Community Theatre with Yolda Collective (Workshop Series)

Community theatre with Yolda Collective brings a participatory workshop series exploring balance, support, and belonging through collaborative creation.

Open to all who are interested in theatre and movement, and especially welcoming to people navigating life in a new cultural environment.

What the workshops are about

Community theatre is a creative space where participants from diverse backgrounds can connect, exchange perspectives, and share their presence and stories. The artistic approach responds to the community’s needs and interests, and may incorporate additional mediums such as photography, puppetry, food-based activities, writing, sound recording, and video documentation.

The workshops aim to:

• build a cooperative, supportive, and safe environment where everyone can express themselves without pressure or judgment,
• spend meaningful time together and establish a sense of unity,
• emphasize dialogue, empathy, and mutual care within the group,
• shape how our community theatre grows together, creating a space that reflects the experiences, needs, and ideas of all participants.

The series is structured through diverse theatre tools (Theatre of the Oppressed, clowning, movement practices, storytelling, performance-making techniques) responsive to the participants’ experiences. All activities are designed to be accessible regardless of physical ability, developing an inclusive and accessible method and space.

Practical information

• Language: English
• Dates (always Thursday, 5 p.m.-7 p.m.): 15.10. · 22.10 · 29.10. · 5.11. · 12.11. · 19.11. · 26.11. · 3.12. · 10.12. · 17.12.
• Capacity: 15 participants
• Fee: free of charge
• You are welcome to join a single meeting. However, as the workshop series is primarily aimed at building a stable group, priority will be given to participants who can commit to the full course.

Registration

About Facilitators

Orkun is a performer and facilitator currently living in Brno, Czech Republic. Studied Acting in Turkey and Physical Theatre in Spain and the Czech Republic. Completed an MFA with a focus on devised theatre. Orkun collaborated with various companies and took part in international projects within Europe. Artistic practice is rooted in collective creation, play, and audience participation, often developing projects from scratch at the intersection of movement and audience engagement. Alongside performance, Orkun is dedicated to community-based practices. Focuses on inclusive and accessible practices for shared experiences where the artistic and social aspects are balancing; where people can meet beyond borders, discrimination, and under kinesthetic empathy. In 2025, co-founded the collective Yolda, focusing on movement-based creation, audience engagement, and socially engaged performance.

Barbora is a freelance artist, performer, and facilitator. Co-founder of the theatre collective Yolda Collective (Brno, Czech Republic). Studied puppetry in Bratislava with a focus on poetry and poetic approaches in puppet theatre (MFA), and physical theatre in Brno with a focus on the authorship of the clown (MFA). Since 2015, active in theatre-making and authorial creation, primarily focused on physical theatre, clowning, and puppetry. Alongside theatre practice, develops and facilitates community-oriented artistic projects and has taught movement, circus skills, singing, and drama to both children and adults. Currently works with Červený Nos Clowndoctors as a healthcare clown.