a Youth In Action 4.3 Project
organised by Asociación Cazalla Intercultural, Spain
Act it Out is a european Training Course (TC) for youth workers and professionals that work either in the area of youth theatre or of human rights education, or in both.
Lorca, Spain, 11-21 April 2008
The HELLENIC THEATRE/DRAMA & EDUCATION NETWORK (TENet-Gr) was one of the partners

See over 490 photos from the seminar:
01-60, 61-120, 121-180, 181-240, 241-300, 301-360, 361-420, 421-480, 481-495
Read the main aims and course description of the seminar
Read Amnesty International Report 2007 on Human Rights
What are HUMAN RIGHTS by Diego

The aim of the TC is that of giving support in starting a new thematic of youth exchanges that would promote the defending and promoting of the human rights, the fighting against discrimination, racism and xenophobia through the street theatre, and that would develop the participants/ competences (knowledge, abilities and attitudes) of combining these two working areas that are almost never put together in training projects of European dimension.

The main theme is the development and improvements of european youth exchange projects and specifically those exchanges whose objective is the fight against racism, discrimination, xenophobia, as well as the defense and promotion of human rights in general.

The TC will be held in Lorca, Spain during the first National Street Theatre Festival in Lorca.

Our objectives:
1. Showing the participants in what the new YiA program consists and what are the new opportunities it offers
2. Developing the participants/competences in the preparing of european youth exchange projects, contributing also to the increase of their quality and the promotion of the inter culturaldialogue as their main theme in 2008
3. Facilitating the european cooperation between the partners so that they develop exchange projects between themselves in 2008 - 2009 ensuring in this way the continuity of the cooperation during the TC
4. Analyzing the characteristic of street theatre as a methodology of socio-educational intervention and as a tool of sensibilization against discrimination, racism and xenophobia for the actors as well as for it/s target audience.
5. Exploring the way in which when the street theatre is used in order to defend and promote the universality of human rights and in youth exchange contexts it acquires a unique value for working on values, attitudes and social skills with youth.
6. Consolidating the learning of the youngsters of street theatre and human rights by setting a performance specially designed by them that would be performed during the 1st National Street Theatre Festival that will be held in Lorca during the TC.