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School festival ‘What if it were you?’

refugees
27 Apr 2018 / 11:26

CORFU. Organized by the Hellenic Theatre in Education Network in collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

This morning 130 pupils from one Nursery School, two Primary Schools and four High Schools in Corfu put on a theatrical happening in Annunciata Square about the historical presence of refugees in Corfu during the 20th century.
 


The pupils, assisted by their teachers and the drama teachers from the ‘What if it were you?’ project, utilized theatre-documentary and educational drama techniques to create theatrical happenings based on documents (from their own research) as well as texts about diversity, cultural differences, human rights and acceptance.

This is the fourth year that Hellenic Theatre in Education Network and UNHCR for Greek refugees have organized the ‘What if it were you?’ project.  It is a project to raise awareness about human rights and refugee issues through workshop activities and theatrical and educational drama techniques and is approved by the Ministry of Education and certified by IDEA (International Drama and Theatre Education Association).

The following schools took part:

Kastellani Mesi Nursery School
Potamos Primary School
Liapades Primary School
Skripero Junior High & High School
Corfu 3rd High School
Corfu 4th High School
Agros High School

Musicians:

Davul drum: Panayiotis Kiriazidis (Ionian University student)
Lyra: Konstantinos Palaiologos (Ionian University student)
Trumpet: Giorgos Hondroyiannis, Miltos Anthis
Clarinet: Mahi Sdona, Anna Kokkali
Vocals: Despina Tsenempi, Nikos Evangelidis (High School students)

Teachers:
 
Anastasia Pilou, Maria Alexaki, Zoe Konstantinidou, Marina Divane, Emilia Ayioti, Katerini Koniari, Konstantina Katsarou, Stamatella Kouda, Stamatis Economou, Fotini Dimouli, Susanna Chirdari, Alexandros Amarantidis, Ioannis Lappas.

School Support and Director: Evgenia Zagoura

Scripts: Fotini Dimouli

Coordinators: Fotini Dimouli, Evgenia Zagoura

Organization: Hellenic Theatre in Education Network and UNHCR in collaboration with School Corfu Primary and Secondary Education School Activities department.


Organization: Hellenic Theatre in Education Network as part of the ‘What if it were you?’ project – “A project to raise awareness about human rights and refugee issues.” - in collaboration with UNHCR.