Youth in Action Programme Action 1 – Youth for Europe 1.1 – Youth Exchange
PUPPETS and MEMORIES Crafting Europe, Sharing Cultures Youth Exchange, Action 1.1
24th June – 07th July 2013 (23rd June: arrival day – 08th July 2013: departure day) Istituto Elio Vittorini - L. go Sicilia – Avola (SR), Sicily, ITALY DATES: 24th June – 7th July 2013 (14 working days). The Advance Planning Visit - APV will take place approximately in the middle of May 2013. The dates will be confirmed soon. PLACE: Istituto Elio Vittorini - L. go Sicilia – Avola (SR), Sicily, ITALY PARTNERSHIP: 5 EU organisations LUNARIA IL MURO INEX - SDRUZENI DOBROVOLNYCH AKTIVIT DE AMICITIA CONCORDIA DINAMO-ASSOCIACAO DE DINAMIZACAO SOCIO-CULTURAL
Italy Italy Czech Republic Spain France Portugal
The project will be realized in partnership with the association il Muro, Augusta, Sicily. For more information here you can find the web site: http://www.areateatro.it/ and at the end of the document the description of their activities. PARTICIPANTS: 5+1 for each organization AGE: 18-25 (the group leader can be older than 25, up to 30) TARGET GROUP: youngsters interested in puppets, theatre, art in general, peer education and recycling. Particularly welcome will be those youth coming from suburban dimensions or that live in the outskirts of their cities and that risk to be more exposed to the exclusion events. Participants have to be interested in the topics of the youth exchange and have to be ready for 14 very intensive and stimulating working days. THEMES: • Art and intercultural learning • Urban development
AIM OF THE PROJECT: the aim of the project is to recover and to preserve the active memory in the involved countries and to use the cultural heritages as a tool to facilitate the intergenerational dialogue and to promote intercultural exchange, active citizenship and social inclusion. Furthermore the project aim at fostering mutual understanding between young people in different countries and at creating a common sharing in order to develop solidarity and promote mutual respect at European level. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: • To recover the cultural heritages in the involved countries and to use them to promote the active memory capable to unify the different backgrounds, respecting in the meantime the different cultural peculiarities; • To use puppets as a tool to recover the cultural heritages, to actualise the different values and to give them a concrete, transferable shape. It will facilitate the promotion of cultural differences and the promotion of the encounter of different experiences at European level; • To provide youth of new expressive tools to express themselves, to communicate with other youngsters coming from different countries and backgrounds and to stimulate their artistic competences; • To provide youngsters of new operative and functional tools to make them develop their personal skills and to boost them to become, in the future, peer educators; • To stimulate a reciprocal dialogue between youth and elderly to create a common ground where the past experiences can be valorised in the present and used as a starting point in the creation of active citizenship activities; • To deepen the importance of recycling (the puppets will be created using waste and discarded articles) and to reflect on the importance of more sustainable life stiles in the every day life. SUBJECTS OF THE EXCHANGE: In the nowadays society, marked by the exponential use of the ICT and the new media, where the communications between individuals are run on the speed of the net, it’s felt the need to recover the old, cultural heritages, actualising them, without loosing the contact with the present. For this reason we believe that art in general and in particular puppets and theatre, can be a powerful tools to stimulate the discover of the past, to create a links with the present, to provide youth of new expressive capabilities to interact among each others and to empower their expressive skills. In this scenario, art become the new channel of expression and communication for targets with different ages and life experiences, but joined by the difficulties experimented in the daily life in less privileged background such as the European outskirts. Through art is in fact possible to create an interaction among different generations, to overcome stereotypes and barriers, to stimulate the intergenerational dialogue, to promote intercultural learning and to look for new forms of cooperation aimed at making the living places, betters places. METHODOLOGIES: for the entire duration of the youth exchange it will be proposed the interactive methodology of the non formal education, which aim at exchanging experiences and knowledge horizontally, promoting the differences. The creation of puppets will stimulate the active involvement of participants and will empower their expressive skills, valorising the different learning styles. During the project the work and the exchange of technical knowledge will be encouraged and gained following a peer to peer approach: participants will have the opportunity to share life experiences and tools in an horizontal manner. This approach aims at guaranteeing the shared approach to the different contents and at empowering the participants learning process. FINANCIAL CONDITIONS: for the APV: 100% food and lodgement covered by the project 100% travel costs anticipated by participants and then refunded for the youth exchange: 100% food and lodgement covered by the project 70% travel costs anticipated by participants and then refunded NOTE: we will refund all the partners at the end of the project, as soon as we receive all the tickets and air boarding passes A/R in original and as soon as we receive the second instalment from the Agency.
Normally the refund process can take, approximately, 4 – 6 months. The tickets for the APV and the youth exchange cannot be bought before the 1 st of March 2013 that is the official starting date of the project: all the expenses done before this date are not eligible and cannot be refunded. Please before booking write us an e-mail and wait for our confirmation. TO DO LIST: We kindly ask to the sending partners to follow the steps listed below: 1. to identify the leader who will take part in the APV and to send back his/her application form within the 15th of February 2013; 2. to send back the application form of the other youth that will participate in the youth exchange: the deadline is 15th of February 2013; 3. after you will receive our confirmation both the group leader and the group can immediately start to find the most suitable solution for their travel; 4. after having purchased the ticket, the leader and participants has to send us the e-ticket. NOTE: the price below includes the tickets return (flight + train + bus) second class travels. The taxi cannot be refunded and the amount specified in the “travel cost for every country” is the 100% and it will be refunded of the at the 70% TRAVEL COST FOR EVERY COUNTRY: ASSOCIATION
AMOUNT 100%
INEX - SDRUZENI DOBROVOLNYCH AKTIVIT DE AMICITIA CONCORDIA DINAMO-ASSOCIACAO DE DINAMIZACAO SOCIOCULTURAL
360,00 € (each participant)
AMOUNT REFUNDABLE 70% 252,00 € (each participant)
330,00€ (each participant) 330,00€ (each participant) 400,00 € (each participant)
231,00 € (each participant) 231,00 € (each participant) 280,00 € (each participant)
IL MURO cultural association IL MURO cultural association, created in Augusta between ’96 and ’97, arises from the need to spread culture in a place that lives under cultural and environmental distresses. IL MURO lives in an area which has suffered deep transformations in less than 50 years; it has passed from a little fishermen and peasants community to an industrial city. This has broken the link with old generations, causing the obliteration of their own history and origins. This is the reason why the association works on rescuing traditions and history in a way to reflect them to the future through the present time thanks to poetry, cinema, art and above all theatre. This kind of work involves young people, from Augusta and from the province, in the development of artistic, urban and naturalistic heritage in one of the most polluted area in Italy. In 2004 the association involves more than 30 young people in a cultural project of the Youth Program action 3 “Raccontare Augusta”. It was an European theatre project ended with a final show in which they put up the story of the city. In these years the association has cooperated with: Sert and ASL Siracusa in the development of some projects aimed to prevent drug abuse; Teatro del Corvo of Milano, making some workshops; Libera Torino, taking part of the “National Day against Mafia” acting during the event; Medici Senza Frontiere, entertaining the visitors of the refugee camp which was set up in Piazza Duomo in Syracuse; Terra del fuoco association, entertaining 800 students (coming from every Italian region) travelling in the Memorial Train in order to visit the death camp of Krakow. IL MURO also cooperated with a lot of different social co-operatives and humanitarian associations which work in the whole territory, an example is given by the first Clown Heart international tour held in 2008. It was organized by ourselves and the civil protection of Syracuse A.V.C.S., in cooperation with La Farandula association (Bari) and Officina del Circo (Avigliano). The meaning of Wall (il Muro) has different interpretations, accordingly to the way we act and work in this particular contexts. So WALL doesn’t mean only defence, but also union and continuous renewal. As a matter of fact, every time a new brick gets in, the old wall is crushed in order to built it again and stronger than before!