Partners

Asociación Juvenil Teatral ON&OFF

(Project coordinator)

Logroño, La Rioja (Spain)

info@onoffteatro.com

www.onoffteatro.com

In the year 2000 the youth association ON&OFF was created in Logroño as a non-profit organisation to join together all the ex-students and current students of a local theater school: Teatro Dinámica. The main aim of ON&OFF is to promote cultural and artistic initiatives, with a lack of political, religious or favourable intentions, and always trying to create an intercultural framework for the participation, understanding and inclusion of all its members, the society of Logroño and the youth in general. According to this the main aims of the organisation are: To join together those young people interested on the theater and drama using learning groups, experimentation and staging; To organize cultural and leisure time activities for youth; To take part on participative events such as meetings, exchanges, contests, etc. at local, national or international level; To cooperate with local entities and administrations on the implementation of theater spectacles at local, national or international level; To carry out training courses, workshops and activities for educating children, youth and adults (intergenerational projects); other ones related to the promotion of the participation of children and youth on the theatre and training field. Furthermore, the non-formal and drama methodologies used regularly by the entity, make all its acitivities accesible and suitable for any kind of users, promoting the participation of young people with fewer opportunities and especially of those with mobility, expression and/or communication difficulties.

                                             
  Calypso - il teatro per il sociale 
               Pavia (Italy)

                 

          www.teatrocalypso.it

          info@teatrocalypso.it

                                                                       

Calypso is an NGO based in Pavia, a small city in Lombardia region, born in 2006 and composed of about 10 members. Members of our staff have different backgrounds and in these years we’ve been growing specific skills in children and youth working, in site specific projects, in participatory art and training experiences for youth workers, trainers and ngo volunteers. We have been working with different groups of people, using artistic tools, creativity and especially theatrical techniques to involve people and empower groups and community. Our focus has often been the process of involving people and helping them to express their creativity, even if lately we have start growing our own artistic point of view with performances, storytelling and use of puppetry tecniques. In our work we mix different techniques, always boosting group and individual creativity. For us theatrical tecniques are a tool to develop personal skills, to grow self esteem, to feel entitled to act and to transform reality. Usually we plan workshops after some talks with involved group leaders or local organizations who ask us to develop some specific topic, and we agree on an ideal aim who could fit for the group, but still be challenging for them. Usually we like our theatre projects to be part of a bigger frame, so that the final event, when it can be public, is a good chance to make people meet, different target group participate in the same event, sharing experiences and points of view. For us it’s always important to have feedback from participants, and we keep a follow up process along the years by organizing informal meetings and creating situation in which our partners and our members can be active in the local network.

 

 Crooked House - Theatre

 Newbridge , Co.Kildare (Ireland)

 www.crookedhouse.ie

 www.kildareyouththeatre.com

 info@crookedhouse.ie

Crooked House has organized youth exchanges since 2003, Youth Initiatives since 2004, and Erasmus+ Training Programmes since 2014. We have hosted many exchanges, festivals and seminars, based in Newbridge. We have sent members of our youth project on a number of youth exchanges and encounters over the years. At this stage, we are aware and can be prepared for most practical issues that arise in both hosting and sending young people on international projects. We have a detailed Child Protection Policy, and our leaders are trained in all relevant skills. We continue to learn, particularly about new methods of working with young people, and also about structuring longer projects. We have built a wide but focused network of partners in Europe, most of whom work with young people in creative contexts (like theatre, or music). Our exchanges and festivalls strenghten this network each year, and we like to add at least two new organisations to the network every year. We work outide of Erasmus+ as well, taking part in training opportunities offered by the network; and giving training in specialised arteas of youth work to our network organisations. The network is informal, but we would like to explore ways to make it more structured. We have pioneered in Ireland the use of theatre of the oppressed methods of groupwork in the field of Youth & Community Work, using both artists and youth workers to develop projects with young people. We specialise in theatre work about gender, power, social justice issues, and mental health. All of our projects try to find innovative and creative ways to explore these issues. Our philosophical positions are influenced by the work of theorists like Paulo Freire, Augusto Boal, Germaine Greer, Pierre Bourdieu, and second-wave feminism. Our aesthetic view is shaped by the work of William Shakespeare.

Jugendkulturarbeit e.V. - Non-profit Cultural organization

Schlieffenstraße 9 (Germany)

www.jugenkulturabeit.eu

The association Jugendkulturarbeit e.V organizes international exchange programs since 1997. We plan and organize over 12 international projects every year. We plan these projects together with our young theatre participants in all seven districts (Kreyenbrück, Bümmerstede, Eversten, Bloherfelde, Ohmstede, Nadorst, Donnerschwee and Bürgeresch) our organization works and networks on daily basis. Over the past three years the approximately 100 children and young people who are active in the district theatre groups of the association had been engaged in thematic all about migration under the title “Migration und Theater (MUT)“. This is a project that specially targets young participants from socially weaker families or young people with migration background. We managed to upgrade this project with the MUT + (Inklusion) project. We were able to develop some really good interdisciplinary theatre projects about socially relevant topics together with the young active participants, because we integrated all their personal experience in the theatre work. In our youth exchanges theatre methods are always used as primary methods, but the topics vary from   intercultural communication, gender issues, EU biographies, migrations, personal growth etc. Topics we choose are reflection of the young people’s needs and wishes. The main work of our organization is the participative work with children and youth, mostly with fewer opportunities, in the fields of art, like theatre, dance, stage design and music. We are also accredited organization for EVS coordinating, sending and hosting volunteers since 2007. Until today we have sent over 60 young people to other countries and we hosted around 30 young people. Additionally, our association developed different methods and approach for the political education, which enables around 300 young people in one year to be present in our organization.  We also offer possibility for the local or national young students to make their  education practice. Youth people who are connected to our organization are very interested in arts or in the non-formal education.