Portraying Life & Faith

Engaging Hearts & Minds

Relating Across Cultures

Through Drama

Trainer: Birte Papenhausen

Arts Release Drama is Birte's dream job since it combines three of her passions: drama, theology and culture. From a young age Birte loved drama, and had many different experiences, including in professional playhouses. She studies drama therapy in the Netherlands. Eleven years of missionary work in Mongolia led to a firm conviction that drama is a powerful tool to evangelise, teach and disciple. From 2010 Birte has been performing and teaching all over the world with a vision to enable locals and missionaries to use drama forms appropriate to their culture to help audiences grow in their personal relationship with God.

18 July 2019 Thursday, 9am to 1pm

Session 1: Orality & Oral learners: understanding, engaging & teaching those from oral cultures

18 July 2019 Thursday, 2pm to 5.30pm

Session 2: The Art of Memorising & Telling stories to change worldviews

19 July 2019 Friday, 9.30am to 12.30pm

Prayer meeting, Interactive Bible study

19 July 2019 Friday, 2pm to 5.30pm

Session 3: Practice & feedback session. Creating your own story for target group

20 July 2019 Saturday, 10am to 1pm

Creative Artists Gathering

22 July 2019 Monday, 2pm to 5.30pm

Session 4: Story based Bible studies, eg Living Statues

23 July 2019 Tuesday, 2pm to 5.30pm

Session 5: Story based Bible studies, eg Living Statues

24 July 2019 Wednesday, 2pm to 5.30pm

Session 6: Biographies for Bible studies & discipling