SOCIAL THEATRE AND SOCIAL MEDIA

This Erasmus+ cooperation partnership project (KA2), organized by Association La Villa (France) Lupa Grupo Teatro (Portugal) Drustvo CIK (Slovenia) aims to give youth workers fresh tools to connect with young people through creativity and digital media.

By combining storytelling, social theatre and video creation, we want to help them to share powerful messages, raise awareness about social issues, and inspire positive change. The main goals are to:

• Make youth work more engaging
• To promote values like inclusion, equality and active participation
• And to strengthen cooperation between organisations across Europe

In the end, the project supports youth workers to create meaningful content that speaks to todays’s young people, both offline and online.

This training course is the second part of an Erasmus+ mobility project for youth workers. It is called “Social Theatre and Social Media” because we believe that the social aspects of youth work and social work must adapt to the Times we live in - including the tools of mass communication, especially social media.

Aims of the training course:

• To empower youth workers to use theatre and performance as tools for social change
• To connect creative expression with modern communication platforms, especially social media 
• To strengthen participants’ability to raise awareness, for causes, and engage communities.
• To build a supportive international network of youth workers using artistic methods in their practice

Objectives: 

• Introduce participants to Theatre of the Oppressed techniques as tools for reflection, dialogue, and action
• Develop participants’skills in storytelling, storyboarding, and crafting meaningful narratives
• Strengthen teamwork, trust, and collaboration through team-building activities and group exercices
• Explore clowning and improvisation theatre as creative methods for communication and emotional expression 
• Teach participants how to translate performance-based messages into effective social media content
• Support participants in designing and presenting performances that highlight social issues and personal causes