News about Dra.ma Association
Qfor the first time, Dra.ma is organizing the screening of the winning film in the 'Best Film' category from the 2022 short films and screenplays competition. So we cordially invite you to the screening of Medea, a film with a fantastic cast directed by Iustin Baby on December 9, 4pm, Flash Musical Centre, Edgware, London. Iustin, who was 16 years old when he made the film, is coming, as part of his award, to London and will participate in the Q&A after the movie.
Also, as a bonus, we'll also screen the winning film from 2021, which due to the pandemic, has not been screened until now. The event will be moderated by our colleague Beatrice Bowden and will be in English.
Tickets are already on sale here or you can pay/donate at the door as much as you like.
The Dra.ma workshop goes for first time to America!
Dra.ma along with Stories told in Romanian, were invited to Chicago by the Romanian Community Center Chicago and the Romanian United Fund to support the Salut camp! Do you want to be friends? Throughout the week of August 14-19, Romanian participants will learn more about Romania and the Romanian language through fun lessons and games, and at the end they will be able to present a small show to the parents and organizers. We can't wait!!
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Andreea and Beatrice were invited to give a conference at Pace University in New York where they talked about acting for theater and film and dramatic writing. They discussed these aspects from the perspective of their careers as actresses but also as Dra.ma members and the need to experiment and take on skills that can help enormously even if they are not directly related to the chosen career. They talked to the students about life in the dramatic arts but also did creative exercises with them. The conference was a success and the proposed exercises and games were appreciated by the participants, students and teachers alike.
The themes of the Dra.ma 2023 contests have been chosen!
For the competition of monologues and skits, which has entries from April 1 to May 30, the theme is ME AND THE OTHER - Differences and Similarities, Discrimination vs Acceptance, and for the short films and screenplays contest, which has the registration period between September 1rie and October 31, EU, EACH OTHER AND TECHNOLOGY - Advantages and Disadvantages, Virtual World vs Real World.
Competitors can choose one or more aspects from given themes and can use the themes in any creative way they want.
New member Dra.ma
Stela Toba
She is an actress from Giurgiu and lives in London. Stela started the collaboration with Dra.ma Acting for life as a special guest in the RCCT CIC project. Over time I have seen that she is extraordinary to work with children, he has infinite patience and great ideasyou're good so I invited her to be part of Dra.ma! We are glad that he answered affirmatively to our invitation!
Dra.ma concludes the first part of the 2022 tour. With workshops in Romania and Great Britain, the meetings with the children and teenagers were extraordinary and we learned and shared a lot together. Welcome to the Dra.ma Family everyone! To the children, teenagers, parents and organizations that supported us and associated with us! Thank you!
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The Dra.ma Association concluded partnership agreements with the Ștefan Procopiu High School in Vaslui, Stories in Romanian London and Joyful Learning Kindergarten in Oradea. We are very excited about these partnerships because they will extend the collaboration with these institutions, which will ensure the harmonious development of the children and adolescents who attend them.
The association is also in negotiations with other organizations both in the UK and in other cities to continue the series of partnerships.
Interviews with Dra.ma
Recently, the Dra.ma Association was invited to various radio, TV and online shows to talk about our activities and the new dra.ma short film challenge.
Watch here:
TVR1 INTERNATIONAL INTERVIEW Second Romania - June 3, 2021 Edition - YouTube
INTERVIEW RADIO LA FOR YOU Andreea Helen David - Radio DA
TRANSYLVANIA NEWS INTERVIEW Facebook Live | Facebook
The awards cermony of the Dra.ma monologue and short play challenge took place yesterday, 9th of May 2021, in an online event broadcast on our Facebook page.
The winners are:
Adriana Maria Zamfir - Award for Best Performance
Ilinca Marcan - Award for Best Original Text
Julia Marcan - Award for Best Performance
Adisa Manole - Award for Best Performance
Teodora Lavinia Liscan - Award for Best Adapted Text
Anastasia Chivu - Special mention
You can watch the awards ceremony here:
Drama Award the Monologues and Short Play Challenge- YouTube
Ioana Goga was invited to Zoom Talks, a platform dedicated to teenagers and young people interested in the dramatic arts, to talk about her career so far and the Dra.ma Association.
The interview can be found on our website at the Dra.ma Resources section and / or on our YouTube page https://youtu.be/CMSKtNzu_Ms.
Follow Ioana to find out what it's like to be an actor in Great Britain, how to create your own projects and how to benefit from the dramatic arts.
dra.ma association led an acting workshop for children from the Romanian school AlexZ in London, a novelty in the school curriculum and in children's lives.
dra.ma together with Veronica Costache, the director of AlexZ school organized and led an acting games workshop for AlexZ school children, aged between 4 and 12 years.
The children are all Romanian and the workshop, created by the members of dra.ma, was in Romanian. The children were divided into two age groups 4-8 and 9-12 years and enjoyed exercises of movement, imagination, text work and improvisation.
The members who are actresses but also writers, producers and drama practitioners, created the special workshop for AlexZ students and it was tailored to their ages and experience.
The workshop was a success, the participants had fun and want it to happen again.
