The fund “Sukhumi” held a meeting with the journalists. Kutaisi media sources received information about 16 day campaign against violence and about planned activities. Radio and TV aired information regarding this event.
In the evening on the initiative of TV Company “Rioni” there was aired a discussion on the topic of campaign, which was attended by the member of Sakrebulo, psychologist, lawyer, representatives of the fund “Sukhumi”. There was announced the main message addressed to each member of society: “Feel Responsibility – Stop Violence”!
The forum - theater has an unusual period now - it has temporarily lost its audience, but it has moved to the social network and even more people see its activity.
The forum - theater joined the campaign of "16 active days against violence towards the women." The Facebook page of the Fund “Sukhumi” presents: videos on the topic of domestic violence and the covid pandemic, chronicles of three generations of theater, photo collage of shadow - theater, five-minutes of poetry ......
Before meeting the audience directly, the forum theater is active on the Internet ...
In October, forum-theater is actively working on new performances, rehearsals and dialogues are being prepared. This process also includes a group of volunteers.
Performances are held in the city parks. Due to the pandemic, the number of viewers has decreased, but interest is shown. Passers-by encourage young actors: "Don't relax, you are serving the right issues!"
The pandemic has taught actors to have video footage in order to communicate with viewers via the Internet. Now that they are acting based on these lessons learned, preparing videos, recording performances ...
In September, the open-air forum theater performances started actively. Due to the current situation, there are few spectators, but the performances are still held. A new initiative of the forum theater - interviews with citizens, people of different generations. The conversation is about the causes of violence, the results, the way out of the situation.“Theater of one spectator”, is also played there, which is very impressionable for everyone.
Another hot summer season in the history of the forum - theater is over. Young actors held performances in the open air, in the Central Park of Kutaisi, in the Park of Love.
A new season will begin on September 15 - there will be trips to the regions where the forum-theater performances will be held on current topics: violence, bullying, family relations, etc.
Forum-theater of the Fund "Sukhumi" actively continues to work during the hot days of summer - new scenarios are created, rehearsals are held, personal videos and monologues are posted on the Facebook page.
And one more thing: a new rubric "Date with Rioni" (this is the name of the river in Kutaisi) has begun, which is still under development.
Forum theater is and still remains the most original activity.
Forum Theater is one of the most popular components in the project “Strengthening of Women's Rights in Western Georgia”.
In June, rehearsals in the office resumed, new scenes were prepared. It is still not possible to conduct performances in the open air, so activity on the social network was continued: personal videos, monologues, stories of victims of violence — 32 activities are presented on the Facebook page of the Fund “Sukhumi”.