WE STILL NEED YOUR HELP! WE are InDemand!
WE have reached the goal of Repairing the Roof! But we still need your help to continue the projects we have started!
We are Radu Apostol (director), Katia Pascariu (actress), Mihaela Michailov (playwright), Viorel Cojanu (actor) and Mihaela Radescu (actress). We are the founders of The Replika Center for Educational Theater, which opened its doors to the public on February 13th, 2015 in Tineretului neighborhood, Bucharest.
The space was conceived as an independent, interdisciplinary space, promoting the collaboration between professional artists and members of vulnerable communities and encouraging a theater for young audience, deeply involved in our society.
The Replika Center for Educational Theater is a collaborative space, where the team is involved in all the activities, from designing artistic programs to welcoming the audience, from fundraising to cleaning the toilets.
Our Vision
We strongly believe in mutual education through artistic means, in art as a form of empowering ignored social groups, voicing their needs and expectations. We believe in the activist artist, mirroring the society and transgressing our realities, we believe in educational utopias becoming reality, in pedagogy as a shared process of raising community stories, in a theater based on cooperation and respect for everybody’s story.
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We support free access to cultural education as a fundamental right, expanding the access to culture for vulnerable categories disconnected from contemporary art. This is why all our events are free and this is why we want to tell their stories.
Replika Center is located in Tineretului neighborhood, a well known area for the activism of the inhabitants gathered in different communities to protect animal welfare or public parks&nature.
What We Have Achieved
A year after its inception, The Replika Center for Educational Theater organized 2 Educational Art Platforms, featuring 17 shows, with more than 80 artists involved, 21 presentations of books and studies and 21 film screenings.
At The Replika Center for Educational Theater, in only one year, we produced 7 premieres, we organized 4 workshops with children and teenagers and more than 8000 spectators took part in our events.
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Our impact and outreach goes beyond Bucharest with many theater performances presented on tour in Romania. We showed The Offline Family by Mihaela Michailov, performance which reflects the reality of children living on their own having their parents working abroad, in major cities from Transylvania (Bra?ov, Târgu Mure?, Sfântu Gheorghe, Media?, Sibiu, Alba Iulia) along with workshops on educational theater.
Confessions of a Dog, based on Peter Mayle's novel and a Civic Educational Workshop on animal welfare, went on tour in cities with history of bad treatment towards the animals: Bac?u, Boto?ani, F?lticeni, Pa?cani, Piatra Neam?, Roman, Suceava, Târgu Neam?, Târgu Frumos and Foc?ani.
Our recent premiere In your own words by Peca ?tefan, was on tour in Br?ila, Sibiu and Cluj. Each premiere from last season was invited at Temps d'Images International Theater Festival Cluj Napoca.
Our work has already been recognized by AFCN (The National Culture Fund) who offered us in January 2016 the Award for Social inclusion and Intercultural Dialogue. In March 2016 we were nominated at The Award for Cultural Programs and Festivals offered by The National Cultural Radio station.
Our Community
But perhaps our greatest achievement was the large community we have brought together in our projects.
Since its opening, thanks to its generous and versatile space characteristics (length&height, plenty possibilities to arrange the audience), Replika Center gathered many artists from the performative arts field. Thanks to our Educational Art Platforms, Replika Center became a space where new films meet their audiences. Thanks to its location in a neighborhood from Bucharest, Replika Center hosted public meetings of the social activists.
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Our community consists now of teenagers, teachers and parents, of people from the neighbourhood, of students and adults who became more than our public, but our partners. We are grateful and happy for their interest - they came once and then they kept coming to our programs - performances and workshops.
We collaborated with many artists and we thank them for being part of the Replika Center community:
Arh Gabi Albu, Cristian Bala?, Alexa B?canu, Robert B?lan, C?t?lina B?l?l?u, Alexandru Berceanu, Alexandru Bibere, Miki Brani?te, M?d?lina Brându?e, Bogdan Burl?cianu, Andreea Chindri?, Ionu? Corpaci, Carmen Co?ofan?, C?t?lin Cre?u, Paul Dunca, Farid Fairuz, ?tefania Ferched?u, Carmen Florescu, M?d?lina Florescu, Elena G?geanu, Florina Gleznea, Sabina Gr?dinaru, Adela Iacoban, Andreea Iacomi??, Sabrina Ia?chevici, Adi Iclenzan, Stanca Jabe?ian, Sânziana Koenig, Ioana Macarie, Cosmin Manolescu, Radu Manelici, Oana Mardare, Sebastian Marina, Monica Marinescu, Ana M?rgineanu, Lala Mi?osniky, Lucian Moga, Ionu? Niculae, Jak Neumann, Peca ?tefan, Iasmina Petrovici, Liviu Popa, Leta Popescu, Alexandru Potocean, Oana Pu?catu, George Rotaru, C?t?lin Rulea, David Schwartz, Ionu? Sociu, Raul St?nulescu, Andrei ?erban, Nico Vaccari, Vava ?tef?nescu, Doru Talo?, Victor ??peanu, Elena Vl?d?reanu, Dana Voicu, Marius Bogdan Tudor, Vlad Cristian Zamfir, Elise Wilk and many more.
Our Plans Going Forward
What we intend to do is to both continue our programs and to start new projects like the one we called RAR - Artistic Residences at Replika. If we obtain the grants we have applied for, in 2016 we will have 3 artistic residencies, inviting artists from Bucharest, Cluj and the US.
Contemporary Dance and Kites. Choreographer Cosmin Manolescu will develop a series of workshops for children, followed by a dance performance.
Pop-Up Theatrics (New York) will develop the first stage of a theatrical project called Altered Perception, an artistic exploration of the challenges and benefits of sense impairment.
And from Cluj, director Leta Popescu and playwright Alexa B?canu, two young voices of Romanian Theater, in partnership with CEDP Step by Step will develop the first phase of a theatrical project that will explore the perspectives and implications of Sexual Education for children in Romania.
Each residency will end up in 2017 with a theater performance.
During 2016 we will be part of the IndependNet Platform, an exchange cultural program imagined by our partners from Cluj - Reactor de Crea?ie ?i Experiment. This means that Replika team will tour in Târgu Mure? and Cluj Napoca, and will host theater performances created by its partners from Colectiv A and ZugZone, both from Cluj.
By the end of this season we plan to host four premiers: director Ioana P?un will stage a performance based on the outrageous untold histories of Romanian torturers during the Cold War; director Catinca Dr?g?nescu will develop a theater performance about the condition of women forced to work abroad, leaving their children alone back home; dramAcum will develop a theater performance based on contemporary Turkish plays; director Mihai Ion Alexandru will stage a theater performance based on the novel Kremlin Made Of Sugar by Vladimir Sorokin.
In September and October 2016 we will go on tour with Our Daily Hunger, a play developed by Peca ?tefan, directed by Ana M?rgineanu and Radu Apostol, performing in 7 different locations in Romania.
Starting from September till November we will continue our Educational Art Platform, presenting theater performances, books and movies.
What We Need
Due to its previous use as a warehouse, the building needs certain improvements in order to adequately host theater work and live audiences. Particularly, the roof is in a bad shape and allows water to infiltrate the building with every rain or snowfall. This situation made us suspend our activities altogether last winter. Because we still have to pay the rent and the utilities, regardless of not using the venue, such periods of inactivity are very damaging to our project and to our audiences and community. Repairing the roof has become our main priority and we estimate that we need 8000$ in order to do it.
This total cost consists of:
? doing a professional assessment of the roof’s state
? purchasing the necessary materials
? waterproofing and thermal insulating
? hiring a contractor
If we manage to raise more money than 8000$, we would use it to improve the building’s ventilation system and invest in lighting and sound equipment that was by the rain, thus improving the space and the experience of our audiences.
Your help and your financial support are essential for us, for continuing a project that managed to draw the interest of the people in the district, of kids and teenagers, of teachers and artists. No amount is too small!
What You Get
We have a lot of special rewards to offer for your support. As all of our donors will receive our eternal gratitude and will become friends of the venue, some of you could receive a real interaction with a character from a Replika show, get to create a line that will be used in the next production or even be our guest to a rehearsal.
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Other Ways You Can Help
You can help us spread the information about our campaign to all your friends. Use the Indiegogo share tools and be a part of our community of roof builders!
Donate for the space, donate for the roof. The space belongs to those who build it up.
Big thanks to Ada Milea, Ion Mure?an, Bobo Burl?cianu, Cristi Rigman who have generously offered us the song "Acoperi?ul" and to Kolectiv, Bogdan Sl?vescu (camera) and Roger Vl?doianu (editor) for the video.
We would also like to thank to Goethe-Guerilla, a program initiated by Goethe-Institut Bucharest, for the collaboration.
Let’s raise the roof at REPLIKA!
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