Theatre of Remembrance

Alte Feuerwache e.V. (AFeV) is a Berlin-based NGO that acts as an umbrella for several organisations that implement activities for youngsters. The ‘ACADEMY’, a stage arts school for young people between the ages of 13 and 19 in Berlin and the implemented production house, is one of them.

Partnering with us again for 2025, the ACADEMY has cooperated with the Theatre of Remembrance since 2016 and has created five different performances of remembrance over the years, presented on the 27th of January.

Through dance, singing, and theatre, they promote the cooperation of young people of different ages, cultures, and educational backgrounds. The goal of the ACADEMY is to create synergies between the stage disciplines, between the life of youngsters and their audience, and between the present, the past, and the future.

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Since 2002, STOP-KLATKA have carried over 40 drama-based projects, reaching over 23,000 people.

The Association of Drama Practitioners, STOP-KLATKA is a centre point for passionate people working toward social change using the Applied Drama method and teaching through drama. Based in Poland, they organise drama courses and workshops, international conferences and forums for drama practitioners, publish materials and certify drama coaches and supervisors.

STOP KLATKA uses drama for education, prevention, rehabilitation, developing interpersonal, social, and civic skills, preventing discrimination and exclusion, and building ties within local communities.

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Our partner for 2025, Post Bellum Slovakia, was founded in 2011 and is now based in Bratislava. PBSK is a non-governmental, non-profit civic association that promotes, protects, and campaigns for human rights and freedoms via European Remembrance-inspired activities.

The 2 main pillars of their work include educational activities and documenting testimonies of witnesses of the important historical phenomena of the 20th century (Czech and Slovak veterans of WWII, victims of Holocaust and Stalinism, etc.).

Their educational workshops are based on experience-based learning, drama principles, and their archived testimonies. As of last year, they have conducted over 700 such workshops across Slovakia (also thanks to the support from the EC-Europe for Citizens program, Active Citizens Fund, and other donors).

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Post Bellum Czech Republic, a non-governmental, non-profit organisation based in Prague, focussing on remembrance.

Founded in 2001, PBCZ documents the memories of witnesses of the historical phenomenon of the 20th century and tries to pass these stories on to the broader public.

They implemented “The memory of nation,” a public online database which is one of the largest collections of life in Europe with over 10,481 testimonials of the direct witness of Nazism and Communism. The Memory of Nations provides a common place for storing and publishing recordings of witness interviews.

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The National Holocaust Museum tells the story of the Nazi persecution and murder of the Jewish people in the Netherlands.

The National Holocaust Museum is set in a historic location—a former teacher training college. During the war, the Nazis used the kindergarten next door as a deportation site for Jewish children.

This is the first and only museum in the Netherlands to relate the history of the persecution of the Jews. Including the day-to-day life of Jewish Dutch on the eve of the Second World War, the liberation as Jews experienced it, and how the Holocaust has been treated in our national culture of remembrance.

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Theatre group Garage TDI will perform in collaboration with historical site, Kamp Westerbork.

Kamp Westerbork in Drenthe was the site of over 100,000 deaths during WWII. The Camp Westerbork Memorial Centre aims to keep the memories alive of all of those who were imprisoned there and link their struggles with modern day. In doing so, they aim to be an international authority on the legacy of war, in particular the Holocaust.

Garage TDI, based in Assen, aims to develop and implement performances, workshops, and educational activities in the field of theatre and dance that contribute positively to the development of children and young people in the broadest sense of the word. They also offer training and initiate extracurricular theatre education for young people across the Netherlands.

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Out Of Office (OOO) is a producing performing arts organisation based in Helsingør, Denmark, established in 2023 by Ilon Lodewijks.

OOO creates cross-aesthetic projects for children, youth, and adults. Their works manifest through playful platforms: installations, live art, theatre performances and more; often emerging from interaction with the audience and inviting them to reflect and engage.

They operate at the intersection of performance and social engagement; societal issues are explored through artistic formats that examine who we are and how we act in the world.

For their collaboration with the Theatre of Remembrance they work through their sister-organisation, Out Of Office Jr. Under this branch, they create performative works with young people in the leading role based on the principle ‘for, with, and by young people’.

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Itt és Most Tarsulat Foundation (IMT) has been collaborating with the Theatre of Remembrance project annually since 2018, and we’re very happy to announce they will do so again in 2025.

Founded in 2011, IMT runs a community space in downtown Budapest around improv theatre activities and education programs based on applied theatre methods. They produce improvisation theatre performances and diverse improv-based training.

Their thematic, interactive, improv theatre shows are delivered to companies and schools focused on the topics of addiction and drug use, open society and sensitivity towards minorities, sexual education, and sustainability.

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Teatro Ragazzi e Giovani Onlus (TRG) is a theatre production centre for youngsters based in Turin, Italy.

It aims to spread theatre culture among youngsters and promote encounters based on artistic expression. It is firmly embedded in the local community, collaborating with schools, local authorities, young people, and their families, as well as participating in cross-European collaborations.

The theatre hosts about 240 performances every year, reaching over 40,000 spectators. TRG is also involved in training activities, offering children, young people, and adults the opportunity to become protagonists of the plays.

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Teatr Brama was founded as a community theatre group in 1996 in Goleniów, Poland.

Their activities are still community-orientated, focussing on revolutionising the relationship between artists and the audience. In the last 25 years, they have created their own artistic working method, based on team building and common creations where there is a direct influence of actions on the shape of the script

Besides their annual festivals, Teatr Brama is involved in informal educational activities for target groups with diverse backgrounds (e.g. workshops for children, young- adults, and seniors) with the overall vision to improve the quality of life in the community and create a richer cultural life in Goleniów.

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