Kick Off Meeting: Workshops
- Participation & Youth Culture
- Podcasting – Digital Storytelling
- Telling and listening
- Improvisational Theatre – an Invitation to Creative Thinking
- Creative Thinking – Creative Living – Creative Experiencing
Participation & Youth Culture
Topic
Participation & Intercultural Dialogue
Workshop leader
Mag.(FH) Philipp Ikrath: studies of marketing and sales in Vienna; since 2005 member of the Institute
for Youth Culture Research in Hamburg, Germany; focuses on youth and culture, education and professional life, trends
in youth culture – especially in music.
www.jugendkultur.at
What is it about?
The majority of today’s young people has the notion that they have hardly any influence on the political decision–making process. Conversely, opportunities of increased participation for adolescents are not recognised or even rejected. Participation in the context of traditional institutionalised politics is an option for just a small minority. The workshop will give the participants a brief overview of youth culture and young lifestyles as well as ways of participation. This input will encourage them to develop innovative concepts of participation for young people, within or beyond traditional political structures.
Podcasting – Digital Storytelling
Topic
Cultural Education & New Media
Workshop leader
Mag.a Patricia Köll: studies of media education, active in the research didactics of the new media, lector on different universities, works as a coach within the range of the adult education and teacher advanced training, main points of research: didactical organization of learning environments, empirical and theoretical processes in media societies. www.medienpaedagogik.at/blog
What is it about?
Tell us your story! We want to know more about you, your school, your country. In this workshop you will learn how to make your own podcast and share it with friends all over Europe! Podcasts are digital media files which are distributed over the internet and can be downloaded on portable media devices or mobile phones. So bring your iPod as well as some self-made music! We will show you how easy it is to create a digital story, record and edit it yourself and add music. In this workshop we will write our own storyboard and send it to a podcasting channel, where you can share it with your peers!
Telling and listening
Topic
Language & Intercultural Dialogue
Workshop leaders
Dr. Eva Ribarits: Social scientist, editor, mediator; transnational projects in the field of
language/literacy, media and remembrance.
Gitta Stagl, MSc: Knowledge theorist, translator,
supervisor; transnational projects in the field of language/literacy, media and memory
What is it about?
Telling and listening about:
- yourself / friends / family
- talking to peers / adults
- what you enjoy / what interests you / what is expected from you
- “your” language / mother tongue / foreign language
Please bring (in any language)
your favourite music, photos, stories, poems, songs, movies…
Improvisational Theatre – an Invitation to Creative Thinking
Topic
Arts, Culture & Intercultural Dialogue
Workshop leader
Sonja Zeisel-Muchitsch: actress, numerous roles in films, on television, work in the field of youth and improvisational theatre in Austria and Germany; many years of experience in leading theatre workshops and courses in improvisational theatre for different age groups from children to adults; speaks German, English and Serbo-Croatian.
What is it about?
Improvisational theatre is theatre without a script; stories come into being at that very moment. This can only work
if all the actors work together harmonically: this means not pushing through one’s own ideas, but creating something
completely new together.
In this workshop we will try out a large number of exercises and games from the field of
improvisational theatre which are fun and at the same time train our alertness, creativity and spontaneity. The
experiences taken from the art of improvisation stimulate imagination, communication and team spirit. Participants
will gain confidence in trying something unknown, courage to express themselves, they will learn to accept the
“otherness” of others, and think unconventionally. Discovering stories, new perspectives and bold solutions while
having fun - just see what happens…!
“You can get to know a person better by playing with them for an hour than you can by talking to them for a year.”
Creative Thinking – Creative Living – Creative Experiencing
Topic
Innovation, Creativity & Intercultural Dialogue
Workshop leader
Mag. art. Alfons Nebmaier: studied Free Art in Ottersberg (Germany) and sculpture at the University
of Applied Arts in Vienna, held post of productions and manager in the studio of the ZOOM Children’s Museum (Vienna)
and Institute for Leisure Time Pedagogics at the Hietzing Adult Education Centre (Vienna); many years of experience in
leading art workshops for children and young people.
Katharina Jäger: degree as an Art
Therapist, several years of experience in caring for disabled people, drawing up concepts and holding workshops in the
field of art for the ZOOM Children’s Museum in Vienna, planned and implemented workshop concepts as part of several
other projects for children and young people.
What is it about?
In the not-only-digital photo workshop with Katharina Jäger and Alfons Nebmaier, you can experience for yourself what intercultural dialogue really means. With the aid of digital photography, other artistic media and web-based communication, you create a network with your friends from all around the world. Instead of being a passive internet user, you yourself become the active party; you leave behind you the role of the interviewee and become the interviewer. You decide which information you want to reveal about yourself, and in this way you can make new friends and acquaintances and immerse yourself in many ways which do not stop at national borders. Through multi-layered networking with their friends, families, interests and hobbies, the participants create a comprehensive picture of real-life Europe and their neighbours there.
