Home Sweet Home
Upstart Theatre in London had the pleasure of working with Fairbeats Music, Action for Refugees in Lewisham, Refugee Action Kingston and Love to Learn Homework Club on a song writing project […]
Workshops
Being European
I don’t really remember when I first started to feel European. Was it the first time I caught the Eurostar to Paris with my parents, when I remember going up […]
Encounters // Model Workshop #3
Michael Sommer, Artistic Director of the German Part of Phone Home, continues the series on best practice in intercultural theatre workshops. [Workshop conducted with fifteen children and adolescents from East […]
Feelings mashup
Comfortable – around people I’ve only met a few months and basically know just a few things about. Appreciative – for all those little things that we’ve chosen to so […]
Hey, du bist ein cooler Typ…
Working in an initial reception centre in Rheinland-Pfalz. By Barbara Frazier, Kusel, February, 13th 2016. There are fifteen children in my group, the youngest of which are barely six years […]
Live Streaming – what we’ve learned so far
A few weeks ago, Upstart live streamed Zodwa Nyoni’s play Nine Lives from the Arcola Theatre in London. It was the first time we’d done anything quite like this, so a really useful […]
“Home is strong like a lion”
A guest post from Catherine Carter, one of the founders of music charity Fairbeats!, who’s working with Upstart in London to create music inspired by Phone Home. We’re well under way […]
Baggage // Model Workshop #2
Michael Sommer, Artistic Director of the German part of PHONE HOME, continues his series on best practice models in intercultural theatre workshops. VOLUME #2 – BAGGAGE [Workshop conducted by Ramadan […]
Love and Other Demons
[read in Greek / Διαβάστε αυτό το άρθρο στα ελληνικά] Our latest Phone Home workshop in Athens happened to coincide with Valentine’s Day. Not one to give too much meaning into […]
Περί Έρωτος και Άλλων Δαιμονίων
[read this post in English] Το πρόσφατο Θεατρικό Εργαστήρι του Phone Home στην Αθήνα έτυχε να συμπέσει με την ημέρα του Αγίου Βαλεντίνου. Δεν είμαι από εκείνους που δίνουν ιδιαίτερη […]
Perception and Trust
Theatre Exercises for Intercultural Workshops By Andreas Bachmair, Amsterdam, 29th January 2016 The following exercises are ideas for building an intercultural theatre workshops like the ones taking place in the […]
Phone Home Athens Workshop 15
Date: 14/2/2016 Location: Synergy-o Participants: 6 plus 2 Instructors Countries of origin: Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, France, Australia, Greece Preparation Inspired by the fact that is was Valentine’s Day, the group […]
Write to Life Workshop 1
Tom and I ran a writing workshop for the Write to Life group at Freedom From Torture on the 3rd February. The main aim of the workshop was to write […]
Phone Home Athens Workshop 10
Date: 10/1/2016 Location: Synergy-o Participants: 5 plus 2 Instructors Countries of origin: Pakistan, Bangladesh, France, Australia, Greece Today, our theme was playing with silence. Warm up – Hug it out: […]
Phone Home Athens Workshops 8
Date: 17/12/2015 Location: STEKI Participants: 6 plus 1 Instructor Countries of origin: Pakistan, Afghanistan, France, Belgium, Morocco, Syria, Greece Warm up – In couples: we try walking around the room […]
Phone Home Athens Workshop 7
Date: 14/12/2015 Location: Synergy-o Participants: 11 plus 3 Instructors Countries of origin: Pakistan, Afghanistan, France, Syria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Australia, Greece Warm up – Massage each other standing in the middle […]
Welcome // Model Workshop #1
Michael Sommer, Artistic Director of the German Part of Phone Home, starts a series on best practice in intercultural theatre workshops. Theatre, as everybody knows, is about communication. In the end, […]
Phone Home Athens Workshop 5
Date: 7/12/2015 Location: Synergy-o Participants: 5 plus 3 Instructors Countries of origin: France, Syria, Australia, Greece Warm up – Massage each other standing in the middle of the group – […]
Pebbles // About our workshops
Michael Sommer, Artistic Director of the German Part of Phone Home, writes about the general purpose of the PHONE HOME WORKSHOPS. [read in Greek] I’m a big fan of pebbles, […]
Phone Home Athens Workshop 4
Date: 30/11/2015 Location: Synergy-o Participants: 18 plus 3 Instructors Countries of origin: Bagladesh, Afghanistan, Pakistan, France, Syria, Iran, Egypt, Morocco, Australia, Greece Warm up – Roll your fingers on your […]
Phone Home Athens Workshop 3
Date: 26/11/2015 Location: STEKI Participants: 20 plus 3 Instructors Countries of origin: Bagladesh, Afghanistan, Pakistan, France, Syria, Persia, Egypt, Morocco, Greece Brief introduction In a circle, everyone introduces themselves, saying […]
Phone Home Athens Workshop 2
Date: 23/11/2015 Location: Synergy-o Participants: 20 plus 3 Instructors Countries of origin: Iran, France, Slovenia, Greece Exercises A – Walking around the room A: we try to stop altogether – […]
Phone Home Athens Workshop 1
Date: 16/11/2015 Location: Synergy-o Participants: 9 plus 5 Instructors Countries of origin: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Syria, Pakistan, Persia, France, Slovenia, Greece Brief introduction – In a circle, everyone introduces themselves, saying […]
The key is laughter
by Nora Schüssler What happens to your body when you laugh? Your chest muscles and diaphragm contract, sending air out of your lungs in a whoosh that vibrates your larynx. If […]
Language Barriers
by Michael Sommer I’m a wordy kind of person. Not in the sense that I talk too much (I hope), but in the sense that when it comes to theatre, […]
Leaving Traces
by Michael Sommer, Pathos Theatre, Munich