Peace-building theatre work
Advanced training in intercultural theatre work in times of crisis
Expertise in intercultural encounters in crisis and conflict areas, peace work and trauma-sensitive theatre work
A unique opportunity to experience intercultural work in local and international conflict and crisis areas and to apply theatre practice to overcome difficult living conditions.
Modules A can be attended independently from module B.
Modul A
Acquisition of competences in transcultural theatre work, peace work and trauma-sensitive creation.
Topics: Safety, power-critical attitude, gender and cultural sensitivity, identity and awareness work, mediation and body work
Modul B
Journey to a crisis/conflict area for practical work in performing arts
For theatre professionals, performing artist, social workers, theatre and movement educators, NGO employees in an international context, art students, …
Modul A
This basic module takes place in Switzerland
and covers various topics and learning objectives:
Learning objective: To create a common basis for a trusting and respectful approach to different ways of thinking, dealing and behaving
Safety concerns the level of emotional, physical and local safety. The first principle in trauma-sensitive work is to establish inner and outer safety. We deal with this,
- how trust-creating conditions can be established in the respective theatre work.
- how to create an awareness of the environment/context in which one works and the ensemble/group.
- to develop skills in order to create common foundations for a trusting and respectful approach to different ways of thinking, dealing and behaving in inter- and dance-cultural work and to incorporate these creatively into the theatre process in all their diversity.
Dates: 18.-22.05.25
Cost: 1500 CHF (reduction possible)
Modul B
This module builds on the first, applies the content and takes place abroad
The module is currently being planned
The moment you work interculturally, you are right in the middle of the conflict – because 500 years of colonial history cannot be wiped away with good will or conscious behaviour.
We want to enable theatre work that strengthens peace. In order to prepare a basis of trust for future work, it is important to clarify one’s own cultural development and become aware of one’s own starting position. The aim is to create an inspiring and open working process in which everyone can get involved with all their differences and move as freely as possible.
The more heterogeneous a group is, the greater the challenge of involving everyone on an equal footing according to their abilities and capabilities, and the richer and more creative the joint process can be. This requires a differentiated and precise awareness (also of one’s own motives) and careful work – this is what we are concerned with.
Contact us if you are interested in a local/international collaboration
The Team
Anina Jendreyko
Director – actress – lecturer – trainer for resource-strengthening trauma education and specialist counselling (Berlin Institute)
Critically examines questions of identity, society, transculturality and power relations.
Giorgia Marzetti
Actress – Lecturer
Works in the independent scene
Giulia Crescenzi
Actress – Lecturer
Works in the independent scene
Simon Wahl
Actor – Environmental scientist
Works in the independent theatre scene. Initiator of various international sustainability projects
Our motivation,
our thoughts
and the process of confrontation and conflict as a richness in which creative power and community arise.
Theatre always has to do with conflict. The moment you work interculturally, you find yourself in the middle of this conflict. We want to initiate sustainable projects that strengthen people, solidarity and emancipatory processes within conflict-ridden areas and society.
Colonialism is not a stand-alone, but a constitutive moment of modernity – economically, culturally and aesthetically. The Eurocentric depiction of colonial history was hegemonic for a long time. It has had a significant influence on us and has a profound effect on the present.
and not be torn between polarisation, but instead struggle for a stance that focuses on humanity, community and liberation.
The logic of war is fuelling authoritarianism, nationalism and homogenisation on all sides. Contradictions are covered up by national consensus.
Overcoming borders, barbed wire, compartmentalisation, prejudice and separation together – and making community visible.
Artistic work opens up spaces in which community is created as a message of utopia and peace. Through theatre work, life forces can be activated, self-confidence and a sense of community strengthened.
Interculture understood as a process that views the diversity of our society as a wealth. Developing openness towards one another requires a process of becoming aware of the various power and gender asymmetries and reflecting on and changing them.