Artistic Discoveries in European Schoolyards

Liian vanha ja liian nuori (Too Old and Too Young)

A PLATFORM11+ AND OULU CITY THEATRE WORLD PREMIERE 14.3.2013

The winner of a National Playwriters’ Contest organised by Platform11+ and Oulu City Theatre

5th Annual Encounter Drammen, Evaluation Meeting

After 4 years, the circle is complete in Brageteatret in Drammen (Norway): There, the artistic directors met for the first time in May 2009, in order to start the PLATFORM 11+ project, and there, one of the most extensive EU cultural projects will finish with the 5th Annual Encounter. Approximately 100 European artists meet for the last time at the 5th Annual Encounter. They work, discuss, and celebrate their parting, after four eventful and productive years. Many of the contacts and experiences which resulted out of PLATFORM 11+ will live on in further common projects.

Social Networks – Virtual Meets Reality

Public presentation in the German school Gymnasium Bürgerwiese as highlight of the 3rd Youth Encounter of P11+ with young people from Germany, Finland, Italy and Great Britain

Advisory Board Meeting in Berlin

FACE ME - Time of Transition | Tour

The Final Production on a European tour.
FACE ME – the international P11+ co-production

4th Annual Encounter Pilsen I Czech Republic

Three years have passed since the beginning of the Platform 11+ project. The partner theatres have now completed the first two phases of the project.

rehearsals final production

Advisory Board Meeting in Milan

In Milan, the theatres’ artistic directors met with the directors and set designers before the rehearsals began at the end of May for the big Final Production near Pilsen. The Italian partner Elsinor Teatro Stabile d’Innovazione in Milan was the host of this meeting.

Performance "THROUGH OUR EYES"

Schoolyard in Town II "Through Our Eyes"

This year’s Youth Exchange was hosted by Pilot Theatre, with support from our host venue York Theatre Royal, in the city of York, England from 14–22 April, 2012. Young people, aged from 13–23, came from Hungary, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Estonia to join the British group in a jam-packed 9 days of activity. You can see highlights of the week and the performance on www.platform11plus.eu or www.pilot-theatre.tv
This project is a Youth in Europe Event, funded with support from the European Union and British Council as well as Platform 11+ .

Play Fair and AB Meeting in Bratislava

In February P11plus finally will visit the Slovak Repeublic. A Play Fair will take place followed by the first AB meeting in 2012 and the next preparation meeting for the big final production.

Festival Patios del Recreo

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Playwrighting Competition

Ever since Platform 11+ began with its networking project, one of its main aims has been to inspire professional authors to write new plays for young audiences.
The press statement put it like this: „After four years of work, PLATFORM 11+ wants to present a many-layered (self-) portrait of a young European generation, whose presence at the beginning of the 21st century is reflected in more than 30 new plays“.

Advisory Board Meeting in York

The British Pilot Theatre was the host of the Advisory Board Meeting, held on a sunny weekend in early autumn 2011.

3rd Annual Encounter Dresden Germany June 15 – 18 2011

The Annual Encounter of Platform 11+ brought together more than 100 artists from 12 European countries for the third year in a row, from the 15–18th of June 2011.

Youth Work during the Annual Encounter in Dresden, 2011

Workshops and Performance during the Annual Encounter 2011

Advanced Teachers Traning in Palmela/Portugal

P11+ teachers met for an inspiring weekend in Palmela. Mandy Smith and Julian Ollive from York worked with teachers on approaches to text. Workshop took place at Teatro O Bando and the hosting school in Poceirão. The teachers were warmly welcomed by the pupils of the school of Poceirão, who performed a little „schoolyard play“ for the international group.

Advisory Board Meeting in Oulu

Oulu City Theatre was once again host to the annual Festival in chilly North Europe. Two partner theatres presented plays for the 30th Anniversary of the festival and the P11+ management team met for its regular exchange of information about the project.

Meeting Target Group Final Production

From January 28th till 30th the traget group Final Production will meet at the German head office in Berlin to negotiate ways how to reach the aim of a common final product at the end of the project.

National Projects with Young People 2011

Educational Work – Theatre, Visual Art, New Media – of the partner theatres during 2011

Performance "HANDBOOK OF YOUR LIFE"

All the stories brought from the different countries having been developed further during the week in Tallinn will be staged at different stages in the big building of the National Estonian library.

Advisory Board Meeting In Tallinn

PLAY FAIR Tallinn

Another P11+ PLAY FAIR will take place in VAT Teater. It will promote the National plays to Estonian theatre makers. The kids from Plzen, Bratislava, York and Tallinn will help the actors from VAT.

Launch of Blog from Youth encounter Tallinn

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Shared Stories from European Schoolyards / Youth Encounter in Tallinn

‘Shared Stories from Schoolyards’ (Tallinn, Estonia, October 2010) was a youth exchange project hosted by VAT Theatre, Tallinn and financed by the Estonian Youth for Europe Agency. It was the first Youth Encounter initiated in the framework of Platform 11+ under the topic ‘Schoolyard Crossers’.

2nd Annual Encounter in Palmela / Portugal

Time to have the second big annual encounter of the P11+ network.
More than 100 artists from all over Europe will come to Teatro O Bando to prepare and perform at the European Theatre Event: A Midsummernight’s Theatre

Plein Air Day 13

Plein Air Day 12

Plein Air Day 11

Plein Air Day 10

Plein Air Day 9

Plein Air Day 8

Plein Air Day 7

Plein Air Day 6

Premiere of the National Production in Plzen! "TE? 55 31 13 já"

written by Blanka Josephová-Lunáková and Bára Gregorová

Plein Air Day 5

Plein Air Day 4

Plein Air Day 3

Plein Air Day 2

Plein Air Day 1

Plein Air Palmela / Under Olive Trees

13 Visual Artists are guests at the magic hill of Teatro O Bando full of olive trees. June 24 at 19:30 we celebrate the opening of the exibition of their works as the start of the 2nd Annual Encounter of Platform11plus.

Platform11plus Festival in York I UK

From 13th May a Platform festival will take place in York / UK. Three professional shows will shown, accomanied from several youth production in the frame of the Platform theme.

PLAY FAIR Oulu

Presentation of a new European Repertoire by our Partner, the City Theatre of Oulu.

Stepping Exhibition Oulu

The second stop of the Youth Event “Stepping Exhibition” was in Oulu. Children of the Oulu school welcomed a group of international playwrights very warmly. Giuditta Mingucci forwarded the work of children from Milan to a group of pupils. They will now start to prepare an exhibition for young people in London.

Playwrights’ Meeting February 2010 Oulu - Finland

Oulu City Theatre, situated high up in northern Europe, was host for three days to the playwrights who’d been commissioned by the theatres. After the meeting in Berlin in June 2009 and Budapest in September 2009, they came together for the third time in order to swop experiences about the national plays and productions and to carry on the process of co-writing with the involved partners.

PR Meeting London

PR Managers from all companies have been in Greenwich, the place of our host EEA.

Advanced Training for Teachers, Salò / Italy

From October 9th till 12th teachers from partner schools of all our participating theatres will met in Salò.

Annual Encounter Budapest 2009

The first Annual Encounter is hosted by Kolibri. Almost 100 artists met for four days in the Hungarian capitol.