ART REACTION

Youth Exchange of DAGAL Project for artistic and imaginative youth

15 Jul 24 Jul 2023

Bergolo (CN), Italy

What is DAGAL?

Is a unique project that aims to gather young imaginative people in picturesque and inspiring context of Alta Langa area (Piedmont region, Italy) and give them opportunity to discover and experience its cultural and natural potential, to develop an artistic outcome to its heritage, and draw attention of the outer world to this authentic place.

Inside the project young people can find a place and courage to see the world outside of usual socio/cultural echo chamber and safe zone, develop cross-cultural and crosslinguistic interactions using the one of most powerful tools - Art!

CREATE YOUR ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL FOOTPRINT

Project Info

DAGAL Project includes 3 Steps

Advance Planning Visit
.27-29 May 2023

Introducing to the Group leaders and the Youth leaders the area, beginning to work on a common strategy and discussing the artistic direction of the project. Participants will contribute with ideas and potential suggestions about the programme

1st Youth Exchange
."Art Reaction" 15-24 July 2023

Using the power of ARTivism

and art as fundamental means of expression and growth of ideas, we will have opportunity to react to the cultural heritage during workshops applying also digitalization tools

2nd Youth Exchange
."DigitalizARTion"

Represents an opportunity to see the future of arts, how it is linked with the present
and how we can develop and use artistic skills to express ourselves and the cultural heritage of any place we will
be experiencing

*Both Youth Exchanges call for participation in 3 steps: Preparation, Youth Exchange and Follow Up

NB! PARTICIPATING PARTIALLY OR PASSIVELY CAN NOT BE AN OPTION AS BY THE REGULATIONS OF THE ERASMUS+ PROGRAM

Goals & Objectives

*create a growth of the area in the international and artistic fields

*allow people to discover the cultural heritage and share different perspectives on it

*support youth empowerment and minorities empowerment

*propose artistic activities in the area and with the perspective to replicate them in the partners locations in future

*create a digital artistic reaction

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mutual and deeper understanding of intercultural approach, critical thinking and team work skills

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using of art and non formal education as an intercultural and communication tool

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of network and an online community of artists and free thinkers

This project is for you!

WHO
CAN PARTICIPATE

🔸young people with artistic background or skills

🔸ready to experience, share and explore

🔸passioned about arts, culture, with will to be the core of DAGAL: to create a link between artistic and cultural active people, through their work, new media and innovative arts

🔸18 - 26 years old (no age limits for Group Leaders)

🔸who have a connection or a real interest in the topics of CREATIVITY, CULTURE and DIGITAL COMPETENCES

🔸residents in Italy, Albania, Egypt, Greece, Georgia, Portugal

🔸ready to take part in all the 3 parts of the project: Preparation, following Youth Exchanges and Dissemination

PROGRAM & DATES

15.07

Getting to know each other

Introduction of the program

16.07

DAGAL NATURE

Presenting the Alta Langa

17.07

Workshops

Exploring various arts form

21.07

Workshops

Walk in the Nature

22.07

Workshops

BUILDING DAGAL

23.07

Conclusion and evaluation day

Farewell Night

18.07

Workshops

DAGAL visit

19.07

Workshops

Jam Session

20.07

Workshops

DAGAL Visit

Costs & Reimbursement

– Travel costs, accommodation, food and the program itself are co-funded by the European Union through the ERASMUS+ program

- There is participation fee to be paid upon arrival 20€. With this contribution each participant will obtain Parco Culturale membership that is valid until the end of the year and allows to participate in all three steps of the project (APV, 1st and 2nd Youth Exchange).

– The travel costs will be reimbursed for the amount shown in the original boarding passes, tickets and invoices, up to the limits indicated in the chart

- According to Erasmus+ regulation you can travel up to 48h before and after the Youth Exchange, meaning in this case 13-14th July the earliest and 24-25th July the latest.

Arrival day - 14th July, departure day - 24 July

– Please note that the amounts in the chart are the MAXIMUM amounts that will be reimbursed, all the costs exceeding these amounts should be covered by the participant as well as the costs for accommodation sustained in case you decide to start your travel before the arrival day and after the departure day

- VISA costs will be reimbursed according to the amount shown on the ORIGINAL documents, up to a MAXIMUM amount 100€

– For this reason, is essential that you keep and bring all the original tickets and invoices of the traveling and VISA

Italy

20€

Albania

205€

Egypt

290€

Greece

205€

Georgia

290€

Portugal

205€

*private shuttles are arranged in order to bring the whole group of participants from the pick up points in Milan to the accommodation of the Youth Exchange in Bergolo. The cost for the round-trip bus (70 Euro per person) is already deducted from the original amount available for travel reimbursement.

VENUE

L'ALVEARE HOSTEL

Youth Exchange will take place in Bergolo, a village of 50 inhabitants located on the hills of south Piedmont, in Italy. The village doesn’t have shops and it is the ideal place for disconnecting, dive in nature and stay together as a group without external distractions.

Bergolo has a long tradition of music, art & cultural festivals. It is a peaceful destination for nature and outdoor activities lovers.

We'll stay in L'Alveare hostel (meaning "The Hive"). The hostel provides shared rooms for 2-3-4 persons.

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FOOD

3 meals per day + 2 coffee breaks will be offered to participants. The food during the project will be vegan / vegetarian

CONDITIONS

Participants will be involved in light household duties (cleaning the common areas, checking that people are on time and similar)

POLICY

No alcohol is allowed during the working sessions to ensure active and positive involvement of the participants

CREATED BY

Parco Culturale Alta Langa promotes the territory through the dissemination of its history, literature, architecture, and culinary traditions by creating events and experiences that encourage tourism and also by offering educational activities linked to the region

ORGANISED BY

New Wellness Education - APS was founded in January 2020 and specialized in the education of youth and training of professionals with the main focus on mental and physical well-being, fostering at the same time the recognition and quality of youth work

APPLICATION

*Participants who applies for the

Youth Exchange "Art Reaction"

have also possibility to be selected for Advance Planning Visit (25-27 May)

Go to Web Page

If you carefully read all the info material and you are ready and motivated to join, it's now time to

SUBMIT APPLICATION

Meet the Team

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Laura Fatini

Dramaturgy, theatrical pedagogy direction.

She has attended courses and workshops inherent to theatrical practice: playwriting with Ugo Chiti, dance with Grazia Galante and Giorgio Rossi, directing with Beppe de Tomasi, theater pedagogy with Gianluca Iumiento, lighting design with Salvatore Mancinelli, physical theater with Chiara Michelini (Compagnia Teatropersona) and Benji Reid (UK), parkour performance with The Urban Playground Team (UK), social theater and psychotherapy with Armando Punzo and Chiara Lui, Theater of the Oppressed with Marco Pollarolo and psychotherapist Monica Prato. Always curious about all behind-the-scenes aspects (including lighting engineering and scene construction), Laura Fatini is involved in both directing, theater pedagogy and dramaturgy, as well as theater organization and project management.

Francesco Pipparelli

Facilitator and Project Coordinator with artistic methodologies (theater, creative writing, music).

Communication expert and brand identity consultant, specialized in storytelling/campaign design and sustainable and inclusive communication, social media manager with experience in videomaking. Internationally active in the fields of inclusion and empowerment of minorities, he has participated in several projects and initiatives on a European level, winning the European Charlemagne Youth Prize in 2017 (within the TCFT project, English winner) and in 2022 (The Giufà Project, Italian winner), shortlisted for the European Citizen's Prize 2020. In 2022 he participates as a non-formal educator in the European Parliament - Educators Event in Brussels, directs theater workshops for the Nuova Accademia degli Arrischianti in Sarteano (SI) and works with Laura Fatini on workshops for Rondine Cittadella della Pace (AR)

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George Caprariu

Parkour Athlete and facilitator.
Part of the Tired Movers Team of the Nuova Accademia degli Arrischianti in Sarteano, Italy.
He has worked with the ID-entitas project, (Intergenerational dialogue about identity and cultural heritage through art) leding a workshop on parkour and performance.
Participated in TCFT project in Portland (UK) and TCFT Bratunac (BIH), working with Opera Circus UK, Centro Studi Sereno Regis, and learning from the UrbanPlayGround Team.
Participated in the parkour performance, also helping designing the choreography with members of Tired Movers directed by Laura Fatini, during the "Sarteano Jazz&Blues" festival by the Teatro Comunale degli Arrischianti.