperialism. With this project, we will unfold these concepts and invite local communities to dialogue and social action. We want to envision the world, where structural societal issues are visualized and local communities are constantly invited to participate in a dialogue that will expand their consciousness and feeling of empathy. Hence, the following results are expected:

-A developed, strong community of activists and artists (artivists) who are using theatre methodology for community dialogue in the presented countries (Austria, Germany, Slovenia) and beyond who are using theatre to enhance the climate justice conversation as a tool in adult education;
-Approximately 100 primarily beneficiaries (training attendees, theatre performers) who strike for the topic of climate justice and became a transnational community;
-Approximately 1000 beneficiaries (theater performance attendees, consumers of the products of artistic creations) will become part of the dialogue on the urge of climate justice and social justice as an essential part of it.
-Produced creative commons material (Best Practice Manual, Project Videos, theatre artistic tools, Posters and artistic products) that can be used with the purpose of dissemination;
-Created sustainable and operating bridges between the partner organizations and their respective activist communities;
After organizing a growing movement, we will be able to manage other enterprises. By meeting stakeholders in the project countries NGO/movement sector and community building sector, but also by approaching stakeholders for possible performances (magistrates, churches, getting permissions for public spaces), we build important networks for possible future policy and/or legislation changes.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 115044 Eur

Project Coordinator

TdU-Wien (Theater der Unterdrückten – Wien) & Country: AT

Project Partners

• Kulturno umetniško društvo Transformator
• Gemeinwohlwohnen