Forum Theatre is an art of social change!
YOU WANT TO...
TO influence as many people as possible to be irreconcilable with violence and injustice;
TO change the world around you with a socially engaged theatre;
TO become part of a community with which you share personal stories, stage experience and exciting journey into the world of the Forum theatre and Social change;
TO surprise yourself with new skills, to unleash your artistry;
TO Explore the bounds of spontaneity and courage as you earnestly entertain;
TO acquire stage skills, to feel the stage fright and there is a cure for it.

Forum Theatre Group will meet regularly, will be introduced in stages with different techniques from forum, image and Impro Theater. We will create a performance of a socially significant theme that will be presented to a different audience.
Forum Theatre is suitable for young people from 16 to 25 years.

What is forum Theater?
The Forum Theatre (also known as the Theatre of the oppressed) was introduced and developed by Augusto Boal in 1960 in Brazil, during a severe authoritarian regime. Boal developed the Forum Theater method in order to give voice to the repressed, to breathe them power to fight against the violence and injustice in their lives. Because of the extreme effectiveness of the method, Boal manages to spread it in different parts of the world. Today's forum and image Theater is practiced in over 100 countries around the world.
Main features of the Forum and Image Theatre
➔ Interactive Theater in which the audience participates actively (everyone is an actor)
➔ Works with situations of real-life violence and oppression
➔ Concerns Community Issues
➔ Strives to achieve positive change
➔ Gives voice to those who are often excluded from public debate

The first workshop of the Forum Theatre group will be held on 26. January. 2019, 10:30,
In Plovdiv Youth Center (Yasna Polyana str. 18)
To participate in the Forum Theater group, there is no need to have a preliminary stage experience.

Free entrance! Seats are limited!
To sign up, please register here: https://goo.gl/LpHN2D

Leading facilitator-Gyika Baycheva

Gika is a co-founder of Open Spaces Association; Member/Alumni of the International networks Robert Bosch Network, MitOst, LOCOP, Tandem Europe/Turkey, USA Fellows from Bulgaria. She has a bachelor degree in philosophy and master-artistic psycho-social practices with focus on child-adolescent psychology, psycho-drama, forum-theater, art-therapy, sociometry, talkative-therapy. Gika is a certified trainer with the methods of Psychodrama and forum Theatre, Sociodrama, art therapy. There are additional specializations and qualifications in the field of training and facilitation of groups in international contexts, art therapy in children with behavioral problems, working with children and families at risk, working with minority communities.

Since 2009, Gika has been working as a trainer and mentor for different groups of young people (volunteers, young people from disadvantaged groups, youth leaders) and various topics such as school violence, prevention of human trafficking, discrimination, etc.
Since 2012, she has been engaged as a trainer of teachers and directors from various Bulgarian schools and kindergartens.
Between 2016-2018 Gika worked as a trainer at the "School for Parents" in Gorno Ezerovo.