Say it Now!

Project promoter: Mihai Eminescu Timișoara National Theatre

Project partner: Company B. Valiente

Project value: 151,235.85 EUR

Grant value (85% EEA Grants and 15% national budget): 678,247 lei (151,235.85 EUR)

Website: www.sayitnow.ro

Project summary

Say it now!  aimed to create a space of reflection and expression dedicated to young people, using the specific means of theatre art.

The project succeeded in stimulating the young people’s imagination, their capacity of self-expression and interrelation through theatre, thus widening their horizon of expectation for their future careers, encouraging them to be part of new professional artistic products while approaching important issues such as tolerance and exclusion, abandonment or violence.

Facts & figures

Theatre workshops for young people

• 5 theatre work-shops dedicated bringing together young people from various walks of life and of different professional expectations;
• 28 high –school students involved;

Theatre play – Say it Now!

• 2 theatre performances in Timișoara creatively capitalizing on stories and issues specific to young people, in a society that is traditionally silent to their needs, in a professional production that will become part of the repertoire of the Timișoara National Theatre;
• around 45,000 persons viewing the play;
• 50 participants to the debate following the opening performance (theatre makers, NGOs, Antidrug agency, psychologists, teachers etc.)

Acting workshops

• 4 acting workshops aiming to create an intercultural and professional communication between students from Oslo National Academy of Arts and students from the Music and Theatre Faculty within the West University Timisoara, under the coordination of the director and theatre teacher Tyra Tonnesen;
• 16 students (13 Romanian and 3 Norwegian) enriching their professional skills by researching the different forms of the contemporary theatrical languages.

1 Say it now! book available in Romanian here.

Photo/video

Watch the making of the SAY IT NOW project here:

Learn about the opportunities, challenges and the success of a multicultural partnership from the development of an idea into a project and the final applauds here:

Project in the media

• http://www.cotidianul.ro/premiera-absoluta-cu-say-it-now-la-teatrul-national-timisoara-270058/
• http://www.tion.ro/noi-detalii-despre-say-it-now-proiectul-in-care-tinerii-timisoreni-se-formeaza-prin-teatru/1574971
• http://www.pressalert.ro/2015/09/say-now-un-proiect-al-tnt-care-ajuta-tinerii-sa-se-formeze-prin-teatru/
• http://ceascadecultura.ro/ServesteArticol.aspx?idart=4731
• http://www.banatulazi.ro/say-it-now-2/
• http://www.oradestiri.ro/oslo-punct-final-al-proiectului-say-it-now#.WQr7Pdy1-Uk
• http://www.zilesinopti.ro/evenimente/7267/say-it-now
• http://www.opiniatimisoarei.ro/oslo-punct-final-al-proiectului-say-it-now-pentru-teatrul-national-timisoara/19/09/2016
• http://www.impactpress.ro/2016/07/say-it-now-actorii-timisoarei-se-pregatesc-sa-joace-pe-riksscenen-in-oslo-un-workshop-cu-adolescenti-transformat-in-piesa-de-teatru-si-carte/
• http://renasterea.ro/exercitiu-de-sinceritate-la-teatrul-national-timisora/
• http://infoziare.ro/stire.read.php?newz_id=5089354