Trust in yourself!
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At the intersection of creation, research, non-formal education, and community activism, the "School of Disobedience" was envisioned and brought to life by Anna Ádám as an integral part of her artistic practice. The project comprises three main interconnected activities: non-formal interdisciplinary performance art education through our Masterclass, empowerment through the Fight Club, and healing through our Summer Retreats.
Blending embodied practices with theoretical insights, our School serves as an experimental and critical platform for research in the fields of non-formal education and community activism. |
Through critical pedagogy, experiential and non-formal education, empowerment and unlearning methods, guerrilla tactics, community building and organising practices, the school encourages students to liberate their voices, bodies and minds; to freely reflect on local cultural and socio-political contexts; to challenge hegemonic class, gender and normative behaviours and dominant ideologies; to develop their capacities to resist, protest and revolt: to dare to dream and to dare to change.
We don't have a permanent address, we are a travelling school, pop-up and nomadic. We set up our school temporarily in different places, structures, festivals where we are invited. Our mission is to create a passionate and radical 'soft space' for self-exploration and empowerment within these 'hard' structures. Dislocating our activities allows us to think and act locally. Sharing and caring. Last year we opened our school in Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Senegal, Serbia, UK for a period ranging from one day to one month.
We don't have a permanent address, we are a travelling school, pop-up and nomadic. We set up our school temporarily in different places, structures, festivals where we are invited. Our mission is to create a passionate and radical 'soft space' for self-exploration and empowerment within these 'hard' structures. Dislocating our activities allows us to think and act locally. Sharing and caring. Last year we opened our school in Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Senegal, Serbia, UK for a period ranging from one day to one month.
philosophy
In the School of Disobedience you will be encouraged to produce and share knowledge and tools to imagine the framework for a new world where the focus is shifted from competition, career, fame, glory and visibility to mutualisation, cooperation, collaboration, support and care. A new world where you don't have to obey the gaze and judgements of others, deal with the pressures of the profession and respond to the expectations of gatekeepers and standard-bearers. Putting the body, emotions and critical theory on the same level, this new world is constructed beyond dualisms, where you constantly seek ambiguity, nuance and different shades of grey, celebrate in-betweens, wiggle room, doubt and uncertainty, welcome diversity, applaud critical and divergent thinking, celebrate disagreement, dissent, resistance and non-conformity. You will unlearn Western aesthetics, academic canons, standards of beauty, manners and patterns in contemporary performance art and relearn how to dare to behave differently, to create unconventionally, to think outside the box.
You will be given the opportunity to collectively build a structured 'creative healing space' to connect, collaborate, learn and create with fellow students.
A space where you can reflect on yourself as an individual and as a member of a community.
Where you can find ways to support yourself and others.
Where you can develop, progress and grow.
Gain confidence and strength through friendship, trust and togetherness.
You will be given the opportunity to collectively build a structured 'creative healing space' to connect, collaborate, learn and create with fellow students.
A space where you can reflect on yourself as an individual and as a member of a community.
Where you can find ways to support yourself and others.
Where you can develop, progress and grow.
Gain confidence and strength through friendship, trust and togetherness.
what is school?
For a school of tomorrow, we aim to create an environment that is above all joyful and positive, where students are accepted, respected, challenged, and encouraged beyond constructive criticism. Where students are neither pigeonholed nor judged, but can express themselves openly and easily. Where they are taught independence and autonomy without being abandoned, guided and supported in their projects and dreams. Where students not only have the right to go against canons, traditions, conventions, and norms, but are encouraged to do so. Where other forms of knowledge than the theoretical are considered and taught: perception, empathy, emotion, intuition, personal stories, life experiences.
In the school of tomorrow, teachers do not tell students what to think or believe, but open doors for them, offering a variety of possibilities, knowledge, tools, and ways of seeing. They do not take advantage of students' youth and extreme sensitivity to influence or impose personal beliefs, but instead teach critical thinking, doubt, and skepticism. Open-mindedness, curiosity, and empathy.
This school would then be humane, warm, and generous.
This school will educate students, teaching them to trust themselves, believe in themselves, and be themselves.
This school will make students authentic, sincere, and courageous.
That's how they will face the world.
In the school of tomorrow, teachers do not tell students what to think or believe, but open doors for them, offering a variety of possibilities, knowledge, tools, and ways of seeing. They do not take advantage of students' youth and extreme sensitivity to influence or impose personal beliefs, but instead teach critical thinking, doubt, and skepticism. Open-mindedness, curiosity, and empathy.
This school would then be humane, warm, and generous.
This school will educate students, teaching them to trust themselves, believe in themselves, and be themselves.
This school will make students authentic, sincere, and courageous.
That's how they will face the world.