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European Luggage 2008
AIM:
To help mutual understanding among young people, with different social and cultural backgrounds
To increase the level of involvement of young people in local community
Objectives:
To become aware of the belonging to the European space by defining own cultural values
To understand the multiculturalism as a normal process and as a strong point of the richness and variety of life in common.
To develop a positive attitude, by acceptance and tolerance
To work in a multicultural team during the workshops and to enhance presentation, communication, acting and performing skills
Activities:
Theatre workshop – dialog of stereotypes transformed into a play, full of nuances and situations from our trip
Music workshop – traditional music and music of your group
Work-shop about culture, intercultural, multiculturalism
The trip symbol could be described as a journey in another external reality but also represents an incursion in our internal reality. The values are gathered in our personal luggage which joins us everywhere, but it’s contains change every time, after every journey. We start with a luggage in our trip, with knowledge, expectations, feelings, fears, impressions and values and we exchange all these with the people we meet.
WORKSHOP – Theatre – “Live Playing Workshop”
“Live Playing Workshop”
This workshop is about interaction, communication translated into movement.
The main goal is “individual meeting individual”. In this approach individuals should talk about their own personalities, interests, desires, accomplishments. Everything is bound in a special “live play”. The main method of work gravitates around the verbs: to play, to express, to transmit and to touch somebody’s heart and mind.
In this workshop we propose to find out together, in a particular way, the differences and the commons of a group of young people, coming from different countries. Together, we are going to find out each person’s particular needs, thoughts and ideals, cultural background.
This workshop will be finalized with a presentation show, which will illustrate a week work of a group of young people different corners of Europe, and, at last, they reached the point of transforming into an European team.
WORKSHOP – Traditional Music-Dance
These workshops provide participants the opportunity to learn and experience and have a better understanding of culture and traditions for the participant countries: Netherlands, Georgia, Republic Moldova, Estonia and Romania. The main purpose is to complement and enrich participants’ knowledge by experimenting new dances and new culture values, to interact and work as a team.
Participants will work with a specialist and will learn about the cultural values of the different regions, about major folklore regions and about dance techniques. They will discover the emotions and sentiments transmitted by the songs and will express themselves by the mean of music and dance.
They will learn the movements and their symbolic meanings and use traditional prop. Participants will learn a few complete dances from all countries to be performed in front of the audience. The dance will be preceded by short stories about the traditions which are specific for the regions.
The participants playing live on different musical instruments will assure part of the music. They will get acquainted with new songs and will play them assuring the music background for the dances. Occasionally, the audio cd’s will be used a support for providing the musical background.
The group will meet consecutively, according to the program. New dances will generally be taught at every class, with the possibility to review all dances before the last audience.
WORKSHOP – Culture, Intercultural, Multicultural
“Overview Europe” – building of random groups (each one will have a speaker) which will discuss about the situations from their countries – brainstorming to find key words which will unite the five countries and differentiate them; positive and negative words, prejudices. This workshop should help the theatre work team and also the other participants form an idea about the script and the concept of the performance. The participants should understand better the realities from the other countries; “Intercultural Communication Workshop” – the key words found in the previous workshop are gathered and discussed. During this workshop, the leaders and the participants will discuss about Intercultural Learning and about the cultural dimensions of the European identity.
