The forum brings together practitioners of social theater on the African continent
Our story
Forum definition
The forum was launched in 2017 in Casablanca, with the participation of representatives from six countries in North and West Africa. It is a forum that brings together practitioners of social theatre in the African continent, facilitating communication among them. The forum serves as a space for resource gathering and sharing, a platform for shared learning, and creates a dynamic system that develops artistic practices originating from community environments, in collaboration with stakeholders, to contribute to a more just and equal society.
The forum works on networking programs, capacity building, collaborative production, research, advocacy, and promoting innovation. It explores avenues for shared funding sources.
Every theater is social, but we can say that it is a theater that can measure the concerns and problems of society through participating in the daily lives of citizens and interacting with them.
Hosny Al-Mukhlis
The Artistic Director of Corara Association for Arts and Cultures
Morocco
Social theater encompasses all theatrical forms that transform the issues of citizens into material for engagement. Its role is to shed light on problems that society may be unaware of.
Ayoub Al-Jawadi
The Artistic Director of Activist Artists
Tunisia
It is a theater that expresses itself through local languages and showcases their beauty. It sings the songs of the country, weeps for people’s sorrows, and rejoices in their joys. It accompanies the ongoing discussions under the ancient tree of negotiation and within the spaces of coexistence. It is a socially engaged theater that wears the attire of its audience and addresses their lives.
Mohamadou Dioulo
Artistic Director of the Cadirakh Forum Theater Festival
Senegal
The term “social theater” is known as an artistic intervention in the realm of citizenship, involving artists, civil society activists, and citizens. It addresses a social issue that everyone shares and discusses equally.
Ahmed Saleh
Artistic Director of El Madina for the Arts
Egypt
What do we do
Activities:
- Encouraging cultural and artistic exchange between cultural and artistic actors.
- Networking
- Social Theater Guide
- round tables
- Annual meeting
- Create a common platform
- Creating a common digital platform for social theater
- Creating a common digital platform for social theater
- Establishing a network of relationships (a platform) that contributes to encouraging this type of theater and its actors and advocating their causes and build solidarity with them.
- Spreading social theater as a tool for artistic skills and citizen participation development. Configurations:
- Regional configurations
- Local configurations
Building performances:
- Art residencies
- Productivity Grants
Creating audiovisual and paper content:
- Video Series
- establishing a technical and pedagogical guide Supporting and promoting the field of research and studies between technical, political and social.
Creating audiovisual and paper content:
- Publication of an annual magazine
- Publication of Research
- Articles