SENA 2022

SENA is a biennial regional project of OISTAT, which every 2 years is organized by a different country. In its second edition, SENA 2022 is organized by CORP’SCENE and will take place in the National Theatre Mohamed V RABAT and the cultural centre BENSLIMAN, Rabat, Morocco in October 25 – 29, 2022. The event is FREE and open to all OISTAT Members and guests. We sincerely invite you to join us and explore theatre culture in SENA region.

Register for SENA 2022 now: https://reurl.cc/NRWOZn

 

SENA 2022 Programme

*The date & time are in Morocco Time (GMT, UTC+1), please check your time zone to ensure you are attending at the correct time.

Opening of Photograph Exhibition
Oct 25, 10:00-13:00 (GMT, UTC+1)
@Bensliman Cultural Centre

Visit to facilities where activities will take place and opening of photograph exhibition.
 

SENA 2022 Design Exhibition Opening
Oct 25, 17:00-20:00 (GMT, UTC+1)
@National Theatre Mohamed V
 

Workshop︱EPHEMERAL SPACES AND SITE-­SPECIFIC
Oct 26-28, 10:30-12:30, 14:30-16:30 (GMT, UTC+1)
@Bensliman Cultural Centre
*The session will be conducted in French (with English Translation).

Presenter:
Claudia SUÁREZ OLIVARES (Chile/ France)

The sessions aim to establish theoretical and methodological tools that allow a broader vision to be provided, analyzing, in the first instance, the limits between certain concepts around what we understand by Ephemeral spaces and Site-Specific. Once these concepts are established, we will address ways to recognize a space, define its limits and create a visual and spatial discourse. A discourse that appropriates the space while dialoguing with it.

During the course, we will take as a leitmotiv a phrase that we will analyze in terms of textures, colors, concepts and spaces. It will give us the guidelines to develop a visual proposal taking into consideration the characteristics of the real space in which we will insert the proposal.

The creative process involved in the construction of the visual proposal will be worked on in the workshop in groups of 5 students each. The formats or techniques of expression may be digital, photomontage or collages that account for the proposal in scale both of the particular areas (space, character, light, sound space) as well as of the integral proposal.

The stages of this process will be worked, mainly, during the sessions and the final proposal of each group exposed in the last session in the chosen places of the cultural center BENSLIMAN.
 

Panel︱Designer Educator - Educator Designer
The importance of integrating designer's own projects into teaching- specifics, challenges and benefits at the various educational levels — BA, MA, PhD
Oct 26, 10:00-11:15 (GMT, UTC+1)
@Bensliman Cultural Centre
*The session will be conducted in English.

Presenters and Moderators:
Fruzsina Nagy ( Hungary)
Simona Rybáková ( Czech)
Marina Raytchinova ( Bulgaria)

In this panel will talk three international costume designers and scenographers (Fruzsina Nagy (Hungary), Simona Rybáková ( Czech), and Marina Raytchinova ( Bulgaria) about their designer's artistic practice as a tool for educating students through collaboration on theatre and other specific projects.
 

Panel︱Theatre Design as a Bridge between Languages and Cultures
Oct 26, 11:30-12:30 (GMT, UTC+1)
@Bensliman Cultural Centre
*The session will be conducted in English.

Presenters:
Anat Mesner (Israel)

Anat Mesner from Israel will share with the local colleagues experience about working and designing for the Arabic speaking theatres, in several places in Israel, including her personal experience working with an Arabic theatre in Haifa in the 80s.
 

Online Presentation︱Print and E-Publications in the SENA Countries and Regions
Oct 26, 12:30-14:00 (GMT, UTC+1)
*The session will be conducted in English.

The OISTAT Research, Publication & Communication, and Architecture Commissions invite artists, authors, editors or curators of new titles addressing Scenography, Theatre and Performance Design, Theatre Architecture and Technology to present your publications and to discuss the concepts, processes and outcomes of your publishing journeys. These works must come from the SENA countries and regions* listed below, be published since June 2019, or currently in preparation.

We invite and welcome projects that are not in English. The aim of this project is to celebrate publications from the SENA countries and regions; also to collaborate on providing sample translations of publications’ Introductions and Contents pages, in English, French, Spanish and Arabic so that this variety of professional practice and scholarship can be more widely engaged with and appreciated.
 

Panel︱International Costume Designers in Dialog with SENA Students: Feedback to Students Work and Portfolios
Oct 26, 15:00-16:15 (GMT, UTC+1)
@Bensliman Cultural Centre
*The session will be conducted in English.

Presenters:
Fruzsina Nagy (Hungary)
Simona Rybáková (Czech)
Marina Raytchinova (Bulgaria)
Laura Crow (USA)
Anat Mesner (Israel)

The international costume designers and scenographers who will be present in SENA symposium in person (Fruzsina Nagy, Simona Rybáková, Marina Raytchinova, Laura Crow, Anat Mesner) will be available for talk with students and for giving their expert feedbacks to the students work and projects as well as share their professional experience from the field.
 

Panel︱Presenting Costume Design Sub-commission Activities to SENA Colleagues
Oct 26, 16:15-17:30 (GMT, UTC+1)
@Bensliman Cultural Centre
*The session will be conducted in English.

Presenters:
Simona Rybáková (Czech)

Head of the Oistat Costume subcommition Simona Rybáková will talk about the current and future activities as an invitation to join this big international group. Presentation will include the recent activities in WSD 2022 in Calgary.
 

Workshop︱Costume Workshop
Oct 27-28, 10:00-17:00 (GMT, UTC+1)
*The session will be conducted in French.

Sharing the costume design environment in Morocco.
 

Workshop︱Sound Introduction Of Sound Design
Oct 27, 10:00-17:00 (GMT, UTC+1)
@Bensliman Cultural Centre
*The session will be conducted in English and Arabic.

Presenters:
Bassam Yaqout (Egypt)

In this workshop we would like to introduce Sound as art and techniques to the participants who interested in Sound design and live Sound Reinforcement for Theatre Hopefully participants are at an advanced level.
 

Online Presentation︱Telematic Music Perfomance -Female Orchestra By- Nela Brown
Oct 27, 12:30-14:00 (GMT, UTC+1)
@Bensliman Cultural Centre
*The session will be conducted in English.

Female Laptop Orchestra- bridging continents, countries, and cultures through telematic music performance.
 

Panel︱ETTEC, towards a World-wide Safety Certificate
Oct 27, 15:00-16:30 (GMT, UTC+1)
@Bensliman Cultural Centre
*The session will be conducted in English and French.

Presenters:
Chris Van Goethem (Belgium)

The European ETTE project developed a basic safety course, that can be used by all countries to improve safety on the work floor. The course content is open source and can be used or translated by everyone. A certification is developed to ensure that a employer knows that a worker is able to work safe in different situations or countries. The talk gives a short overview of the key points and the possibilities to introduce this in your situation.
 

Panel︱Reflecting on SENA 2022 Exhibition
Oct 27, 16:30-17:30 (GMT, UTC+1)
@Bensliman Cultural Centre
*The session will be conducted in English.

Presenters:
SENA 2022 Team - Amin Boudrika, Aby Cohen, Bert Determan, Claudia Suarez
 

Panel︱The Canon of Theatre Technical History, a Collaborative European Project
Oct 28, 11:00-12:30 (GMT, UTC+1)
@Bensliman Cultural Centre
*The session will be conducted in English and French.

Presenters:
Chris Van Goethem (Belgium)

The Canon project is a European project that wants to increase awareness and understanding about the history of technical theatre in Europe from multiple perspectives. Eight schools and the theatre institute in Prague worked together during 3 years to create stories (and games), develop teaching tools and methodologies, and develop a database with historic information. Now that the project is almost at the end, we want to look for continuation including partners from the rest of the world. The talk presents a show overview of the journey we made in developing this subject.
 

Online Presentation︱Grotowski Institute / Studio Kokyu (Wroclaw, Poland)
Oct 28, 12:30-14:00 (GMT, UTC+1)
@Bensliman Cultural Centre
*The session will be conducted in English.

Presentation led by Przemysław Błaszczak and his artistic team of Studio Kokyu, which work as part of the Grotowski Institute. Studio Kokyu is a place of practise which is focused on research and education in the field of actor training. Their practise is based on the meeting of physical and vocal training, ensemble work, and the Japanese martial art of Aikido. Through the meeting of such forms they work to build presence, global awareness and place the actor in a state of readiness and consciousness, placing the body as a key instrument of a performers’ craft.

Here is the link to there Artistic team: https://reurl.cc/m3gXL9
Here is the link to the project: https://reurl.cc/KQGDxq
 

Workshop︱The Canon of Theatre Technical History. How Do We Capture History in a Collaborative Way?
Oct 28, 15:00-17:30 (GMT, UTC+1)
@Bensliman Cultural Centre
*The session will be conducted in English and French.

Presenters:
Chris Van Goethem (Belgium)

The Canon project developed an online database for collaborative research. The workshop focusses on the methodology to generate and visualise information about historic facts in different fields of theatre as a platform for joint research.

Audience: people interested in working together to develop a world-wide history of technical theatre. And people having collections of information.
 

Theatre Tour in Casablanca
Oct 29, 10:00-17:00 (GMT, UTC+1)

More details are coming soon.
 

City Tour in Rabat
Oct 29, 10:00-17:00 (GMT, UTC+1)

More details are coming soon.