The European Youth Exchange Speechless has finished successfully.
From the 11th to the 17th of July, in Ortigosa de Cameros, 51 participants from Greece, Ireland,
Italy, Denmark, Sweden and Spain met, to take part in a European Youth Exchange. They explored
different methodologies and ways of theatre to use as a medium to spread awareness of Hate Speech.
“Speechless” was a European youth exchange financed by the
Key Action 1 of the Erasmus+ programme. The exchange united 51 young people
from 6 different countries to reflect on questions about gender through theatre
and non-formal education. The youth participants had an active role in
everything throughout the project, acquired competences to make decisions,
improved their employability, and shared their point of view on the theme.
This project has been coordinated by the organisation of La
Rioja, Asociación Juvenil Teatral ON&OFF (Spain) with the help of other
international entities such as Crooked House (Ireland), Calypso (Italy), Circus Stjerneskud (Denmark), Kinitiras (Greece) and Integration for Alla (Sweden). This project consisted of a programme of
activities to challenge the participants to put themselves in the shoes of discrimminated minorities, using the methodologies of non-formal and technical theatres and art
skills, that allowed the participants to acquire knowledge in an effective way and hands on way.
The participants spent the week learning more about hate speech and hate crime, but also about themselves while making strong friendships with their fellow
participants.
In this way, the project not only created a stronger importance on the destructive nature of hate speech in all ambitions of our daily lives, but
it also centred in on our participants acquiring different competences that are
not sufficiently obtained through traditional educative systems (communication
in a second language, entrepreneurship, creativity, body expression, etc).During this week, the youth participants and their respected leaders devised 6 street performances based on the topics of Hate speech in LGBTQ, disabilites, racism and religion, political idealologies, Gender and economical social exclusion. The aims of the project were to raise awareness about Hate Speech and to try and affect the public. These aims were completed quite successfully as the project was broadcasted on regional television and had a live audience in Logroño of over 200 locals. Additionally we would like to thank our collaborators - Dinámica Teatral and IRJ for their help and support of the project. Below are photos from the performance taken by Javier Casado de Torre. You can see all the photos on our Facebook Page
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