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  • Radio theatre is the adaptation of the theatre genre to the radio. The theatre renounces to the visual aspects of the scene and replaces them with sound elements that activate the listeners’ imagination and makes them enter the story. The radio theatre format is suitable for the V.I.T.A. project objectives as, while offering the opportunity to learn how to produce a radio show/podcast, it works on

    • creating a safe space where participants feel comfortable to share their stories;
    • fostering group cohesion and a sense of belonging;
    • promoting self-knowledge and consciousness;
    • giving participants the tools to analyse their voices, control intonation and pace.

  • Peer Interview and Vox Pop

    Ask the participants to reflect individually on a question.
    Then ask them to get into pairs, with a person of their choice. This could be a person with whom they feel particularly comfortable. Ask them to do a cross interview with recording material. Check that all the participants know how to use it. Then remind them about the interviews and invite them to sit down in a place where they feel comfortable.
    Listening to the audio files:
    Person A interviews B for 5 min, then the roles are reversed and B interviews A.
    Once the recordings are finished, come back into a large group circle. Place a speaker in the middle of the circle and listen to a few cross interviews on a voluntary basis. After each interview, do a quick review:
    How did you feel during the interview?
    How does it feel to hear your voice?
    Listening to the interviews sometimes makes the participants feel uncomfortable, but they mostly laugh. Conducting the interviews in pairs allows some of the participants to open up more, to have fun and to enjoy listening to themselves.

    Vox pop

    Vox pop usually takes place in the following way: a journalist approaches a person in the street and asks her/him/them a question about the chosen topic. The questions are asked according to what the journalist is looking for: a short answer, such as “yes” or “no”, or a more developed one. Like other forms of interviews, the questions can be adapted to the previous answers and to the profile of the interviewee.
    Warning : participants must be prepared on how to approach strangers. They also need to be prepared for rejection in case some of the people they want to interview are not willing  to answer the questions.
    Be careful with intimate questions that might incriminate the subjects. Also, if your questions are too intimate, you won’t get any answers. Imagine how you would react if a random person approaches you on the street and asks you overly private questions.
    When interacting with others don’t forget to present yourself and the project so people can be more curious and open to participate.

  • Sound Collage
    The topic of this sound collage was “How does your place of retreat sound like?”

    The concept was to catch the sound of a day at home. Home provides safety and mental peace. It is a place of retreat and relaxation.
    Step 1: Choose your equipment
    Step 2: Catch some sounds that illustrate home and peace. The sounds, voices and noises are recorded and collected. They will become the fragments of the sound collage.
    Step 3: Edit and compose. The recordings can be cut, moved, doubled, deleted or their volumes can be changed. A sound editing programme is used for this. There are some professional solutions as well as free programmes.
    Step 4: Listening. The final production of participants are listened to and discussed.

  • We will show you how to organize a debate during a radio workshop
    Before the participants arrive, let’s set up the radio studio. It is very important to be a quiet and pleasant place. Take the time to check that everything is working well so that you can be as quiet as possible during your workshop.
    Once everyone has arrived, you can do some icebreakers and energizers to create a relaxed atmosphere and get to know each other.
    Then ask the participants to :

    • Think about a topic that they would like to talk about.

    It can be a topic that is important to them, that they care about.

    • Ask participants to write down the theme(s) they have chosen on a piece of paper, and then group them into macro themes. For this you can ask them to specify their theme and how they want to talk about it.
    • Still discussing with the participants, create affirmative statements based on the topics.
    • Assign the tasks. You need one or more journalists, guests and a technical person.
    • Write down the guide sheet of your radio show, i.e. the timetable. This is important to give a framework and not to get lost in an endless debate.
    • Set up the debate thermometer.

    … 3, 2, 1 the show starts.

    Before finishing the workshop, trainers can offer a playful evaluation of the workshop.