The Others role

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The Others role

• Drama experiences
• between intercultural dialogue
• and commitment
• This document has been produced with the
  financial assistence of the European Union. The
  contents of this document are the sole
  responsibility of Cicsene and can under no
  circumstances be regarded as reflecting the
  position of the European Union

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Location
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Partners
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Summary
Young people are called to face the challenge of
building a future full of peace and dialogue.
Overcoming the hostility fomented by the past
divisions and by prejudice is the difficult aim
of the action. In order to reach it is important
that young people animate cultural ways of
exchange, also in a dialogue of peer education.
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General objective

• Experimentation of dialogue and intercultural
  exchange strategies among young people and
  children of the Euromediterranean area, in
  particular Israeli, Palestinian and Italian young
  people and children.

• Building awareness of human rights
• Encouraging acknowledgement of the common
  Mediterranean belonging and roots.

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Specific objectives

• Acknowledgement and welcoming of diversity, of
  otherness and of a flexible identity of the
  other.
• The increased propensity to define ones own
  identity without setting it up against others.
• The awareness of ones own and others rights as
  human beings, at the same time different and
  equal.

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Target

• Direct beneficiaries
• 8 young University students - 2 for each of the
  four involved towns
• 80 young high-school students - for each of the
  four involved towns
• at least 800 children of primary schools - 200
  for each of the four involved towns
• Indirect beneficiaries
• Involved communities
• Governmental and non-governmental organizations
• Cultural operators
• Youth groups and interested citizens

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Reasons for the selection of this target

• Educational commitment addressed to young
  generations is absolutely necessary in order to
  build a future of peace and intercultural
  dialogue between Israeli, Palestine and Europe.
• Young people are more likely to identify with
  other young people peer education promotes
  tolerance, encourages friendly discussion and
  challenges negative stereotypes and attitudes.

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Multimedia platform

• A multimedia space will be active within the
  remote education platform of the Education
  Consortium Euroqualità for
• the sharing of texts and videos
• the availability of a message service
• the carrying out of videoconferences

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Description of activities

• Seminar
• Workshops of Committed Theatre
• Meeting
• Mainstreaming

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Seminar in Turin
5-12 March 2006

• Objective
• The seminar wants to provide the staff involved
  in the project.
• Issues
• Intercultural dialogue
• Committed Theatres contents
• Drama expression techniques
• Peace education
• Euromediterranean culture
• Peer education methodology
• Techniques of documentation of Committed
  Theatre performances
• Use of multimedia space

• Participants
• Project manager
• Drama promoter
• 2 University students (1 boy, 1 girl for each
  of the towns) who will act subsequently as peer
  educators and videomakers

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Seminar in Turin

• The seminar, held in English language, provides
  for
• 4 morning sessions for a theorical education on 4
  issues intercultural communication, peace
  education, euromediterranean culture, peer
  education.
• 4 afternoon sessions for a practical training on
  Committed Theatre and on techniques of
  documentation of Committed Theatre performances.
  Simulation of a work proposal will be proposed by
  a group of young voluntary actors.
• 1 morning educational session on use of
  multimedia space.
• 1 afternoon session aimed at defining the
  educational project and at sharing objectives,
  development time and form of capitalisation.

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Committed Theatre workshops
February/June 2006

• Carrying out of 4 Committed Theatre workshop with
  groups of 20 high-school students (one group for
  each town)
• 8 modules of 2 weeks held by the drama promoter
  and the two young university students (theatre
  and video).
• Remote support of an Italian drama promoter.
• Production of a video of the relevant phases of
  the workshops.
• At the end of each module, thanks to the
  multimedia platform, the work done in the
  different towns will be debated in the multimedia
  classrooms.
• Exhibitions to be staged in schools and childhood
  centres in the involved towns.
• Performances which can involve at least 200
  children for each town are scheduled.

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Meeting in Gaza
July 2006

• Final meeting in Gaza will give the opportunity
  of showing and getting a wider diffusion of the
  experience developed among drama operators and
  teachers thanks to both the support of the remote
  education platform, and the production of a
  publication and a cd with a summary video of some
  performances of each town.

Project managers Peer educators Young actors of
Gaza Peer educators and actors of other towns
connected in videoconference
Participants
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Mainstreaming

• Publication of documents regarding the Project,
  especially the Committed Theatre workshops.
• Carrying out of the publication and of a cd.
• Presentation of the publication in each town in
  the presence of local authorities, of the teacher
  of every kind of school and of non-governmental
  organizations.
• Implementation of the internet site of Cicsene
  (www.pianetapossibile.it) in the Projects section
  with the documentation of the enterprise.

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Methodology

• Through experimentation on expressive means of
  the individual, such as body, voice, relationship
  with space and with other people, the theatre
  workshop is a means of individual and collective
  discovery. The artistic and non conventional
  expression demanded by a workshop on theatrical
  expression leads participants direclty into
  mutual confrontation and encourages involvement
  into the suggested themes. The final performance
  is a way to share the workshops experience.

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Duration and action plan

• February June 2006
• Committed Theatre Workshops
• Gaza Haifa Ramallah - Torino
• 5 -12 March 2006
• Seminar in Turin
• July 2006
• Performance and videoconference
• Gaza Haifa Ramallah Torino
• July September 2006
• Pubblication and CD rom, mainstreaming

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