Festival’s as a Platform for Youth Development and Community Engagement. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Festival’s as a Platform for Youth Development and Community Engagement.

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Festival’s as a Platform for Youth Development and Community Engagement will see innovative capacity building and and volunteering actions, bringing together young people, youth arts workers and diverse communities in order to develop, plan and realize cultural festivals that have tangible development impacts.Across the world arts festivals make valuable and significant contributions to the social, cultural, economic and tourism development as well as supporting the needs of young people and the wider community. The festival sector is a global creative industry and widely recognized as one of the fastest growing types of tourism. Our partners recognize that these aspect of intangible culture provide us with significant opportunities for young people, workers development and employment, supporting individual and group innovation and creativity, whilst promoting social inclusion and cultural diversity.Our partners from South Africa, Zambia, Brazil, India, Trinidad, Costa Rica, USA, Jamaica and Cuba, will collaborate within capacity building training activities; arts engagement projects; cultural festivals; periods of voluntary service and professional networking that will have a measured and significant impact on their capabilities to operate and act within a global cultural sector. This project will engage professional practitioners who will facilitate and support the delivery of training and creative work with young people and workers from backgrounds of less opportunity as well as pass on valuable skills and knowledge around festival development, Project stages include:1: ‘1 day project ‘kick off’ meeting followed by 2 days of training for youth arts workers, followed by 1 day EVS pre mobility training for young people and arts youth workers;2: Hosting and sending of European Voluntary Service including workshops that engage wider peers groups in large-scale festivals;4. Dissemination/training event with seminars for capacity building of youth arts workers and youth. The festival sector is a growth cluster for economic activity with the potential for combating unemployment increasingly recognized. Our project will compliment the importance of culture and community development as a contribution to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Through building the skills, knowledge, experience and competences of our partners and project participant’s we enhance their capacity to develop employment and operate within a global arts and cultural festival sector. Objectives: Explore compare and contrast models of best practice in arts engagement in all partner countries;Enable workers and young people to develop volunteering initiatives within the festival sector;Gain new competences and experiences of large-scale festival event management; Engage young people in decision making and delivery of large-scale festival events;Provide opportunities for capacity building for workers and young people in wider community environments

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 132502,24 Eur

Project Coordinator

BROUHAHA INTERNATIONAL & Country: UK

Project Partners

• ASSOCIACION VIDA NUEVA DE PEREZ ZELEDON
• POETIC FIRE, LLC
• CUT & CLEAR PRODUCTIONS LIMITED
• BAREFEET THEATRE
• GOA DANCESPORT ASSOCIATION
• MANIFESTO JAMAICA LTD
• ARTSCAPE