The Erasmus+ project ATHENEA culminated in an autobiographical theater festival in Valencia, showcasing local performances from six countries that addressed themes of vulnerability and social exclusion. The festival featured workshops, film screenings, and discussions with actors from diverse backgrounds, including refugees and trauma survivors, highlighting their transformative experiences. Transnational meetings among project partners focused on future sustainability and preparation for the concluding activities of the project.

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ATENEA has a
performance!
The months of March, April, May, and June were full of
events related to national workshops on Atenea project
methodology, rehearsals, meetings between partners, as well
as with stakeholders, and most importantly national
premieres, starring with partner̕s beneficiary groups.
Autobiographical Theater Festival in Valencia
As our project is coming to an end, the consortium with the
outstanding contribution of Domingo Ferrandis will present all
the local performances in the Autobiographical Theater
Festival in Valencia on 25 & 26 of June.
All the partners will give their local performance in this
festival. 6 countries, 6 stories, 6 pieces, 6 stigmas will be there
to address the vulnerability and to facilitate the resilence to the
audience and to themselves. Consequently, the actors will be
available to talk with audience about their experience through
and other issues that society neglects.
The program will include not only the theatre performances of
each group, but also many extra activities such as film
screenings, workshops, and many others. None of this would
be possible without the collaboration with several associations
Ambit worked with. The main partner of the event will be
Asociación de Vecinas y Vecinos de Natzaret.
Local performances
During this period, the partners were able to produce not only
a local performance but also workshops on methodology in
their local community. The aim of the workshops is to present
the project, talk about the benefits of the Atenea methodology,
the success achieved by partners with their vulnerable groups
and announce the event, interest the public and stakeholders on
issues of social exclusion, their stories, transformation process,
healing, their needs, combating stigma, as well as, the
transformative effect that the project itself had on our users.
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The local performances presented stories about refugee women,
refugees, unemployed, trauma survivors, and ex-inmates.
The dates of performances and workshops
Workshop Spettacolo
AMBIT 29 June 27 Sept. 2021
EMYF 8 March 8 March
KANE 28-29 July 4 June
ENTRI 7 June 30 May
LES CULTURES 16 May 21 May
DRPDNM 20 April 28 April
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AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL THEATRE FICTION AS INNOVATIVE
TOOL TO ADDRESSTHE HUMAN VULNERABILITY
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THE LOCAL PERFORMANCES
PER COUNTRY The Slovenian partner DRPDNM had their
performance on April 28, in Novo Mesto.
The Novo Mesto theater group consists of
people who have experienced several difficult
life hardships and are willing to share their
experiences with the audience. They talk about
traumatic experiences in their life such as
reloaction, health, youth, personal struggles.
They also had their national workshop one
week before their performance, on April 20, in
order to promote the Autobiographical Theater
fiction as innovative tool to address human
vulnerability.
Spanish organization AMBIT and the
theatrical team of Domingo Fernadis talks
about former inmates, stigma created around
people who want to have a normal living
conditions. Their performance will take place
again in the festival of Valencia together with
the last workshop.
Asociación Àmbit - ES
www.associacioambit.org
Drustvo Za Razvijaje
Prostovoljnega Dela Novo
Mesto - SL
www.tedenkultur.com
Social Youth Development
Civil Nonprofit Society – GR
www.ngokane.org
Euro-Med Youth Federation –
GE
www.emyf.eu
Entrepreneurship Institute – LI
https://lt.linkedin.com/company/
verslumo-institutas
Les Cultures – IT
www.lescultures.it
ATENEA PARTNERS
name and cont@ct
The members of consortium also
attended some of the performances.
Specifically, were there at Slovenian
and Lithuanian performances.
We started the spring period with the
performance of the German partner EMYF,
on Women's Day, March 8, they organized a
local performance in Berlin.
The main target group addressed by the play
is formed by women from disadvantaged
neighborhoods, young adult women who
experienced difficult situations in their
families such as unemployment, poverty
and early school leaving.
The local performance "Autobiographical
theater: Refugee Women's Power and
Vulnerability" presented the story of women
refugees from different countries that came
to Europe by boat and faced different
challenges. Morever, their worskshop took
place from Decemebr 2021 to March 2022.

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The name of the Lithuanian play by ENTRI is “When I breathe,
I think of you”: a journey through time that starts at the seaside.
Six different women are united to fight their inner demons and
social stigmas to seek a self-acceptance foothold in society.
They tell their unique and at the same time similar experiences
of childhood, youth, and current moment through physical
performance and sounds.
The Italian performance "Frammenti e futuro" (Fragments and
future) by Les Cultures talks about a group of people who arrived
in Italy in different circumstances and tell their experiences,
dreams, and hopes for the future.
Les Cultures also had their workshop on May 16, in order to
prepeare better their beneficiaries and to promote the methodology
of Domingo Ferrandis.
The Greek performance by K.A.NE. was based on the experiences
of four women and two men.On "The Puzzle", six different stories
intertwined with each other somewhere in a bar in Greece of 2022.
Unemployment gets married with personal and social
implications.
Their national workshop is scheduled for on 28 & 29 of July, where
it is going to be presented on people from rhe local festival that also
fights again discrimination, racism and exclusion.

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Transnational Project Meetings
In this period we also held two TPM meetings, one in
Slovenia on 29th of April, the other one in Vilnius, on
31th of May.
As agreed, the TPMs took place in Novo Mesto (Slovenia) on
April 28-29, and in Vilnius (Lithuania) on May 30-31. In this way
the consortium had the opportunity to attend local performances
by Lithuanian and Slovenian groups.
The partners talked about the project actions, the future steps and
the preparation of the Autobiographical Theater Festival to be held
on 25-26 June in Valencia, Spain. There was also talk of local
shows that had already taken place at the time of the meeting.
Project Website
https://ateneaprojectteam.wixsite.com/
Facebook page
@AteneaErasmusproject
Instagram page
atenea_project
ATENEA Project Coordinator
Associació Àmbit
https://associacioambit.org/
The latest Transnational Project Meeting
The latest LTTA, originally scheduled for Berlin, will be held in
Valencia from 24 to 28 June.
This activity will include the Autobiographical Theater Festival
but also extra activities in which the beneficiaries will conclude
what has been a 2-year journey of self-discovery. The LTTA,
therefore, will serve as a final meeting in which Domingo Ferrandis
will be able to lead the final phase of the Autobiographical Theater
methodology. The last project meeting will be included in the
LTTA and will be held on 27 and 28 June. Here the consortium
representatives will meet to organize the final stages of the project
and to discuss ways to make the activities sustainable after the end
of European funding (agreements with partner organizations,
exploitation of results, etc.).
For the beneficiaries and coordinators of the project, the final
meeting in Valencia will be the icing on the cake, a last chance to
meet and end this journey in the same city where it started.
For all the news and updates on ATENEA, its autobiographical
theater festival and the final LTTA, visit the project website and
social media channels.
Transnational Project Meetings