国际戏剧教育协会日致辞 IDEA DAY MESSAGE 2025

今年将是自廷蒂·卡尔皮宁提出设立IDEA DAY以来，我们第十八次庆祝这一节日。IDEA DAY的庆祝主题历年更迭。值此世界似乎笼罩在黑暗与毁灭阴霾之下、令人困惑的2025年，我们决定以"戏剧带来希望"作为本年度IDEA DAY核心主题。

我想为我的IDEA DAY演讲添加一个副标题，即"行动中的希望"。

在这个动荡的时代，仅仅存在和祈盼远远不够。我们不能坐等好时光到来，不能指望问题会自行解决。

丽贝卡·桑利特写道，希望是"对未知与不可知之物的拥抱"，也是"危急时刻用来破门的斧头"。正如乔纳森·利尔所阐释的，我们正身处"激进希望"的时代。

“激进的希望意味着立足于可能性，并主动努力将其转化为承诺。它意味着相信存在前进、生存、抵抗和胜利的途径，即使我们并不确切知道最终会抵达何处。”

我们在戏剧教育领域的工作，本质上意味着在每个戏剧课堂中、通过每个创作过程，不断重塑未来，重构世界与自我。

通过我们的工作，我们向世界展现自我与本质。在这个过程中，我们拥有蜕变的可能性，而自我蜕变终将改变世界。当我周游世界，参加会员组织的活动、会议、大会及艺术节时，有幸发表主题演讲、参与专题讨论或主持工作坊，我亲眼见证了这种力量对戏剧教育工作者、教师、学生及戏剧从业者的深刻影响。

就在不久前，在土耳其当代戏剧协会于安卡拉举办的大会上，当我在创作工坊中引导参与者描绘人生轨迹、梳理所有重大人生转折点时，几乎所有人都标注了生命中邂逅戏剧/舞台艺术的年份，以及它如何改变了他们的人生。有人形容这如同心间绽放的花朵，有人喻为终于为自己寻得安宁与创造力。有人则称之为终于得以表达、抗争、创造更美好未来的契机。

在联合国戏剧艺术中心（UNATC）于布加勒斯特举办的会议上，一位年轻母亲坦言：当她观看孩子在戏剧课上的演出与展示时，仿佛第一次真正看清了他们的本真模样。戏剧艺术不仅帮助我们认识自我、理解自我，更让我们洞察所处的世界。但它更具有改变现实的主动性——至少在工作坊、课堂、戏剧创作过程及舞台活动进行的当下。而改变现状的唯一途径，首先是开始想象它可能呈现的模样。

我相信我们有能力付出这份努力，开启这道照亮我们的光芒，让我们得以显现——我们所做之事带来的善意与希望，以及我们自身携带的光芒，希望与变革的光芒。我们必须改变边缘化的存在范式，转向教育、生活与人性的核心位置。我们所传递的，正是人类赖以维系生存、延续发展所需的核心能力。我们既拥有直面人工智能与数字化所有阴暗面的力量，又能拥抱其带来的积极影响——通过为需要实体存在与实践的职业而奋斗，我们正践行着这种力量。

我们必须让世界明白，边缘化我们，就等于边缘化幸福与内在成长的可能性，削弱了修习"灵魂生态学"的可能。我们确实需要像守护外部生态那样勤勉地修习内在生态。我们的内心世界同样脆弱，时常被诸多因素污染、蒙蔽。

这份韧性、这份力量、这份坚持的方式，必须坚定而耐心地展现于世人眼前。值此联合国教科文组织国际艺术教育周之际，我们决定使用强有力的言辞——正如我们在宣言中做出的抉择：不再乞求，而是要求。因为言语本身便蕴含着能量。

因此我们绝不妥协，而将在行动中持续创造希望——在每个课堂、每个工坊、每次戏剧教育实践中。

我们绝不妥协，而将在行动中创造希望。

萨妮娅·克尔斯马诺维奇·塔西奇

国际戏剧教育协会主席（2020-2027）

我们艺术教育工作者，来自艺术领域的各个方向，绝不妥协！

通过艺术教育，我们直面社会正义与气候正义议题，培育同理心与理解力。

面对当下全球暴力肆虐的现状，我们绝不妥协！

我们誓言将艺术表达作为对话、和解与包容的工具。

面对当今两极分化、种族主义与仇外心理的现状，我们将坚定地与之抗争！我们誓言践行民主公民精神与和平建设。

2025年联合国教科文组织艺术教育周

世界艺术教育联盟（WAAE）声明

IDEA DAY MESSAGE 2025

This year it will be the 18th time we are celebrating IDEA Day ever since Tintti Karppinen proposed it should be celebrated. Themes for the IDEA Day celebration have changed over the years. This year, the year when we find ourselves in confusion about the darkness and destruction that seems to prevail in the world, we have decided to have the theme of “Drama/Theatre for Hope” as the main focus of 2025 IDEA Day.

I would like to give a subtitle of my IDEA DAY message as “Hope in Action”. 

Just being and hoping in these radical times is not enough. We are not in the position to sit and wait for better times to come, for things to resolve by themselves. 

Rebecca Sonlit writes that hope is “an embrace of the unknown and the unknowable” and also “an axe you break down doors with in an emergency”. We are in the times of “radical hope” as explained by Jonathan Lear. 

“Radical hope means grounding ourselves in the possibilities and making proactive efforts to transform them into promise. It is believing that there are ways to move forward, to survive, resist, and prevail, without knowing exactly where we will be when we arrive.”

The work we do, in our field of drama/theatre and education  implies actually that, reimagining the future, recreating the world and ourselves in every drama class, through every process. 

Through our work we present ourselves and our essence in the world. We have the possibility to transform in this process, and by transforming ourselves we transform the world. I can witness this impact on drama/theatre pedagogues, teachers, students, theatre professionals, as I travel around the world attending events organized by our members, conferences, congresses festivals where I have the honor to deliver keynote speeches, speak on panels or conduct workshops.

Just recently at the Congress organized by the Contemporary  Drama Association from Türkiye in Ankara, during the process of describing their life journey and mapping all the most important life changing events in my devising workshop, almost all the participants marked the year in their life when they encountered drama/theatre and how it changed their life. Some described it like flowers starting to bloom in their hearts, some described it as at last finding peace and creativity for themselves. Some as at last expressing, resisting, creating for a better future. 

In the Conference in Bucharest, organized by UNATC, a young mother said that when she watched her children perform and present in a drama/theatre class, it is as if she saw them for the first time for who they truly are. Drama/theatre helps us get to know and understand ourselves and understand the world we live in. But it also has a pro-active role of changing the reality at least in this time while the workshop, class, drama process, theatre activity is happening. And the only way to change the present is first of all to start imagining what it could actually look like.

I believe that we are capable of making this effort, of opening this possibility of casting the light on us, making us visible, the goodness and hope we bring with what we do, also bringing the light with us, the light of hope and change. We must change the paradigm of being in the margin to being in the center of education, life and humanity. What we bring are essential skills needed for us as humans to be able to sustain, survive and develop. We have the power of confronting all the dark issues of AI and digitalization, on the other hand embracing the good points it brings, by fighting for our work that demands physical presence and embodied practices. 

We must convince the world that by marginalizing us, it is marginalizing the possibility of wellbeing and inner growth, and diminishing the possibility of working  on the “ecology of the soul”. We do need to work on it as diligently as we work on ecology in the world around us. Our inner worlds are as fragile, and sometimes polluted, darkened  by so many factors.

This resilience, strength, this way of continuing, must be expressed firmly and patiently for all to see. For this year’s UNESCO International Week of Arts Education we decided to use strong words, just as we made the decision in our declarations not to ask any more,  but to demand. And words have energy in themselves. 

So we will not bow down, but continue to create hope in action, in every class, every workshop, every time we do our work in drama/theatre and education. 

We will not bow down, but create hope in action.

Sanja Krsmanović Tasić

IDEA President (2020-2027)

We arts educators, from all areas of arts, will not bow down!

Through arts in education we address social justice and climate justice issues, we foster empathy and understanding. 

Facing the current state of global violence, we will not bow down!

We pledge for artistic expression as a tool for dialogue, reconciliation, and inclusivity.

Facing the current state of bipolarization, racism and xenophobia, we will stand up strongly against them! We pledge for democratic citizenship and peacebuilding.

WAAE statement for the 2025 UNESCO Arts Education Week