In March 2017 Farm in the Cave prepared a 4-days micro-event of community and social theatre, dealing with the topic of seniors in contemporary Czech society. Selected group of seniors were involved as performers and artistic collaborators into the event and their creations presented to the public.
CARAVAN NEXT, project that Farm in Cave takes part in, is a large-scale Social Community Theatre collaborative project connecting professional artists with communities and local citizens in a network of theatre organisations and cultural institutions all over Europe.
Senior citizens, non-actors have co-created the performance Together Forever! working closely with company members and performers Hana Varadzinová and Eliška Vavříková and they all perform together as well.
The idea of involving Prague seniors, with no previous experience of creating physical theatre on a professional level, led to the creation of a unique community in which the generation gap and disdain that old people in the twilight of their lives frequently experience, disappeared. So, at least within the scope of this project, we have created a model of discrimination-free coexistence that is rare in today’s society.
The micro-event Night in the City and other activities are carried out in co-operation with the Elpida Center and with high school students.
About Caravan Next:
From September 2015 till February 2019 local citizens in min. 75 European locations will meet in theatre - and culture activities to reflect both artistically and socially upon the European challenges of the third millennium.
The result will be more than hundred performances and an endless number of new social relations created in a European network in the frame of social community theatre. The project is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. Read more about Caravan Next on www.caravanext.eu.
"The European Commision´s support for this project does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the project creators, and the Commision cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein."
