Welcome to Theatr Fforwm Cymru

Theatr Fforwm Cymru provides safe, educative, energising and empowering environments where everyone can learn together

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Now Available!  A Toolkit for Emotional Intelligence, published by Theatr Fforwm Cymru.

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Blwydden Newydd Dda!

Happy New Year!

2011 saw many positive changes for Theatr Fforwm with our move to Swansea and many new projects starting up and planned for this year.

We're off to a flying start in 2012. Please see below  for details of some of the work we have coming up soon:

Reach the heights Free Training!

To Youth Workers and practitioners in Wales who are working with ‘NEET’ young people, or young people who are at risk of becoming ‘NEET’,

In partnership with Swansea Metropolitan University and Small World Theatre, we are currently offering programs of 6 days of free training in Arts Engagement specifically for you!

We are offering four programs of training between January and July next year.  The training will be based at The Townhill Campus of Swansea Metropolitan University, and will comprise of 3 days training in Forum Theatre and Emotional Intelligence from Theatr Fforwm Cymru, and 3 days of Lantern, Kite and  Puppet making from Small World Theatre.   And did I mention its free?!

The dates of the courses are as follows:

 GROUP 1 Small World...30th and 31st Jan and 1st Feb and  Theatr Fforwm... 27th, 28th and 29th Feb

 GROUP 2  Small World... 27th, 28th and 29th Feb  and  Theatr Fforwm... 2nd 3rd and 4th April

 GROUP 3  Small World... 2nd , 3rd and 4th April  and  Theatr Fforwm... 30th April, and 1st and 2nd of May

 GROUP 4  Small World... 30th April, and 1st and 2nd of May  and  Theatr Fforwm... 11th, 12th and 13th of June

 If you are interested, please don’t hesitate to phone or e-mail Hattie on number at top of page or on info@theatrfforwmcymru.org.uk

Gwirvol Youth Forum Theatre Group

Starting Monday february 13th! 

Theatr Fforwm are starting up a youth forum theatre group for young people who want to volunteer with us in the community. The group will learn our techniques, and work with us devising and performing original pieces of theatre in the community.

If you are aged 16 - 25 and live in the Swansea area and are interested, contact Deri on deri@theatrfforwmcymru.org.uk or the above number.

Olion Project

In partnership with Swansea Metropolitan University and funded by the Welsh Assembly Governments's Reach The Heights scheme, we will be working intensively with groups of young people over the next year who are not in education, employment or training. We will be working with the groups to make pieces of theatre out of their own stories

Later in the year we hope to bring the groups together to
perform pieces of legislative theatre at an “Agora” with invited policy makers, educators and others concerned with youth issues.
If you are interested in this on your own behalf or on behalf of young people that you work with, please contact Deri on the above numbers or on deri@theatrfforwmcymru.org.uk

Arts Council Wales training

Friday 27th, Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th of January will see our last ACW training. 

This time participants will be trained in Jokering skills. 

This training has really improved Theatr Fforwm's freelance base of facilitators and actors and had formed a strongly bonded group of workers, it's been a great experience.

Some of the actors and facilitators have already worked with us on various projects supported by their mentors. More mentored projects are set up to run in the next couple of months.

Arts Council Wales

"Sanctuary" Project

Coming up this spring. 

The aim of this project is to work with the “Swansea - City of Sanctuary” group, plus others working directly with the refugee and asylum seeker community in Swansea e.g. DPIA (Displaced people in Action), Swansea Bay Refugee and Asylum Seeker Support Group, all of whom, we have worked with in the past.

 The initial part of the project will be run as drama workshops, in order to explore what we mean by sanctuary. From these groups and these exploratory workshops, we will create forum theatre performances that will be toured into schools, colleges, universities and appropriate community settings. There are a number of secondary schools in Swansea have now also applied for “Schools of Sanctuary” status, for which this work will be particularly appropriate. This project will culminate in an “Agora” which is the name we give to our Legislative Theatre projects; this will explore issues around destitution

 Sanctuary also leads on from our previous Arts Council funded project called “Who are these People”..

If you would like to find out more about this project, please contact Gill on the above numbers or on gill@theatrfforwmcymru.org.uk