Acting workshops for children from Poland and Ukraine provide an excellent opportunity to integrate both nations through art and culture. During the classes, which take place twice a week, the children will have the chance not only to learn the basics of acting, but also to make new friends. The outcome of the workshop will be a show of artistic work: a mini-spectacle of acting and music, which will combine elements of both cultures to create a unique theatrical experience. Through the show, children and young people will have the opportunity to present their skills in front of an audience, thus building confidence, self-esteem. Our initiative is important both for inter-community integration, but is also an opportunity to develop the talents and passions of young artists. The workshops take place from mid-October to the second half of November.
Leading the workshops are the active participants of the project, the actresses of the play “It’s just as you think it is!”:
Eliza Yakunina from the Ukrainian minority, an employee of the Ukraine Foundation. She graduated from the Kiev University of Culture and Arts as a director of mass events. For many years she has been involved in organisational and creative work: planning and conducting integration, information and cultural events. And conducting acting workshops for children and adults.
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Agata Obłąkowska-Mazurkiewicz, actress at the Polish Theatre in Wrocław, workshop leader of the theatre’s educational programme, Academy 1212, and outside the Polish Theatre, lecturer at the Capitol Musical Theatre Studio and artistic director of the integration theatre ‘Kambak’.