CRUDI - Celebrating Rural Diversities with European Youth

CRUDI is a training course to learn, construct and think together about sexual, gender and cultural diversities in rural areas, on we will gather practical experience, experts and dinamizers.

Main Goal:
To transform the imaginary about rurality and the LGTBIQA+ collective in rural areas of Europe.

Specific Objectives:

• To train a group of youth workers in different methodologies and practices to raise awareness and activate young people on LGBTIQA+ and rural issues.
• Experiment with celebration and other inclusive tools to appreciate diversity in youth groups and facilitate safe spaces for coexistence, both online and offline.
• Create and strengthen a network of youth work and rural dynamisation at European level.

CRUDI will be a joyful opportunnity to know the learnings of the people that make real every summer the popular celebration of cultural, sexual and gender diversity of this little rural place named Monterroso, in the region of A Ulloa, Galiza (Spain).
https://festivalagrocuir.wordpress.com/

Also, the training will offer:

• Getting to know the territory where it is held and its socio-cultural and agroecological initiatives.
• Discussing the challenges and possibilities of organising inclusive and sustainable cultural events in different European rural contexts.
• Learning tools to promote processes of inclusion of sexual and gender diversity in youth and rural organisations.
• Sharing doubts, strategies, difficulties and solutions to expand our skills in integrating diversity from an intersectional perspective.

WHERE

A Casa da Terra is a sustainable accommodation in a small village located in the geographical centre of Galicia and less than 7km from the village of Monterroso, headquarters of the Festival Agrocuir.
That is to say, in the region of A Ulloa itself, the area of influence of the festival's organising group,
where the river Ulla flows, and the various projects and initiatives to be visited during the course are located. The surrounding natural context is composed of beautiful meadows and forests. The
structure is equipped with a professional kitchen, a large dining room, one lodge with a capacity to
accommodate 18 people and a room for comfortable group work.