STEP 9. REFLECTION

Method 1: Final showcase

Duration: 45-75 minutes (depending on the artistic creations developed)

Materials and tools: whatever may be needed and found/created inside the community.

Learning outcomes: artistically express one’s identity and learnings along the process, creating together with peers, learning from locals, recognizing one’s cultural value and sharing it with others.

Process:

Using the creations developed along the process or creating new materials with the experiences/lessons learned (also together with the local artists), tell/artistically express (dance, sing, draw) the participants' stories on a final showcase with the local and close communities.

The show might be recorded and shared, together with "making off" footage.

It is very important to finish with a positive vibe and to focus the energy of the group in the right direction: what do you want for yourself soon? And in a year? And in 3 years?

All the suggestions above have been tested for many years with different groups of young people. They are just examples that could boost your imagination, creativity and intuition.

Extra resources for further development of competences

- Boal, A. (1979) Theatre of the Oppressed. London: Pluto press

- Boal, A. (1992) Games for Actors and Non-Actors. London. Routledge

- The Geese Theatre Handbook, Drama with Offenders and People at risk, (2002),ed.Baim, C.,Brookes,S.,Mounntford,A.,Waterside Press, UK

- https://www.tip-eu.com/post/forum-theatre-with-and-for-young-people

- Sensory theatre as a powerful non-formal learning, Portugal (tip-eu.com)

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGb9UTCGViE

About the authors:

Poliksena Ivanova Hardalova, Artistic Director and Drama Teacher, PhD

Graduated in Theatre Studies from National Academy for Theater and Cinema Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Drama teacher and lecturer in High School of Education, Polytechnic University of Porto, Portugal, and National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria. Artistic director, Staff trainer and Coordinator of International projects at E2OM (Second Chance School Matosinhos) and Vice president of AE2O (Association for Second Chance Education), Portugal.

Ana R. Silva, Musical Theatre Actress, PhD

Graduated in Languages, International Relations and Cooperation, Musical Theatre, Community Arts and Urban Dances.

Professional experience as a performer, facilitator, mediator, teacher, choreographer, artistic and musical director, applying performing art in the work in various contexts and with diverse audiences, including youngsters.

Diana Reis, Professional Integration and Community Worker, MA

Graduated in Visual Arts and Artistic Technologies and Master degree in visual arts teaching.

Works at E2OM, delivering vocational, artistic and professional training with young people from vulnerable contexts. Integrates and (co)coordinates several projects at national and international level at AE2O.

AE2O – Association for Second Chance Education is a non-profit NGO whose general objective is to promote second chance education, working especially with vulnerable youth, with low educational and professional qualifications and at risk of social exclusion. Its main activity, in partnership with the Municipality of Matosinhos and the Ministry of Education, is the management of E2OM, the Second Chance School of Matosinhos, a pilot project started in 2008. AE2O is the main founder and promoter of E2O Portugal, the Portuguese Network of second chance schools and initiatives, and the Portuguese representative in the European network of second chance schools (E2CEurope) and in the second chance program of the Union of the Mediterranean, MedNC.