TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Asier Carrasco González
The project objectives were to promote and increase a shared understanding of personal experience of life for LGBT people in each country. As well as understanding the benefit and impact of using arts in youth-led structures that promote citizenship and allow LGBT young people’s voices to be heard.
This project aimed to facilitate good youth work that pursues to empower young people to express themselves and their experiences in artistic form.
The training course brought together 28 young people and youth workers from the UK (Scotland), Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic and Romania.
This project had self-directed learning, along with peer-learning, experiential and participatory approaches, as a core training method. This was complemented with group discussions, presentations, art technique experimentation, and mentoring.
Participants raised awareness of, and explore issues relating to what it means to be an LGBT young person in their own country, and express this through artistic means. The training course highlighted the struggles which exist for many young people in European countries and help young people to explore citizenship from the perspective of a minority and disadvantaged group.
The training allowed participants to understand the benefit and impact of using arts in youth-led structures that promote citizenship and allow LGBT young people’s voices to be heard
The project looked at ways that young people can express and understand citizenship and how they participate in their own societies through various artistic mediums such as video, drama, music, photography and posters. It also looked at how to use art as an activism and advocacy tool.
In this training, I have the roles of the designer, implementer, and evaluator. I led the team and act as a coach for the other members of the team.