Spraycan - The Power of Street Art
Start date: Aug 1, 2014,
End date: Mar 31, 2015
PROJECT
FINISHED
The youth exchange “Spraycan - the power of street art” is a project aimed at promoting active youth participation and European citizenship through using street art and the theater of oppressed. It will involve 38 young people from 6 countries (Armenia, Belarus, Hungary, Poland, UK, Urakraine). It will last 10 days. The youth exchange will cover the themes of social activism, inclusion of urban youth into active participation, active citizenship, street art as means of transforming social issues. The event will take place in Gyöngyös and Budapest. The objectives of the youth exchange is to use street art and forum theater as means of bringing up topics important in society; raise awareness of people about different issues existing in the community through street art; to create a space for urban youth to find a way to express their artistic skills and to involve them into the life of the community; to promote the idea of diversity in Europe; to promote inclusion of young people from deprived urban area through their active participation in the life of community; to encourage youth to be social activists in their communities.
The methodology of the youth exchange will be based of the methods of non-formal, intercultural and experiential learning. The programme will be structured on the principles of active participation. It will include: integration activities, simulation activities, presentations of the participants about the use of street art in the cities and countries, workshops on making graffiti organized by graffiti artists, workshops on social activism, forum theater, creating message, cultural nights, city quest, etc.
As the result of the youth exchange the participant will create the graffiti art work on the walls of our youth house at Újpest and perform a street play in Gyöngyös at the end of the project.
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