Prosperis, NUKC

29/04/2026

Holding the Space for Stories — 2-day Playback Theatre workshop in Vilnius

How does a space emerge where people feel safe to tell their stories?

We invite Playback Theatre practitioners — actors, musicians, conductors, and facilitators.

This workshop explores the often less visible, yet essential elements of Playback Theatre: how the structure is held, how listening happens, and how the conditions for stories to unfold are created.

During the training, participants will:
• deepen their understanding of the conductor’s role
• practice interviewing and listening to support the teller
• explore rhythm and dramaturgy in a Playback event
• work with the sideline effect and supporting roles
• develop ensemble awareness through practice and reflection

The training is led by Synne and Jan Platander (Sweden), co-founders of Teater X in Stockholm and leaders of the Scandinavian Playback Theatre Studio (affiliated with the Centre for Playback Theatre).
With nearly three decades of experience, they bring a rich combination of Playback Theatre, psychodrama, adult education, and organizational work.

📅 May 9–10 (10:00–19:00)
📍 Vilnius, P. Vileišio g. 18N
💶 Fee: 200 EUR (financial support is possible)
📝 Registration: https://forms.gle/rMFKAxXbZWXHqmit5
📌 Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/ecL57jMNK

Scholarships are available.
If you need financial support, please indicate this in the registration form.

This workshop is an opportunity to deepen professional practice, refine sensitivity to process, and strengthen the foundations of Playback Theatre work.

We look forward to welcoming you.

09/04/2026

So grateful for this inspiring meeting in Kraków with our amazing project partners ✨

08/04/2026

Tomorrow in Vilnius — Playback Theatre performance

We invite you to join an evening of live storytelling and shared human experience.

Playback Theatre is an improvisational form where personal stories from the audience are transformed into live performance through movement, music, and voice.
Each performance is unique — created in the moment, together with those who are present.

This event offers a space to listen, to reflect, and to connect through stories of identity, migration, and belonging.

You are welcome to share a story — or simply to be there and witness.

📅 April 9, 19:00
📍 Create Culture Space, Karmelitų g. 5, Vilnius
🎟 Donation from 10€
📝 Registration: https://forms.gle/FR9DZDunzFwAL3vQ9

The event is organized by the Informal Education and Consultation Center “Prosperis” as part of an international collaboration with partners from Finland, Norway, and Latvia, and is partially funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers through Nordic Culture Point.

30/03/2026

Our trainer is involved in organizing this course 🌿
We highly encourage and recommend it; this is a fantastic opportunity ⭐️

What does it mean to live through historical rupture? This course explores war, displacement, and crisis through performance ethnography, using Playback and Documentary Theatre to transform lived experience into collaborative, research-based performance.
https://offuniversity.org/current.../performance-ethnography

Starts on
📆 17.04.26, FRIDAY�
⏰ 17:00 CET

This course is hosted by University of Bonn, Department of Eastern European History and certified with 6 ECTS upon successful completion.

With Olena Kalashnykova and Daria Vystavkina

19/03/2026

Genres in Playback Theatre — 2-day international training in Vilnius

We invite you to join a professional Playback Theatre workshop focused on working with genre as a dramaturgical tool.

In Playback, we often focus on listening and staying true to the story.
This training explores another layer: how form shapes meaning.

What happens when the same story is played as a comedy, a tragedy, a horror scene, or a musical?
How does genre influence perception, rhythm, and emotional distance?
And how can we use it consciously — without losing the heart of the story?

During this two-day workshop, participants will work practically with:
• playing the same story in different genres
• identifying and holding the heart of the story
• making clear dramaturgical and aesthetic choices
• working with genre conventions, clichés, and references as tools
• expanding ensemble flexibility and expressive range

The training is led by Jori Linnamäki (Finland) — Playback Theatre Leadership Trainer, former president of IPTN, and an experienced practitioner in dramaturgy, group work, and applied theatre.

📅 April 11–12, 2026
🕙 10:00–18:00
📍 Vilnius, P. Vileišio g. 18N
💶 Participation fee: 200 €
📝 Registration: https://forms.gle/PHgjHQrQUUgZE5bh7
📌 Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/jvThfcZLK

Scholarships are available.

The project is implemented by the Informal Education and Consultation Center “Prosperis” in collaboration with partners from Finland, Norway, and Latvia, and is partially funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers through Nordic Culture Point.

We look forward to welcoming participants interested in deepening their Playback Theatre practice and expanding their artistic tools.

18/03/2026

The Territory of Atmosphere — an experiential evening with Playback Theatre

How does a space become alive?

Before words are spoken, before stories are shared, something already exists between people — a subtle atmosphere that shapes how we feel, listen, and connect.

This Thursday we invite you to explore this “territory of atmosphere” through the tools of Playback Theatre — a participatory art form where personal stories are expressed through improvisation, movement, and shared presence.

During the evening, we will focus on attention, imagination, and group awareness — exploring how a safe and responsive space can be created together, and how it supports authentic expression and human connection.

This experience is open to everyone.
No prior theatre background is needed.

📅 Thursday, March 19
🕖 19:00–21:00
📍 P. Vileišio St. 18N, Vilnius
💶 Participation: €15
📝 Registration: https://forms.gle/ETGFR7HwA7GzNPzM9
📘 Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/7gql80vhS

At Prosperis, we support initiatives that create meaningful spaces for dialogue, presence, and shared experience.

You are warmly welcome to join. 🌿

03/03/2026

The Art of Staying Connected
Playback Theatre Training Evening

What does it really mean to stay connected in action?

In Playback Theatre, connection is not an idea — it is a practice.
It happens in movement, in attention, in timing, in the subtle adjustments we make to one another.

During this training we will work on:
• ensemble awareness
• synchronisation without imitation
• rhythm and responsiveness
• staying present under pressure
• sensing the space between people

This is not a performance.
It is a focused, embodied training space for those who want to deepen their practice — whether you are a performer, facilitator, or simply curious about ensemble work.

Theatre begins where attention becomes shared.

📅 Thursday, March 5, 2026
🕖 19:00–21:00 (doors open at 18:50)
📍 P. Vileišio g. 18N, Vilnius

📝 Registration form: https://forms.gle/cciHFNHfYdkWyk1S8
Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/7nzVAAckD

If you have any questions, please contact us.

25/02/2026

🎶 Rhythm — A Playback Theatre Training Evening
Organised by Playback Theatre in Lithuania in collaboration with Prosperis
Vilnius | February 26

At Prosperis, we value practices that strengthen presence, communication, and community connection.

This Thursday we invite you to an experiential training evening dedicated to rhythm — as a foundation for interaction, cooperation, and group awareness.

Rhythm is not only artistic — it is relational.
It shapes how we listen, respond, lead, follow, and stay in balance with others.

During the session participants will explore:
• rhythm in breath and movement
• ensemble timing and shared tempo
• balancing impulse and response
• embodied listening and coordination

This event is suitable for:
• performers and creatives
• facilitators and educators
• community leaders
• anyone interested in embodied communication and group processes

No previous theatre experience is required.

📅 Thursday, February 26, 2026
🕖 19:00–21:00 (doors open at 18:50)
📍 P. Vileišio g. 18N, Vilnius
💶 Participation: €15
📝 Registration: https://forms.gle/A5edP1upqBk5DqXD6
📘 Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/5HUzjBnKi

Join us to explore rhythm as a tool for presence, balance, and meaningful interaction.

13/01/2026

🌿 Playback Theatre Core Training in Vilnius | Winter 2026

This winter, Prosperis invites you to take part in a Core Training in Playback Theatre - an international educational program focused on dialogue, presence, and community-based artistic practice.

Playback Theatre is a form of applied improvisational theatre rooted in real human stories. It is widely used in community work, education, psychosocial support, and intercultural dialogue.
This training offers a solid foundation for those who want to explore Playback Theatre as an artistic, social, and educational method.

🔹 What the training offers
• Core principles and forms of Playback Theatre
• Improvisation based on lived experience
• Work with body, emotion, listening, and ensemble
• A safe, respectful, multilingual learning environment
• Balance of practice, reflection, and group process

No prior theatre experience is required.
The training is open to artists, educators, facilitators, community workers, and anyone interested in arts-based dialogue.

📍 Location: Vilnius, Lithuania
📅 Dates:
• 24–25 January 2026
• 21–22 February 2026
🕒 Duration: 30 hours (2 weekends)
🌐 Languages: English, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Russian
📜 Certificate: Core Training in Playback Theatre

👤 Course leader
Olena Kalashnykova
Accredited Playback Theatre Trainer (Center for Playback Theatre, New York)

🔗 Registration & payment:
https://bptps.lv/event/playback-theatre-core-training-in-vilnius/

Feel free to share with colleagues and networks who may find this opportunity relevant.

24/12/2025

Greetings from NUKC Prosperis ✨

As the year comes to a close, we want to pause and express our sincere gratitude to everyone who has been part of Prosperis’ journey this year.

To our partners, collaborators, educators, artists, community members, and friends — thank you for your trust, cooperation, and shared commitment to learning, dialogue, and social connection.
This year reminded us that meaningful change is built through care, consistency, and people working together across borders and disciplines.

At Prosperis, we believe in non-formal education, cultural exchange, and community-based practices as foundations for resilient and inclusive societies. We are grateful to continue this work alongside you.

We wish you peaceful holidays, restorative rest, and a New Year filled with clarity, inspiration, and sustainable growth.
May the coming year bring new opportunities for collaboration, learning, and positive impact.

09/12/2025

🌿 Playback Evening: Stories With Many Sides — Couples
Exploring relationships, multidimensional stories, and the space “between”

Have you ever tried to tell a story about your relationship with someone…
and suddenly realized there is no single version of it?

As if the story has layers.
As if it changes depending on the angle.
As if more than one truth lives inside the same moment.

This Thursday, we invite you to explore exactly that.

Through Couples — one of the most expressive Playback Theatre forms — we will work with stories about relationships, conflict, transformation, tension, and connection. It is a form that reveals the space between two people, where meaning is created.

Part 1 — Warm-Up
We begin with embodied attunement, emotional awareness, and movement-based exercises that help us feel the multidimensionality of our inner landscape.

Part 2 — Playback Form: Couples
A large and nuanced form ideal for stories about:
• partners, parents, friends, colleagues
• long-term dynamics and life transitions
• inner or interpersonal conflict
• the archetypal tension of “me” and “the other”

📅 Date: Thursday, December 11
🕖 Time: 19:00–21:00 (doors open 18:50)
📍 Location: P. Vileišio g. 18N, Vilnius
Side entrance — follow the orange flags.
Room: 1st floor, second door on the left.

💶 Fee: 15 EUR
📝 Registration (required): https://forms.gle/Ama3H1BfErubhvRi9
🔗 FB Event: https://fb.me/e/5rDIlz7Fe

Come discover how two perspectives, two truths, two emotional worlds can coexist — and how Playback Theatre transforms them into art.

We look forward to welcoming you in a warm, safe, and creative space. ✨