Between the 15th and 23rd of March, Culture Goes Europe, along with its five partners, embarked to Ceuta, Spain, to take part in the finalizing stage of the Erasmus+ project “Participatory Performing Arts: Capacity-Building of Youth Workers & Migrant-Led Youth Organizations in the Use of Participatory Performative Arts as a Civic Activation Tool in Migration, Rural & Queer Spaces”. For the past 30 months, the project has aimed at empowering youth workers and youth leaders from marginalized contexts by equipping them with skills in non-formal methods, theater pedagogy and other performative arts.
During nine days, a total of twenty-five participants, including the six representants of the partner organizations, participated in a youth exchange that celebrated and critically discussed migration and what it means to be a migrant. This objective was successfully accomplished by the partner organization KAMM – Artistic Europe, as it hosted and facilitated a week full of workshops, reflections and conversations. The youth exchange focused on exploring the meanings and experiences, at both the individual and collective levels, of migration, by looking at the aspects and their overlap. In light of the methodological frames of the project, organizations incorporated performance arts and creative expression by merging expressions of the body, the senses, as well as words and voice. This abundant diversity of artistic articulation allowed participants not only to manifest their understandings, but also to convey their personal stories through their preferred approaches.
To celebrate the conclusion of the project, KAMM and the partners have assembled a final performance, presented in the “Plaza de los Reyes”, a central location of Ceuta. The performance took inspiration workshops, developed in situ, and combined multiple artistic methodologies and important concepts and keywords related to migration. The vision of the KAMM facilitators for the final performance aimed at translating dreams, obstacles and emotions that migrant people may face during their travels.
Culture Goes Europe e.V. is pleased to have taken part in the project “Participatory Performing Arts” and dedicated to continuing with the final steps for the project’s completion.
