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Teater Reflex

4 weeks ago

Vi är mycket stolta och glada över att professor Maria Kaika fått den här utmärkelsen, läs mer om vårt gemensamma teaterprojekt i ett flyktingläger i Thessaloniki.

”Beyond academia, Professor Maria Kaika has been reaching out to those who, for different reasons, are unlikely to get access to higher education, especially minors arriving as refugees. Kaika’s teaching practice involved this most disenfranchised group of young people in 2017-18 at the largest refugee camp in Europe at the time (SOFTEX) in Thessaloniki, Greece. Kaika gathered an international team who volunteered to teach to the camp-based workshop on ‘Remaking Homes.’ The ‘curriculum’ was to explore concepts of displacement, home, and homemaking. To overcome language barriers, music and community theatre was used to communicate key concepts and ideas, based on Augusto Boal’s “theatre of the oppressed” method. The team included theatre director Kent Ekberg and producer Kajsa Nordin, from Teater Reflex Stockholm, the internationally acclaimed musician Mousa Elias, urban geographers Henrik Ernstson and Charalampos Tsavdaroglou, pedagogues Raida Ibrahim and Niki Gakoudi, humanitarian aid worker Lamya Karkour, and field assistant Sofia Zachou. The workshop’s ‘assignment’ involved the creation of a play on ‘homemaking’ that the young refugees would themselves author, stage, and perform with the guidance of the academic and artistic team. Over 100 people in the camp joined into the daily workshops. The play was later also staged at the National Theatre of Greece North.” ... See MoreSee Less