With the ultimate goal of generating more theatre culture, we have developed an Educational program designed for all stages of education, from primary school to university. With this initiative we want to be more incidents in the current educational system and the way to get it is that the theater be part of the teaching programming.
With the collaboration of Ester Rovira (Dadà Barcelona) we have turned the scenic box into the backbone of the educational program. This year, we want to incorporate it and its potential for empathy and knowledge in the imagination of infants' and primary school children. We want them to come onto the stage with a more multifaceted perspective. With secondary and high school students, our aim is to make them walk onto the stage and become co-creators with professional artists, with theatre always acting as a tool for learning.
Activities with educational centers
Pre-school and primary education
La caixa del Lliure
created by Joan Baixas and Marina Baixas
The creators Joan Baixas and Marina Baixas have been in charge of designing La caixa del Lliure [The Lliure Stage]: a preteatral machinery so that children can enter the scenic game from school and in a simple way.
La caixa del Lliure is a small-scale reproduction of a theatre’s stage box. Following the philosophy of the old models of theatre, both children and guest artists can express themselves according to shadow theatre, puppetry and performance. The Lliure will provide it to schools, together with an instruction manual, and will provide specific teacher training.
And we launch the pilot test for the proposal from 8 years at the Escola Marta Mata in Barcelona. In this case, the stage provides different materials that, accompanied by the reference of universal theatrical artists, can generate multiple theatre proposals.
This season’s stage programme features three shows for La caixa del Lliure.
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Teatro Caca. Dulce introducción al caos
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IMPOSSIBLE?
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Infinitus
Secondary
Escena pilot
Third edition of this educational and artistic project of the Institut de Cultura, the Institut d’Educació de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona and the Teatre Lliure is based on the co-creation of a show between different public educational centers in Barcelona, under the leadership of a stage direction professional.
This year the artist Anna Serrano work with the students and teachers of the institutes: El Joncar, Caterina Albert, Emperador Carles, Milà i Fontanals and Pedralbes. The final work, Quan vaig començar a fer-me a la idea que em feia gran [When I first got the idea I was growing up], will be presented on 26 and 27/05 at the Espai Lliure in Montjuïc.
David Franch / 'Normal'
The Teatre Lliure continues to join the Creadors EN RESiDÈNCiA programme developed by the Institut de Cultura de Barcelona (ICUB) and the Consorci d'Educació de Barcelona (CEB) since 2009. Through the mediation of the Teatre Lliure, an artist is invited to work during the school year with a group of students from a high school in Barcelona.
This season, the artist is David Franch, who will carry out the Normal project with 21 students of 3rd ESO from the Institut Escola Eixample. A way to enter into the scenic practice following various artistic and plastic disciplines.
David Franch begins the process by questioning himself and the students about what is considered by society to be normal or not. The exploration of this social construct aims to encompass the behaviours, ideas and characteristics of individuals, which are generated by society and not as a characteristic of the individual. Its initial intention in this project is to bring stage language to everyone, in this case to young people, with the intention of enhancing creativity and personal skills, developing imagination, stimulating spontaneity, increasing perception and sensitivity, reinforcing self-esteem and autonomy, voice and a critical view.
The result of the creative process carried out during this course will be open to the public on May 31 2022 at the Teatre Lliure. The project Normal received an Extraordinary Grant for Creation Carlota Soldevila 2021 in the category Stage 0-21.
You can follow the process at the Institut Escola Eixample through the EN RESiDÈNCiA blog: https://blocsenresidencia.bcn.cat/eixample2022/
Lliure and university
Thinking with Things - international workshop
Second international workshop at the Teatre Lliure, after the pre-pandemical experience on 2019 named Dialogues with-in the City. Now, the proposal Pensant amb coses [Thinking with Things] is directed by Sodja Zupanc Lotker. She will provide the participants with a perspective of objects that goes beyond their usual features and uses. It will explore how we live with things (how they influence us, how they guide us, how we use them, how they change us, how they direct us, etc.).
New ways of looking at tools will be investigated to find different relationships that enable us to explore theatrical techniques while thinking about the material and the dialogue established by the artist.
The material will be the factor guiding how a performance is developed. Possible new ways of relating to the world, highlighting a more ecological, cooperative, intuitive and holistic view of objects and the way we relate to them will also be addressed.
The workshop will consist of practical projects and group discussions, which will consider our relationships with objects based on everyday experience and existing theoretical discourses.
TEACHERS
Serge von Arx
Sodja Zupanc Lotker
STUDENTS FROM
Theatre Institute, ESMUC, Hofmann Culinary School, EINA University School of Design and Art of Barcelona and The Danish National School of Performing Arts
PRODUCTION
Teatre Lliure
DATES
10/18 - 10/24/21
PLACE
Montjuïc. Espai Lliure
PUBLIC EXHIBITION
10/24/21 at 06:30 pm
PRICE
Free
RUNNING TIME
To be confirmed
LANGUAGE
In English
