As an artist, how could I end this speech, but with a work of art. Here it is, a jewel, a poem by Khalil Gibran I wrote as a tee-nager in big letters on the back of a large poster and hung in my parents’ bedroom, to be the last thing they see before going to bed, and the first thing to see when they open their eyes , to dwell on it, just as I ask you to dwell on it now.
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you.
And though they are with you, they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite.
And He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hands be for happiness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
So He loves the bow that is stable. (Khalil Gibran: Your children)
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Endnotes
1. the team is the Hleb Teater/Artistic Utopia/ Center for Drama in Educa-tion and Art /CEDEUM team consists of Kristina Mladjenović-coordina-tor and PR, Jugoslav Hadžić- technical direcMladjenović-coordina-tor and program coordinaMladjenović-coordina-tor, Anastasia Tasić-visual and total design, I am involved as Artistic director.
It also includes many volunteers and collaborators. www.hlebteatar.com, https://www.facebook.com/festival.mater.terra/
2. Proverb, Latin: “History is the teacher of life”.
3. “Science classes won’t future-proof our children. But dance might”, Christ-ina Patterson THE GUARDIAN, March 2017
4. IDEA involves about 80 organizations from all over the world that are dedicated to drama/theatre education. It is a platform for exchange, advocacy and promotion of drama/ theatre education and most of all support between the organizations. We learn for each other, we devel-op together, and what is so important, we get a firsthand insight what is going on with drama/ theater education on the world, to be able to com-pare, to show as example to our officials where the world trends are and what are we it follow.
5. In Évora, 7-16 July 2017, at the Scenic Arts Department, Arts School so Arts at the Évora University in Portugal the IDEA General Council Meeting will be held with important agenda points are the elections of the new board of IDEA and the discussions and decisions on the new Strategic Planning for a sustainable policy for IDEA for the next 25 years. Also the celebration of IDEA’s 25th anniversary on 11 -12 July 2017: IDEA 25 YEARS during which relevant examples of good practice in the field of Drama/Theatre/Arts &
Education related to the four central themes in the Program of IDEA 25 YEARS will be presented. Also students or young professionals with their leader(s) will participate in the Exchange project, titled 1M² (One Square Meter). Young people from various countries of all continents will work in cultural mixed groups to create and present theatrical materials inspired by the themes of the Experts meetings. The results of their work will be presented at the celebration day IDEA 25 YEARS on 12 July.
6. Proverb, Latin: “History is the teacher of life”.
7. “Warrior of light” a concept of Paolo Coelho, developed in his books “The Alchemist’ and “The Warriors of the Light” . It appears also as a character of virtual games.
8. “…behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.”
9. “In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else’s path is wrong.”
10. “Warriors of light are not perfect. Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.”
11. “The Warrior of the Light is a believer.
12. Because he believes in miracles, miracles begin to happen. Because he is sure that his thoughts can change his life, his life begins to change.
Because he is certain that he will find love, love appears.”
13. (Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light)
14. IDEA Europe is the informal regional network of IDEA, the International Drama & Theatre in Education Association. It has annual meetings every time in a different country. For example, in 2009 the meeting was held in Budapest organized by HUDEA. In 2012 in Belgrade, organized by my organization CEDEUM.
15. ”Making a World of Difference”/A DICE resource for practitioners on edu-cational theatre and Drama, Chris Cooper DICE team and Consortium 8.
16. WAAE consists of the representatives of four organizations: Internatio-nal Society for Music Education, (ISME, https://www.isme.org/), the World Dance Alliance, (WDA, http://www.worlddancealliance.org/), the Interna-tional Drama & Theatre in Education Association, (IDEA, http://waae.edcp.
educ.ubc.ca/), and the International Society of Education through Art (InSEA). http://www.insea.org/.
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