MISSION STATEMENT
The advancement of education for the public benefit through the promotion of the arts with an emphasis on the education of children and young people.
PROGRAM
Treehouse Storytelling centre is a unique Educational Arts and Storytelling mobile team which uses different locations for a wide variety of workshops, seminars, events and kids activities.
Our educational program is based on storytelling and educational arts (music, drama, and visual arts) as the media for researching the world around us where learning becomes fun and accessible and individual talents are nurtured to develop along with communication skills.
Through participation in the arts our mission empoweres the development of personal and social communication skills, self confidence, self value and the opportunity to creatively explore and recognize the issues and concerns which affect our lives.
The creative team of professional artists, language teachers and enthusiasts, are trained to work with children of all ages.
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”, who’s Project “Treehouse Storytelling Centre” was set up in 2006 in Belgrade.
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, project for elementary school children “Safety on the Internet “, workshops and performances for schools
- Museum of Princess Ljubica – story „Susa i Ama“with visual arts workshops for primary school children
- Japanese Tobacco Corporation – Family Day
- Microsoft Corporation, project “ Safety on the internet”, performance “Musicians”
- Festival of light – performance THE SUN GODDES, performed in front of Academy of Science, with a procession through the city, ending at the Ethnography Museum
- Belgrade Museum, – storytelling and-visual arts workshops for primary schools at the Museum “Toma Rosandić “ 2010 as part of The Night off Museums in Belgrade, devised performance “Letters to friends from the past and the future” of Toma Rosandic and the Museum Toma Rosandić
- International Nursery School of Belgrade, visiting performances from 2008 up to date
- Children Storytelling Festival
- Street performance at the Opening of Bitef Festival
FOUNDER AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Jelena Gašić - Detailed CV
