“Creative Drama Workshop” was held

Asst. Prof. Filiz Arzu YALIN, Lec. Buse KERİGAN, Lec. Mert AKYOL, Ress. Ass. Kevser Tuğba ÇINAR, Ress. Ass Hatice Zelal BİNGÖL and international students participated Creative Drama Workshop.

During the Creative Drama Workshop, Lec.Buse KERİGAN, a practicing trainer, talked about the history-characteristics of creative drama, its effects on children's developmental areas, the fields in which creative drama is used and the application steps of creative drama.
The creative drama workshop was started by playing introduction games so that the group could communicate interactively with each other.

In the dating games, firstly, the students were helped to remember their names by using the ball, and then informative activities were carried out about their personal characteristics with the toilet roll technique. After the acquaintance games were completed, the posh-it game was played, allowing everyone to talk to each other within the time determined by the drama leader, and at the end of the 5-question question-answer activity, the person who collected the most names was chosen as the winner of the game. After the 3 games were completed, the empathy game, which is a relaxing game, was played in order for the participants to evaluate the process and manage their energies. For the empathy game, before the workshop, an empathy basket was prepared by the drama leader and different materials were placed in it. (Toothbrush, ball, socks, Band-Aid, banana, apple, syringe, ketchup, tu etc.). Before the participants were informed about the game, they were directed to choose the objects they wanted from the basket. After the participants took the objects, they asked them to empathize with the object they took by asking “……… if it were you, how would you feel?” Each participant was asked to make a statement.

In the last game of the creative drama workshop, some papers on which questions were written were distributed to the participants by the drama leader. Participants were asked to find the answers to these questions by walking around the group and asking each other. (Sample questions; who has a tattoo?, who can play the piano?, who can perform imambayildi? etc.) The creative drama workshop was completed in a pleasant way with the games.