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Who am I? Bärbel, Bärbel Jogschies, right! What are your tasks at the festival? At the festival I belong to the project's council consisting of six persons and four organiser
organisations. Mainly I am responsible for the festival's course of events.
Part of this we decide everything together in the council. What is the „Fair Culture Festival"?
For 35 years the festival „Jugend spielt für Jugend" (youth plays for youth) exists here
in Hanover, where juvenile theatre groups present their projects they produced either
in their leisure time or in class to each other. This already excists for some times.
As such "performing arts" lesson has established itself in schools we think that it is time
to broaden our horizons and internationalise this. That's why we are inviting people from
Malawi, Poland, Turkey, Palestine and Ghana. There is a great organised school's theatre
scene where pupils are doing drama class in the English lesson and where students are
great actors. But this takes place under completely different conditions. And that's what we need
here. Not what Hanover's and its surrounding region's schools are doing concerning theatre.
Or in Germany, or Europe. Nowadays our task appears to be completely different. Everybody
knows and feels that if we continue living like we do we are going to loose our home,
the earth. So why should the school's theatre seperate from such questions who rise above
everyday's school problems?
What is a fair world? A fair world is for me firstly a fair distribution of opportiunities:
A fair distribution of goods but firstly a fair distribution of chances.
So how to explain justice without justice? Everybody has to have the same access and the same possibility to live one's life.
It should be impossible to exploit somebody.
What can the spectators expect at the festival? This is going to be exciting. So, it will be really stunning.
The festival will be opened by a dancing group from Ghana. A dancer ofthe national ballet of Ghana is working with adolescents there.
Furthermore there will be some german school productions. From the IGS Linden, the IGS List, some big dancing productions,
the Georg-Büchner-Gymnasium, and so on. Students from the eighth grade have written a play about child labour,
which will be played by their schoolfellows from the ninth grade.
This idea of cooperation is really suspenseful. Then we will have a great guest performance by the GRIPSTheater.
The stage setting is built by us analogue to the original staging to save the transportaton cost.
The actors of the GRIPS thatre in collaboration with the leader of the "Junges Schaupiel" Florian Fiedler
will present the play "Durst". This is a play for children which acquaints the world's problems to them.
Because we think that sustainability means the earlier you
get aware of our wold's state, the more sustainable you deal with cautious people.
Our problem is now that we all know it but we don't act.And I hope that the children get impulses
to change the world. Discussions and a conference which deal with theatre and
development will take place in the Leibniz house. Many experts working with theatre in international development
work will come and report about their experiences and the importancy of it individually and
worldwide. And these experts will be part of the spectators during the festival.