Part of the Creative Europe Programme Intimate Bridges, Entropia Theatre's participatory workshops How A Place Becomes A Person with participants from migrant and non-migrant communities explore the projection of personal stories to a particular place, and the connection between the subjective point of view and the collective notion of history. In the workshops we meet and become fellow investigators of sounds, movement, images, testimonies and personal accounts at the transit place where people and their stories intersect, tracing incomplete maps of territories marked by loss, daily struggles and hope.
The workshops How A Place becomes A Person brought together 40 migrant and non-migrant adults currently residing in Athens, aged between 18 and 69, from 10 countries in an attempt to genuinely connect to each other within an intimate space for exchanges, memory transfer and creativity.
Between 8th February and 7th March, 4 workshop meetings happened. Due to the physical nature of the work, the workshops were interrupted in order to keep the team members safe from COVID-19, but 2 online meetings were made during the lockdown as 1 live meeting after the end of the quarantine. Workshops will start again in the fall and will result in a performance which is now rescheduled to open on 26th February 2021. The international conference on Participatory Performing Arts is now planned for 17-19 March 2021.
The participants become the “guides” in the workshops who can share their experiences and visions of their territory, be it their place of origin, dwelling or the one they’re heading to.
Polena Kolia -sometimes in co-facilitation with Etropia Theatre's Director Marilli Mastrantoni- facilitated the weekly participatory workshops focusing on movement creation through improvisation tasks aiming for the creation of the final performance of the project.