Romanian partner
SIGMA ART (SA) is the only Romanian “Theatre & Drama in Education” group in Bucharest, Buzau, Ramnicu Sarat, and Focsani cities, with strong international connections.
Starting with 1995, it has succeeded in involving more than 15.000 young people (as street children and high school youngsters) and adults (as inmates, teachers working in rural areas or disabilities people) throughout the country in theatrical and social-educational programs. SA involves its target groups in analysing social, intercultural and moral problems through workshops and performances.
SA organization is composed by SIGMA ART Cultural-Artistic Foundation (SACAF) and SIGMA ART Theatre Company (SATC).
SACAF: founded in 1995, the foundation runs a cultural-educational and artistic resource centre which offers support to young people, socially disadvantaged groups and artists and to other organizations with similar objectives. SACAF promotes a strong emphasis on cultural diversity and equal gender opportunities. The foundation aims to improve the access and participation for all in the European Union culture, recognizing that culture is a key factor in social integration and citizenship building process (social cohesion).
SATC is the result of the educational and professional (through actors, dancers and theatre directors) activity with adults and teenagers from the very best Bucharest high schools.
Founded in 2005, SATC is working at the moment with teenagers, adults and professional artists at the SIGMA ART Studio, Bucharest and ’’Maior Gheorghe Pastia’’ Popular Athenaeum, Focsani, Vrancea. The Company has been performing at least once a week for the last twelve years in its Studio, in the Bucharest Universities and in many high schools of Bucharest, Buzau, Ramnicu Sarat and Focsani cities, Buzau and Vrancea counties.
SIGMA ART Foundation, beside the performances’ production, is committed in social theatre activities as well as in Education. Social theatre is considered a powerful mean of inclusion, an opportunity for the community to promote lifelong learning and dialogue. In the field of Education, SIGMA ART Foundation promotes theatrical activities linked to the “family learning” concept.
By involving parents in children informal education activities, SIGMA ART Foundation aims to improve the drama communication inside the family in order to break the gap between generations and increase the personal development of young generations though educational drama and theatre tools.
In the last 20 years, SIGMA ART Foundation, through EU projects and collaborations had the chance to actively work with various social disadvantaged groups such as: prisoners, abandoned youngsters / kids at risk, kids with HIV and aphasia, Roma population, teachers working in rural areas.
