The main idea is to create a festival space for amateur theaters, to develop the dramaturgy of FAD as a community festival with international participation. To experiment in the theater and not be afraid of diversity in the broadest context of art. Searching for an innovative form of working with a teenage audience through theater with an emphasis on the development of critical thinking. We want to continue to reflect on the needs of the young theater and the young audience and work with them to their full potential.
The festival is intended as a priority for non-professional young theaters of the Nitra region, but also beyond the borders of the region and Slovakia. The age limit is 16 years. and over 33, the addressee is a young and adult audience; we are looking for non-traditional performances, those that deal with personal themes of young people, interesting due to the different genre, forms of youth theater.
Foreign productions that they create together with young people.
Objectives:
1. continue and expand the festival to the wider areas of the city of Nitra, Párovské Háj and the surrounding area
and indirectly introduce to foreign ensembles places dedicated to community work in culture. Engage the local
community young theater artists and also connect actors from various cultural centers in the city of Nitra and
the surrounding area
2. lead a professional discussion and dialogue about productions, give space for self-evaluation, confrontation
and inspiration; we are not talking about evaluating the quality of productions, but about sharing experiences
from the work process
3. work with a young audience through the analysis of domestic and international productions. in smaller groups
with the facilitator and encourage them to react, understand them (either through an art installation or verbally)
and share your feelings, thoughts, opinions in joint discussions with viewers, creators and invited experts, lecturers
4. develop skills and bring new experiences to the participants of theater workshops, bring them closer and experience
different methods, forms for the creation of productions, performances, informal learning through theater under
the guidance of interesting people lecturers and create 1 performance for the festival, plus outputs from the workshops
and present them at the festival
Project activities:
1st festival tour and presentation of non-professional youth theater, place: Párovské Háje, cultural house, theater tent
and cultural centers in Nitra
2. professional discussions with the creators and the audience, led by experts, personal consultations for theater
performances, location: Párovské Háje, cultural center, theater tent, Hidepark, point K7
3. On a selected day, we will verify the creation in practice 2 artistic reflections on the given performance by working
in the "audience workshop" under the guidance of a facilitator 3 -4 theater workshops with foreign lecturers and public
presentation of outputs, place: Nitra, various spaces and Párovské Háje, duration 2.5 - 3 days
4. International seminar in the context of the participating countries and Slovakia, topic: Community theater / diversity
and the young viewer in the area of KOS and point K7 in NR
5. Post-Festival photo exhibition FAD 23 / public spaces
Accompanying activities:
1. presentation of theaters from abroad
2. presentation of musical productions
3. realization of Sweet free community market / 1 international evening during the festival, inspiring, musical meeting
young people connected with the tasting of typical delicacies and refreshments from the given country, presentation
of their culture and exchange experiences from various festivals and community activities at home in their region
We will gradually add information about the festival and workshops here