The European Soir\u00e9e is a role-playing game in which participants present themselves as a historically or contemporary important personalities with significance for Europe from his\/her home country. The aim of the game is to introduce important personalities to all participants from different countries. Important means that the person should have a significance for Europe. For one evening each participant acts and gets dressed as that famous person of her\/his own chosing. It can be a person with a political, cultural, educational, social, scientific or other background. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The participants get to know important personalities from the other countries in this role-playing game. So several famous Europeans from many different centuries and fields meet each other without revealing the person\u2019s name, presenting themselves in this role to the others and all participants try to discover who the other famous participants of this European Soir\u00e9e. To help discovering the personality each person takes some clothes or other relevant symbolic signs to orientate the others about the century of life, professional or social affiliation. The costumes do not need to be elaborate, symbolic props that indicate the identity of the represented person are enough. After some time each person has to reveal his\/her identity and contribution to European history and community. With this role-playing game all participants get to know important aspects of European history and society in a creative way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The European Soir\u00e9e should take place in a welcoming environment, with drinks and snacks, in the best case a dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Step\nby step realization<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Stage\/Step\n1: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The host prepares a letter of invitation and a billet\nd\u2019entr\u00e9e for an evening event called European Soir\u00e9e<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stage\/Step\n2<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Send an invitation for the European Soir\u00e9e to all\nparticipants at least two weeks before the evening with explanation what to do\nand how it works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stage\/Step\n3: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The participants choose a personality they would like\nto present and prepare their role (information about the life of the person,\nhow to present the person) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Stage\n\/Step 4: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Preparation of the room in which the Soir\u00e9e takes\nplace \/something to drink, snacks, if possible dinner<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stage\n\/Step 5: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Realization of the European \u2013 welcome, each person\ntakes over the role, give the billet d\u2019entr\u00e9e to the host without revealing to\nother participants who he\/she is-conversation between the personalities, trying\nto find out who are the others<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stage\/Step\n6: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The participants present themselves in their roles (famous historian, poet, painter, philosopher, politician, scientist, Nobel prize winner, Olympic prize winner by naming time of life, life way, why the person became important) and explain, why they chose this personality, and the persons\u2019 connection and achievements for Europe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Stage\/Step\n7: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Short questions from the plenum, proposals, revealing\nthe name of the person <\/p>\n\n\n\n Stage\/Step:\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Take pictures of the participants in their costumes<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stage\/Step\n9: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n After the European Soir\u00e9e<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scan the billets d\u2019entr\u00e9e, fix a photo of the person\ntaking the related role, to make a brochure or website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1054","method","type-method","status-publish","hentry","keyword-creative","keyword-culture","keyword-ice-breaker","keyword-non-formal-education","keyword-role-playing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbe-toolbox.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/method\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbe-toolbox.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/method"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbe-toolbox.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/method"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbe-toolbox.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/bbe-toolbox.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/method\/1054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451,"href":"https:\/\/bbe-toolbox.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/method\/1054\/revisions\/2451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbe-toolbox.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}