1) SMALL INTERCULTURAL TEAMS

Template for Activities/Workshops in Ireland:

As a workshop leader please

· do not print this out but fill it in digitally

· use the present tense in descriptions

· make sure you fill in as many answers as possible

· please replace the boxes p with an X

· send the filled-in description of activity to Thomas at:
Berger@inter-research.de

Some of the blanks can be filled in later, please regard this as the “growing ID-Card” of the activities. After the excursion we will use these to help with the final report

Title[1] of Activity	Drama Workshop
Description[2]	the workshop includes pantomime, basic methods of acting and how to approach dramatic roles and finally reenacting scenes from the participants’ favourite movies or plays. Maybe we can also play scenes from our own web stories.
Subtitle[3]	Drama
Leader[4]	Ralph Püttmann
Assistant[5]	wanted
Workshop specialist[6]
Participants	-Peter Theolin - - - - -
Time[7]	mon,tue,thur,14.30 (to be confirmed)
Place	own cottage
Materials needed	preferably comfortable clothes, screenplays or plays, if you have (otherwise we’ll do Shakespeare!), anything you might consider valuable for performing.

category I SMALL INTERCULTURAL TEAMS
1. no more than 6 participants?	yes x
2. at least 3 nationalities	yes x
3. at least from 3 stations	yes x
4. which activities facilitate intercultural communication?	describe:acting will help the groups ro get to know each other in an informal way.The manner of trying to express oneself without the use of verbal language will also contribute to the extension of one’s means of communication.

category II CONNECTION TO THE WEB STORY
1. activity is already included in web stories	yes p no x	describe where:
2. results will be included in web stories	yes p no p	describe where:
3. is extra technical support needed?	nox	describe which:

category III CREATIVE USE OF NEW MEDIA
1. will the new media be used in a creative way?	yes x no	describe how: if possible, we will try to capture some of the results on digital video.
2. are they essential to the activity?	yes p no x	describe why:
3. will the participants learn to use the new media?	yes p no x	describe how:
4. do participants learn s.th. about the notion of new media?	yes p no x	describe what:

category IV ACTIVE EXPLORATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
1. will participants explore in an active and creative way?	yes x no p	describe how: for many participants acting or simply performing might be a wholely new experience, as well as interpreting texts and roles in a group will help to view drama and thinking, percepting and associating from different personal and cultural perspectives.
2. are they sensitized to parallels to their own home country?	yes x no p	describe how: s.b.
3. are there any innovative forms of experiencing culture (as opposed to conventional “guided tour”)?	yes x no p	describe how: international film and drama from various times always shed light on the condition, language and development of society in a certain country. In doing role plays, Participants may be able to learn about behaviour and speech acts in other countries as well as get to know their own better.

category V BENEFIT TO THE COMMUNITY
1. will the participants share their own specialist/cultural backgrounds?	yes x no p	describe how: s.a.
2. will there be a clear benefit for the community?	yes x no p	describe how: We hope to better the understanding between our groups in the ways mentioned above.
3. is the value of the benefit in relation of the learning experience of the participants?	yes x no p	describe how: we hope to be able to act what we have rehearsed before the other groups by the end of the week.We also hope to encourage the participants of other workshops to partly join our performances, if they are willing to.

If an activity does not meet all criteria, this does not mean it cannot be done, of course. Activities should “largely meet the criteria”. Often other participants have good ideas how to include further aspects which are still missing.

Good luck

Laurence

[1] should be a gripping marketing title (no more than 5 words)

[2] no more than 200 words

[3] can be a longer, more academic and descriptive title

[4] any participant can be leader of a workshop

[5] assistant must be from a group/nationality different from the leader

[6] e.g. the photographer in the photo workshop (external specialists)

[7] regular times at the moment are either Mon/Tue/Thur/Fri 10-13 or Mon/Tue/Thur 14:30-17:30 or Wed all day