Autobiographical Theatre fiction as innovative tool to address the human vulnerability Erasmus Project

Project Title

Autobiographical Theatre fiction as innovative tool to address the human vulnerability

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: Access for disadvantaged; Creativity and culture; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The scope of ATENEA is to foster European cooperation between different partners (and relevant stakeholders) in adult learning (migrant integration, intergenerational learning, social inclusion) through specific innovative pedagogical approaches using the “Autobiographical Theatre” – ATENEA is based on a good practice of “Autobiographical Theatre” that was carried out with mental health disease adults , of the Àmbit Association( Project leader ) in Spain . Domingo Ferrandis’s opera “UN MUNDO APARTE ADENTRO DEL MUNDO” (A world apart inside of the world) developed in collaboration with Asociación Àmbit, was presented at the Festival of “10 Senses” and was sponsored by Bancaja Foundation. The Project is connected with the idea of Autobiographical Theatre and aims to recover, integrate vulnerable and excluded people increasing their personal and as well as social skills and, above all, improving their quality of life. The project aims to address the problem at a transnational level through a team of partners that complement each other towards spreading innovative methods to face the vulnerability. Thus, project wants to rethinking the teaching and adult learning strategies with the Autobiographical theatre approach allows us to construct proposals that include the differences and rediscovering the expressive and communicative possibilities that dramatic art has. Many people live in maximum invisibility, for the rest, in several European countries and in the world and need alternative and innovative strategies to their social inclusion. ATENEA wants “to promote and scale up of Ambit’s good practice and to develop it together with international partners: YEPA, Lithuania, K.A.NE., Greece, DRPDNM, Slovenia , Les Cultures , Italy and EMYF, Germany
ATENEA project promotes the social inclusion, priority will be given to actions that help address diversity and promote ownership of shared values, equality, including gender equality, and non-discrimination through of non-formal educational and training paths. ATENEA will engage 25 therapist and five different groups of vulnerable people (30 people in all) and about : Women facing social and geographical obstacles; long-term unemployed people ; People with mental diseases ; Asylum seekers/refugees; Women from disadvantaged neighbourhoods and Former inmates. Participants will be involved in7 local workshops and in 4 international pilot training workshops, taking part, at the end in Autobiographical theatre plays. Moreover, they will be involved in a Festival of Autobiographical Theatre in Germany. The pristine idea aims to reflect on the experience in a theatre training process with a group of people with disabilities, who were in vulnerable conditions and diversity. In today’s education, there are great challenges to answer the adults’ educational needs who are searching for opportunities for learning. Educational models are sometimes thought from the methods and processes, but leave the beneficiary part aside, on which they affect changes and conditions that the environment provides.
Prior to designing and running the workshops’ programme, each project partner will conduct an interview with participants and the accompanists. Thus, the needs of the participants and problematic areas to be covered will be identified. The fear of taking up new challenges and changing daily routine, as well as reluctance to any kind of changes will be the main problems shared by the participants and will be managed first between their accompanists.
The concept of “Autobiographical Theatre” consists of an original piece based on the contents of the author’s personal life (participating user), and the representation in front of an audience. The autobiographical or self-referential piece usually has a revealing aspect that shows personal contents and allows the author / authoress/actor/actress to aesthetically explore events in his life, express feelings such and make visible issues that concern and interest him/her.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 159135 Eur

Project Coordinator

ASOCIACION AMBIT & Country: ES

Project Partners

• SOCIAL YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CIVIL NONPROFIT SOCIETY
• Les Cultures
• Euro-Med Youth Federation (EMYF) e. V.
• Verslumo institutas
• DRUSTVO ZA RAZVIJANJE PROSTOVOLJNEGA DELA NOVO MESTO