International network
for contemporary
performing arts

Réseau international
pour les arts du spectacle
contemporains

Rete internazionale
per le arti performative
contemporanee

コンテンポラリー
パフォーミングアーツ
国際ネットワーク

Internationales Netzwerk
für zeitgenössische
darstellende Künste

Международная сеть современного 
исполнительского 
искусства

Red internacional
para las artes escénicas
contemporáneas

Internationaal netwerk
voor hedendaagse
podiumkunsten

თანამედროვე საშემსრულებლო
ხელოვნების
საერთაშორისო ქსელი

Rede internacional
para as artes performativas
contemporâneas

الشبكة الدولية
لفنون الأداء
المعاصرة

Alþjóðlegt
tengslanet
í sviðslistum

Xarxa internacional
d'arts escèniques
contemporànies

Rhwydwaith rhyngwladol
ar gyfer celfyddydau
perfformio cyfoes

Rrjeti ndërkombëtar
për artet skenike
kontemporane

Διεθνές δίκτυο
για σύγχρονες
παραστατικές τέχνες

Međunarodna mreža 
za savremene 
scenske umjetnosti

Mezinárodní síť 
pro současné 
divadelní umění

International netværk
for kontemporær
scenekunst

Internasionale netwerk
vir kontemporêre
uitvoerende kunste

თანამედროვე საშემსრულებლო
ხელოვნების
საერთაშორისო ქსელი

Nemzetközi hálózat
a kortárs
előadóművészetért

國際當代表演藝術網絡

líonra idirnáisiúnta
na taibhealaíona
comhaimseartha

Starptautiskais tīkls
laikmetīgai
skatuves mākslai

Netwerk internazzjonali
għall-arti performattivi
kontemporanji

Międzynarodowa sieć
na rzecz współczesnych sztuk
performatywnych

Internationellt nätverk
för samtida
scenkonst

Međunarodna mreža
savremenih izvođačkih
umetnosti

Международна мрежа
за съвременни
сценични изкуства

Rrjet ndërkombëtar
për arte skenike
bashkëkohore

Міжнародная сетка
сучасных
перфарматыўных мастацтваў

Međunarodna mreža
za suvremene
izvedbene umjetnosti

国际当代表演艺术网络

Rahvusvaheline
kaasaegsete etenduskunstide
võrgustik

현대 공연 예술을 위한 국제 네트워크

Tarptautinis tinklas
šiuolaikinis
scenos menai

Интернационална мрежа
за современа
изведувачка уметност

شبکۀ بین المللی
برای هنرهای نمایشی معاصر

Rețeaua internațională
pentru artele spectacolului
contemporan

Medzinárodná sieť
pre súčasné
scénické umenie

Çağdaş
gösteri sanatları için
uluslararası iletişim ağı

The Syrian Monologues

The Syrian Monologues is an international solidarity call for artists living in countries where Syrian refugees are fleeing to. The project aims at raising the voices of Syrian refugees, sharing their stories of agony and displacement, sharing their dreams for safety and for integration until they return to their home countries. 

We appeal to artists - especially those working in theatre and for change - in order to:

  • Work with the refugees who arrive in their country,
  • Make theatre workshops with different age groups,
  • Encourage the refugees to tell their stories,
  • Collect these stories and translate them into the language of the respective country,
  • Form the collected stories into monologues that their authors could tell publicly in a form of a stage reading, a performance, a radio drama or a dramatic play,
  • Perform these monologues collectively at the time internationally coordinated for the project,
  • Train the participants to perform their stories and if they are not able, find actors for the performances, and
  • Collect some of the monologues and their authors in order to participate in performances at the European Parliament in Brussels and the United Nations Office in Geneva.The project will start as soon as the artists are able to reach out to refugees. ASHTAR suggests the beginning of January 2016 as a starting point. The realisation of the work with refugees is expected to take 6 months in each country.

On the World Refugee Day, June 20, 2016, we will all simultaneously perform the monologues gathered with the refugees in each country. Artists could then continue to perform after that set date according to their own time table. On December 20, 2016, the International Solidarity Day, we will target the UN office in Geneva to perform chosen monologues from various countries.

Find out more

 

Source: Ashtar Theatre