Rural Inclusive Outdoor Theatre Education; Street theatre education methodology and network cooperation model in rural environment. RIOTE is an exchange in between European theatre-educational organizations. Teatro Tascabile di Bergamo (Italy) Kud Ljud (Slovenia), Soltis Lajos Theatre (Hungary), Control Film Studio Association (Hungary; coordinator), Shoshin Theatre Association (Romania), Broken Spectacles/Dartington Arts (UK). The Project RIOTE was supported by Erasmus + Lifelong Learning Program for adult education selected by the Hungarian Agency called Tempus Public Foundation, for 12 months: from 1st of September 2016 until 31st of August 2017.The cooperation of the six partners was a preparation for a second project called RIOTE 2, starting from 1 st of November 2017 until the 31 st of August 2019, which will create professional written and naudiovisual teaching materials for outdoor theatre and cultural management in rural settings for 2019.The RIOTE 1 was a knowledge and skills exchange between the six performing arts organisations: one week long workshop in December 2016, held by Teatro Tascabile di Bergamo, and a second one week long workshop in April 2017, held by Kud Ljud in Ljubljana. Those two workshops where the main pillars of the exchange process, where the theatre expert /adult educators were able to develop their teaching methodology. Whilst the partners had five two days long organizational meetings, once in every partner country to further their research into the possibilities of outdoor theatre in rural Settings. An important aim was to understand the English model of the rural touring network to create sustainability in theatre. We observed practices and in long term we will implement the model of the rural touring network in our partner countries especially in Hungary and in Romania through RIOTE 2.Outdoor theatre has a great potential to reach our target group (who?). There is no institution in Europe (There is in Fai-ar in marseille) leading street theatre studies. It is, as an artistic activity and adult education, mainly sustained by non-institutional groups. Street theatre involves a new mass of public, proposing a new model of ’supply and demand’ in the field of theatre. Street theatre engages new, unsuspecting audiences and therefore demands a different kind of theatre.Outdoor performing art as a form of adult education can take theatre to cultural cold spots trigger the imagination for social change and empower the community. In most European countries rural. communites have little cultural provision. We see street theatre as an innovative chance to solve this problem.RIOTE, at the end of the first year has two video documentation about the workshops, three performances and two research study dossiers. The outcomes are all available on the partners’ websites.The implementation of outdoor theatre competences and teaching methodology was tested in cultural cold spots: Kide (Romania) or Dunaszekcső (Hungary) this summer. One of the main concepts of the partnerships was “barter” by which we mean a cultural exchange between professional artists and local people who offer their folk songs, local history or other particular skills in exchange. This took place in Dunaszekcső where local inhabitants hosted the performance of Soltis as well as in Transylvania in the village of Bonchida where the local community performed in exchange for the performance of Shoshin Theatre Association.The main prospective of the project RIOTE is on one hand the fallowing project RIOTE 2 (starting on the 1st of November 2017) on the other hand is the concept of network building using the reference of the English Rural Touring Network model. The Transylvanian tour involved 5 villages (Kide, Búza, Bonchida, Válaszút, Szék) what was already a littel rural tour kinde of a prototype of a Rural Tournig Network in a region of Transylvania (Mezőség).The coordinator association Control has done an important work to document the project by a short movies and photographs:http://www.controlstudio.hu/new/riote/video/

"The present project called ""Rural Inclusive Outdoor Theatre Education 2"" (RIOTE 2) ended in 31th August 2019 after 22 months of project time. The partnership members were: Teatro Tascabile di Bergamo (Italy) Kud Ljud (Slovenia), SpecStreet Association (Hungary), Control Film Studio Association (Hungary; coordinator), Shoshin Theatre Association (Romania), Dartington (UK), and Take Art Limited (UK). The project RIOTE 2 came from a previous project, called RIOTE what was 12 months and started in September 2016. Both projects were based on a knowledge and skills exchange between performing arts- organisations, which provide adult education through outdoor theatre, physical theatre or other cultural and adult educational practices in rural settlements. The project is at the same was trying to answer for the fallowing question: 'How do we develop the reach of our adult educational activity, as arts organisation, so that we can connect with more of our target group?' The project, RIOTE 2 used the experiences and outcomes of the previous project and developed them to produce three intellectual outputs 1. a Practical guide for outdoor theatre; 2. a Rural touring handbook; 3. a Film of outdoor theatre in rural environment. They were presented in each partner country within the frame of multiplier events. One of the new partners comparing to the RIOTE project were Take Art Limited, which is a National Portfolio Organization in the UK. Take Art supported the partnership from the aspect of promotion of outdoor theatre in rural arias. Take Art was the lead in the research about theatre management in rural environment producing a handbook, as a resource of this competence receiving the support of the South-West Rural Touring Network Federation. The other new partner was SpecStreet from Hungary, an organization which greatly combines outdoor Commedia dell'Arte theatre techniques with adult education in geographically disadvantaged specially segregated locations, like their rural touring network in Borsod County in which frame also the Gipsystan Festival is organized. 1. The partnership exchanged outdoor theatre education methods through eight joint staff trainings, where each served the aim of exchange, implementation and dissemination and in the same time the creation of the common outputs. Their aim was to implement their knowledge and to create the handbooks and new methodology which has an innovative relevance on European level. The project's main idea is that outdoor performing experiences and educational methods could offer an extraordinary support for theatre activities in rural areas was tested by three outdoor performances (as project outcomes: ""The Feast"", ""The Black Bull"", ""The Confernece of Birds"") created by the partnership members and supported by their ideas and advices. Outdoor performing adult education can revitalize culture in socially marginalized environments with proposing: dialogue approach; critical sociology by revealing social problems; interactive cultural exchange; collective education; development of multiple intelligence; trigger the visualization of social change; empowerment of the community; strong pedagogical aspect; collaborative process.The implementation of the outdoor theatre competences and teaching methodology was tested in villages and in cities such as Bonchida, Torockó, Cluj-Napoca, Satumare, Oradea, Vlaha (Romania) and in Dunaszekcső, Zsámbék, Bermend, Zugló (Budapest), Homorogd, Kázsmárk (Hungary). In the cases of Vlaha/Fenes and Dunaszekcső, Kázsmárk and Homorogd the partnership realized the so called ""barters"" by this we mean a cultural exchange between professional artists and local people who offer their own folk songs, local history, or other unique skills. 2. The other aim was to understand the English model of the rural touring network and we started to implement their model of rural touring network in Hungary and in Romania. This is one of the element what made for us a sustainable project with a lasting impact. The English partner, Take Art had a leader role in this area of research and Italian and Slovenian partners contributed to the outcome greatly with their long history of outdoor touring. This was offered to Hungarian and Romanian partners to help them establish a network in their own locality. Shoshin, Control and SpecStreet had a lead role in preparing a professional background of a similar network.The project was presented in seven multiplier events at least once in every partner country, for details please visit the relevant page on our website: https://riote.org/multiplier-events/ The national networks are growing with the intention to meet in a long-term prospective creating the European Rural Touring Network. This prospective intends sustain in long term the outputs of the project giving space within also to outdoor theatre practices.The project's history and results please see on our website: www.riote.org"

"The present project, called ""Rural Inclusive Outdoor Theatre Education 3"" (RIOTE 3) was born out of a previous ""innovative large scale"" project (RIOTE 2). www.riote.org The RIOTE 3 project aim is to develop three innovative intellectual outputs based on knowledge and skills exchange between performing arts organizations, dealing with adult education through outdoor theatre, physical theatre or other adult educational practices in rural settlements. The project is at the same time, based on the research question: 'As performing arts organizations, how can we develop our adult educational activity, so we can reach more of our target groups?'The three intellectual outputs:1.A life quality measurement toolkit for those adult educators who want to implement technology based feedback in their work with groups and individuals. This is a toolkit what will answer for the need: how can we measure the impact of a theatre activity, performance or training? This impact measurement toolkit will be useful for adult educators but also for complex systems, like the Rural Touring Scheme, which does regular impact measurement with questionnaires.2.A handbook guide to create rural touring center as we call in the project the Eco-polys model, what will function as a rural touring center serving a local network existing as an adult education reference point in European networking systems. 3.A practical guide for participatory theatre in remote villages, specially with elderly people, about the theme of a local myth re-discovering the collective narratives and memories transforming into a performance outdoor, so that the natural environment will take part of the scenery, increasing environmental consciousness.Outdoor performing adult education can revitalize culture in socially marginalized environments with proposing: dialog approach, critical thinking by revealing social problems, trigger the visualization of social change, interactive cultural exchange, empowerment of the community, collective education, development of multiple intelligence, strong pedagogical aspect and collaborative process.The national networks are supposed to meet on a long-term prospective, creating the European Rural Touring Network that sustains the impact and the outputs of the project.Planned work with the target group:The eight partners will work parallel in their own villages: Bingenheim (Germany), Méra (Romania), Kázsmárk (Hungary), South Peterton (UK), Pontelagoscuro (Italy), Ravne na Koroškem (Slovenia), Máriagyűd (Hungary). One theatre group will be formed in each village with approximately 10-20 participants, through (at least a weekly) regular training process, what will be leaded by one or two mentors of the partner organization in the relevant country. The 30% of the amateur theatre group should be older than 60 years old, since one of our main aims is to foster inter-generational dialogue.The climax of the working process will be the international Joint Staff Training of the host country, when the relevant partner will show its work with the target community to the project partners. (This can be different in those cases who are hosting JST in an early period of the project they will hold their performances in the end, during their Multiplier Events).The theme: should be a local myth of the village, a story, an intangible local heritage what can be re-discovered and transformed into a narrative what is connected to the memory or to the collective consciousness of the community. The length of this work can vary, the partner has to plan it according to its conditions, but it should not be shorter than two months (or 14 appointments with the community) ending with a performance.The mentors will participate alternately during the eight international joint staff training, where they will learn new methods to implement it in their village-groups. One of these methods is the application of Polar test, measuring life quality through analyzing Heart Rate Variability (HRV), what will be applied consequently also for the target community to measure group-members life quality at the beginning of the project and later at the end of their creative working process, for three-three days, before during and after the theatre sessions/rehearsals.At end of the project the coordinator will create a final performance using every eight mythological narratives for a final European Anthropological Street Theatre performance."