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<\/a>The New Spectator<\/p><\/div>\n
In Hungary there are several theater groups which deal with one of the above-mentioned communities. \u201cK\u00e1va \u2013 Cultural Workshop (K\u00e1va Kultur\u00e1lis M\u0171hely)\u201d has been doing projects of education through theater for 18 years. Their performances are aimed at small groups (a class of 14-15 year-olds, for instance) and follow the guidelines of the Theater in Education (TIE)<\/b> programs. This group was the initiator of The<\/b> New Spectator<\/b> (\u00daj n\u00e9z\u0151) <\/b>project in 2010, together with the Association for Culture and Social Sciences \u201canblokk\u201d and Kr\u00e9tak\u00f6r, an independent group from Budapest, founded by \u00c1rp\u00e1d Schilling in 1995, which later became one of the most important centers of Hungarian theater. This collective stopped producing traditional performances in 2008 and became a center of contemporary art, as well as an agency of theater productions which \u201cdevelops creative social games using expertise from the social sciences.\u201d<\/p>\n
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In an interview to Magyar Narancs<\/b>, G\u00e1bor Tak\u00e1cs referred to a TV show in post-apartheid South Africa as the inspiration for the program. That show was made up of a series of discussions between a white person and a black person which took place in an amphitheater. The program was on for several years and its beneficial effects were scientifically tested. In the case of The<\/b> New Spectator<\/b> \u2013 an experiment which can be assessed as similar to that of the South African one \u2013 the organizers chose two villages in which the presence of ethic Roma was somehow representative. The ethnic divide in these two villages is different: in Szomolya, a village of 1700, there is a Roma minority of 10-15% who are segregated and discriminated against by the ethnic Hungarians, whereas in \u00c1rokt\u0151, the village with 1200 inhabitants, 50% are Roma and are a part of the life of the community. Despite appearances, the ethnic tension is much more present in Szomolya, where the social processes after 1989 led to an obvious rift in the community (the settling of the Roma is seen by the ethnic Hungarians as a \u201cGypsyfication\u201d (\u021biganizare<\/i>) of the village). This is why the two experiments have developed in different ways: while in \u00c1rokt\u0151 the project is accepted by the community and supported by the local authorities, in Szomolya it has very little support and The New Spectator<\/b> seems to be a Roma-only event. It\u2019s no wonder, then, that the program is mostly taken up by them and instead of six meetings a week, there are only three […]<\/p>\n