5. Workshop 10/04/2017

On Wednesday 4^th of October 2017 , our International Communication professor Mrs.Afifa El Bayed has asked us to attend a workshop session in order to teach the lesson differently that day.

At the beginning of the workshop, there was a Moroccan journalist named Driss Ksiskes  who welcomed us by introducing himself and the activity we’ll be doing for the next hour and half. The workshop has started with an activity based on a very specific and challenging way of communication. There were two exercises: The first one was mainly about communicating in few words with meaningful thoughts and some gestures associated with the script. The reactions were supposed to be based on four values which are: “Desire, Emotion, Reason and Memory” as Mr.Ksikes has explained.

My teammate was a friend of mine called Aymane Sahli. At the beginning, we didn’t understand the exercise but then, the guest speaker re-explained with more simple words.

Personally, I was inspired by the professor when she suggested that, with my teammate, we do a mixed conversation based on two different languages or dialects since I’m Tunisian and the

overlap of both ways to speak may create an effect of globalization and cultural diversity which is one of our classes’ themes .

Our script was the following:

Sabrine: I didn’t know you were half Italian (in Tunisian Derja)

Aymane: Oh, I thought you did (in English)

Sabrine: I did too much noise this morning and my roommate was sleeping

Aymane: you shouldn’t have done this

Sabrine: I have so many homework to do this week

Aymane: Oh don’t remind me of that …

It was very funny for me and I couldn’t stop laughing: two people talking in two different languages and understanding each other without any mediator to translate.

The second exercise was to imagine a scene wehre there is a problem and we have to interact with each other with words and gestures as well.

This time, Pr.El bayed, Mr.Ksikes and another guest speaker named Pr.Jacobson made us change our teams to encourage diversity at the level of the students’ creativity. We simulated a scene where a security guard has found an illegal substance in my room and once caught, I admit that it’s my roommate’s. The script was short but very common at AUI so we managed to mix different reactions and built many tensional relations between our replicas to make the scene as appealing as possible.

Thanks to this workshop, I learned too many things I didn’t know about theatre since it was our way to interact with each other and communicate as students and instructors.

I learnt how to view communication from another angle which is art and how to analyze the situations using many senses.

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