NGO “ART-Playback”
Participatory theatre and storytelling
NGO Inclusive Theater Association “ART-Playback” is a non-governmental organization established in June 2018 in Ukraine
The main goal of NGO is to build dialogue inside and between different communities, spreading ideas of diversity, ecology style of life and thinking using participatory theatre.
Experience
Since 2015 (when it was an initiative), we carry out various socio-cultural activities (trainings, performances, festival), held for different groups of people: women, internally displaced people, people with disabilities, IDPs, LGBTIs, national communities, teens and others. During the events, participants explore topics of dialogue, human rights, develop empathy through the theater approaches.
Methods of work: Playback Theatre, Documentary Theatre, elements of the Theater of the Oppressed, art therapy, NVC, dance, music. We work with human stories that allows to consider a person and his\her truth, find similarities and differences, learn to act first within the theater, and then - in life.
