CONNECTED was a youth project with young participants from seven countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Denmark, Finland, Georgia, Ukraine, and Portugal. They spent a week together in Telavi, Georgia, between 12 and 19 October 2013.
CONNECTED was a youth project with young participants from seven countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Denmark, Finland, Georgia, Ukraine, and Portugal. They spent a week together in Telavi, Georgia, between 12 and 19 October 2013.
Here they learnt about different cultures and similarities between people across cultures, spoke English together, and most of all made friends. The participants collaborated in workshops of dance, music, and visual art, and the result was a performance presented for the young audience in two local schools. I was also facilitating the visual art workshop. A selection of 25 pictures from this project became an exhibition in the public Library of Stybbekøbing, Denmark in 2014, and it served as a tool for dissemination of results.
In 2017 it was also shown in Gallery Warme, Copenhagen, as a celebration of Arttrain Association projects. In this exhibition called “Take the Art Train”, I talked a bit about my experience in this very interesting project, as it has been until now (2023) our only project with 4 EU neighbouring countries, also being hosted outside of Europe. For me, this exhibition and this youth project is a lot about hope.
These beautiful young people, coming from such different cultural backgrounds. are becoming adults in/neighbouring a Europe that is changing, and through them bringing less discrimination and more love and kindness, all that by learning from each other and keeping connected.
