THIRD DAY

Day 3 (Tuesday) Our third day began with us presenting our work from the previous evening and imediately discussing our thoughts and impressions. For our next task we were asked, as groups, to each pick a human rights violation and a particular affected social group. We then had to the rootsl causes of the problem, by making use of the so called 'problem tree tool', a visual way of representing the relationship between a problem and it's solutions as a tree. Finally, in preparation for a later workshop, we were asked to find examples of graffiti art promoting human rights and in turn to think of our own ideas for such a work of art.

The day ended with a intercultural night. All national teams presented a bit of their culture displaying traditional food from their country for everyone to sample.

Day 4 (Thursday) On our fourth day, we were briefly introduced to the concept of forum (a.k.a. participatory) theatre and were then asked to create our own such plays in groups. Each group was to act out it's own play the first time, while the second time members of the audience were encouraged to stand up and take the place of the actors.

Each play had to depict a real life situation involving an oppressor and a victim and participating members of the audience would try and give new life to the character they were impersonating in an attempt to resolve the social conflict present in the script.

Day 5 (Friday) On our fifth day, Kiril Stoilov, a famous graffiti artist from Blagoevgrad, was invited to our work session of the day. After telling us a bit about himself and his art, he divided us into teams and asked us to think of ideas for graffiti paintings related to cyberbullying, hate speech and human rights. We then went on to give shape and form to our ideas on 2 metre wide canvases, using graffiti sprays and the invaluable help and suggestions of our special guest.