MISSION STATEMENT
The advancement of education for the public benefit through the promotion of the arts for all ages with an emphasis on the education of children and young people.
METHODOLOGY
Treehouse Storytelling Centre is specializing in Educational Arts and Storytelling, offering a diverse range of workshops, seminars, and events for all ages.
Our methodology integrates storytelling, music, movement, drama, and visual arts empowering participants and facilitating the development of personal and social communication skills, self confidence, self value, voice skills, musical awareness and instrument skills, performance ability, the development of individual talents and the opportunity to creatively explore and recognize the issues and concerns which affect and influence our lives.
Objectives:
To use multiarts with children, young people and adults from culturally specific groups and create an environment for them to be encouraged to produce work according to their own cultural agendas, including supporting the use of native languages.
To devise performances, which are created through collaboration of young people from diverse cultural groups, exchanging ideas to achieve a shared creative communication of their perceived concerns and aspirations.
To integrate groups of different ages and abilities wherever possible.
To secure funding in order to provide an open access service.
To set an example for other existing services to follow.
HISTORY
Treehouse Storytelling Centre has been founded and developed in 1991 by Jelena Gašić in London (G. Britain).
In 2000, based on the perceived need for setting up an educational arts project with refugees and displaced youth and children from Kraljevo (Serbia) and the surrounding area, , she formed NGO “Naš svet-Our World”, and setup Belgrade “Treehouse Storytelling Centre” in 2006.
Collaborating partners
Immediate Theatre London UK
Vanguard Public Health Conference
Tangere ARTS UK
Passport For Youth
Norwegian Peoples Aid
Cirkus Sfera
Čigre
Vodič za roditelje
DAH Theatre centre for theatre research
EXTERNAL PROJECTS AND VISITING PERFORMANCES
Based on the perceived needs, our creative team of artists and researchers have devised and created various projects applying our educational arts method.
- Microsoft Corporation,, workshops and performances for schools: two years project for elementary school children “Safety on the Internet “
- Belgrade Mouseums project – One year workshops and performances for primary and secondary schools “Letters to friends from the past and the future” in various mouseums, including performances for “The Night off Museums” in Belgrade.
- Japanese Tobacco Corporation – Family Days
- Festival of light in cooperation with the Academy of Science and the Etnography Mouseum with elementary school children and teachers joined by audience participating in the collective performance – THE SUN GODDES, including a procession through the city.
- International Nursery School of Belgrade, visiting performances from 2008 up to date
- Annual Treehouse Childrens Storytelling Festival
- Multiarts performances for regular Treehouse Funday-Sunday programme.
FOUNDER AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Jelena Gašić - Detailed CV
