GRESYS
GRESYS, Green Stories from Youth to Stage, was a project co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union and the Label Paris Europe (France). It brought together in 2023-2024 an Italian theatre, Teatro alla Guilla, and two French theatre companies, ALTER EGO (X) and La Transplanisphère, with a common goal: to raise young people's awareness on the objectives of the UN's Agenda 2030 by highlighting their own ecological experiences and commitments through theatrical storytelling.
Alarmed by reports from institutions on the feeling of social exclusion among young people since the pandemic - which has a strong impact on their learning abilities - and their concerns about the environment, our objective was to support them through training on the issues ecological combining artistic practice, theater, and a reference text, the 2030 Agenda.
We are convinced that theatrical practice as an informal education tool is one of the most relevant media to invite young people to translate and appropriate the 2030 Agenda, capable of stimulating their creativity, creating a collective and restoring their self-confidence. The choice of this text was strategic because, both contemporary and essential, it is also written in the form of concrete actions and contexts easily linked to the experiences lived by young people.
GRESYS aimed to create theatre workshops based on the artistic translation of the Agenda 2030 and other major texts, and on the collection of young people's ecological stories, supervised by professionals from the cultural sector. These workshops gave birth to two performances, one in France and one in Italy, in which the young people were both actors and authors: their stories, collected in this report, formed the main narrative framework using the storytelling technique.
The project began in May 2023 and ended in July 2024.
3 European artistic structures were brought together in this Erasmus+ Small-scale partnership: ALTER EGO (X) - Annecy, France, La Guilla - Palermo, Italy, La Transplanissphère - Le Raincy, France
Support: Erasmus + France Youth & Sport Agency
CALENDAR
January / February 2024
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Creation of the Study of Environmental Needs and the Handbook made from the collection of 50 stories from young participants (25 per country).
February 2024
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Mobility of a representative from Transplanisphère to Palermo to teach training to the Italian partner.
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Two 8-day training sessions for 2 theater professionals and 25 young people on the theme of the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, taking place in Paris (France) and Palermo (Italy).
March 2024 - April 2024
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2 theater workshops of 15 days each, led by theater professionals for the 25 young people (50 in total). The workshops are based on the training and the handbook.
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Creation of two artistic teams of 7 people each, including the 2 professionals and 5 of the 25 young participants (one company per country).
July 6, 2024 - Le Sample in Bagnolet
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Awareness event around round tables with experts, meetings with the local, national, and international associative fabric specialized in ecology issues, as well as artistic workshops with artists from the territory and from Italy.
From July 22 to 27, 2024
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Mobility of the French artistic team to Palermo to disseminate the created show, discover the work of the Italians, and participate in international artistic workshops.
PRODUCTIONS
A collection of green stories