In 2010, BDNR joined the European creative writing project Platform 11+, whose main coordinator is the Theatre Institute in Bratislava.

The international project Platform 11+ was created as a response to the dearth of cultural content and cultural activities for young people aged eleven to fifteen. It tries to use theatre as a medium for aesthetic and informal, creative education. Aside from children, theatres and professionals from twelve European countries also participated in the project: Germany, Portugal, Hungary, Estonia, Czech Republic, Norway, Finland, Italy, Netherlands, England, Switzerland and Slovakia. The Dramatically Young competition was born, the main organizer of which is the Theatre Institute in Bratislava. The Platform 11+ project ended in 2013, but the Creative Writing workshops live and create to this day in several cities in Slovakia under the leadership of experienced lecturers. Creative writing workshops continue to take place under the patronage of the Theatre Institute, Bratislava.

A creative meeting about writing takes place every week in the Puppet Theatre at the Crossroads in Banská Bystrica under the leadership of Iveta Škripková/Horváthová*.
Each participant will receive a BACKSTAGE PASS, which entitles him/her to enter the building or to visit the show and backstage at the Puppet Theatre at the Crossroads.
The workshop spontaneously formed into the mode of two creative groups: for children from nine to fourteen, and for children from fifteen to eigtheen years of age.

The works of the participants are publicly presented at the original readings of the author’s work:

An Afternoon with Andersen (2011)
Everything for You (2011)
Head/less (2012)
Kids in Action (2013)
Colorful Trinkets (2014)
Dramatically Creative (2015)
Dramatic Youth (2016)
Pep Up the Drama! (2017)
Dramatically Young (2018)

Texts of Creative Writing participants who have taken part in the Dramatically Young competition since 2011:

SAVING THE STRAWBERRY Katarína Kováčová, 12 years old. The text won 2nd place in 2011.

DIAGNOSIS: PUSHKIN Lucia Jaďuďová, 13 years old. The text won 2nd place in 2013.

HOW ONDRO STRACH LOST HIS FEAR (one-act play) Lucia Jaďuďová, 14 years old. The text received a special jury award in 2014.

KNOCK ONE MORE TIME Katarína Kováčová, 17 years old. The text won 1st place in the competition in 2016.

Old Thoughts Emília Skokanová, 4 years old, 3rd place in the under-15 category in 2017.

We are Not Like That Alžbeta Námešná, 17 years old. The text won 1st place in the 15 – 18 category in 2017.

The Day She Forgot Anna Vatalová, 17 years old. The text won 2nd place in the competition in 2019.
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* Iveta Horváthová (married name Škripková-Pecková) (*1960)
She is engaged in creating dramatic and literary works for children and adults (published children’s stories: Nebojsaňa, 2005, Pásla jahody, 2010), and writes radio plays (recorded: Izabeliárana tx., Samsonka, Bázeň), theatre plays for children (Puppet Theatre at the
Crossroads, Banská Bystrica), theatre plays for adults (Puppet Theatre at the Crossroads, Banská Bystrica; Jonáš Záborský Theatre, Prešov). Her plays for children were performed in theatres in the Czech Republic and Poland. The play Fetišistka (2nd place, Drama 2005) was performed by the Slovak National Theatre (2008). She is a multiple finalist of the Dráma competition (Sestry dušehojivé, 2006, Omrvinky, 2009), the Czech-Slovak drama competition Golden Frog (Predavačky príbehov, 2007, Black&white). She examines life from the point of view of gynocritical experience.