We organized ourselves and applied with the Forum Theatre Project to the European Youth Meeting, in Berlin, in response to the invitation by Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel's, for young people from the 27 European Union countries to contribute to the artistic presentation and workshop discussion of the meeting’s theme: On the road in Europe: opportunities for young people to study, work and live in Europe.
We believe that through Forum Theater we could explore the encompassing theme of “ On the road in Europe: opportunities for young people to study, work and live in Europe” in productive ways. We hope to tackle generic issues but addressing their specificities as they are experienced and relevant for the participants of this meeting. As observers of the current dynamics for youngsters in Europe we find that there are some relevant current issues we would like to engage in by preparing them theoretically and artistically among ourselves and proposing them for discussion in June. Tolerance and resistence in the encounter of different cultures due to migration are among such problematics. These could be further explored, depending on the audience, through topics such as: national policies of migration and the actual social dynamics they regulate (i.e. integration vs assimilation); the role of languages (in particular English) in daily and work life; social and economic realities as new countries are included; religious freedom of European and non-European residents, or others.
We believe that through Forum Theater we could explore the encompassing theme of “ On the road in Europe: opportunities for young people to study, work and live in Europe” in productive ways. We hope to tackle generic issues but addressing their specificities as they are experienced and relevant for the participants of this meeting. As observers of the current dynamics for youngsters in Europe we find that there are some relevant current issues we would like to engage in by preparing them theoretically and artistically among ourselves and proposing them for discussion in June. Tolerance and resistence in the encounter of different cultures due to migration are among such problematics. These could be further explored, depending on the audience, through topics such as: national policies of migration and the actual social dynamics they regulate (i.e. integration vs assimilation); the role of languages (in particular English) in daily and work life; social and economic realities as new countries are included; religious freedom of European and non-European residents, or others.
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