phōnē - Giving Minority Languages a Voice

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phōnē – Giving Minority Languages a Voice promotes and safeguards cultural and linguistic diversity in Europe. The project connects people who belong to a language minority across language and cultural borders. phōnē makes an active contribution to the vitalisation of vulnerable RMLs and will give them a voice, a stage and a platform for exchange. Endangered languages as well as their theatres must succeed in transmitting their culture / language to future generations. Young people, whose RML roots are not yet firmly established, are therefore the main target group. Together with RML speakers from their parents' or grandparents' generation, they will develop creative forms of expression under the leitmotif of Tradition in Modernity to tell stories about their communities. All artistic work is for, with and about the communities. Common learning of methods of biographical/documentary writing and intergenerational community theatre on a European level will lead to 8 contemporary theatre plays and professional productions. Intergenerational community theatre productions will open up new formats, places (site specific) and digital medias (podcasts / vodcasts). Joint co-creations will be developed at international festivals and citizens from all involved 8 communities will develop a multilingual theatre event. It is the declared aim of phōnē to establish a network for RML theatres that has been missing for a long time. phōnē’s legacy is be:part, a hybrid handbook (toolkit) of proven working methods and best practices examples for minority language theatre.