Youth & Art 4 Human Rights Newsletter

NEWSLETTER

YOUTH EXCHANGE: YOUTH & ART FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

24 OCTOBER 2019-O1 NOVEMBER 2019 BANSKO, BULGARIA

manipulated by any antimigrant and ultra nationalist political

formations

and

groups promoting violence and disgusting hatred and intolerance. In this context of lack

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

migrants and refugees even violence, even hate crime, media

and

political

propaganda, fake news. All this In the last several years Europe has faced major challengesthe Siria' s conflict resulted in millions people fleeing from their homes and in the context of the refugee crisis, there has been a great in crease in nationalist attitudes, Moreover

movements political this

and

populism.

resulted

in

increased USE of hate speech,

directly

affects

European

values and the future of Europe but its present.They are the ones who truly believe in

of

refugees

solidarity

with

successful

integration is almost an impossible mission which by itself is a threat to security in the EU. During the exchange, young people will have the opportunity to discuss key concepts such as freedom,Â

European values and need to protect them now more than ever. But at the same time they are rather vulnerable. A lot of time of they have low media literacy and lack of analytical skills thus can get easilyÂ

discrimination against

responsibilities, media and fake news, hate speech, hate crimes, extremism, violence, peace

and

solidarity.

In

addition we also believe young people need to be aware of their own role in

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protecting human rights but justice, equality, human dignity, nondemocracy,

discrimination, tolerance,

European values, rights,

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT - To raise awareness among youth about hate speech and hate crimes as human rights - To encourage positive also need to be equipped with

attitudes,

the necessary knowledge and

tolerance for refugees and

skills to tackle hate speech and

migrants.

human rights violation. In order

-To introduce possible non-

not to fight back hate speech

violent ways to counter hate

with more hate and violence,

speech

the

channels for reporting hate

project

will

promote

solidarity

and

to

and

provide

peaceful ways to engage youth

speech online

and make them ambassadors

- To encourage media

of human rights..

literacy, analytical and critical thinking.

-To stimulate the active engagement of young people by encouraging them to be become ambassadors of human rights protection. .

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HOW WE STARTED

OUR JOURNEY STARTED...

The teams of association Pro

New

cooperation

was

Vision International and Active

established between informal

youth were extremely happy

group Active Youth and

to start this first new journey

Association

Pro

Vision

International in framework project "Youth & ART fot human rights" . The project is financed by Erasmus Plus program through the UK National Agency.

together

by

implementing

youth exchange “Youth & art for human rights” funded by Erasmus+ Agency

is

UK a

National

partnership

between British Council and Ecorys

UK.

The

involved

36

Bulgaria,

United

project

people

from

Kingdom,

Italy, Spain and Turkey. The project was the first mobility implemented by Active youth team and together with our partners we’ve held all the planned activities. The first day was quite interactive and full with different emotions and activities – such as getting to know

each

other,

team

building and ice-breaking, city quests and we finished with an intercultural evening of all

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partner countries.

EXCHANGING On

our

next

participants

day had

the the

opportunity to explore and exchange information on the topic of human rights. In the morning we

used the

method "world cafe" and discussed concepts such as hatred,

freedom

of

expression, prejudices and discrimination and how they are all related to human rights. During the activity the participants worked in small groups

using

the

brainstorming method and came

up

with

their

perception of human rights .

All that followed by workshop

for us to balance the knowledge of the participants.

We also discussed the difference between hate speech and freedom of expression and it turned out that many of these themes are so intertwined and embedded that it is difficult to understand the difference between some of them.

which we called "ACT in out" which

was

a

plenary

discussion aiming to set up the definitions for the group for all the topics which was important for the exchanging process in the next day. Since we received people with different backgrounds and experience it was important

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of graffiti and the difference between "Graffiti and Street ART" . Also the participants discovered

the

most

important graffiti artists. Then we moved on to the practical and

creative

part!

The

participants were divided into three different groups and created 3 different Graffiti paintings that were after that given as a present to local Even the most powerful tool

school in the city of Razlog.

needs a break from time to time.

This

is

why

the

participants had the chance to explore

some

Bulgarian

of

culture

the and

traditions. The group visited the monastery of Rila . The Rila monastery is the largest and most famous monastery in Bulgaria for its paintings

cave of of ST. John' s and rock

AND HERE IS HOW WE CONTINUE...

prayer where we enjoyed our

Our next day was very

time together with a picnic in

creative and interesting. The

the open area..Â

Than the

participants had opportunity

participants went to the city of

to learn the idea, philosophy

Blagoevgrad which is the

and techniques of graffiti

main and bigger city in south

paintings and slowly entered

west part of Bulgaria where

in the world of "Graffiti." His

they got to know more about

workshop began with an

the traditions.

explanation of the meaningÂ

and

architecture..

The

participants visited also the

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Here we are with another creative day exploring the ART of storytelling.

In the morning we started our work with an introduction to storytelling and sharing of experiences on how to involve other young people by telling impact stories. We used a lot of

The idea was to learn the

interactive methods for that

techniques of digital storytelling

activity and most of all the

and  to crate own

storytelling as such.

videos, based on the method and to engage more young people across Europe.

In the second part of the day the participants were divided into small

groups

and

showed

creativity of educating new During

the

day

we

had

generations with

sharing

the idea that ART can be used to

experience on digital tools and

combat hatred, racism and

presenting

discrimination.

workshops

on about

digital

programs-how

As most of the participants were

to create comics, digital content,

new to Erasmus + world and are

animation, video editing.

participating for very first time in mobility

organized

in

the

framework of the program , they had the opportunity to be introduced to lot of different and interactive activities which will

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Hames, the them and young people among world's most innovative even more popular than is now. person.

to make Erasmus + program

A WEEK FULL OF PRODUCTIVE WORKSHOPS, DISCUSSIONS AND REFLECTIONS ON THE AQUIRED SKILS AND KNOWLEDGE!

EACH JOURNEY HAS IT'S END...

plan for dissemination of the activities as well as reflected on their

learning

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diaries

&

competences

acquired during the project.

exchange "Youth & ART for Human Rights". The participants shared the power of storytelling and created their videos to spread the message of peace, love and solidarity.

Along with that they created a

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