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Construyendo la paz a través de la videografía

2022-3-ES02-KA152-YOU-0000997822022Mobility of young peoplefinalizedGood practice
Countries: ES|HR|FR|DK|HU|RO · Grant: €29,000
Creativity, arts and culturePrevention of conflicts, post-conflict rehabilitationDigital content, technologies and practices

Objectives

Building Peace through Videography was a project for mainstreaming peace among young people and increasing both their capacities for usage of videography and creating awareness about both war and the implications of violence in the communities. We have implemented a previous project on the issue of peace and during the development of our current KA2 project output, we have realised the power of the videography, documentary and short movies and we wanted to use it to promote the peace in Europe through local and international actions in the uncertain times to promote resilience within the communities. We believe that the war would never happen to us in Europe and it is just continuing for several months in our door step within the European continent in Ukraine. We believe that promoting peace through peace building activities, showing solidarity between the nations. Thus, we wanted to promote the peace among the European youth while supporting and showing solidarity with Ukraine. The project developed several videographs about the war, peace and its effect on young people, children and communities and these short movies were shot by the young people together after writing the plots. The project directly worked with young people who are willing to promote the peace and they developed their short-movies and they shot them with the help of the facilitators. Videos and the movies are often used as a tool for change and we believe that the young people can make changes through using short-movie tools and developing their own plots about what they understand from peace and promote peace. By implementing this project, we aimed to increase the skills of young people concerning videography, peace and non-violence and promote the peace during the times of war that we are facing. During the project, the participants went through three stages : understanding the concept of peace, non-violence and screen-writing and developing a short-movie. Moreover, the participants interacted with their own communities as well as the Spanish community as one day they implemented interviews with the local people in Spanish and make videos with subtitles to show how the Spanish people reacts and how they think about peace and war in Ukraine. That as well promoted awareness on peace in local community and the local people became aware about the issues in front of peace in Europe. In the end of the project, we have streamed the videos in our Youtube and Instagram channels that the participants have done and we have implemented a movie screening in Youth Centre of Alcala la Real. Our project dealt with two issues by implementing this actions, making the people aware about the situation in Ukraine and its affects on Europe and how the European people reacts to it while increasing the capacities of young people in the field of Videography and Cinema. With the project we covered three different themes : peace, participation and solidarity with Ukraine. While covering this themes, we used the videography as a tool and promote and foster the creativity of young people who are developing videos to raise their concerns or simply to promote their ideas everyday through the social media tools such as TikTok, Youtube and Instagram. The specific objectives of the project: - To increase the capacities of young people with videography tools to promote peace - To create an awareness on the war in Ukraine and promote awareness on the issues of peace in Europe through videography - To qualify young people as movie makers for making them as changemakers to create awareness on the issues that they define as important - To create a local impact in Alcala la Real and making the local community aware as well as give a voice to the local community from an international perspective to show the solidarity with Ukraine - To promote peace by reaching out the young people through the power of the cinema and videography as a tool - To increase the competences of young people and youth organisations for developing quality digital video content and usage of video content on creating awareness on the issues specifically concerning peace, exclusion and war in Ukraine

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