10th STUDENT ART FESTIVAL-ACTION DAY 2025

"Together: Boundaries without margins"
KALAMATA, 3/5/2025,
18.00 - 20.30

Evening EPAL of Kalamata
Participating: 20 schools, 52 teachers, 330 students.

The Panhellenic Network for Theatre in Education, in collaboration with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the Regional Directorate of Education of the Peloponnese, is organising a Youth-Student Festival entitled "Together: Boundaries without Margins" in Kalamata on Saturday, May 3rd, 2025, from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM at the Evening EPAL of Kalamata (Riga Feraios & Crete str., school complex).

The 2025 Festival includes
a) presentations and small theatrical events,
b) visual creations by students
c) radio spot
d) live music by the SURF IN BLACK band, which consists of students.

The following schools & organisations are participating:
1. Sperchogia Kindergarten
2. 2nd Messina Kindergarten
3. 2nd Gargaliani Kindergarten
4. 7th Kalamata Kindergarten
5. 14th Kalamata Kindergarten
6. 24th Kalamata Kindergarten
7. "Peachnidoupoli" Kindergarten & KDAP
8. Sperchogia Elementary School
9. 6th Kalamata Elementary School
10. 21st Kalamata Elementary School
11. E.E.E.K. Kalamata
12. 2nd Gymnasium of Messina
13. 1st EPAL of Kalamata
14. 2nd EPAL of Kalamata
15. 3rd GEL of Kalamata
16. 4th GEL of Kalamata
17. Evening EPAL of Kalamata
18. Public Central Library of Kalamata
19. SOS Children's Villages

We are hosting the Zhiren of Tianfu Theatre Group of the 7th High School from Chengdu, China and their Teacher, Miao Bin.
For the tenth year, the Student Festival—Day of Action 2025 is taking place in Kalamata. The schools participate in the "What if it were you?" awareness programme for human rights and refugee issues.

As every year, a network of schools was created at the beginning of the school year with the aim of our students working on issues related to human rights and the acceptance of diversity in all its forms. The children work on empathy, acceptance of others, and understanding the right to equal opportunities for all. Theatrical techniques, experiential workshops, teaching visits, discussions, creative writing, etc., are used. At the same time, teachers participate in regular training, coordination, and information meetings during the same period, resulting in cooperation and mutual support. The culmination of this process is everyone meeting at a large festival at the end of the school year, which, with the support of a sufficient number of city bodies, aims to disseminate this work both in the school and the broader community.

This year, we focused on the issue of all children feeling accepted and safe in the school environment. We investigated the issue of intra-school violence and the factors that create it. We talked about boundaries and children's relationships with the family. We examined the issue of diversity and the responsibility of every active citizen not only for its defence but also for its acceptance.