Activities at schools

We make LA CAIXA DEL LLIURE available to the educational community through the Educational Consortium’s Single Call for Applications for Programmes.

Five schools in the city of Barcelona may implement a nursery or primary school CAIXA in their classrooms. A stage in the classroom fosters theatre practice from ages 3 to 12.

The nursery school CAIXA (ages 3 to 7) follows the philosophy of the old mini-theatres and plays with shadow, visual, puppet and object theatre. With the primary school CAIXA (ages 8 to 12), the theatre gets bigger and turns into a fold-out device with lights, sound and a set that enables a custom stage to be built.

For both of them, the Lliure provides the schools with LA CAIXA, an instruction manual and specific training for the teachers so that the students can fill them with knowledge, intuition, expression and experimentation by presenting their own stories.

The Teatre Lliure is joining the Tàndem Schools programme of the Fundació Catalunya - La Pedrera. In three years, it is promoting the collaboration between a school and an institution in order to apply an innovation process, in our case through the performing arts. It’s an opportunity to reflect on our educational activities.

This is a new edition of the Barcelona Culture Institute (ICUB) and the Barcelona Educational Consortium (CEB) programme to foster the practice of contemporary creation at public secondary schools. The Teatre Lliure continues to participate in it as a mediator.

From September until the end of the school year, Carla Torres, an actress, playwright and director, will develop the project Què els hem fet? [What Have We Done to Them?], about adolescent mental disorders, in a public school in the city of Barcelona. At the end of the school year, the outcome of the process will be presented in public.

AGE
12 to 16

This is the sixth edition of this educational and artistic project of the Barcelona Culture Institute and the Teatre Lliure, which is based on having different public schools in Barcelona collectively create a show with a professional stage director. In the 24/25 school year, students aged 14 to 18 will be able to see a live show created collectively in contact with the professional scene. The teachers will also be given tools so they can learn about and use theatre language and techniques in the classroom. We want theatre creation to be accessible to young people and to enhance their social and educational lives. The resulting show can be seen at the Teatre Lliure in June.

Based on the dossiers that come with the shows, we have created a glossary of terms specific to the performing arts. The entries you find here were written by kids aged 5 to 16 as a tool to expand young people’s (and adults’!) performing-arts vocabulary.