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Theatre of Legends - Theatre for Youths

2021-1-RO01-KA210-YOU-0000310672021Small-scale partnerships in youthfinalized
Countries: RO|ES · Grant: €60,000
Creativity, arts and cultureInclusion, promoting equality and non-discriminationTeaching and learning of foreign languages

Objectives

The main objective of this project was to highlight the importance of theatre as an educational tool for young people, developing new techniques that help to work on different values of the personality of the participants. Based on the Methodological Guide of Theatre Techniques for Young People two international workshops, with two final performances, were organized in Romania and Spain, during which young people had the opportunity to value and enhance multiculturalism and to foster mutual respect. One of the priorities is the importance of diversity, of knowing and respecting different cultures, to this end partners used the representation of different legends of the countries or cities of the participating organizations, which helped to discover some of the characteristics and curiosities of each place, together with the transnational experiences that were developed. Partners believe that putting young people in direct contact with other cultures was the best way to make them reflect on how to achieve a more inclusive, respectful and egalitarian society. Moreover, it was a very good opportunity to work on their knowledge of foreign languages, as they carried out the workshops and communicated using English as a common language.

Background

After a previous analysis of the cultural and youth activities carried out in the different participating organizations, partners considered the contact with theatre experiences as a very useful tool to work on non-formal education and education in values, fundamental axes of the activities of these organizations. They wanted to work with young people on interculturality, diversity, equality, inclusion, creativity and many other values through the representation of different traditional legends of the participating countries, since theatre acts as a source of learning experiential knowledge and allows the scenic approach to certain historical periods, the characterization of spaces, clothing, people's behavior, traditions etc.; it allows to recover experiences and develop new ones, to analyze, express and evaluate them, impacting on the individual and allowing them to apply what they have learned in their daily lives. In short, with this project partners wanted to emphasize the importance of theatre as an educational tool, using techniques and experiences among the participants to make them reflect on various issues, especially on the importance of knowing and respecting different cultures on an equal footing.

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