Results

The European Youth Exchange Acting Out has finished successfully

From the 3^rd to the 10^th of December in Ezcaray, 29 young people from Germany, Ireland, Italy and Spain met, to take part in a European Youth Exchange. They explored different methodologies and ways of theatre to use as a medium to promote equality in gender.

“Acting Out” was a European youth exchange financed by the Key Action 1 of the Erasmus+ programme. The exchange has united 29 young people from 4 different countries to reflect on questions about gender through theatre and non-formal education. The youth participants had an active role in everything throughout the project, acquired competences to make decisions, improved their employability, and shared their point of view on the theme.

This project has been coordinated by the organisation of La Rioja, Asociación Juvenil Teatral ON&OFF (Spain) with the help of other international entities such as Crooked House (Ireland), Calypso (Italy) and Jugenkulturarbeit E.V.(Germany). This project consisted of a programme of activities using the methodologies of non-formal and technical theatres and art skills, that allowed the participants to acquire knowledge in a pleasant and effective way.

The participants spent the week learning more about gender and about themselves while also making strong friendships with their fellow participants.

In this way, the project not only created a better importance on the equality of gender in all ambitions of our daily lives, but it also centred in on our participants acquiring different competences that are not sufficiently obtained through traditional educative systems (communication in a second language, entrepreneurship, creativity, body expression, etc). During the whole week, the young people prepared an active performance that was shown to the public on the 8^th of December at 7pm, in front of the tourist office, in the city of Logroño.