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The Colors of the Opressed

2020-2-FR02-KA105-0180982020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: FR|RO|EE|RS|MK|CZ|CY · Grant: €17,282
Social dialogueHome and justice affairs (human rights & rule of law)Creativity and culture

Objectives

There has been a common observation, among the youth workers and activists in all the partners countries taking part to this project (some more than others) about the discrimination in general and the gender one in particular. Although human rights make progress in that matter in a lot of countries, there is (especially in disadvantaged social background and rural areas) still a strong reject and most of all a vivid misundertanding of the lives and choices of others. With this project we wanted to carry values of understanding, living together, tolerance and inclusion on a practical and everyday life level. To us, youth and social workers, it is among the youth that educative actions and awareness raising is strongly needed. Non-formal and popular education has the role to complete and add to formal education, the objectives of this project were to give to european youth/social workers, civil society actors, social activists tools to rely on to reduce discrimination and violence towards people whose gender identity and choices are different, and on a larger extent to any people we perceive as different. Applied theater, the socio-educative tool we have transmitted and explored through this training course, has many forms and gives very large possibilities to adapt to different audiences, different backgrounds and different situations. It is at the same time an artistic and technical practice, which encourages the development of creativity, expression, catharsis and it is also a social practice, pretext to dialogue, to spreading opinion, to raising controversy. We have intended this project as a basis for the raising of a common issue, for the development of applied theater as a tool and for the creation of more partnerships and more links between european youth actors to give more weight to action.

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