Report networking get-together „Treffen mit Aussicht!“ (meeting with a bright view) meets and treats!
Report: Zelda (14) and Marie (13)
On the 14th of June 2024, in one of the rooms of the JES we organized a meeting of multiple youth theatre clubs and advisory board of theatres from multiple places in Baden-Württemberg. This get together was initiated to give young people the opportunity to share their experiences being a part of their theatres, and how to give teenagers and kids a bigger voice and rights to co-decide in their own theatre.
When all the representatives arrived in the JES, we first did a warmup where everyone introduced themselves and their theatre and then played some games like the “morph circle” and other theatre-club type games to ease the tension and get to know each other a bit.
After that we got to the main point of the meetup, where we gathered around in separate places of the room to discuss following questions:
– How can we have a say in our theatre?
– What annoys us at our theatre/ What really has to change now?
– What goes well? What are we content with?
– How do we work together in our theatre?
– What things do we like to do in our youth advisory board?
– and a free spot where you could talk about whatever you wanted
We rotated around the room to make sure everyone had a chance to share their thoughts on every question. To recollect our results, we all decided to make a big collage of what we think our utopian theatre would be.
Our goal was to share our skills and experience with other teenagers, and that everyone could walk out with something learnt they want to get through in their own theatre. We as the JES Philosophers think this was archived well, as we learned quite something ourselves.
We had even more options to continue our discussions as the networking-guests as they stayed in Stuttgart for a night and watched three pieces with us after our meeting and the next day. We had multiple opportunities to share our views in small groups and while eating dinner. This was incredibly inspiring as none of us usually have a lot of contact with other advisory boards.