KA3: MOMENTUM

Meet the participants of the project: “European Youth at the frontlines of active citizenship: A Roadmap towards a collective South-North-East-West Momentum” organized by Volunteers Centre Skopje and supported by European Commission due to Erasmus+ European Youth Together programme and see how they will change society.

Elena Ramirez Gonzales (Spain) Elena’s project consists of creating a drag king workshop, addressed to any person regardless of their sex, gender identity or sexual orientation. It is a drag king workshop because inside drag practice, it is still invisible and today there are lack of spaces where you can find it. The goal of the project, from one side is to provide tools to learn to transform into drag king, empowering the participants through this learning process; and specially the lesbian collective. On the other side, it pursues a more general or global goal: generating a space of collective reflection about gender and power in society.

Javier Esteves (Denmark) Argentinian entrepreneur living in Aarhus, Denmark, has engaged into a social project called ”The New Creative Tenants”, where a group of 12 homeless Danish youngsters will start living in a cultural center called UngdomsKulturHus (UKH), as part of an experiment for social inclusion. Throughout this process, the main idea is to sort things out when it comes to the guidelines and space availability of the house, with an agenda of both active and possible projects for the new tenants to be aware of this right away. Javier hope that one thing that will change for sure, is the perception that a large part of the population has in regards of the capacity and deliverables that a cultural hub have.

Dídac Espí Vallvé (Spain) The idea of the Didi’s project called: “Hand made Sound System” came about together with his mate, in a mental all night rave in a squat in Sant Andreu del Palomar during the summer. The aim is to create a youth movement in the city. All the same, the essence and main objectives of the project are the self-direction and sustainability – creating the speakers with our own hands, to build up an alternative youth recreation, to promote young artists and to create support network between social organizations in the city.

Shubhdeep Singh Parwana (Denmark) Shubhdeep Singh Parwana lives in Aarhus, Denmark and he is a cultural entrepreneur, artist and visual anthropology student. He finds inspiration in working with curiosity and ownership as methods to engage himself and others around him. His project is the creation of a mini festival and a series of different cultural events created by young cultural creators and artists. He hopes that creating own platform will show that things can be done in other ways than the traditional ones.

Lina Staškevičiūtė (Denmark) Lina is a 22-year old multimedia designer from Lithuania living in Denmark. She is a professional hitchhiker, traveler, dreamer and burner. She runs several art and community projects at Institut for(X) in Aarhus, Denmark. Among other projects, she started Aarhus Burns and “Foodsharing” Aarhus. That’s a grass roots initiative that started in Germany and expanded in various cities across Europe. It is a community of people who care about the environment and want to reduce food waste. The goal of the project is to bring awareness about food waste through educative workshops and promote a resourceful life - waste less, and do more with less.

Jonatan Nordentoft de Regt (Denmark) Jonatan is occupied daily as a musician and cultural entrepreneur in the city of Aarhus in Denmark. Currently involved as project coordinator in the newly established cultural platform “Open the Kimono”, that aims to create an international conglemerate of cultural platforms, based in Aarhus. By establishing a consortium of active CCI´s in the cultural sector of Aarhus, the point is to create a platform for development of new initiatives, platforms and events. One methodology native to this group is the conversion of so-called “Non-spaces” into Cultural Spaces.

Daniel de Garcia Morales (Spain) Daniel was born in Santa Coloma, Spain and he has devoted his self to fine arts. His wish is to organize art festival in his local place which will be important for protection of their culture. The festival, which will last a week, intends to show that it is possible to create an artistic ecosystem in the local area, creating support networks which can keep on operating from then on from this initiative that seeks to be the roots of the movement. It will be a participative festival, which will take place in various places in the city, trying to make the artistic value of the area visible.

Capucine Chandon (Denmark) Capucine (26, based in Denmark) considers herself a European citizen, as she has lived in a few different countries already. With a background in Communication and Photojournalism, she has put all her focus on her passion for bringing people together in nature. Her project called “Biophilia” means love of life and living organisms. It describes the need as a human being to connect with other forms of life in nature in order to feel good. The idea of the project is to invite people to reconnect with nature. Capucine will organize events where people meet up in nature somewhere around Aarhus. Every season brings a different nature experience and activity: it could be going on a hike, gathering wild edible plants or mushrooms, and cooking them on the fire, swimming in a lake or the sea, and sleeping outside.

Laia Cuadro Segarra (Spain) As a good integrator, Laia brings together years of experience and dealings with a large number of people. Since their adolescence they have been involved as a monitor and a leader in recreational centres geared towards children, which clearly highlighted their career goals, so they ended up studying social integration. During their academic placement carried out in the association Intergramenet they were able to experience first hand the linguistic difficulties of people recently arrived from other communities and cultures to Catalonia, a bilingual place and with a complicated vocabulary even for natives. This fact had posed new challenges which include the facilitation of learning of the language for situations in daily life, speeding up the inclusion of this group in their new home. To this end Laia has developed a very interesting project geared specifically towards the creation of a bond and a space free from judgment regarding fears, barriers and tabues which can come out of the circumstances which these people find themselves in.

Lidia Fernandes Rodriguez (Spain) Lidia is a 27 years old girl from Spain. Currently she works as a social integrator and studies social work. She is also educated in and have experience in the health sector. Lidia always wanted to work in sectors in direct contact with people, accompanied with a significant emotional burden. She was looking for different methods to know what her mind and body felt, until finally found different ways of learning and management. During this process she met Marta, her companion and soul mate, and they two created KANOA. It’s project with non-formal education which aims to provide students with emotional resources to enrich human relations and improve the quality of the interventions that they will carry out in the future.

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