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Theatre and Art project for teenagers "Shpakivnia"
In September 2025, we began work on a project for teenagers called “Shpakivnia” The project combines acting skills, co-creation of scenery, and characters for a performance based on the play “The Tale of the Knight Without a Horse” by Polish playwright Marta Husnowska.
Open showcase of animations
Project "Reading Together"
Public readings for children at the Budynok Knyhy bookstore. Live voice. Live music. Stories we read: Sashko Dermanksy, “To Little Children About Everything in the World” Tove Jansson, “The Little Trolls and the Great Flood” Roald Dahl, “Fantastic Mr. Fox” Joel Harris, "Uncle Remus's Tales"
Сашко Дерманський “Малим дітям про все на світі”
Туве Янссон “Маленькі тролі і велика повінь”
Роальд Дал “Фантастичний Містер Лис”
Джоель Гарріс “Казки дядечка Римуса”
Summer with "AmaTea" Studios
Portals
A visual and musical collaboration with Norwegian composer and musician Sveinung Nygaard is a rethinking of the role of the museum in times of crisis.
Our younger students reinterpreted classical paintings from the collection of the Chernihiv Regional Art Museum in contemporary collages, and Sveinung Nygaard performed a musical improvisation.
PAPIR performance in the programme of the international theatre festival JEGA (Lithuania)
In May, PAPIR was presented at the JEGA International Theatre Festival in Panevezys, Lithuania. We would like to thank our Lithuanian colleagues and the audience for their warm welcome.
From 11 to 18 August 2024, the international youth exchange Erasmus+ (Ukraine - Norway) of the Laboratory of Creative Works project took place in Norway.
The new performance PAPIR was presented in July 2024
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YOUTH DRAMA THEATRE "AmaTea" Youth Drama Theater "AmaTea" was founded in 2006 as an independent theater, and since 2013 AmaTea has been operating as a non-governmental organization.
The concept of the organization is to create cross-cultural and educational projects; to use the means of art in general and theater in particular to strengthen and develop the community.
The Head of NGO and the director of the theatre is Olena Rosstalna
Laboratory of Creative Ideas
The project combines creative writing, storytelling, visualization, and animation. We learn how to write, create and tell stories, as well as make our own animations
Art and Media Hub
The project, implemented jointly with the Galagan Chernihiv Regional Art Museum, combines an online educational platform with a physical multicultural space operating in the museum
Theatre Class
The project combines master classes in theater pedagogy and acting, regular classes for young people, and the creation of performances. We currently have Drama in English group
Trainings and Workshops
Performances of Youth Drama Theatre "AmaTea"
Over the years, the theater has created more than 30 performances based on works by Western European and Ukrainian playwrights (O. Wilde, J. B. Priestley, J. Anouilh, L. Francini, Y. Mishima, S. Mrozek, M. Maeterlinck, and others). Several performances created in the premises of Halahan Chernihiv Regional Art Museum and the Tarnovskyi Chernihiv Regional History Museum are united in the art project "Theater in the Museum."
Tales of an Old Suitcase
In 2013, the creative project Tales of an Old Suitcase was created for children's audiences. The repertoire includes more than twenty interactive performances for the whole family based on the best works of world children's literature (Tove Jansson, Rudyard Kipling, John Tolkien, George Harris and others) and stories that we have invented ourselves.
The authors of the project are Olena Rosstalna and Oleh Honchar
