Our
partners are already here! We had been looking forward to this moment for so
long from the meeting in Caserta that the months had gone too quickly
Months
of preparations, programming, designing, mails, phone calls , adjusting
time-tables, meetings and constant social networks checking. But at the end, we
had succeeded to fit all the programmed
activities into the right schedule for teachers and students and what it is
most important, the matching of the students seemed to go perfectly fine:
students were happy with their mates and their communication was frequent
and fluent.
We
wanted to make all kinds of Stage Arts the theme around which all the lectures
and activities were to be designed and programmed: Drama, Music, Performances,
Corporal expression , Dance would be the topics to reflect upon, integration
and fight against discrimination in the
most vulnerable and underpriviledged social groups in our communities ; Art as
the universal means of communicating anger, frustration, desperation,
loneliness but also, solidarity, empathy and hope. And side by side with all
kinds of artistic and cultural expressions, we have focused on Gastronomy as a
deep, instinctive, genuine and most representative means of cultural identity
for all the people.
Having
all of this in mind, we have tried to contact lecturers, teachers and experts
who work with students in risk of social exclusion and with special educative
needs, students with migrant background , unaccompanied minors , refugees and
they have taught us how music, dance, corporal expression, singing,
performances , paintings and photographs are valuable and rich resources to
raise our students´ awareness about the terrible situations of unfairness,
intolerance, prejudice, hate, fear and ignorance surrounding us in our daily
lives. Moreover, we wanted to highlight
our own students´ artistic capacities to find out through their vision,
imagination and sensitiveness what they feel and think about the topics of our
project: unprejudiced minds willing to collaborate to make a better society.
