Training for Trainers

This program was created with the support of the AHOS – All Hands On Stage.

Duration:

The program consists of 3 cycles and is offered free of charge.
It is conducted as a 3-hour class, once a week, during the time period of each respective cycle.

  • Cycle A: 03/2023 – 07/2023 COMPLETED
  • Cycle B: 09/2023 – 07/2024 COMPLETED
  • Cycle C: 09/2024 – 06/2025 ONGOING

Purpose of the Program:

The aim of the program is to train individuals who are interested in becoming theatre educators or who are already theatre educators working in social structures such as prisons. From our team’s experience in similar environments, we identified a strong need for more educators, as well as the development of existing ones. Through this program, we aim to provide the necessary tools to help participants approach educational processes within these social structures—correctional facilities—with empathy, responsibility, and creativity.

A significant aspect of this program is the hands-on practice that participants can engage in from the very beginning of the course to the present, by working alongside our team in correctional facilities under real-life conditions, applying everything they learn during the course.

Content:

  • Learning theatrical techniques and practices (techniques by Jerzy Grotowski, Odin Teatret, Tadashi Suzuki, Susan Batson, as well as mime, theatrical clowning, and Noh theatre), and additional practical skills often used in theatre (floor acrobatics, yoga, qigong, juggling – object manipulation), along with techniques from Research Theatre. These serve as essential tools for effectively conducting theatre-based educational processes in correctional facilities.
  • Instruction on behavioral codes that educators should apply within a correctional facility—whether interacting with inmates or staff members.
  • Through a combination of practical and theoretical stimuli and guidance, participants learn how to organize and apply the knowledge they acquire during their training. This is further reinforced through real teaching experiences alongside our team in correctional institutions.
  • Training in understanding and managing the variables that define their system (time, space, number of participants, multiculturalism, gender, physical, emotional, and mental state, etc.), and how to remain flexible and adaptable to different conditions across various facilities.
  • Training in supportive techniques for staging a theatrical performance, including theatrical costume design, makeup, hairstyling, and lighting according to the needs of each production.

Location:

These seminars are conducted in the theatrical spaces of the multifunctional group Fabrica Athens (Fabrica Stage and Rektifie).

Participants:

  • Cycle A: 14 participants – 9 women, 5 men
  • Cycle B: 18 participants – 13 women, 5 men
  • Cycle C: 21 participants – 15 women, 6 men

The Thursday Creative Writing Workshop

The AHOS program gives us the ability to run this workshop on an ongoing basis throughout the year. The focus of the Thursday Workshop, is to establish a relationship based on trust and respect with the participants and to further develop their biographical material they want to share with an audience. The focus is on developing the written material in a way which becomes presentable to an audience. This has proven to be a slow process with these two members. They are both challenged individuals with prescribed medication and relapsing is common. There has been progress made but a greater effort is required to keep them engaged and help them continue being involved even at this slow pace. At the moment, there is great interest in the Thursday workshop by other inmates currently participating in the PDWP on the inside who are keen to participate in the workshop upon release.

The performance that will result from the workshop is scheduled to be presented as part of the Handmade Recycled Theatre Festival on Friday, September 26, 2025.

Open Call to Theater Exchange Programs Young people In and Out

Fabrica Athens is pleased to announce the autumn youth exchange that it will implement for the 7th year in collaboration with the German organization Mostar Friedensprojekt.

In September, the FabricaAthens Multi-Active Art Group invites young men and women from all over Greece to participate in the theater exchange program of young artists with the aim of enjoying moments of creation and acquaintance in Berlin and Athens. The In and Out program is implemented for the 7th year with the kind support of the Greek-German Youth Foundation – EGIN.

The exchange program of young Greek and German artists is based on the theatrical path of the Theater of Research, which has been created by Fanis Katechos.

Following this, the participants will work, among other things, on the following:

-Synthesis of unbreakable bonds between the individuals of a set

-Expanding the limits of physical and mental endurance

-Expanding physical awareness (body, sound, musicality) and two-way concentration,

redefining the relationship with the environment and its objects.

-Energy management in various physical actions

-Knowledge of the relation of breathing to the sound produced by the body and the use of speech.

-Structured research and creation of material towards the artistic / theatrical composition

– Finding the personal role within a team, taking responsibility and completing the corresponding actions

-Practical and theoretical research and experimentation, which lead to decision-making and the creation of original projects – actions

Workshop presenters will be members of Fabrica Athens and trusted participants of previous programs.

When & Where:
12.09.2022 – 20.09.2022, Berlin
22.09.2022 – 30.09.2022, Athens
Participation fee:
40 euros

It is addressed :

To young men and women from 18 to 30 years old, with an interest in the performing arts and with the desire and willingness to give themselves to a creative process, to challenge their own unique limits (physical and spiritual) through the group art of theater and to create an ensemble performance.
Practical information:
Accommodation, food, transportation costs to and from Germany, as well as attendance at theater workshops and participation in activities are covered by the program. Participants themselves are solely responsible for adequate insurance cover in the event of risk such as accident, illness, civil liability and claims for compensation.

Furter Information from past programs here

Applications (until August 30, 2022) Email researchtheater@gmail.com by filling/sending all the following details:

– Topic: In and Out

– Curriculum vitae

– Reason you wish to participate in the program

– Photo Portrait

– Contact Information: phone, email address

* Only timely applications, which include all necessary information for participation, will be considered

Theater Connections III – Seaside Theater Workshop

Theater Connections III – Seaside Theater Workshop
The Summer Theater Workshop of Fabrica Athens “Theater Connections ΙΙΙ” returns in the seaside village of Methoni in Greece for the 3rd consecutive year.

We warmly invite you to participate in Theater Connections III, a theater workshop held August 4th through August 12th in the beautiful seaside village of Methoni, Peloponnese, Greece. Theater Connections is a 9-day theater immersion facilitated by Fanis Katehos and Giovanna Michaliadi Sarti of the Multi-active Group of Art – Fabrica Athens.

A group of Greek and international participants will coalesce and embark on a shared journey of interaction with the environment and its people through theatrical training. Participants inspired by the place will devise a performance to be shared with local residents and visitors in Methoni.

The Theater Workshop – Methods & Goals

The structure of Theater Connections is designed to support participants in connecting with Methoni and its people through the exploration of theater, their own inner worlds, and nature. This workshop is open to interested individuals of all levels of experience. The theater training entailed invites full engagement of body and soul. We seek participants with a willingness and a desire to enjoy themselves by challenging their own unique limits.

The Theater of Research is the theatrical practice developed by Fabrica Athens which serves as the foundational base for the workshop. It has been in evolution since 2012, and uses original techniques that draw upon the methods of Jerzy Grotowski, Konstantin Stanislavski, Eugenio Barba, Giles Foreman, Suzan Batson, Augusto Boal, Kitt Johnson and Tadashi Suzuki. The practice is used for the training of actors and performers, and also as a tool of Applied Theater in penitentiaries, youth exchange programs, immigrant camps, and more. It adapts its techniques to every group in order to achieve a liberating and transformative experience each time.

Cultural Week

As teammates, participants will also take on artist, facilitator, and audience roles in a festive week of free cultural activities in Methoni curated by Fabrica Athens. Activities such as yoga, fire shows, circus workshops, and screenings are part of this organized cultural week. All of these activities connect participants to the landscape and the people of Methoni, and give participants experience in known and unknown realms.

Tours, Excursions & Special moments

In addition to the training and the cultural events, participants can enjoy morning swims after yoga at the sea’s edge (or even a night swim if they would like to close their days this way as well). They will also have the opportunities to travel to beautiful islands off the coast of Methoni, to visit the medieval Methoni castle (which is surrounded by water on three sides) and to learn about one of the first schools of mutual education in Greece. They will hear from local teachers and communities about Methoni’s history and will enjoy delicious summer meals together. They may even find themselves sharing coffee and stories with a neighbor. Methoni is known to enchant and delight its visitors.

Accommodation

Participants camp together at the organized campsite of Camping Methoni. The campsite is equipped with bathrooms, showers, washing machines, and kitchens. Participants are welcome to bring their own tent. Tents can be provided for participants coming from abroad. Participants may request a single or double occupancy tent.

Food

Participants may choose a payment tier which includes one meal (either lunch or dinner) per day in the seaside restaurant of the campsite. In addition to this meal, participants may enjoy the high-quality restaurants and taverns within walking distance, with great options for those with dietary lifestyles and restrictions of all kinds. Participants may also choose to cook some of their meals in the shared kitchens. There are grocery stores and small markets with fresh produce available daily.

This year marks the third iteration of Theater Connections, and we are excited to expand this creative portal into one of international exchange. There are two aspects which comprise this transition:

  • Firstly, our call to participation is open to applicants from anywhere in the world.
  • Secondly, this year, Theater Connections will occur parallel to In and Out, a cultural, creative exchange and collaboration between young artists from Greek and German. The Greek-German In and Out participants will join the Theater Connections group in Methoni on August 5th, after spending the prior week training and devising together in Germany. In and Out and Theater Connections participants will come together during various activities everyday and will also work together to create a final public performance.

We warmly thank the local community of Methoni and specifically Dionysios Psallidas (President of the Cultural Association of Methoni, Director of the Primary School of Methoni – Georgakopouleio) and Antonis Tsirigos (President of the Association of Friends of Methoni Castle) for their support and contributions.

Information
Workshop: Theater Connections ΙΙΙ – Seaside Theater Workshop
Instructors: Fanis Katechos, Giovanna Michaliadi Sarti
When: August 4-12, 2022
Where: Methoni, South Peloponnese (Greece)
Participations ǀ Inquiries: +141 599 499 57 (WhatsApp), tal.y.mor@gmail.com (Email Theme: Theater Connections ΙΙΙ)
Participation Fees:
Interested individuals can choose one of the following packages for their participation:
  • 220 euros – Includes participation in the seminar and its related activities (cultural week, guided tours, excursions)
  • 300 euros – Includes participation in the seminar and its related activities (cultural week, guided tours, excursions) and accommodation at Camping Methoni in a shared tent
  • 420 euros – Includes participation in the seminar and its related activities (cultural week, guided tours, excursions) and accommodation at Camping Methoni in a shared tent and one meal per day (either lunch or dinner)
  • 560 euros – Includes participation in the seminar and its related activities (cultural week, guided tours, excursions) and accommodation at Camping Methoni in a single tent and one meal per day (either lunch or dinner)

[17/09/2015]: Theater Workshop in Our Festival

Theater Workshop in Our Festival
The multiactive art group Fabrica Athens invites you to a theatrical seminar open to those who have and those who have not previous experience in the theater.

Research theater- Research theater

Trainer- Fanis Katechos

Target

Through this cycle of meetings, research from different theatrical techniques and methods will be carried out from the beginning in order to give birth to a new code of theatrical behavior and action. With references to Stanislavski, Grotowski, Eugenio Barba, Peter Brook, Suzuki, as well as acrobatic and street theater techniques, we will come in contact with a new way of creating.

The team will be trained in body plasticity, in dynamic acrobatics, will come in contact with the art of stilts, embodied speech, exploring the horizon of imagination and constructing new theatrical exercises that will be created through it.

Curriculum vitae

Graduate of the drama school of Iakovos Kampanellis. He continued his studies in England with Giles Foreman at the Center for Acting (2009) and at the Grotowski Institute in Poland (2010). He also trains with the Astragali Teatro (2012) and attends a series of seminars at the Moscow Territorium in Russia (2013). It is taught by Raul Iaiza (2012, 2015) at the Regula Contra Regulam Theater and by Roberta Carreri (2015) at the Odin Teatre. As a teacher he collaborates with the theater academy Nazim Hitmek Academy in Istanbul (2013), with the architecture department of the University of Alicante (2013) and the theatrical Laboratory of the Fabrica Artspace (2014,2015). He has starred and directed several plays. He is a founding member of the Fabrica Athens group and the inspirer of the Handmade and Recycled Theater Festival. He deals with the art of stilts and street theater. Since 2013 he has been teaching theatrical methods and continues to be taught.

[16/09/2015]: “Villa Utopia” in Our Festival

“Villa Utopia” in Our Festival
The Panic Theater and Fabrica Athens present the theatrical performance VILLA UTOPIA directed and installed by Lysandros Spetsieris and written by Vivi Piniotis at Our Festival

Four hands are always better than two, eight better than four, sixteen better than eight … and because that could go on forever, take a walk down the ravine to see up close what we mean.

Press release

“The dream becomes as fast as the nightmare the dream. Surely you will have seen in your dream that you fall from somewhere high and just before you reach the ground you discover that you can fly … » The new surreal, theatrical text of  Vivi Piniotis, the spiritual utopia of Andreas Empirikou through the ” no Brasilia ma Octana ” and the myth of Noah, the divine catastrophe for a new beginning, are presented in Villa Utopia as three different forms of the search for the ideal Three chapters dedicated to utopia, compose the show Villa Utopia. Made with the unrelated logic of the dream, they leave the construction of the myth at the disposal of the viewer.

Factors

Composition & Direction: Lysandros Spetsieris

Writing theatrical text villa Utopia (chapter b): Vivi Pinioti

Construction of 3D digital world: Nikos Papadopoulos

Installation: Lysandros Spetsieris

Sound design and music investment: Vangelis Hirbilidis

Costumes: Vasiliki Tzouti

Choreography / Movement Teaching: Iakovos Molimbakis

Assistant Directors: Maria Makri, Artemis Michaki

Photos: Antonis Tatsis, Alexis Sakelaropoulos

Graphic Design: Ioanna Kyritsi

With our common madness of collectivity and our common joy of solidarity, we meet 45 artists in a celebration of free expression, where all together, but also each one alone, put his “hand” to take place.

“Our Festival” takes place as part of the ravine festival, “Voices of Freedom”. Organization: “We – a group of collective culture”.

Wednesday, September 16, at 7:30 pm at the Euripides Theater of Rematia · Athens free entrance with optional contribution

https://www.facebook.com/events/863793040340870/

Babis Loukopoulos

Babis Loukopoulos

Qualifications

1996 Degree in cinematography-director of photography at the Lykourgos Stavrakos School of Cinema and Television – TEI Equivalence
2008 Graduate of the Higher School of Dramatic Art of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Ag. Barbara – Iakovos Kampanellis

Theater

2019 Participation and representation of Greece in collaboration with young actors from Romania and Hungary in the performance ‘Cultural Barter in Mera’ under directed by Odin Theater Denmark teachers Donald Kitt and Kai Bredholt in Cluj, Romania 2019 Starring role in the play by Niki Rapti “The Terrace” directed by Niki Rapti

2018 Direction of the performance ‘Race for tolerance’ with a group of young people from 9 different European countries, under the Erasmus program 1st place in Bremen, Germany in August and 2nd in Newcastle, UK in November.

2017 Participation in the performance ‘Faith’ directed by Vikis Kyriakoulakou

2016-2017 Participation and dramatization of texts in the corporal theater performance ‘7 deadly sins’ directed by Fani Katechou

2016 Participation in the theatrical project arsMars 1΄΄, directed by George Stylianopoulos

2014 Participation, text translation and theatrical performance in the play “Madame de la Carliere” devised theater project, with the Lahban method, directed by Dr. Kiki Selioni

2014 Participation in “Shakespeare on the move” devised theater project, based on the method of Lahban, directed by Dr. Kiki Selioni

2014 Starring role, translation and theatrical performance of a text in “Pulp fiction 2014” directed by Fenia Proveleggiou

2014 Participation in “Becket on the mix” devised performance, based on the method of Lahban, directed by Dr. Kiki Selioni

2013 Participation in Aeschylus’ “Eumenides” directed by Konstantinos Markellos

2012 Participation, direction and theatrical performance in the poetic work “Two beautiful, fragrant, pink letters” 2011 Starring role in the play “The Portrait of Dorian Gray” directed by Eleni Danube

2011 Participation, translation and theatrical performance in the play “Shoppin and fuckin” theatrical project, directed by the group Fabrica Arte

2010 Starring role in the dance theater performance “Three sisters on the move” directed and choreographed by Akis Sideris

2009 Direction, translation and theatrical performance in the play “Deathproof” 2008 Participation in the play “The diamond and the whale” directed by Vassilis Aslanidis

2008 Participation in Aeschylus’ “Hoifores” directed by Loukas Thanos 2007 Participation, co-direction and theatrical adaptation in the project “Around the dollhouse” directed by Roulas Pateraki

Cinema & Television

2019 Participation as an auxiliary actor in the films: “Born to be murdered” directed by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino, “Adults in the room” directed by Costa Gavra, “Moon 66 Questions” directed by Jacqueline Lenzou

2019 Participation as an supporting actor in 2 episodes of the TV series “Red River” directed by Manousos Manousakis

2018 Participation in a commercial “OPAP – Scratch” directed by Deni Iliadis

2017 Participation in 11 episodes of the TV series “Tattoo” directed by Andreas Georgiou

2016 Participation in the short film “-1”, directed by Natassa Xydi

2015 Leading role in the commercial “11888 – OTE”, directed by Panos Koronis

2008 Screenplay, direction, music investment and participation in the short photostory film “Do not leave”

2007 Leading role in the commercial of “Hellas on line”, directed by George Lanthimos

2007 Screenplay, direction and participation in the short film “The greek junkie”

1996 Participation in the short film “A plan and I save it”, directed by Panagiotis Kalogeropoulos

1995 Participation in the short film “Muchodrigo is a baker”, directed by Haris Argyris

Radio

2017 – 2020 Radio Producer of the show “NIGHT DRIVE radioshow” every Wednesday night at the online radio station Voicewebradio

Seminars

2019 Performance seminar with Donald Kitt of Odin Teatret (Hostelbro Danmark)

2017-2018 “Chorpus Orchestra” Music and Body Seminar and music theory in teaching: Evangelia Velli – Kosma 2016 Seminar on the ancient drama on the subject of “Oresteia” by Aeschylus, speaker Loukas Thanos

2015-2016 Seminar and teaching introduction to contemporary dance (contemporary dance) teaching: Giannis Mantsis, Natassa Papamichael

2015-2016 Seminar-training of physical theater based on the methods of Grotowski, Eugenio Barba, Suzuki, speaker Fanis Katechos

2013-2014 Seminar-training ballet exercises for actors and introduction to Graham dance method, lecturer Dr. Kiki Selioni 

2013-2014 Seminar on the Lahban method, lecturer Dr. Kiki Selioni

2011-2012 Acting and addressing seminar, speaker Roula Pateraki

2011 Seminar-training on the method of physical theater Grotowsky, speaker Fanis Katechos

2011 Acting and actor coaching seminar, lecturer Giles Foreman

2009 Acting seminar with the method of Roula Pateraki, speaker herself

2006-2008 Musical movement and singing seminar, presented by Sia Koskina

2006 Seminar-teaching in classical song, lecturer Maria Dimitriadi

Other interests

English Proficiency

Spanish and Italian (entry level, speaking / reading)

Professional song, guitar (member of the band PLTK for 12 years)

Football, volleyball, track and field

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The entanglement with the stories of the day and the conversation with the lights of the night deserve new perspectives.

The creative ideas, the groundbreaking views and the fresh analyzes are worth spreading horizontally, to discuss, to enrich, all these moving images in the middle of the urban fabric are worth recording.

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Martha Koskina

Martha Koskina

Martha Koskina studied at the Department of Theatrical Studies at the University of Patras and did her postgraduate studies at the Department of Communication and Mass Media in Athens. She works in the field of Cultural Communication, having collaborated with many troupes and groups. As a journalist, she has worked on radio and the internet (and in a few publications) as a columnist and editor-in-chief. She also worked at the Center for Research and Practical Applications of the Ancient Drama “Desmoi”, in theatrical research, in the material of the Center’s publications and in the organization of thematic events and workshops. She has prepared theatrical programs and has been a special collaborator in troupes. Her other research has been included in books. In recent years she has been working at the Press and Communication Office of the Athens and Epidaurus Festivals and is preparing her doctoral dissertation at the Department of Theatrical Studies of the University of Patras.