Nugle II bb
70230 Bugojno
Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Arts
Since founding, volunteers are in charge and lead all the activities and we have no employees. Annual budget vary from 1.000 to 5.000 BAM, mainly acquired by projects, donations, and ticket and participation fees. Our main activities evolve around theatre and drama education; using of drama in education and life and organization/participation in various youth exchange projects, that strive to provide safe and all-inclusive environment for youth from different backgrounds to get to learn and create together. We are well established and collaborate with numerous theatres and NGOs (such as DIS Banjaluka, MtM Mostar, GKM Vitez, NGO „Leptir“ Bugojno etc)
Inspire children and youth to think, imagine and actively participate in creation of communities open for all differences and specificities, using drama education and performing arts. To ignite transforming of children and youth of BH from passive viewers to successful, creative, curious and compassionate persons able to cope with challenges of the modern world. To encourage children and youth to question, explore, search and efficiently communicate their needs. Create innovative, engaging and critical plays/performances, thus empowering emotional intelligence, inter-group dialogue, compromise, collaboration and creativity.
- Creation of at least three plays/performances per year (puppets, for children and for youth)
- Participate/collaborate in at least four projects in local community (local art festivals, collaboration with NGO „Leptir“ with children and youth with special needs;
- Initiate at least two collaboration projects (youth camps, training, theatre workshops, art classes, puppetry/scene/prop creating workshops, etc) with theatre groups and NGOs from B&H
- Participate in at least three BH festivals of children/youth theatre
DP Eko Art is well-established children and youth theatre that use drama education as the main tool. We (individually and as a group) have significant experience in process drama, theatre-in-education (TiE), forum and physical theatre, etc. Our leader is drama pedagogue (certified by Centre for Drama Education BH) and a social justice/gender equality trainer (certified by Step by Step), with significant experience in both fields. We have significant administrative and managerial experience in creating, initiating, organizing or co-organizing in large youth events, such as theatre camps (BuJaMo 2017 and 2018, as a part of BH youth support to students from Jajce who stood up to further segregation; SolidArt – project of 3 BH communities using performing arts as awareness raising tool on marginalized groups; PriT – applied theatre as community awareness; numerous exchange camps, training and worskhops, etc).
We believe that one of very few sustainable and long-term guarantees for peace is opening of horizons of children and youth, thus counter existing segregation and narrow-minded narratives of three ethnic/religious groups. We believe that our determination to address and dismantle stereotypes which generate prejudices, gender inequality and all forms of violence in society is shared by numerous NGOs in B&H and region. Unfortunately, without networking and building strong civil society i.e. strong, opinionated and vocal children and youth, changes in the discriminatory and segregational practices and policies of BH society will not change (segregation in education and society; discrimination of minority groups and rights; etc). To this, we can certainly contribute with our experience and resources.