The Erasmus+ Project “CIRCLE-T :Circular Theatre – Youth Led Design for Sustainability in Theatre ” aims to integrate sustainable practices and green skills into youth theatre and early career theatre design, fostering environmental awareness and sustainable methodologies within the performing arts sector.
As climate change and environmental sustainability become pressing global challenges, the CIRCLE-T project seeks to address these issues by modernizing theatre-making training and promoting the principles of a circular economy—Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. By equipping young theatre-makers with green skills and creating networks between youth theatres and professional theatre-makers, the project promotes innovation and long-term sustainable practices in theatre design.
Key Objectives:
- Implement green skills into youth theatre.
- Integrate circular economy methodologies into theatre design.
- Create networks and partnerships between youth theatres and professional theatre-makers at local and European levels.
- Modernize training in theatre-making.
- Use gamified learning approaches to overcome barriers to participation.
Project Results:
The project will achieve the following outputs:
- CIRCLE-T Methodological Guide: This methodological guide will provide practical and educational support to integrate circular economy principles in theatre design
- CIRCLE-T Game: The CIRCLE-T game will act as an interactive, non-formal educational tool. The game aims to strengthen the skills of Youth Theatre practitioners, theatre-makers, drama facilitators, Youth Theatre members, and participating organizations’ staff members.
- CIRCLE-T Training Guide: CIRCLE-T Training Guide Programme, will provide youth theatre leaders / theatre & performing arts professionals with a set of skills on how to implement the CIRCLE-T Methodology.
- CIRCLE-T Script and Performance: Youth theatres in each partner country, supported by professional playwrights, will develop scripts that incorporate the CIRCLE-T Methodology. These scripts will be performed in all partner countries, showcasing sustainable practices in theatre and reaching wider audiences during multiplier events and the final conference.
- CIRCLE-T Know-How Toolkit: This output will create and foster networks of communication and partnership by creating guidelines on how to create Green Youth Theatre Networks but also will modernise theatre-making training and create alternative solutions in the theatre-making process by giving stakeholders clear guidelines on how to best implement the CIRCLE-T Methodology in their own practices
Participating Organizations:
Coordinator:
The Gaiety School of Acting (Ireland)
Partners:
This project has been co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.