General intention and educative purpose: 

 

Considering the increase of the social, economic and cultural divisions in many countries, that create situations of failure, marginalization, and risk among the youth, the partners of the project "Musical postcards" wish to act and support teenagers facing difficulties on the personal level or with their environment (disabilities, social difficulties, intercultural conflicts).

These youngsters are not just a vulnerable audience in the phase of self-construction, but also a rich human resource for their desire for independence and their life experience. By our youth exchange project, we aim to promote better understanding and appropriation of their surrounding and reciprocal life, in their constraints and difficulties as well as in their potentials. Music or dance listening and practicing will contribute to this exploration, developing transposable skills and acquisitions facilitating their learning and interaction within social and cultural distant groups.

The exchange will be an opportunity to initiate a new learning process for young people and to value the importance of artistic and cultural practices in terms of intercultural experience.

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Project team:

Coordinator: Association Terra Musica (France) with Valérie Dévy
Partner organization from France – « Why Notes » with Didier Rivière
Partner organization from Turkey – « PASAJ » with Zeynep Okyay

Partner organization from Bosnia-Herzegovina – CRVENA with Haris Sahačić
Artists contributed in the project: Ali Uygur Erol, Armelle Chitrit, Eda Emirdağ, Eric Mézino, Haris Sahačić, Hassan Ali, Jonathan Ponthier, Loïc Poinsenet, Marin Bosnjak, Mert Güler, Orhan “Oha” Maslo, Sabina Šabić, Şevket Akıncı,  Valérie Devy

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Learning what?

 

Through an intercultural group experience of one week, the 50 youngsters will get some new skills, know-how on several specific and global topics:

Cultural heritage and diversity

Citizenship and comprehension of each other life environment

Music and art culture: discovering and practicing new artistic forms

 

Creative expression

Sound technics

Music and movement technics: gesture, breathing, movement…

Native language and foreign-language oral and written expression

Listening and concentration abilities

Experience a stage performance/exhibition 

 

Autonomy

Adaptation to new situations

How to pass over difficulties by exploring new potentials and increase self-persistence

How to work and create together as a collective with different backgrounds and skills

Dealing with differences in culture and personality in daily life

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and how?

By experiencing different learning situations and methods especially non-formal, valuing the interaction between the teenager

With a team composed of junior and adult leaders chosen for their life experience, professional and human skills, abilities to work as a collective 

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