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This document was one of the final outputs of the project “Peerform It: Peer
education on theatre as an intercultural learning tool” funded with support from the
European Commission and the Erasmus+ program. This publication reflects the
views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any
use which may be made of the information contained therein. In case you want to
know more about this initiative or access to its materials please visit.
http://peerformit.blogspot.com.es.

A project coordinated by:

With the support of:

And the funding and administrative support of:

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 Index

About the Project .................................................................................. p. 4

Entities ...................................................................................................p .6
Good Practices ......................................................................................p. 19
Erasmus+ ...............................................................................................p. 30
Bibliography and Resources ............................................................... p. 32

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ABOUT THE PROJECT

“Peerform it!” is a project of European dimension funded under the Key Action 1 of the
European Commission’s programme Erasmus+. Its main objective is to join together
different organisations focused on promoting intercultural values and teaching second
languages to young people thanks to the use of non formal and theater tools. The main
activity implemented during the project will be a transnational seminar that will take place
between the 18th and 23rd  of April 2017 in Ezcaray (Spain), and on which
20  professionals from six different countries will take part. Coordinated by Asociación
Juvenil Teatral ON&OFF (ES) with the cooperation of Theatre - Studio “Studentina” (BG),
Association for promotion of IT, Culture and Coexistence (IKS) (HR), Associazione
Culturale Zoe (IT), Stichting The English Theatre (STET) (NL) and Asociaţia Bolyongo
Színházi Egyesület (RO), this seminar will allow that representatives from these
organisations and managers of their programmes can participate in a programme of work
designed not only to provide them a new knowledge and skills on interculturality through
theater, but also on how to use them at transnational level as a tool to achieve the social
inclusion of youth on their communities and their development. 

Moreover, this programme will aim to increase the funding possibilities and transnational
cooperation of the project partners thanks to activities related to give visibility and discover
programmes such as Erasmus+ as a tool to facilitate the networking among them. This will
make possible to create synergies among these entities and their staff on the
implementation of education projects that could involve young people from different
countries, increasing also the technical capacity of their teams on the coordination and
management of this kind of initiatives. The seminar will also contain dynamics to reinforce
the networks of the project partners at international level thanks tovisits to public
institutions and local partners of ON&OFF as hosting entity. This will make possible that
project partners can discover how the organisation manages its programmes, work with
other actors at local level and see how ON&OFF has implemented other European
projects under Erasmus+ on the last years. To achieve all the goals mentioned before and
the project objectives, all the activities designed will promote an active and cooperative
participation among participants as peers thanks to workshops and group dynamics that
will facilitate to learn about all the partner organisations, their programmes, best practices
on intercultural education using theatre and discover the peculiarities of all the countries
involved in the project. 

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Besides this, the project (and especially its final seminar) has been designed as a
framework on which participants could work on the construction and creation of new
transnational initiatives after “Peerform it!” to develop new intellectual outputs focused on
the use of theater as learning tool towards interculturality (promoting among young people
inclusive values such as solidarity, tolerance or intercultural dialogue).

Finally, the project will provide a visibility system that will increase the presence of its
partners on their local communities. This will also provide them a better position on the
European field thanks to tools such as press notes, regular publications on social networks
and the creation of a blog that will contain all the information about the project, news and
the main result of the “Peerform it!”: a document containing all the good practices showed
during the seminar and the materials created on it.

PROGRAMME OF WORK



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 Entities
Partners involved in the project


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Asociación Juvenil Teatral ON&OFF La Rioja (Spain)
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.

OBJECTIVES OF THE ORGANIZATION:

๏ 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).
๏ To create specific working and learning groups for improving staging on any field (lights,
sound, atrezzo, etc.).
๏ To promote the participation of children and youth in cooperation with the municipality of
Logroño and with the Department for Childhood and Youth of the government of La Rioja
(“Área de Infancia y Juventud del Gobierno de La Rioja”) in order to develop theater
contests and performances.
๏ To develop participation meetings to allow young people the exchange of good practices,
information and personal experiences.
๏ To performance open theater plays for private and/or public entities.
๏ To manage groups of young people who could take part on initiatives coordinated by
other partner organisations out of Logroño (meetings, youth exchanges, seminars, etc.).
๏ To organize cultural and free time activities for its members (trips, excursions, visits,
camps, etc.).
๏ To cooperate on the public events organized every year by the municipality of Logroño
(Ex. Christmas or carnival public parades).

Besides these regular objectives and goals, the board of the organisation propose every
year new activities and challenges related to theater and drama that could be considered
interesting for the members of the organisation. These new challenges or participation
opportunities offer to all the members of ON&OFF new ways of participation and learning,
that do not only improve their skills on the theater field, but that also help them to develop
their personal competences, self initiative and entrepreneurship.

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.

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ACTIVITIES OF THE ORGANIZATION:

ON&OFF and its members have participated on different European projects and acquired
a deep experience on their implementation and management. Besides the personal
experience of some of its members and volunteers (who have also participated on
Erasmus+ and Youth in Action projects with other entities), ON&OFF has taken part on
several international partnerships during the last years. Furthermore, they have wide
experience in the following areas:

1. Atrezzo, scenery and dressing design group:

๏To adapt the objectives of a play to the scenary.
๏To choose the materials to build the atrezzo.
๏To purchase all materials needed for a play.
๏To design the staff to be used and aesthetic of a play.
๏To build all the scenery of a play.
๏To set a programme and deadlines to complete all the
tasks mentioned before in order to be ready for the
premiere or a theater play.

2. Scene directors group:

๏ To select the topic of a play according to its aims and objectives.
๏ To coordinate the different teams involved on the preparation of a play.
๏ To choose the best scenes to tell the story designed.
๏ To distribute the actors and set their role within the story to tell.
๏ To develop the actions that will tell the story chosen.
๏ To decide and write the text for a play.
๏ To take all the decissions linked with the performance of the play: music, lights,
decoration, make-up, etc.
๏ To direct all the rehearsals of a theater play and guide its actors.
๏ To test the facilities on which a play will be performanced and adapt them to develop the
play properly.
3. Music, sound and lights group:
Responsible of the maintenance, use and instalation of all the equipment needed for the
development of a theater play in terms of sound, music and lights. Always under the
coordination of the scene directors group.
4. Photography group.
5. Make-up and hairdressing.
In spite of these groups and tasks, all the people involved on the team of the organisation
are trained and have acquired a wide experience on the last years on:
๏ Creation and desing of theater and video projects.
๏ Management of children and young people groups of participants.
๏ Coordination, monitoring and evaluation of activities for youth.
๏ Being responsible on the creation, assignment and adaptation of the mentioned tasks to
different targe groups according to their profiles and skills.
๏ Implementation of vissibility and dissemination of results strategies.
๏ Intercultural dialogue and assertive communication.

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Theatre - Studio Studentina (Bulgaria)

The Theatre – Studio “Studentina” Association is non-

governmental, professional artistic organization that helps young
people from Bulgaria and abroad, irrespective of their belief,
religion, race and gender.

OBJECTIVES OF THE ORGANIZATION:

๏ Support of artistic projects in the field of dance, theatre, music, fine arts, cinema
and photography, crafts.
๏ To create appropriate conditions and opportunities for future development of the
art creativity of its members.
๏ Co-producing and organization of dance and theater festivals, music events and
meetings, fine art and photographic exhibitions, film productions of young authors.
๏ Support artistic initiatives in the field of literature, creative works related to the
development of informatics and cybernetics.
๏ Assist in student projects carried out by creative programs and activities of the
Bulgarian students with their foreign partners.
๏ Support and implement environmental help projects for young people to protect
nature.

ACTIVITIES OF THE ORGANIZATION:

At the present time T.S."Studentina” is situated in the National Student House in Sofia. We
manage three dance - theatrical studios and with the help of volunteers we develop our
activities in several directions:

1.A Company for contemporary dance: The company is

primarily oriented to different trends in contemporary dance and
physical theater: contact improvisation, "Release" techniques,
"Body Mind Centuring" and other expressive techniques in the
field of contemporary dance. The basic structure of the studio
consists of young volunteers - professional dancers and non-
professionals, students from various universities around the
country, young people who have already graduated in the field
of dance and physical theater. The studio is headed by Petya
Bozhinova - graduated the National Academy of Theater and
Film Art Theater, subject “Dance Theater” and Ivaylo Dimitrov -
director, choreographer and assistant in the Department of
Performing Arts, National Academy of Theater and Film Arts.

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2. Music band: The band has been created by amateurs and professional musicians
playing different instruments: piano, bass guitar, guitar, drums and other
percussion instruments as they team in general rehearsals. On the other hand, a
group working primarily in the field of electronic music has been established. We
also work to develop the vocal skills of students in various courses in music (jazz,
folk music, etc.).

3. Theater Studio: The group is composed by students-volunteers from various

universities in Bulgaria. They are non professional actors. The various studio
productions are guided by different guests - directors.

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Association for promotion of IT, Culture and Coexistence (IKS) (Croatia)

Association IKS was founded in 2003 and from the very

beginning has emerged as a leading civil society
organization in the Sisak – Moslavina county. In its 13
years, it has carried out various programs for different
groups of citizens, representatives of civil society, socially
vulnerable groups of citizens, children, youth and elderly.

OBJECTIVES OF THE ORGANIZATION:

In partnership with the National Foundation for Civil Society Development and the CCI
from Zagreb, from 2007 until today, we carry out a program of regional development "E -
mission". The aim of this program is to empower civil society organizations in the four
counties of central Croatia and city of Zagreb. Through information, counseling and
training we aim to encourage the creation of effective non-governmental sector and active
citizenship. In implementing this program, we have established cooperation with almost all
civil society organizations and local governments in our country .

The work of our association is funded through various sources: the European Union
through the IPA program, the European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights
(EIDHR ) and the Erasmus+ programme and numerous other donors such as the UNDP,
the Ministry of Sea, Tourism, Transport and Development , World Bank, National
Foundation for Civil Society Development , Ministry of social Policy and Youth, Ministry of
Science, Education and Sports, Sisak County, City of Petrinja , Glina, Open Society
Institute, AED ( Academy for Educational Development ), T-com, Zagreb Bank and many
others smaller donors.

๏ Vision: a humane, democratic environment in which Association IKS acts as a

generator of changes and a stronghold of positive ideas.
๏ Mission: to empower citizens to develop a sense of responsibility and initiative for
the advancement of the entire community.

At the moment, our organization has 6 employees, all working in different fields.
Association is a part of Croatian Network of Volunteering Centres, Croatian Community of
Info Centres for Youth, European Youth Portal as a sending, hosting and coordinating EVS
organization, Learning Mobility Network, EUSDR Youth platform and many others. We
have a very good cooperation with many different associations in Croatia an throughout
Europe with partnerships and implementation of over 80 projects, and are constantly
working with important stakeholders in the community like Croatian Bureau for
Employment, Home for the elderly people, Home for the mentally ill and educational
institutions.

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ACTIVITIES OF THE ORGANIZATION:

Association IKS has been focused on working with youth from its beginning. From 2003 to
the end of 2009 the Association IKS created Youth Club where we organized leisure time
for youth from Petrinja and made significant proactive steps in the establishment of the
Youth Council of Petrinja and the creation of the city's youth policy. We regularly conduct
programs for children and young people through which we encourage their creativity and
active involvement in community life. In 2009 we
had a very successful project "Youth Center
CAGE" which also organized leisure time for
youngsters filled with many creative workshops.
In 2011, we made a detailed analysis of the
needs of young people and youth organizations
in Sisak-Moslavina county. We have also
released a "Guide to the youth associations of
Sisak - Moslavina County".

Their activities seek to achieve the following objectives:

๏ Encourage civic activism and volunteer work;

๏ Promote participatory democracy;
๏ Organize public debates, promotional activities, forums, events (theatre,
projections, promotions, exhibitions, festivals);
๏ Strengthen capacities and encourage cooperation, partnership and linking key
stakeholders in community development;
๏ Implement non-formal education programs (seminars, workshops, training
courses);
๏ IT education and training;
๏ Strengthen the capacity of civil society organizations;
๏ Empower socially vulnerable and marginalized groups (long-term unemployed,
young people with fewer opportunities, single mothers, unemployed women,
women 45+, people with disabilities, ethnic minorities and other socially
vulnerable groups on the margins of society);
๏ Empower and educate young people to develop careers in the civil society sector;
๏ Provide Job seeker club services;
๏ Encourage the social integration of vulnerable groups;
๏ Encourage international cooperation;
๏ Conduct educational programs and activities for children including civic education;
๏ Carry out self-financing activities of the organization in line with the strategic
objectives of Association IKS.

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Associazione Culturale Zoe (Italy)
The Zoe Association was founded in January 2002 by
Michele Bandini and Emiliano Pergolari. The purpose of the
association is to propose, organize, promote and realize
cultural events related, in particular, to theatre. The
association – whose members range between 20 and 37
years of age – wants to pursue objectives of a social and
cultural nature, encouraging the practice, dissemination and
promotion of theatrical culture and art. The Zoe Associaction has carried out, over the past
11 years, a very intensive theater training activity for – and with - young people with the
support of the Municipality of Foligno, the Province of Perugia, the Umbria region and the
Theatre of Ravenna. The Zoe - theater company, founded by Michele Bandini and
Emiliano Pergolari, in collaboration with the Teatro Stabile of Umbria has produced and
distributed nationwide several theater performances. The Association has always
promoted contemporary theater culture by organizing training activities and initiatives of a
great artistic value throughout the national territory.

OBJECTIVES OF THE ORGANIZATION:

Over the years, the Zoe Association, in order to

pursue its objectives, has initiated a fruitful
collaboration with the Municipality of Foligno as
well as with various local and countrywide
organizations and associations. The Zoe
Association has contributed to numerous
initiatives within its community and beyond.

The goal was, and still is, to open a bridge

between what is an artistic practice, theatre, and
the society, with the intent to re-create that old
relationship but still necessary, that linked art to
life and society.

Zoe Garage has has been over the years and important journey of theatre training, but
also an important project for social integration, creating very heterogeneous working
groups, including young people with disabilities, addiction problems and discomfort,
through a way of working that always puts everyone on the same level according to an
idea of sharing and relationship, which has been very successful in terms of social
inclusion.

ACTIVITIES OF THE ORGANIZATION:

Some of the most noteworthy activities by ZOE are the following:

๏ Non Scuola: Since 2004, the Zoe Association has been collaborating on the Non
Scuola project in Ravenna Teatro delle Albe (below resume and info). The Non
Scuola is a “heretic” method of theatre training that is offered in all schools in
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 Ravenna since 1992 and in recent years has also been exported to various parts
of Italy and the world (Brazil, Belgium, the United States, Senegal, Conegliano
Veneto, Naples, Milan, Ravenna, Lamezia Terme, Pistoia, Venice, Mazara del
Vallo, Seneghe and Foligno). Worth noting the Ubu Prize 2012 at the Teatro delle
Albe “Heresies project” to which the Zoe Association has collaborated with great
satisfaction.
๏ Grass: Between 2008 and 2011, the Zoe Association joined a local network of
youth groups called Grass whose aim was to promote new forms of
communication among young people. One of the projects was Grassetto, an
independent cultural magazine acting as press organ for the Grass network.
๏ Marat Project: A collection of workshops with disabled people aimed at the
realization of a show, realized by the Social Cooperative Le Pleiadi (La Spezia),
the Casaarsa Theatre Association (Ravenna), by Armunia (Castiglioncello,
Livorno). From 2006 to 2008.
๏ In Bicicletta per la Pace: Thematic day on peace organized by the Officina della
Memoria di Foligno. From 2005 to 2007.
๏ Sant'Eraclio Carnival/Foligno: Children show staged within the Sant'Eraclio
Castle, from 2005 to 2009.
๏ In 2011, in collaboration with Grass realization of PARAcarro “Un carro allegorico
che va in contro-sfilata”, produced by the Children’s Carnival of Sant’Eraclio/
Foligno (50th edition)


๏ VIAINDUSTRIAE project (design by Myriam Laplante): Theatrical performance

loosely based on the Woyzeck by Georg Büchner, by Zoe/Emiliano Pergolari

In addition, collaborations with: Young Jazz, Sovversioni Non Sospette, Teatro Stabile
dell'Umbria, Fontemaggiore, Festival di Armunia, Comunanza Agraria di Sant'Eraclio,
Black Sheep, Attack, Carnevale di Sant'Eraclio, Informagiovani il Tamburo, Casa dei
Popoli, Cooperativa Ellelle, Arci Feedback, Officina della Memoria, Centro Giovani, Diocesi
di Foligno, Radio Gente Umbra.

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Stichting The English Theatre (STET) (The Netherlands)

In 2006, Elske van Holk created an English theatre for the

ever growing international community in The Hague: Stiching
The English Theatre. STET stimulates and provides high-
quality professional English language theatre in the
Netherlands with an emphasis on the Hague-area to Dutch
and non-Dutch audiences alike at interesting locations and
venues.

OBJECTIVES OF THE ORGANIZATION:

STET The English Theatre ‘s mission is to provide high quality English-language theatre in
the Netherlands including an education programme for both primary and secondary
schools. It works closely together with the Nationale Theater in The Hague in fulfilling this
mission. A wide programme of yearly 8 to 15 productions is offered to its audiences. As a
matter of policy all productions are combined with an educational offer, which is offered to
a wide network of education institutions in the Netherlands, both Dutch and international.



Principles
๏ High quality English level (90% native speakers)
๏ Only professional theatre makers
๏ Personal contact, careful panning and
tailor-made educational programmes

Why is it a neccesity?
๏ A lot of international schools
๏ A lot of Dutch schools have high quality
English lessons
๏ There was not enough on offer
๏ There where not enough companies
offering to travel to the schools

Why do we do it?
๏ To educate in a different way
๏ To have fun together and release tension built up throughout the day
๏ To build confidence (in speaking and listening)
๏ To enable youngsters to think in different way, to sparkle their imagination, to
express themselves in a different way
๏ To inspire them and engage with them

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ACTIVITIES OF THE ORGANIZATION:

STET offers a programme that consists of a varied offer from comedy to classical texts,
family productions as well as work on location in the open-air or at specially chosen
locations. The audience is broad: from 3 to 99 years old and with different social
backgrounds, from CEO’s to students, from grannies to kindergarten children.

They work with companies from around the world with an emphasis on English speaking
countries. However a new development is to have productions in another language with
English subtitles.

Since 2013 STET has a special education officer, who has built up a broadening network
of international and Dutch schools where the STET productions are offered. STET
education works nationwide and some of the work is permanently on offer as the
(international) performers live and work in the Netherlands.



STET’s education officer works therefore with a wide
offer for both primary and secondary schools. All
educational activities are offered to broaden the students
experience as human beings, creating a learning
environment for expression through drama. Some
workshops offer a deepened knowledge of a specific
play or playwright, whilst other workshops are more skill
oriented to develop presentation and speaking skills,
English as a second language and body awareness.

For older students, including university students, there is

a Medea workshop available. The objective is to find a
voice to agree or disagree with choices made in one of
the darkest dramas of Greek history. In this search for
truth, choice and predestination students and young
adolescents will experience how their choices affect
other people’s lives and how one’s environment makes
people choose. Who is guilty? Who is really guilty? Who
is innocent?

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Asocioaţia Bolyongo Színházi Egyesület (Romania)
The Bolyongó Theatre Association is the legal representation of
the Osonó Theatre from Sfântu Gheorghe. Osonó Theatre is a
theatrical initiative formed in 1993 at a local high school in Sfântu
Gheorghe and evolved to an association, by 2008. The troupe is
formed by young people who aim to create the basis for spiritual
workshops and assure adequate circumstances for contemporary
theatrical experiments.

OBJECTIVES OF THE ORGANIZATION:

Beyond the created performances, the goals of the Osonó Theatre are the following:

๏ To educate and to begin a dialogue with young people through theatre, to support
them in finding their places in our society, as responsible humans and to
encourage them to become part of their communities. The main target group of the
association are young people at local, national and international level, but the
performances and other educational activities are addressed to young educators,
parents and for the whole community as well.

๏ To make a difference in the education, youth and training field. Alike the Erasmus+
programme, fostering social integration, enhancing intercultural understanding and
a sense of belonging to a community is one of the targeted outcomes of the
activities.

ACTIVITIES OF THE ORGANIZATION:

The main activities of Osonó Theatre is the production of performances and shows,
presentation of shows at local and regional level, touring with the shows around Europe by
cooperating with theatres and NGO's with the same profiles, organizing drama camps and
training modules for youngsters and young adults, deducting post-show audience
discussions with an educational emphasis. The association has partners across the world,
in Thailand, Morocco, Spain, United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria,
Hungary, Belgium, Ukraine, Italy and France.

๏ At national level the Osonó Theatre gives a high attention to maintaining and
forming collaborations on rural level, and performing for youngsters and
communities in the villages.
๏ Between January 2013 and May 2014 the Osono Theatre hosted two EVS
volunteers from Nyitott Kor Association from Budapest, Hungary.
๏ In the end of 2012 the two associations have started a joint project, which had the
final product a performance, called "Prohibit the flower ..." and a workshop with
dramatic methods on the topic of youth sexuality.
๏ The EVS project, started out in the beginning of 2013, entitled "Theatre is just a
pretext" , hosted two volunteers from the Nyitott Kor Associaton, who have
attended both administrative and the creative side of work inside the Osono
Theatre, throughout one calendar year. The project gave the two male volunteers
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 the chance to play in the show "As water reflects the face" and they assisted in
organizing and participating on national and international tours.
๏ In 2015, Osonó Theatre has travelled in 15 countries, 133 shows were performed
and more than 6300 spectators viewed them. Next to the development of artistic
shows we organize camps and festivals for other youngsters and young teachers
with the goal to enable each participant’s personal resources by approaching their
inner stories through drama methods.
๏ In 2015 springtime the Osonó Theatre has received the Best Civil Association
Award for the year 2014. The award was accorded by the Covasna County
NGO’s Federation, for the group’s international missions. Throughout May the
presented shows were interconnected with theatre pedagogy modules, led by a
local drama teacher.

๏ In June 2015, the Osonó Theatre has been collaborating with the Covasna
County Council and other 3 NGO’s to organize a Regional Meeting for amateur
theatre groups. On the meeting 7 groups have been presenting their
performances and have been sharing feedbacks and professional advices.
๏ Each summer the Osono Theatre is organizing 3 camps: 1. a drama camp for
youth learders, teachers, coming from Central and Northern Romania. An
Interethnic Drama Camp and an International Drama Camp is also organized in
July, respective in August, where Romanian and Hungarian youngsters from
Romania and from Hungary also are involved in theatrical situations, which favor
an intensive presence for a common thinking and creation.
๏ The Osonó Theatre is invited each year since 2004 the Young Adults Meetings
held inside the Taizé Community. The troupe actors and director are leading
theatrical trainings for the participants, which are focusing on amplifying attention
between the multinational and multi-religious youngsters, trying to experience
variety, tolerance and acceptance.


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 Good Practices
Presented by the partners involved in the project


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Theatre Workshops to boost Employability

This project was implemented with the collaboration of

Fundación Pioneros. Pioneros offers the following programs
and areas:

๏ Prevention programmes, judicial measures, vocational education, equality plan,

attention to the families program and cooperation and development.
๏ Social-educative area: they offer a space of gathering between youngsters with
the aim of values education.
๏ Law Social-educative area: they try that the youngster that have committed and
infraction take responsibility of their acts so that they do not reoffend.
๏ Social-labour area: to provide the youngsters with the training needed to
overcome educative failure and to join the labour market.

The group was formed by 2 teams of 12 youngsters aged 14 to 20 years old at risk of
social exclusion. The workshops were divided upon ten sessions of 2 and a half hours in
which the following objectives were pursued:
๏ To develop creativity.
๏ To improve their self-steem.
๏ To find courage to show each other their abilities and weaknesses.
๏ To develop their emotional intelligence.
๏ To develop social skills.

The evaluation made by the social workers of Fundación Pioneros was the following:

In these workshops, it has been achieve working on the self-steem of the

participants, the acquisition of social skills and the emotional introspection.
With no doubt, the drama workshop has made meaningful changes as well
as a social and personal transformation that should not be abandoned. We
want to find a continuity.


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Promoting Values through Puppet Theatre

Puppet Theatre is the answer to 3 questions:

๏ Civic education in schools and kindergartens

The objective of the puppet shows is to introduce different topics in the schools of the area
to rise awareness about different problems among the children of the area, giving civic
education in an amusing and direct frame.

๏ Youth work in multicultural setting

A volunteer from a different European country is involved in the creation and performing
process, making the team of work highly intercultural. This is achieved thanks to the
European Voluntary Service of the Erasmus+ programme.

๏ Empowerment of long-term unemployed women

To design and create the puppets, IKS hires women that have been long-term unemployed
and with few perspectives to finding a job, therefore empowering women and the local
community.

How to plan a Puppet Workshop

Form the groups

Provide materials to the groups (papers, tape, markers…)

Every group will come up with a small puppet theatre sequences for a specific age group on topics of Civic
education

Every group will perform the small sequence with 2 puppets

Evaluation

Audiovisual resources:

All children have equal rights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awYtKoCK9MQ

Puppet Studio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUF5-zqafsA

Pirati
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iszhI3l73U

Donkey show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9h0O9Nntjo

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Zoe Garage Theatre Workshop

ZoeGarage is a theatre training project started

in 2002 in Foligno. It is divided into two groups,
20/25 participants each, one for youngsters and
one for adults. The workshop is led by four
directors, two per group, and is aimed at young
people aged between 14 and 35 years. Over the
years the project has been expanded to include
people with disabilities, immigrants and young
people from disadvantaged areas, facilitating
the integration, coexistence and sharing of
spaces, goals, personal and group experiences.
The project is divided into two different but complementary moments, which include: a first
phase of preliminary theatrical study, self-discovery through the use of the body and voice,
the use of theatrical language as a means of expression and communication; a second
phase linked to improvisation and the construction of the script and final show, allowing
students to get a first-hand experience of what is the purely artistic and creative element
of the relationship between the stage and the public.

The project involves the construction of a complete theater training programme. Over the
years the project has helped develop the talents and professionalism of many students
who have moved on to find career opportunities in theaters nationwide. Over the years, the
activities of the workshop have been supported and integrated by meetings with italian
artists from the theater and film industry who met students and answered their questions.


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Storytelling Performances

Caja van der Poel is a true Dutch international, who was born in Singapure and travelled
the World in her early years with her Dutch parents. She now lives in The Hague and is a
professional storyteller for children. Her stories are all about magic and imagination, she
loves wonder and also loves wonder tales, the idea, that everything is connected. She
starts her sessions by lighting a candle – a tradition of storytelling and ends her last short
story with blowing the candle out. Her sessions inspire these young children to tell their
own stories, ask questions that came into their minds, and make them think about reality
and magic – something that in their heads are such close friends.

These sessions give something extra to the children. A told story is never the same as a
seen one, it requires more imagination and this is something we need to continue doing for
years!

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Theatre Workshops to Promote Interculturality

This project was implemented with the collaboration of Fundación Pioneros. The group
was formed by 46 youngsters aged 12 to 25 years old at risk of social exclusion. The
workshops were divided upon five sessions of 2 hours.

General Objectives:

๏ To create a creative, fun and cultural space within the field of non-formal
education that facilitates the gathering of the beneficiaries in a positive way that
occupies their time and boosts youth associationism.
๏ To develop the intercultural integration of the beneficiaries through expressive and
leisure activities.
๏ To educate avoiding discriminatory behaviors based on race, gender, religion or
any other personal or social circumstance.

Specific Objectives:

๏ To create an atmosphere of respect towards others’ attitudes and opinions.

๏ To facilitate interpersonal relationships among the members of the group and
boost their active participation within the workshops.
๏ To promote self-confidence.

The project finished with a final performance in which the participants showed in five
different spots of Logroño their learning outcomes.


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Interculturality Reloaded

Interculturality Reloaded" was a European youth exchange

that took place from the 15th to the 22nd of August 2016 in Ezcaray
(La Rioja, Spain) and involved 45 young people and youth leaders
from four partner organisations: ON&OFF (Spain, coordinator),
International Center for Development of Education and Training
(Bulgaria), Calypso (Italy) and IFALL (Sweden).

Participants from these countries worked together using theatre as main tool for
intercultural understanding and reflection. The main aim of this project funded under the
Key Action 1 of the Erasmus+ programme was to provide to young participants a
framework to explore different questions related to the main issue of the exchange and to
show them the importance of their role as citizens and on the mutual understanding of the
European cultures. Using dramatic methodologies and non-formal activities, participants
discovered how their cultural differences can become learning opportunities. They
explored together those cultural facts that they have in common or are different, and
reflected on the stereotypes, labels or prejudices that they could have about the countries
involved on the project.

Thanks to the use of the “dramatic game”, improvisations, debates or role playing,
participants shared their experiences and realized about the different cultural facts of their
home countries. According to this, the project achieved a mutual understanding through a
common aim: make questions and find the answers together. Besides this, the exchange
offered constant interactive activities between the young participants thanks to mixed
group tasks, energizers, open air games and other methodologies related to the theatre
field.

Furthermore, participants had the opportunity of discovering the culture of the

partner countries thanks to cultural workshops or different touristic visits. To disseminate
the results of the project, participants also implemented at its end a public performance on
the capital city of La Rioja (Logroño) that was designed by all of them during the
exchange.


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Tales for Intercultural Learning

The following list of tales are stories that are not mainstream and teach values to children:

Intercultural Values:
๏ Dr. Xargle’s Book of Earthlets
๏ A taste of the moon
๏ Swimmy
๏ Sheep in Wolves’ Clothing
๏ Tickle, tickle
๏ Elmer

Gender Values:

๏ Super Dooper Jezzabel

๏ Mrs Armitage and the Big Wave
๏ Princess Smartypants



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Disability and Emotional Development through Theatre (Dinámica Teatral)

The process:

1. Previous evaluation
2 . Goals setting (technical, artistic, personal development)
3 . Remove personal limitations (fears, embarrassments,
self-judging)
4. Provide technical training
5. Provide life-anthropological-psychological knowledge
6. Manage group development and growing
7. Adapt to individual needs
8. Iterate and grow “spirally” (forever)

How to manage the group:

More info here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0SnVb3XyDszbVY2Ni1MRnIwSms/view

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 Erasmus+
Programme, Funding and Tools


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 Erasmus+ is the European Union programme for education, training, youth and
sport. It runs for seven years, from 2014 to 2020, with organisations invited to  apply for
funding each year to undertake creative and worthwhile activities.

Erasmus+ aims to modernise education, training and youth work across Europe. It
is open to education, training, youth and sport organisations across all sectors of lifelong
learning, including school education, further and higher education, adult education and the
youth sector. It offers exciting opportunities for participants to then study, work, volunteer,
teach and train abroad in Europe.

The Key Actions

Key Actions (also referred to as Actions) is the collective name for activities and projects
that can be funded under Erasmus+.   There are three Key Action areas which can be
summarised as:

Key Action 1: This is all about providing opportunities for individuals to improve their skills,
enhance their employability and gain cultural awareness. Under Key Action 1
organisations can apply for funding to run mobility projects to offer structured study, work
experience, job shadowing, training and teaching opportunities to staff and learners.

Key Action 2:This is all about enabling organisations to work together in order to improve
their provision for learners and share innovative practices. Under Key Action 2
organisations can apply for funding to work in partnership with organisations from other
participating countries.

Key Action 3:This Key Action covers any type of activity aimed at supporting and
facilitating the modernisation of education and training systems. Under Key Action 3, the
Erasmus+ programme will fund strategic activities supporting policy reform across the EU
in education, training and youth.

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