Last Wednesday, May 27th 2026, the co-creation forum for 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” (PPA) took place in a virtual form between 16h and 17h30. The online event brought together participants from different European organisations to get to know the project and participate in a discussion about the benefits of arts, performance and theater-based tools and methodologies.
The development, implementation and moderation of webinar was carried out by members of the CGE team – Guadalupe F., Sharon S., and Ana W. -, and counted with the facilitation of the artist, project coordinator and youth facilitator Kelvin Akpaloo from the Spanish organisation KAMM Artistic Europe, one of the partners of the PPA project. The online event was dynamic, captivating and elucidating; through joyful warm-ups and short activities adapted to the online format, participants learned about the project’s origins, the participatory and inclusive activities, to its creative and valuable outcomes. It counted as a “Local Alliance Building” activity, contemplated in the objectives of the project.
For 30 months, the project aimed at creating and transferring methodologies and exploring artistic practices that can cross multiple settings and can address different topics and subjects, all the while cultivating spaces for expression, reflection and societal change. By adopting a participatory and inclusive approach, the partners have conjointly worked with experts and artists to create a pedagogical toolkit (see here) and mapping tool of artistic organisations, making performing arts accessible to the wider public and promoting its use in non-formal education settings. Not only that, but the project organised training courses for the youth and later one youth exchange in Ceuta, where techniques and methodologies were implemented and further explored. National performances were also carried out as means to promote the learnings acquired at the local and national levels.
The PPA project was created by youth workers and artists but also by the wider youth and local communities; their concerns, interests and understandings were the cornerstone of the project. The project still continues that artistic expression – no matter its format and technique – can bring about change in the lives of young people, the wider community and the world.