Wim Laboratoires Iuvenis is a project that has the ambition to meet the requirements of the program Erasmus +, including 5 countries to promote theater, linguistic, intercultural and multimedia trainings. This project is the extension of a work, engaged and long-standing, about memory and youth, lead by Procédé Zèbre, in collaboration with different associations and European high-schools. This project was born in Vichy with the complicity of teachers, members of associations and professional people with different backgrounds and expertise (researchers, historians, actors, video-makers, visual artists...). The core topic is the Memory, that Procédé Zèbre wants to spread over a large audience, always curious, composed by young people and adults, that are meeting around a common memory. The audience of this project will be: professional people of live show (chiefly of theater world), high school students, teachers and citizens. The majority of high-schools and associations, involved in this project, are based in rural areas (Cusset, Saint-Pourçain, in France, Oulx, in Italy, Aiud and Hida in Romania, Zavidovici, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sigmaringen in Germany) with underprivileged and marginalized groups. Some of these partner countries are facing economic difficulties, and undermined by the war (for instance: Bonsia and Herzegovina during 1900s) and the dictatorial regime (for instance: Romania until the 1989). This project is also the way to deal with the economic and financial crisis (2008) but also political, all devastating effects on the cultural ecosystem that destabilize every type of cultural activity. Create a shared story telling, bringing different countries together, can be the possibility/ way to deal that crisis. We wish to value the elements of the common culture and jointly recognizing and enhancing each element of every single different culture. The theater will be a vector of the national and international awareness, paying a particular attention to various contemporary young people expressions, excluded, and women... the cultural diversity will be the issue (Charter of the fundamental rights of the European Union in 2000). The objectives of the European Union (Art. 3 of the treaty of Lisbon), to safe and develop the European cultural heritage, will be acted, and also the sustainable integration of East Europe in the EU, in order to rebuild the cultural economy. An artistic experience for young people, potential “ cultural ambassadors of their country for the future”, that will be also a knowledge transmission project and a poetic contamination; so that the desires of the artistic democracy remain always long-lived in mind of the youth. Giving to this future adults the want to purpose bold initiatives and questioning their own history, to become active, critical and responsible citizens. Topics : Memory, totalitarianism, war, migrations in Europe. Goals : - fight against school drop-out; - social inclusion; - strengthen the international dimension of education and schooling; - social and educative enhancement of the cultural European heritage; Participants : High-school students and teachers from France, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Italy and the associations Procédé Zèbre, ADL Zavidovici and Alma Teatro. Activities : Theater Workshops, writing laboratories, trainings for teachers, performances. International meetings (Water is Memory Festival in Vichy, in May 2020; During the Semaine de la Francophonie, the workshop Carvane des dix mots “tell me ten words”, in march 2021) Development of a digital platform to share the experience, exchange theatrical and pedagogical resources, and building links between students, teachers, associations, professional and amateurs actors. Results : - Improvement of teaching and teachers’ knowledge; - Foreigners learning language and improvement of overall communication skills; - Improvement of the sense of initiative and entrepreneurship; - Better understanding and reactivity in the face of social, ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity; - Active participation in society; - Positive attitude concerning values of European Union - Better understanding of interconnections between formal and non-formal teaching and between different fields - Improving opportunities for professional development (self-confidence, autonomy, public speaking, writing and speaking skills, creativity) - Equal opportunities
Wim Laboratories Iuvenis met, insofar as it was possible, the criteria promoted by Erasmus +, integrating 5 countries in a work of theatrical, linguistic, intercultural and multimedia training. Historical context of the project: This project is the continuation of a long-standing work on memory and youth carried out by the company Procédé Zèbre with various schools, universities and European associations. A work that began in Vichy with the complicity of teachers, professionals of different disciplines, researchers, visual artists, amateur members of the company... Around this theme of Memory in the broadest sense, Procédé Zèbre invites a public as curious as ever, numerous, composed of young people and adults, united around a common memory. The audiences reached by this project are: performing arts professionals, high school students, teachers, citizens. Most of the high schools and associations participating in this project are located in rural areas (Cusset and Saint-Pourçain in France, Oulx in Italy, Aiud and Hida in Romania, Zavidovici in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sigmaringen in Germany) with disadvantaged audiences, marginalized because they are far away from institutional cultural centres. Some of the partner countries are also in great economic difficulty, weakened by war (e.g. Bosnia-Herzegovina during the 1990s) and dictatorship (Romania until 1989). This project is a way of dealing with a financial and economic crisis, but also a political one, which has had devastating effects on the cultural ecosystem, which has weakened its activities. Between the end of 2018 and the beginning of the time suspended by the Covid crisis, we carried out a series of courses and workshops on learning the French language through theatre. Each of these times was built within a European school institution and involved professional teaching artists, teachers and students from another partner structure. All the participants were invited to seize the individual and collective memories of the territory in which they were working to prepare a restitution in the form of a theatrical performance, to create a collective narrative, to federate the states. Due to the heavy and (obviously) too early health and administrative constraints that weighed on us, we had to limit ourselves to six workshops.which made it possible to produce videos, and to propose times of performance in the public space. In particular, these first work periods have seen a first climax in Vichy in May 2019 during Water is Memory festival. A debate on the European consciousness of youth was organised during which the young participants were able to show the extent of their involvement and the concrete results of this project: - Clear progress in the mastery of French language. - Clear conceptualisation of the European dimension of our continental citizenships. - Ease for all participants to speak in public and to use their body to carry their speech. - Awakening of new learning strategies that are possible in the partner institutions. We worked in rural areas, less reached by national and international cultural programmes and, by using the modern choir as an egalitarian learning and sharing process, our project contributed to the access of all to self-esteem, self-confidence and the ability to act for and on the world. Themes: Memory, totalitarism, war, migration in Europe. Objectives : - fight against school drop-out ; - social inclusion; - strengthening the international dimension of education and training; - social and educational valorisation of European cultural heritage. Participants:Students and teachers from France, Austria, Romania, Bosnia, Germany, Italy and the associations Procédé Zèbre (Vichy), ADL Zavidovici (Bosnia) and Alma Teatro (Torino). Students and teachers from France, Austria, Romania, Bosnia, Germany, Italy and the associations Procédé Zèbre (Vichy), ADL Zavidovici (Bosnia) and Alma Teatro ( Torino). Activities: Theatre workshops, writing labs, teacher training, performances. International event: Water is Memory Festival in Vichy in May 2019 Platform of publication of the results of the WiM Laboratories Iuvenis project: https://laboratoriesiuvenis.wordpress.com/.