European Roma Young Theater Artists and Facilitators 4 Inclusion and Empowerment

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We - five Roma and interethnic theater and non-formal educational organizations - believe in the power of theater and stories, the power of young people and the positive encounters of different groups. If young people of different backgrounds get to know each other better and can experience the joy and success of planning and implementing artistic and educational activities focusing on European values and social inclusion they will be inspired and competent to build also a more inclusive and democratic Europe. We will facilitate the born of an international network of 30 youth artists and facilitators of different origins and ensure them complex trainings in order they will be aware of European values and their contexts towards Roma communities and even Roma Drama. By presenting theater performances and videos on social topics and Roma dramatic heroes and follow-up workshops for their 1000 peers, they will collect a solid collection of stories and opinion related the focused topics and they will create 6 new artworks inspired by young people’s inputs. The performances, videos, exhibition and publication will reach wide groups of young people also on domestic level and also at an international festival. The videorecorded artistic outputs, the 6 case studies about the domestic working progresses together with an evaluation report and policy recommendation will reach 800 experts and policy makers around Europe, who will be inspired to work for the use of youth art and nonformal education in order to promote social inclusion, European values and also to include Roma culture in the European mainstream, just like Roma people as equal citizens of the EU. We will reach by our communication activities 500.000 European citizens, whose support for inclusion is also crucial for the future.