Programme 2026

The three workshops

You will spend most of the session on your feet. It is not a lecture, not a class, and you do not need to know how to act. The body goes first; the talking comes after, and it is sharper for it.

What taking part is like

The room has chairs that move, a table for cutting, and one empty wall. Nobody memorises a script and nobody gets on a stage. What is asked of you is a response: an image made with your body, a clipping from a magazine, one sentence at the end.

One rule organises everything, and it is the opposite of what school teaches: body first, language after. Whoever starts from the analytical frame has already decided what they will find. That is why the reading in colours, the most conceptual part, only arrives in the last twenty-five minutes.

We work with groups that already exist, and taking part costs nothing.

The methods behind this

The three, and where each one stands

Three formats under test. The first brings the Dutch context into a Brazilian room without requiring Dutch people to be there; the second puts both sides around a deadlock; the third opens the table and asks who decides.

Diagnose

Reading the other

It runs without Dutch people in the room, because the Netherlands arrives through the newspaper, which makes it the simplest to host.

In pilot

Newspaper Theatre × Context Mapping + Kleurendenken

Generate

Staging the deadlock

The only one of the three that needs both countries in the same room, and so the most demanding to organise. What is missing is the group and the deadlock.

Looking for a host

Forum Theatre × Frame Creation

Decide

Propose

Authority enters as a horizontal participant and what the group produces can be submitted somewhere. It has no page yet because it is not settled yet.

In co-design

Legislative Theatre × Dutch layer still open

What you need to know

Group12 to 24 people: In subgroups of four to six. We work with groups that already exist: classes, collectives, cultural programmes, teams and communities. There is no individual sign-up.
Length2h30 of session: Six phases, with a visible clock in the room. Add arrival and set-up time when you book the space.
RoomOpen, with a free wall: Space for the group to move, a table for cutting and gluing, and a wall where the collages can be hung and seen close up.
Who runs itTwo people: A Curinga and a materials steward, who hands out, organises and holds the timing. Isaac leads the theatre, Yvo the Dutch layer, and both are in the room for the whole session.
LanguagePortuguese, with NL and EN: The session runs in Portuguese. The Kleurendenken colours are taught in every working language, because the vocabulary is the instrument.

Under-18s: photography, recording and use of image require a guardian's authorisation, collected before the session by the organisation hosting the group. It is set out on the privacy page.

What comes out of a workshop

Every session generates output, not only input. A Ponte em Cena workshop ends with material: a crossed reading of how the same story lives differently in the two countries, a set of collages mapping where it lands in the lives of the people in the room, and a diagnosis naming which mode of change is in play and which is absent.

In the third workshop the ambition is larger: a proposal that can be submitted, and that neither side would have written alone.

What theatre brings

Body, presence, experience, conflict and participation. The tacit layer interviews never reach.

What design brings

Listening, structure, analysis, collaborative making. Language for what the body revealed.

And the subject?

Not settled yet, and that is deliberate. The approved proposal provides that the theme of each workshop is defined together with the Consulate, and names three possibilities: cultural communication, water and resilience, and two hundred years forward.

The choice changes the material that enters the room. It does not change the movement, or the pair of methods.

Want to bring a workshop to your group?

We work with groups that already exist: schools, collectives, cultural programmes, teams and communities in both countries.

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