The present project called "Rural Inclusive Outdoor Theatre Education" (RIOTE) was born from the need to realize exchange in between some European theatre-educational organizations.The partnership members are: Teatro Tascabile di Bergamo (Italy) Kud Ljud (Slovenia), Soltis Lajos Theatre (Hungary), Control Film Studio Association (Hungary; coordinator), Shoshin Theatre Association (Romania), Dartington (UK).The Italian and Slovenian partners are the exporter organizations, while the English, Hungarian and Romanian are importers. Our project is based on a knowledge and skills exchange between performing arts- organisations who provide adult education through outdoor theatre, physical theatre or other cultural and adult educational practices in rural settlements. The project is at the same time based around the research of the question 'How do we develop the reach of our adult educational activity, as arts organisation, so that we can connect with more of our target group?'The aim of the partnership is to share outdoor theatre education methods. Outdoor performance is traditionally a good tool to create reciprocal cultural dynamic in rural areas. Some of the partners provide theatre courses or camps for local people in rural settlements. They also offer a "barter” by this we mean a cultural exchange between professional artists and local people who offer their own folk songs, local history, or other particular skills. The project's main idea is that outdoor performing experiences and our partners' educational methods could offer an extraordinary support to theatre activities in rural areas.There is no any institution in Europe which would give place to street theatre studies. Street theatre education as a non-formal adult education and practice and cultural phenomena is on very different quality level in different national contexts (30-40 years of distances). Street theatre as an artistic activity and a certain kind of adult education supported by non-institutional groups and civil organizations.Street theatre could give a new aspect, while it involves a new mass of public, proposing a new model of "demand and supply" on the field of theatre.Outdoor performing adult education can create culture in socially marginalized environments to propose: dialogue approach; critical sociology by carrying out social problems; interactive cultural exchange; collective education; development of multiple intelligences; trigger the imagination of social change; empower of community; strong pedagogical aspect; collaborative process.The implementation of outdoor theatre competences and teachin metodology will be tested in geographically disadvantaged villages such as Kide (Romania) or Dunaszekcső (Hungary).The next aim is to understand the English model of the rural touring network. We intend to observe practices and in long term implement the model of the rural touring network in our partner countries which would in turn create a sustainable project that has a lasting impact on our partners and their countries. The English partner would have a leader role in this area of research and Italian and Slovenian partners could contribute greatly with their long history in outdoor touring shows in Europe, South America and Asia. This would be offered to Hungarian and Romanian partners to help them establish a network in their own locality.The coordinator as a film association a socio-graph researcher team has the function also as a control group of the partnership, to fallow the activities and guarantee the accomplishment of the partnership objectives.
Rural Inclusive Outdoor Theatre Education; Street theatre education methodology and network cooperation model in rural environment. RIOTE is an exchange in between European theatre-educational organizations. Teatro Tascabile di Bergamo (Italy) Kud Ljud (Slovenia), Soltis Lajos Theatre (Hungary), Control Film Studio Association (Hungary; coordinator), Shoshin Theatre Association (Romania), Broken Spectacles/Dartington Arts (UK). The Project RIOTE was supported by Erasmus + Lifelong Learning Program for adult education selected by the Hungarian Agency called Tempus Public Foundation, for 12 months: from 1st of September 2016 until 31st of August 2017. The cooperation of the six partners was a preparation for a second project called RIOTE 2, starting from 1 st of November 2017 until the 31 st of August 2019, which will create professional written and naudiovisual teaching materials for outdoor theatre and cultural management in rural settings for 2019. The RIOTE 1 was a knowledge and skills exchange between the six performing arts organisations: one week long workshop in December 2016, held by Teatro Tascabile di Bergamo, and a second one week long workshop in April 2017, held by Kud Ljud in Ljubljana. Those two workshops where the main pillars of the exchange process, where the theatre expert /adult educators were able to develop their teaching methodology. Whilst the partners had five two days long organizational meetings, once in every partner country to further their research into the possibilities of outdoor theatre in rural Settings. An important aim was to understand the English model of the rural touring network to create sustainability in theatre. We observed practices and in long term we will implement the model of the rural touring network in our partner countries especially in Hungary and in Romania through RIOTE 2. Outdoor theatre has a great potential to reach our target group (who?). There is no institution in Europe (There is in Fai-ar in marseille) leading street theatre studies. It is, as an artistic activity and adult education, mainly sustained by non-institutional groups. Street theatre involves a new mass of public, proposing a new model of ’supply and demand’ in the field of theatre. Street theatre engages new, unsuspecting audiences and therefore demands a different kind of theatre. Outdoor performing art as a form of adult education can take theatre to cultural cold spots trigger the imagination for social change and empower the community. In most European countries rural. communites have little cultural provision. We see street theatre as an innovative chance to solve this problem. RIOTE, at the end of the first year has two video documentation about the workshops, three performances and two research study dossiers. The outcomes are all available on the partners’ websites. The implementation of outdoor theatre competences and teaching methodology was tested in cultural cold spots: Kide (Romania) or Dunaszekcső (Hungary) this summer. One of the main concepts of the partnerships was “barter” by which we mean a cultural exchange between professional artists and local people who offer their folk songs, local history or other particular skills in exchange. This took place in Dunaszekcső where local inhabitants hosted the performance of Soltis as well as in Transylvania in the village of Bonchida where the local community performed in exchange for the performance of Shoshin Theatre Association. The main prospective of the project RIOTE is on one hand the fallowing project RIOTE 2 (starting on the 1st of November 2017) on the other hand is the concept of network building using the reference of the English Rural Touring Network model. The Transylvanian tour involved 5 villages (Kide, Búza, Bonchida, Válaszút, Szék) what was already a littel rural tour kinde of a prototype of a Rural Tournig Network in a region of Transylvania (Mezőség). The coordinator association Control has done an important work to document the project by a short movies and photographs: http://www.controlstudio.hu/new/riote/video/