(Project coordinator)
Logroño, La Rioja (Spain)
In the year 2000 the youth association ON&OFF was created in Logroño as a non-profit organisation to join together all the ex-students and current students of a local theater school: Teatro Dinámica. The main aim of ON&OFF is to promote cultural and artistic initiatives, with a lack of political, religious or favourable intentions, and always trying to create an intercultural framework for the participation, understanding and inclusion of all its members, the society of Logroño and the youth in general. According to this the main aims of the organisation are: To join together those young people interested on the theater and drama using learning groups, experimentation and staging; To organize cultural and leisure time activities for youth; To take part on participative events such as meetings, exchanges, contests, etc. at local, national or international level; To cooperate with local entities and administrations on the implementation of theater spectacles at local, national or international level; To carry out training courses, workshops and activities for educating children, youth and adults (intergenerational projects); other ones related to the promotion of the participation of children and youth on the theatre and training field. Furthermore, the non-formal and drama methodologies used regularly by the entity, make all its acitivities accesible and suitable for any kind of users, promoting the participation of young people with fewer opportunities and especially of those with mobility, expression and/or communication difficulties.
Calypso - il teatro per il sociale Pavia (Italy)
Calypso is an NGO based in Pavia, a small city in Lombardia region, born in 2006 and composed of about 10 members. Members of our staff have different backgrounds and in these years we’ve been growing specific skills in children and youth working, in site specific projects, in participatory art and training experiences for youth workers, trainers and ngo volunteers. We have been working with different groups of people, using artistic tools, creativity and especially theatrical techniques to involve people and empower groups and community. Our focus has often been the process of involving people and helping them to express their creativity, even if lately we have start growing our own artistic point of view with performances, storytelling and use of puppetry tecniques. In our work we mix different techniques, always boosting group and individual creativity. For us theatrical tecniques are a tool to develop personal skills, to grow self esteem, to feel entitled to act and to transform reality. Usually we plan workshops after some talks with involved group leaders or local organizations who ask us to develop some specific topic, and we agree on an ideal aim who could fit for the group, but still be challenging for them. Usually we like our theatre projects to be part of a bigger frame, so that the final event, when it can be public, is a good chance to make people meet, different target group participate in the same event, sharing experiences and points of view. For us it’s always important to have feedback from participants, and we keep a follow up process along the years by organizing informal meetings and creating situation in which our partners and our members can be active in the local network.
Crooked House - Theatre
Newbridge , Co.Kildare (Ireland)
Crooked House has organized youth exchanges since 2003, Youth Initiatives since 2004, and Erasmus+ Training Programmes since 2014. We have hosted many exchanges, festivals and seminars, based in Newbridge. We have sent members of our youth project on a number of youth exchanges and encounters over the years. At this stage, we are aware and can be prepared for most practical issues that arise in both hosting and sending young people on international projects. We have a detailed Child Protection Policy, and our leaders are trained in all relevant skills. We continue to learn, particularly about new methods of working with young people, and also about structuring longer projects. We have built a wide but focused network of partners in Europe, most of whom work with young people in creative contexts (like theatre, or music). Our exchanges and festivalls strenghten this network each year, and we like to add at least two new organisations to the network every year. We work outide of Erasmus+ as well, taking part in training opportunities offered by the network; and giving training in specialised arteas of youth work to our network organisations. The network is informal, but we would like to explore ways to make it more structured. We have pioneered in Ireland the use of theatre of the oppressed methods of groupwork in the field of Youth & Community Work, using both artists and youth workers to develop projects with young people. We specialise in theatre work about gender, power, social justice issues, and mental health. All of our projects try to find innovative and creative ways to explore these issues. Our philosophical positions are influenced by the work of theorists like Paulo Freire, Augusto Boal, Germaine Greer, Pierre Bourdieu, and second-wave feminism. Our aesthetic view is shaped by the work of William Shakespeare.
IFALL – Integration För Alla is founded 2013 in south of Sweden in Örkelljunga and there are IFALL now in Ängelholm and Klippan too. We have been working with organizations such as Save the Children, Red Cross, Municipalities in order to enlarge our network and experiences. There are 25 active volunteers, 6 staff and 15 weekly activities to work with integration in south of Sweden. The main objective of the organization is to promote integration between cultures and counteract violence
between cultures in Sweden and in another countries. With culture we mean Individual. In this way we would like to state that we are not only working with integration of refugees/minorities/immigrants but also we are working with integration of cultures in different level. The organization fulfils the main objective through
• giving help to self-help so that the individual’s understanding of her/his own culture and self-esteem amplifies.
• providing multi-cultural meeting places where the exchange of experiences, values and cultures promote individual’s life quality
• building social network between different cultures
• encouraging the individual to take responsibility in society
• developing and practicing effective and creative approaches/methods for integration, both formal and non-formal.
• spreading information in order to increase awareness of the meaning of culture and different cultures.
We are applying for adult education and youth projects in local and international levels. Erasmus + and Nordplus are main funds that we are working with. In this level youth and adult volunteers became more experienced with projects especially about sharing best practices between project partners. This is a kind of platform for our volunteers that they can prepare activities for ground level. c)Informative Level; We prepare seminars, conferences, panels and handbooks for local people, social worker,teacher, volunteers who can follow new information about integration and cultures. Nonformal education and methods are applied for these levels of activity. Creative Drama and Film making are some of methods which IFALL uses in trainings.
Circus Stjerneskud is a youth circus organization from Bornholm. We want to spread and develop the art of circus. We want to give families, youngsters and kids the chance to develop themselves individually and in group, both physically and mentally by using circus as the creative medium. Circus Stjerneskud organizes different activities. The main activity for our members is from october to july ,where we train and make workshops, do shows and participate in national events in the field ofyouthcircus. We do workshops for schools, for kindergartens, and for kids with special needs. Every year we have 8 days of performance, families and kids helps together to make a show. We do an annual national exchange with youngsters from a ghetto circus in a big city. We are a group of parents and youngsters who do this on voluntary basis. Since 2011 we have implemented puppetry as another tool of stage expression. We have had several workshops in shadow puppetry and we are co-organising the international puppet festival, Bornholm Puppet Festival. We arrange that youngsters from a circus school visit our island and have a practicum every year for one week, these youngsters do workshops on local schools. We are between 40 and 60 mebers in the agegroup from 2 to 73,kids youngsters and their parents. A group of the circus do participate in cultural trips with shows in Berlin at the eatser carnaval, we did go to youthexchanges and training courses in, Menorca, Ghent,Berlin Dublin, Paris, Sweden , Tallin ,Estonia and so on. We are very active in the national network of youth circuses (DUBAL) and in the international network of youth circuses (EYCO). We are working on ideas of creating various international projects and youth
exchanges that would be oriented on circus arts and performing arts for various youngsters. We did already one with puppetry as theme. We are also in cooperation with the yearly Streettheaterfestival on Bornholm in that way we find artist and funds for groups from our network, last year it was a Kenyan akrobatic and theatergroup.
Athens, Greece.
www.kinitiras.com
antigone.gyra@gmail.com
Kinitiras is an internationally recognized artistic network connecting professionals and amateurs through the performing arts. It was founded in 1995-96 as a dance-theatre group, called Kinitiras Dance spectacle. Kinitiras’ features that are worth to be mentioned are: the emphasis on diversity of performers and other collaborators, the participation in European programs and festivals in Greece and abroad, the approach in education and its proposals in this area through the performing arts, the emphasis on research and intercultural through the establishment of Kinitiras Studio, the first
Residency Centre for performing arts in Greece, the sustainability and growth in periods with different challenges, the participation character that goes further than local and professional boundaries. Kinitiras has created the project EK PLIXI which brought dance into the school and especially in primary education. Since 2010 Kinitiras has established the In Progress-Feedback Festival for young artists as well as contest performances through which young artists have emerged with influential contribution in the cultural map of the country. Finally, Kinitiras Choreography Lab,
creating a multicultural environment, has been an important innovation within the dance sector in Greece and internationally from 2011 to 2014. This will be kinitiras’ fifth European project. Kinitiras has experience in organizing multicultural events and actions .Our competency is our big network with people from different backgrounds and our knowledge on teaching, performing and organizing performances and workshops Information about our projects and actions can also be found at our archive page www.kinitiras.com, at www.youtube.com/user/kinitiras as well as at www.ekplixi.com.
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