Mamby Mawine
Theater and life in Senegal
Monday, 19.5. 7 pm
HELIOS Theater, upper Foyer
An artist through and through, who addresses the problems of children with her committed plays, who has built an entire village in her home country, Senegal, with the proceeds from her worldwide guest performance tours. A holistic and socially just way of living together, where learning cultural techniques such as theater is taught on an equal footing with, for example, gardening techniques. That sounds like paradise and Mamby Mawine will tell us about it.
- the conversation will be held in French and will be translated live into English -
Moderation: Michael Lurse Translation: Claudia Shimwa
Daria Ivanova
“Puppet theater - the art of resistance”
Thursday, 22.5. 6 pm HELIOS Theater, Upper foyer
Daria Ivanova, Dramaturge at Kyiv Academic Puppet Theatre (Ukraine)
“Puppet Theatre - Art of Resistance". This is a study of the cultural resistance of Ukrainian puppeteers during the Soviet occupation (1920s and 1990s). The texts and artistic visual and scenographic solutions of the performances created during this period were reconstructed. The peculiarity of these performances was that the puppeteers addressed the essential heritage of the Ukrainian puppet theatre - the Christmas nativity scene (vertep). This kind of theatre was strictly prohibited by the Soviets. The ban was especially severe because it was a truly Ukrainian traditional theatre that encoded the identity of the Ukrainian people and because of its affiliation with Christian culture.
Theater for the very youngest - news from NRW and internationally
Talk with Lena Freund
Theater for the very youngest has been part of the “hellwach” concept from the very beginning. The festival invites new, interesting works for the youngest audience and discusses new developments in this area. Two events provide an insight into current developments:
The state of NRW has set out to structurally support and promote the topic of “art from the very beginning”. Lena Freund will report on this using a concrete example.
Pawel Galkowski and Michal Wendland will present their research project in which they link the current social view of young children with thoughts on theater for the very young.
Friday, 4 p.m. in the HELIOS Theater, Upper Foyer
Lena Freund is a consultant for the 'Arbeitsstelle Kulturelle Bildung NRW' and is responsible for the pre-school sector, in particular for the program “kukita NRW. Artists in the daycare center” program.
Talk with
Pawel Galkowski and Michał Wendland
Friday, 5 p.m. in the HELIOS Theater, Upper Foyer
The pilot project “Children as actors in ‘early years theater’ practice” was an attempt to answer the question of how young children (0-3) are perceived. The question of the role of young children in social relationships was raised, and the social value of theater for the youngest children was also examined.
The conclusions that were formulated can provide arguments for a change in the social perception of young children. It became clear that although young children are legally protected, they are not recognized as equal beings in the social sphere. The historically prevalent and unfortunately still current view is that the youngest children are only nascent human beings and not yet fully-fledged human beings. How does a “theater from the beginning” respond to such insights?
Pawel Galkowski is a doctor of philosophy, researcher, project coordinator in Poland and has been involved in theater for the youngest children worldwide for ten years.
Michał Wendland is a professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, working at the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy of Politics and Communication.