Culture for empowerment
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General introduction to approach
The cluster is about the empowerment of young / disadvantaged people through different culture-based solutions. It consists of three different approaches:
Co-designing hip hop and rap compositions:
[1] The project called ‘Educational Demos’ is focused on the elaboration of rap and hip hop compositions related to the defense of human rights. The approach helps to facilitate empowerment and build trust between young people and society and is a way to deal with their daily concerns. The project is supervised by different social workers.
Theathre of the Oppressed:
The theatre is providing young people from deprived neighbourhoods who are facing problems with tools that help them to talk about them and analyse them. It is a participatory theatre that becomes an alternative way of learning values, and a medium which allows for the exchange of experiences and the dissemination of ideas, facilitate contact between young people in an environment different from school and family. It enables young people to express their needs and concerns, the nourishment of critical thinking, encouragement of active political participation and citizenship.
Upcycling refugee initiative:
The initiative is part of the Refugee ScArt project and consists of a laboratory where recycling, social inclusion and economic support for refugees are tightly connected. Refugees gather plastic/garbage from the streets and create art/useful products with it. The approach/project is not funded by any EU project.
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