Category: topics
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Video: Kitchen table at Heddadagene 2025
What do young people think about performing arts criticism? How did it feel to step into the public sphere as a critic — and how did they go about finding their own voice?
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Fieldwork: Rethinking the format
From courses to co-creation.
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Video: Artistic Co-Creation, Theatre as a Space for Ethical and Collective Inquiry
This fieldwork strand investigated artistic co-creation as a third place, focusing on how collective artistic processes can support reflection, belonging and critical thinking among young adults.
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Fieldwork: Using Youth Dialogue as Artistic Research
The production Metamorphosis (13+) at Drak Theatre was developed as part of the 3Place project through a process that deliberately integrated dialogue with young people as a form of artistic research. Rather than treating youth feedback as an add-on or evaluation tool, the creative team positioned it as a central element in shaping both the concept and…
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Fieldwork: Audiowalk “Hallo! Can you hear me?”: Extending Theatre into the City
the audiowalk Hallo! Can you hear me? was developed as an exploration of how theatre for young audiences can move beyond the theatre building and into the city itself.
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Fieldwork: Theatre as experience, question and choice
The Sophomore Project offers second-year high school students a structured pathway into theatre over the course of an entire school year.
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Digital Workshop #9: Merging digital and physical experience
Rather than scheduled meetings, the workshop unfolded over several days, with participants contributing during walks, city exploration and shared activities
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Podcast: Kloden Theatre – on building, history, and what’s next
Artistic Director Ådne Sekkelsten of Kloden Theatre in conversation with Espen Røiseland, founding partner and architect at Transborder Studios.
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Camp Physical: Performing Arts as a Third Place in the City
Camp Physical was the third and final international camp in the Creative Europe project 3Place – Performing arts as the Third Place for the young audience.
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Fieldwork: Summer Theatre Camps, Theatre as a speedrun
Drak Theatre’s summer theatre camps evolved during the 3Place project from leisure-oriented activities into intensive artistic laboratories for teenagers.
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Fieldwork: DRAK+: Building a Platform
DRAK+ emerged as a response to a growing community of teenagers who wanted to engage with theatre not only as spectators, but as active participants.
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Digital Workshop #8: Transformation as Artistic Practice
The workshop was directly connected to DRAK’s development of a new production inspired by Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis and involved 13 participants.
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Digital Workshop #7: Exploring Urban Gaps as Potential Third Places
How can overlooked or underused spaces in our cities become places for young people to gather, create and belong?
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Video: Kuben Media students: what are third places?
Spring 2025, the media class at Kuben high school made several video podcasts discussing third places, and how they were important to them.
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Fieldwork: The need for space
17-year-old Theodor, William, and Dominic, students at Kuben Upper Secondary School, recently completed a placement at Scenekunstbruket and Kloden Teater. During their time there, they worked extensively on creating films and interviews about upcoming performing arts productions. They also attended three different theater performances at three different venues in Oslo.
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Digital Workshop #6: A Shared Space for Reflection, Creativity and Future Thinking
How can digital formats support young people’s engagement in theatre across borders?
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Video: Camp Artistic at Drak
How can performing arts function as a real third place for young people – a space for belonging, exploration and shared experience across languages and national contexts?
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Digital Workshop #5: Antigone, Myth and Contemporary Identity
This was designed as a preparatory workshop for the production Antigone, which participants were to see later during Camp Artistic.
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Podcast: Into the Theatre
In our latest 3place podcast episode, Seda Witt and Ingeborg Larsen share their experiences from Into the Performance. How can play and performing arts methodologies transform theatre into a shared third space for children?
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Fieldwork: New views and development of existing practices
DRAK has established the Kitchen table conversations into a continuous practice
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Fieldwork: Fancy Friday goes 3Place
At the start of 2024, the youth-focused open space initiative “Fancy Friday” at JES Stuttgart entered a new phase with 3Place.
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Fieldwork: Networking get-together „Treffen mit Aussicht!“
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…
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Fieldwork: Kitchen table at Heddadagene
Within the framework of 3Place, Unge Stemmer serves as a concrete example of how young people can actively shape artistic conversations and contribute to more inclusive, participatory cultural spaces.
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Festival visit: Meet us at Schöne Aussicht
Every other year our German partner JES Stuttgart hosts their wonderful festival; Schöne Aussicht. And this year, all the partners are here.
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Digital Workshop #4: Imagining the theatre as a third place
Focus and rationale One of the goals of Scenekunstbruket’s workshops is to carry out international research on the theatre house as a physical space and place. In this workshop, we chose to focus on the Third Place – Physical theme, which was particularly relevant at the time, as Kloden theatre was in the middle of its architectural…
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#3 digital workshop: Non-rational Inspiration and Spontaneous Creation
The workshop focused on artistic creation driven by non-rational sources such as intuition, chance and spontaneity.
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Video: Live stream
If you’re not in Oslo this coming Wednesday, you can still listen to the talk at Showbox Performing Arts Festival for a Young Audience with the partners.
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We got a podcast!
Did you know we have a podcast? We do!
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Fieldwork: 3Place goes west coast
This week the theatre festival in Fjaler, Norway will get a visit from 3Place.
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Video: Camp Involve– what is your 3rd place?
Last day of Camp involve at Junges Ensemble Stuttgart. After 4 days of workshops Mikkel Huth talks to the other participants from Junges Ensemble Stuttgart in Germany and Divadlo Drak in Czechia.
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Camp Involve: Stuttgart
In early May, we all met in Stuttgart at Camp Involve, hosted by JES Stuttgart. Teenagers and partners from all three countries spent three hectic, fun, loving and inspiring days together.
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First digital workshop
How can performing arts become a meaningful third place for young audiences across Europe? On 22 March 2023, Digital Camp #1 brought together 19 participants from Oslo, Stuttgart and Hradec Králové to kickstart the 3Place collaboration — establishing connections, sharing expectations and laying the groundwork for the project’s first in-person camp.
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Internship in 3Place
Before Easter three students from Kuben vocational School spent a three week internship working with 3Place at Scenekunstbruket and Kloden teater in Norway. They study information technology and media production at Kuben videregående skole and during their stay they’ve investigated the topics of third spaces: What makes you feel safe, where do you choose to…
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Fieldwork: Exploring Social Spaces
At Showbox 2022, lead partner Scenekunstbrtuket’s festival, we had the first activity to launch the 3Place-project, a workshop with theatre professionals, teens and others interested in the subject.
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Fieldwork: The JES-Philosophers at the Augenblick mal! Festival in Berlin
Four days, five different theatres and lots of impressions Report: Timo (15) und Anselm (15) Our journey to the festival started at Stuttgart Central Station, with a lot of delay … But we were in a good mood anyway! After our journey, we were able to watch our first planned play at the Augenblick mal!…