I am special

Event: Touring the Countryside in order to speed up the establishment of The CREEA Resource Center for Active Art and Education

The theater show I Am Special, followed by public debate to which local and national authorities are invited to explore the possibility of setting up the CREEA Resource Center for Active Art and Education and of mayoralties, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture’s taking responsibility for a network of community centers for representation through art and access to creative education of any community in Romania, irrespective of its living standard, ethnicity or other differences.
The debate will be preceded by a presentation of the Theatre in the Countryside project, images and videos of the five interventions – Rahova Uranus, Limanu, Sasarm, I. L. Caragiale, Pausesti Maglasi. Following the public debate in each of the five culture clubs involved in the project, starting from the proposals of the members of the communities, we conceived a program for the revitalization and transformation of culture clubs into community centers for creative education and active art. In each of the five centers we made contacts with active members of the community, who are ready to begin activities for both the children and the adults in the community. The program of conversion of these centers and of establishment of a community center network for exchanges of experience and representability should be started as soon as possible, as a too long interval between the intervention that already took place and the beginning of the program could slow things down even more than they are now, due to expectations that our presence in these centers has inevitably raised. The report on the situation of culture clubs and the Program of Conversion of Culture Clubs into Community Centers will be officially handed to the Minister of Culture during the 30 September 2009 event hosted by the Ministry of Culture, in the hope that these working tools provided by The Offensive of Generosity will be the starting point of a long-term cultural-educational strategy for inhabitants of the rural milieu.
By hosting this event, The National Theater Festival supports the establishment of The CREEA Resource Center for Active Art and Education (with its three components: the Center for Creative Education, the Center for Community Theater, and the Documentary Practice and Theory School).
The project team: Andreea Eşanu, Bogdan Georgescu, Sever Bârzan, Monica Marinescu, Sînziana Nicola, Vlad Georgescu. From the laBOMBA Community Center: Irina Gâdiuţă, Maria Drăghici and Cristina Eremia.

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