Europeana

Ibsen Scholarship winner 2017.

Europeana premiered at the National Opera in Athens, Greece on September 26 this year.

At a kindergarten in the centre of a typical Western city, adults and teenagers from various communities meet with a super-hero. Out of this surrealistic meeting the outline of a dark paradise is created, in which teenagers are free to map a new age. Linked to Henrik Ibsen’s Little Eyolf, Europeana describes young people’s expectations to explore an “unmapped Eden”. An original work dedicated to the young generation.

For the Ibsen Awarda Festival, Europeana will be presented as a lecture performance together with students from Skien Videregående Skole:
Europeana is a community music theater play. It is composed by the osmosis and the human experience of 250 teenagers sharing how they imagine themselves in the future. Teenagers from Syria, Afganistan, Norway, Greece, England and Bulgaria are creating new social structures aiming for a radical change. Their voices will be raised loudly singing their dreams while creating on spot a day dreaming platform with the audience.

Photo by A. Simopoylos

Rafika Chawishe is an awarded actress and director. Her mother is Greek and her Father is English-Syrian. She is currently developing her first feature film produced by Enaguas Cine in Mexico, based on the army invasion of UNAM in 1968. Rafika Chawishe was also recently selected to participate and exhibit her work in Teatro Venice Biennale 2017 at the Biennale College. In 2017 she was also selected by the NEON foundation to commission her new media installation performance as a ground breaking idea. Rafika has collaborated with stage companies such as the National Theater of Greece, The Athens Festival, the Athens Bienniale, the Gielgud Theater (West End)n and more. She has also debuted behind the camera, directing three short films. The films have screened in various film festivals around the world (Seoul International FF, Palm Springs Short Fest, Cannes International FF/Short film Corner, Locarno FF). She has been working as a theater-maker in the political and documentary theater in Greece. In 2014, she created Zlap Collective.

Students from Skien videregående skole

Students from Skien videregående skole participating in Europeana:
Leo Gordillo-Skotheim, Sara Shefali Homane, Frøya Michelsen Høydalen, Ester Elise Kittilsen, Lydia Diana Kok, Live Straume Kristoffersen, Silje Øksland Krohne, Eline Larsen and Aurora Gozzi Tobiassen.

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