Asociatia De Teatru Experimental Clandestin

The main occupation of ETC is to provide different kind of courses for children, youths and adults; courses like: theatre classes, philosophy, art education, piano lessons, fashion design, ecological education, canto, cinema, acting and we organize different events, conferences and two Festivals. Also we produce theater performances and participate in several international competitions and won different awards. Over time, we worked with 3600 participants. This activities are sustained, on average, four days/week for over ten years now. We have to mention that in all our activities we promote and encourage green practices, environmental protection, sustainability aiming to raise awareness about environmental sustainability and enabled behavioural changes for consumption habits and lifestyles. Our intervention in this direction was by going on camps, hikings and coordonate youths and over 100 volunteers to plant trees, clean forests, clean fields, we organize the local libraries, we evacuate and cleaned of disused objects rural buildings. Mostly of our environmental intervention was in rural area of Lazareni, an 80 square kilometers community due to our property there. Over time, the concerns of the association have changed depending on the evolution of the staff but also on the need or desire to combine the performing arts and artistic creations with outdoor activities; so we created a second direction: a ten year "Rural Development Project - Nature Academy!", which aims to support a series of cultural-educational activities in nature: creative tourism, courses, camps, hiking and other actions in rural and mountain areas, focusing on social inclusion, solidarity among young and adult people and awareness of personal and local resources.