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2019-2-LU01-KA105-0501512019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: LU|EE|PL|ES|MK · Grant: €26,910
Creativity and cultureInclusion - equityEU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Objectives

This project will address the following points: racism and xenophobia. Why these two things? Here is the explanation: from the creation of the universe to the present day many things have evolved, for example we can communicate with people who are at the other end of the Earth. But, paradoxically, there is one thing that has never really improved. Mutual respect and communication between us, humans. Engendering racism pushed far too often to the extreme. And, also, a fear called "xenophobia" that spreads between humans as an odorless virus and invisible to the naked eye. And despite the efforts of many peacekeepers like Gandhi, Mandela or Martin Luther King, nothing has really changed. It was temporary for a few years. But in the history of the world, a few years are nothing but a gust of wind. This racism and fear of the unknown and more and more present nowadays. Europe has become far too fragile. If we do not talk enough about this subject to our generation, if we do not give a good example, the same mistakes will be repeated. We want to use the theater to make people feel better. Since all time, the theater has been used to make a criticism of society, of the world. For example, Molière. Anyone feels a few things while watching a play, that it gives us a smile or tears, it affects our feelings our heart. By touching the hearts of people we can also change their way of thinking. The theater is an art where we let our soul speak. Who we really are When the world becomes absurd, when the human stupidity reaches its paroxysm, the theater is there to show us the truth in the whites of the eyes. We show that in reality we do not laugh or cry thanks to the actors script or game, No ... We cry and laugh about ourselves. We would like to break the stereotype on the fact that this is a mere hobby. That it is not a place of relaxation, but a tool to reflect and to question. This is the true nature of theater in our opinion. We want to educate people about racism and xenophobia through drama.

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