"Burst Your Bubble Workshops Ebook"

Aims of the tool

Raise awareness among 20 youth workers from 9 European countries about the need to participate as active citizens and activism in human rights using theatre for social change techniques as means to build a more just society.

Through a program of workshops and activities we showed them the methods and the strategies to use theatre in their daily work with youngsters. We wanted to make them able to use theatre in their organizations as a powerful tool for human expression and conflict resolution. We wanted to empower and encourage them in the use of theatre for social change in their projects using a suitable approach and methods.

Our last aim is to promote in Europe a generation of youngsters more aware with social issues, proactive against the intolerance and injustice situations and who promote human values and coexistence through performing arts using the philosophy of theatre for social change.

This training course has developed a variety of non-formal skills, knowledge and attitudes regarding theoretical and practical frames for inclusion, involvement in the society and activism in human rights in practical youth work and we want to share the results with you.

Description of the tool

“Burst Your Bubble. Change through Participatory Theatre” was a training course granted by the European Commission through the Erasmus + program and took place in Mazotos, Cyprus in November 2019. This activity gathered 23 youth workers from 9 NGOs 9 countries ( Warm Hands,Albania), ENO (Greece), Ways (Denmark), Sfera 66 (Italy), Sfera Serbia (Serbia), Ukraine, Peti Maj (Slovenia)and IKOS (Turkey). This training course was created and implemented by Rooftop Theatre (Cyprus) and it was granted by The European Commission through the program Erasmus +.

The main aim of this training course was:
Raise awareness among 20 youth workers from 9 European countries about the need to participate as active citizens and activism in human rights using theatre for social change techniques as means to build a more just society.

Through a program of workshops and activities we showed them the methods and the strategies to use theatre in their daily work with youngsters. We wanted to make them able to use theatre in their organizations as a powerful tool for human expression and conflict resolution. We wanted to empower and encourage them in the use of theatre for social change in their projects using a suitable approach and methods.

Our last aim is to promote in Europe a generation of youngsters more aware with social issues, proactive against the intolerance and injustice situations and who promote human values and coexistence through performing arts using the philosophy of theatre for social change.

This training course has developed a variety of non-formal skills, knowledge and attitudes regarding theoretical and practical frames for inclusion, involvement in the society and activism in human rights in practical youth work and we want to share the results with you.

This ebook is a manual created to facilitate the transfer of the activities and workshops to real youth work. You will find on it a collection of information about the workshops and activities developed in the training course “Burst Your Bubble. Change through Participative Theatre”.

¿What are you going to find here?
- Methodology
- Objectives
- Description of the activities
- Results

The contents are organized by day and at the end of this document you will find the practical application of the workshops in video. These videos were the result of the great work of the participants and the professionality of the trainers who have supported them in every moment.