There is joy

WORKSHOP “THERE IS JOY!”
Organized by Arts Nomades – Belgium as part of the project “Plovdiv Caravan”.

Over five days (June 12-16, 2019), we explored the ways in which joy can be conveyed in public spaces through the power of the group. The way the words are conveyed through a chorus of convinced protesters, investigators, defenders of a cause, can touch people’s hearts and transform them (perhaps in the way Augusto Boal dreams) into spectators – units that originally they just watch the show, but then, little by little, they discover how they become an essential part of it – whether it was consciously because they discovered the threads we let them down, or unconsciously because the recreated images are part of their own framework of associations and references to the personal.