international cooperation

What’SAP – Exchange of Social Art Practices

The What’SAP project is a 2-year international project co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. It is based on the exchange of the methodologies between the four project partners from Hungary, the Czech Republic, Serbia, and France. / 2021 – 2022

The What’SAP – Exchange of Social Art Practices project is a 2-year international project co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. It is based on the exchange of the methodologies between the four project partners from Hungary, the Czech Republic, Serbia, and France. The aim is to exchange the existing knowledge of the partnering organizations incorporate the theoretical and practical knowledge, develop an easy-to learn professional method by experiences and feedbacks, and discover new techniques for involving participant audience into socially aimed creation and intercultural dialogues.

Within the project, the selected creators will have the opportunity to gain new experience in the two-year horizon 2020-2022 under the guidance of the artists of the Archa Theatre and foreign lecturers. They will then use this experience to work with a group of teenagers, whose members will also include representatives of the Vietnamese community. The aim is to create a theatrical production or other stage form.

The project is intended for theater creators, teachers, social workers and all those who consider socially necessary theater as a necessary part of their professional practice and must continue their education in this area.

A joint project of the Archa Theatre (Prague), Kulturanova (Serbia), Compagnie DK-BEL (France) and ProProgressione (Hungary).

Jana Svobodová is the artistic guarantor and professional consultant of the project for the Archa Theatre.

Theatre for Schools!
What’SAP - Exchange of Social Art Practices / an international conference
November 19, 2022 / 10:00 – 17:00 / Archa Theatre, Prague

In English. Free entry upon registration.
Register here → https://bit.ly/KonferenceDivadloDoSkol

An international conference that focuses on how social-specific theatre techniques can be used in education. Experts from France, Serbia, Hungary and the Czech Republic will present their projects, which reflect the different ways in which these tools are implemented in each environment and their communities. European experts will thus meet in an interdisciplinary discussion about this unique field and where it is headed.

Co-organised with partners of the The What’SAP - Exchange of Social Art Practices project: ProProgressione (Hungary), Kulturanova (Serbia), Compagnie DK-BEL (France) & Archa Theatre (Czech Republic) .

Conference is open to teachers, artists, university students and those interested in the topic of implementing theatre tools into educational system.

More info and programme here

What’SAP activities 2021 – 2022

18.5.2021 — Social theatre in practice: „From point zero“ in 3 parts
presentation by Jana Svobodová / online workshop
1.6.2021 — Social theatre in practice: „Act of game“ - Lecture demonstration of the practical exercises
Jana Svobodová / online workshop
20.6.2021 — What’SAP methodological workshop for trainees / artistic leaders
Jana Svobodová, Pavel Kotlík / Archa Theatre
22.7. – 1.8.2021 — Summer Academy in Budapest / Workshops on documentary theatre & creative process presentations / Jana Svobodová, Pavel Kotlík, Romana Sekáčová, trainees: Martina Dobiášová, Kristýna Břeská, Hana Kokšalová
22.9.2021 — meeting with trainees / decision on further progress
Jana Svobodová, Romana Sekáčová, stážistky: Martina Dobiášová, Kristýna Břeská, Hana Kokšalová
September 2021 – June 2022 — series of workshops and creation of theatre performance
with teenagers from the Vietnamese community
July 2022 — Youth Art Camp, Hungary
meetings and presentations of stage works of all partner organizations
fall 2022 — joint work at the Archa Theatre
The resulting stage design created under the banner of the Archa Theater will be presented at the AKCENT 2022 international festival, as well as in schools and other places.

What'SAP team – Archa Theatre

Jana Svobodová – director
Jan Sedláček – sound designer
Ladislav Štěrba – sound designer
Pavel Kotlík – light designer
Romana Sekáčová – production
Pavlína Kalandrová – fundraising