Burst Your Bubble. Change through Participatory Theatre

¿Why you have to burst your bubble?
We live in a society where we are enclosed in our own world, our private ‘bubbles’,
where our lives are defined by the places we go to and the people we interact with.
Most of the time, our behaviour is exclusionary rather than inclusionary. We avoid
interacting with individuals belonging to marginalized groups, or even thinking
about who they are and how we might relate to them.

There is a critical need to promote activism among the youth people in Europe in order to fight and defend human rights. Everyday we can see how this world is changing in the wrong direction, also in Europe. Conflicts, tension between countries and rejection to accept human beings from other places of the word for their socio-economical or religious condition. Or simply because our minds have being "bombed" from the mass media about the idea that to accept people from other places can ruin our country, our place, our bubble.

There is a need to endow youth workers with resources, strategies and tools to enable them to reawaken people, and to make them aware of their social role, which is to embrace all and to give a voice to those who do not have one.

What are we going to address in this training course?

- Follow-up on the "rainbow spectator" project and the movement created by the participants, as well as taking advantage of the already existing network of individuals and organizations

- limited awareness of basic human rights violations all over Europe within the general population towards marginalized groups. For specific groups, such as disabled individuals, refugees, religious minorities, LGBITQ+ and others.

- Reports in the media of violence against various groups which consist of minorities within communities. The lukewarm reaction of society towards these, leads us to believe that there are high levels of indifference. This leads to a need for youth workers to Gain more knowledge and develop new skills regarding discrimination, prejudice, stereotypes recognition.

- The need to take the theatre to the people, challenging the bystander and the passive position of the audience. The need to be creative outside the strict confounds of formal theatre-making.

These are the methods that we will use during the project:

- Applied Theatre methods

- Active presentation

- Facilitation & Improvisation

- Visiting relevant organizations and institutions.