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GRENZERFAHRUNGEN - BORDERLINE EXPERIENCES. Meine Grenzen. Unsere Grenzen. Die Grenzen Europas.
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

To our project "GRENZERFAHRUNGEN - BORDERLINE EXPERIENCES. Meine Grenzen. Unsere Grenzen. Die Grenzen Europas" we invite 42 young people aged 15-18 years from Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom to Sindelfingen. In this intercultural youth exchange, the young people create a joint performance which they will perform publicly in a youth center and a theater in Sindelfingen. The German group consists of youths of a preparatory class whose families have taken refuge in Germany.Content of the joint actions of the young people is to confront their own living conditions to the ones of the people who had to flee from their home countries and who hope to find asylum in Europe.For this artistic interpretation, we choose a creative approach with elements of performing arts, metaphorical presentation and music. Thus, the young people get to know each other on a level that usually has no space in their school and everyday life: They perceive themselves sensitively, overcome their prejudices, learn to respect each other and to interact in a mutually respectful manner - regardless of race, nation, language, culture and social class.By our creative approach we avoid discussions which often only reinforce existing prejudices and widen the social and cultural divisions. On the contrary, the creative approach allows young people to deal with the different lifestyles of all participants and to develop empathy for the emergency of refugees.For the preparation of the project we ask all participants to photograph three things that they would take with them if they had to flee their homes . At the preparatory meeting in October, we will select some of the photos under thematic aspects .After that we will provide these photos to all young people in our intercultural exchange in November. On this basis, we will create improvisations and stories which will lead into a final joint performance .Based on this holistic creative process, young people will be able to seriously develop creative future scenarios for a solidary European Community. They set themselves the goal to overcome national egoisms in solving the refugee crisis.The participants will discover and will become aware of national, cultural, social and creative special qualities of each of them - even the people who had to flee from their home country.As we know from experience, during the constant feedback process the youths recognize that this shared learning processes are possible only within a Europe of Solidarity. Especially in times of a growing number of Eurosceptics , we believe that it is important especially for young people, to let them experience that a model of a united Europe is possible and to reassure this believe to the general public.
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