Women Performing Europe – The Magdalena Project Across Borders Erasmus Project

Project Title

Women Performing Europe – The Magdalena Project Across Borders

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 : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Inclusion – equity; Gender equality / equal opportunities

Project Summary

As social and historical subjects, women also have the right to propose new ways of being in the world, based on diversity of opinion, culture and civic education. We are at a time when it is crucial to encourage women to position themselves in the face of social conflicts, extremist nationalism, pandemics, discrimination, racism, etc.
In the frame of their Strategic Partnership, there will be organized four transnational meetings in the project, as well as carry out job shadowing and professional development activities for women with social disadvantage. At the same time, a research compilation in the field will be conducted, and discussed during the transnational meetings is for the production of common results. Which will be the following: one Tool kit online for Women’s Leadership in cultural work; one YouTube Chanel with 7 web-series with statements of invited artists from the Magdalena Project Network; one online handbook with reflections on the project activities. It is worth to highlight that the production of the project results will be guided by the intersectional feminist perspective, in which aims not to categorize women within a bourgeois and white logic, but to invest in it, how aspects of one’s social and political identities (gender, race, class, sexuality, ability, etc.) might combine to create specific modes of discrimination.
In this sense, most of the methods are practised in common at each person involved in the activities, to train new ways of self-expression (learners) and methods to stimulate active citizenship (trainers). Our partnership involves four organizations, one from Germany, Italy, Poland and Denmark, with diverse expertise in adults civic education, committed to empowering disadvantaged. The participants of the project will go through a capacity building program created by the project, they are older and young learners with some migrant background or social vulnerability.
We wish to bridge the mentioned gap through creative approaches based on their experiences and concerns. They work with methods they will experiment– theatre, role-playing and situational games, discussion events with (local) politicians, world café, decolonial cultural dance, creative writing, among others. These activities also take place within the context of a cultural event, festival or meeting. The objectives of the project are to improve the quality of education in and to increase the take-up of these subjects in the work conditional.
Therefore, to ensure sustainability and dissemination of project results, the Strategic Partnership foresees conferences at local, national and European level, as well as designs jointly a follow-up strategy.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 106718 Eur

Project Coordinator

PROTAGON – FREUNDE UND FOERDERER FREIER THEATERAKTION & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Stowarzyszenie Grupa Artystyczna TERAZ POLIŻ
• NORDISK TEATERLABORATORIUM
• Teatro Nucleo S.C.A.R.L.