#buďjamák

This year’s #budjamák took place in two runs – a three-day summer run and a one-semester autumn run.

The summer run offered participants three full-day workshops in the areas of audiovisual production and theatre, actor training and mindfulness and dramaturgical thinking about theatre.

The autumn #buďjamák took the classic form of six all-day meetings during the winter semester. The opening block focused on introducing the group to each other and naturally followed the parade to open the academic year at the JAMU Faculty of Arts. Subsequent meetings focused on themes of theatricality, storytelling, masks and dialogue that permeated both the seminars and workshops. These offered participants a unique opportunity to develop their skills and abilities and to get a closer look at the study programmes Theatre and Education, Theatre and Education for the Deaf, Stage Design, Acting – Voice and Movement and Dramaturgy and Directing. The culmination of the whole autumn run was a site-specific performance in the non-traditional space Franz Kafka Spital, where #buddies worked with a specific place, its atmosphere and created their own theatrical form under the guidance of Katarína Kašpárková Koišová.

The lecturers of the autumn seminars and workshops were Magdalena Čoupková, Šimon Hrdlička, Tereza Turzíková, Katarina Tlapák, Aneta Hegyiová, Simona Kurská, Adéla Szturcová, Kateřina Doleželová and Katarína Kašpárková Koišová.

For 2024/25, we have chosen a tried and tested one-semester format, during which #buddies meet every 14 days and choose from a range of 4 seminars and 10 workshops. They also participate in the parade to open the academic year at the JAMU Faculty of Arts and in the final theatre challenge they prepare and publicly perform their site-specific performance.

The lecturers of the seminars and workshops are Kateřina Jebavá, Simona Kurská, Adéla Kratochvílová, Katarina Tlapák, Adéla Szturcová, Filip Teller, Jan Singer, Zdenka Kučerová, Eliška Fišerová, Marcela Plíhalová, Alexandr Blaho, Tereza Turzíková, Berit Blumaierová and Eliška Fišerová.

In the fall of 2023, the 4th run of the high school #buildjamák took place. We tried a new, intensive format of meeting every 14 days. During the fall semester, we were able to spend 6 Saturdays together filled with theatre making and thinking about theatre. The participants chose from 10 workshops and 4 seminars that took place in the building of the Theatre Faculty, the Theatre on Orlí, the teaching spaces of the Astorka Centre, or even in the Brno Káznica, whose genius loci became the inspiration for the final joint site-specific performance.

The lecturers of the seminars and workshops were Katarína Kašpárková Koišová, Katarína Tlapák, Barbora Voráčová, Filip Teller, Zdenka Kučerová, Michal Nagy, Líšeň Theatre, Roman Blumaier, Lenka Polánková, Tereza Turzíková, Iva Heribanová, Tereza Chvátalová, Miroslav Jindra, Marcela Plíhalová, Alexandr Blaho, Anna Kočí and Berit Blumaierová.

And because there are never enough great workshops with a great bunch of young people interested in theatre, we decided to come up with an offer of an intensive weekend filled with creative atmosphere in the scenography and movement workshop in the spring. The teachers were Adéla Szturcová, Tomáš Wortner, Anna Kočí and Berit Blumaier.

For the summer months, we opened the possibility to participate in the #buďjamák in cooperation with the South Bohemian Theatre in České Budějovice, which unfortunately did not take place due to lack of availability.

The 2022/23 year has reverted back to tried and tested procedures and in September we opened a new two-semester run. Six full-day sessions offered ample space for an opening ceremony, 4 one-hour seminars, a selection of 8 six-hour workshops and a final theatre challenge on the streets of Brno in April.

The lecturers of the workshops and seminars were Bohdana Sýkorová, Tereza Strmiska, Barbora Liška, Adéla Szturcová, Lucie Matyášová, Berit Blumaierová, Filip Teller, Eliška Poláčková, Michal Nagy, Jan Singer, Karolína Stehlíková, Josef Kožnárek, Marie Bravencová, Líšeň Theatre, Kateřina Jebavá and Eliška Fišerová.

The second edition of #budjamák was not without changes reflecting the current pandemic situation. The opening of the second year was the only event that went according to plan. During the winter and spring months, we offered participants an online programme in a form that reflected the new situation. In total, we met ten times in virtual space. We did not want to move the seminars or workshops to the online environment. In July 2021, all 8 seminars and 16 workshops were held in a single week, and in October 2021, the #buddies got to graduate with diplomas and everything that goes with it!

The lecturers of the workshops and seminars were: Barbora Liška, Eliška Poláčková, Anna Čonková, Martin Hak, Karolína Stehlíková, Martina Krátká, Andrea Jochmanová, Jan Singer, Aleš Kohout, Martina Musilová, Tereza Agelová, Pavla Dombrovská, Filip Teller, Magdalena Teleky, Barbara Herucová, Roman Gombarček, Berit Blumaier, Dalibor Chvátal, Veronika Slámová, Roman Blumaier, Adéla Kratochvílová, Kateřina Jebavá, Sandra Donaczi and Eliška Fišerová.

In September 2019, we inaugurated the first year of the #buďjamák programme. Nearly thirty high school students from all over the country participated. In addition to seminars and workshops, we prepared for the participants, in cooperation with Brno theatres, the opportunity to attend theatre performances for a symbolic entrance fee. All but the last of the meetings took place as planned: we had to postpone the April graduation to the end of September 2020. During the first lockdown, in April and May 2020, we organized an online program for our participants to meet professional theatre practitioners from different disciplines.

The final graduation ceremony, apart from the official awarding of diplomas, was mainly an opportunity to meet and share.

The lecturers of the workshops and seminars were Tomáš Wortner, Adéla Kratochvílová, Petr Francán, Jan Singer, Karolína Stehlíková, Martina Krátká, Magdalena Teleky, Eliška Poláčková, Barbora Liška, Radka Kulichová, Martina Musilová, Monika Jelínková, Kateřina Jebavá and Eliška Fišerová.