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TolerART
Start date: Sep 15, 2011,

TolerART is a bilateral youth exchange - Action 1.1 - Youth in Action - focused on combating discrimination and intolerance, using art as a tool. The aim of this exchange is to bring together youngsters with fewer opportunities and to reinforce their solidarity, mutual understanding and intercultural learning skills and abilities using elements of forum theatre, social and street animation, graphic and social media, traditional and street dances as a tool. The youth exchange is implemented by youngsters, with youngsters and for youngsters with fewer opportunities and aims at offering them a participatory frame using the art tools to reinforce the intercultural dialogue. 32 youngsters from Romania and Norway, youngsters coming from families facing poverty and social exclusion will be offered the opportunity to share their experiences and to get to know the others' youngsters realities. Within the actual context, fully affected by the social and economic problems, the art tools that will be constantly practiced in groups will be the element that would facilitate the youngsters' social integration. The arts workshops will be the instrument to know each other and to unite all the participants. With social problems shaped according to the countries' situation, the youngsters will use the art activities we are proposing - theatre, graphic, dances as a way to facilitate their social integration and to overcome the discrimination phenomenon. In each of the 8 days of activities, the youngsters will discover and learn traditional elements from eachother's culture with the goal of mixing traditions and cultures and inventing new and alternative ways to use the art as an instrument to express themselves as important societal resource. For the target involved: youngsters with difficult socio-economic background, youngsters facing poverty and social exclusion, the workshops within TolerART will facilitate their socializing process and will help them to overcome the cultural differences. More than this, the TolerART exhibition and the TolerART event, at the end of the project, will be reinforcing the youngsters' participation to combating intolerance and discrimination. Thus, all the materials produced through the week - paintings, graffiti, social media posters tackling discrimination and intolerance will be available in the exhibition and the dances and the theatre plays will be performed in the event that will be organized in one of the main squares, for the community in Bergen. Developing art for tolerance will encourage the dialogue among youngsters coming from different countries and bringing with them their own and personal backgrounds. All the activities that will be implemented are fully based on non-formal education methodological approach aiming to facilitate the youngsters' awareness on discrimination and intolerance phenomenon and will give them inventiveness to reflect upon these topics. (Simulations, role playing games, animation games) More than this, the project we are proposing is developed by young volunteers, with young volunteers and for young volunteers, the theme perfectly integrating the 2011's priorities as the European Year of Volunteering. Developed as a perfect volunteers' product, TolerART promotes volunteering as a strong mechanisms for sustainable community development and for the support the discriminated group is permanently seeking for.
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