Glej,
Future = NOW! A Youth Manifesto

About the project

Online and offline hate speech, divisive public opinions, and conflicts in society are rising. Decisions are being made about our lives and yet, where is the voice of young generations in all of this? They are the voices of the future, that will mostly be theirs and yet they have little or no say about it.

Glej Theatre (Slovenia), Het Stichting Theaterschip (Netherlands) and NDM Ateliér (Czech Republic) have been active for many years in the field of working with youth in theatre, mostly focusing on producing youth performances and developing inclusive methodologies of working with them in theatre. With Future = NOW! A Youth Manifesto, a project co-funded by the European Union, Creative Europe Culture programme, we will work together with the young generation to form a cross section of art and activism about topics that are in the centre of their future concerns. We want to redefine forums of the 21st century through the help of artivism and performance arts practices, engage the audience in site specific action and start discussion through the help of participatory practices.

The project Future = NOW! urges all of us to really connect, not only on a local and national level, but also transnationally and cross-sectorally. Project is focusing on gender, environmental crisis and self-care. Throughout the project we will build youthmanifestos that will be based on thorough research, local manifestos presentations, local conferences and festivals, as well as international co-productions, development of online methodologies and digital guidebooks and film to share our knowledge after the end of the project.

In short: this is a FuN way to tackle today’s most vibrant social issues of the future. With the young, by the young, for the young.

Performances

Pride tak dan, pride tako leto, pride pajk / There comes a day, there comes a year, there comes a spider
original youth performance / Future = NOW! A Youth Manifesto
production: Glej Theatre

Infratanko / Infrathin
original youth performance / Future = NOW! A Youth Manifesto
production: Glej Theatre

Vrt / The Garden
Youth devised radio play / Future = Now! A Youth Manifesto
Production: Gledališče Glej, Het Stichting Theaterschip, NDM Ateliér
Co Production: RTV Slo, Radio Slovenija

Kričoča pomlad / Screaming Spring
Youth devised performance / Future = Now! A Youth Manifesto
Production: Gledališče Glej, NDM Ateliér, Het Stichting Theaterschip

Digital content

Behold, a FuN documentary!

And look and this- a digital guidebook of the whole project!

Video

Presenting the manifestos at Het Stichting Theaterschip (March 2023): Youth Manifestos

FuN! Partners

Glej Theatre (Slovenia)
Het Stichting Theaterschip (Netherlands)
NDM Ateliér (Czech Republic)

FuN! in the Fall

11. in 12. november 2023
Festival FuN! in the Fall

In November 2023, we will host the last meeting of the partners and youth groups of the Future = NOW! A Youth Manifesto with guests from Het Stichting Theaterschip (The Netherlands) and NDM Ateliér (Czech Republic). This time we will not only be delighted by the youth manifestos but also the premiere of a radio play called The Garden and the premiere of the final co-production The Screaming Spring.

The festival will take place at the Ljubljana Dance Theatre.

Saturday, 11. november 2023

The Garden / 17.00h
Youth devised radio play / Future = Now! A Youth Manifesto
Production: Gledališče Glej, Het Stichting Theaterschip, NDM Ateliér
Co Production: RTV Slo, Radio Slovenija

Please Relax / 17.30h
original youth performance / Future = NOW! A Youth Manifesto / in English
production: Het Stichting Theaterschip (Netherlands)

Discussion with the creators / 18.00h

Screaming Spring / 18.30h
Youth devised performance / Future = Now! A Youth Manifesto
Production: Gledališče Glej, NDM Ateliér, Het Stichting Theaterschip

Sunday, 12. november 2023

You are what you eat / 18.30h
original youth performance / Resistance! = Youth Festival of Modern European History
production: Glej Theatre

Archive

Glej, international youth festival

May 12 to 13
FuN! Festival
Glej Theatre & Kranj

In May 2023 Glej Theatre hosted a meeting of partners and youth theatre groups within the project Future = NOW! A Youth Manifesto with guests from Het Stichting Theaterschip (Netherlands) and NDM Ateliér (Czech Republic).

Programme in Ljubljana and Kranj:

12./at 15:45
13./ob 11:00/guest perfomance in Kranj
Please Relax
original youth performance / Future = NOW! A Youth Manifesto / in English
production: Het Stichting Theaterschip (Netherlands)

12./at 16:15
13./ob 11:30/guest perfomance in Kranj
Behind the Filter
original youth performance / Future = NOW! A Youth Manifesto / in English
production: NDM Ateliér (Czech Republic)

12./at 16:45
13./ob 12:00/guest perfomance in Kranj
There comes a day, there comes a year, there comes a spider
original youth performance / Future = NOW! A Youth Manifesto / in Slovene with English subtitles
production: Glej Theatre

12./at 17:30
Rainbow over the Alps
performance discourse / Future = NOW! A Youth Manifesto / in English
production: Glej Theatre

Support

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission, Creative Europe Culture programme.

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