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Samba Résille (France) / Barefeet (Zambia) /Artscape (South Africa) present

« Cultural construction of youth and young construction of culture » European Union - Erasmus+ programme - Ka2 - Capacity building in the field of Youth

Press conference, 5th of September 2018, 6:00 pm Artscape Theatre Centre – Cape Town With the presence of Marlene Le Roux - CEO Artscape D.F. Malan St, Foreshore, Cape Town, 8001, Cape Town

Second step : from 2d to 11th of september 2018 – Cape Town (South Africa) This mobility is the second one of 4 mobilities composing the project.

Mobility 1: Lusaka, Zambia, from 14th to 22th of July 2018 (14 members from Samba Résille / 14 members from Barefeet /14

members from Arstcape)

Mobility 2: Cape Town, South Africa, from 2th to 11th of September 2018 (14 members from Samba Résille / 14 members from

Barefeet /14 members from Arstcape) Mobility 3: Toulouse, France, april 2019 (14 members from Samba Résille / 14 members from Barefeet /14 members from Arstcape)

Mobility 4: Cape Town, South Africa, november 2019

Feedback on the first step (Lusaka – Zambia) From 14th to 22th of July 2018, 14 members from Samba Résille, 14 members from Arstcape and 14 members from Barefeet Theatre

met in Lusaka, Zambia. 42 people plunged into the everyday life of Barefeet !

This first mobility in Zambia led to all stakeholders to present their organization and share their experiences in the youth field.

In particular, partners discovered and participate to Barefeet’s actions with children in schools, libraries, orphanages or dropping centers.

This stay allowed also to collaborate and share artistic workshops, graffiti sessions, visits, discussions, gastronomic times… A way to

share musical and cultural diversities.

These artistic collaborations were presented at the Alliance Française in Lusaka with the presence of the French Ambassador in Zambia

and at the meetings with children.

Follow the project in Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/Zmzafr-896296327228960/

Available soon : - video of Zambia mobility

- international website of Samba Résille with the complete presentation of this project.

Presentation: Samba Résille (France), in partnership with Barefeet Theatre (Zambia) and Artscape (South Africa), coordinates a program of learning

mobilities and cooperative activities, with the following goals:

- Improving the cooperative skills at the international level and the quality of the socio-educational tools of all stakeholders;

- Strengthening creative and innovative skills of all participants;

- Working on the internationalization and the leadership of the partners to make their youth actions take into account all the

stakes linked to the cultural construction of youth and the young construction of culture.

Our project fits the Erasmus + strategy for inclusion and diversity and wants to explore all the good practices that lead young people to

live new educational and fulfilling experiences, allowing them to build themselves as adults and help them strengthen their social and

professional skills. This project contributes to build a sustainable and inclusive society, thanks to its approach based on creative

activities and fits perfectly the general objectives of the renewed framework for the European cooperation in the youth field, which aims

to make a creative and innovative generation bloom.

For the European Union to benefit the economic and cultural potential of creative industries, the places of experimentation and

innovation have to open to the world and be conceived to make the skills of the cultural organizations grow, and to and allow them to

support the birth of a new cultural generation.

“Cultural construction of youth and young construction of culture” is a project led by Samba Résille (FR) in partnership with Barefeet

Theatre (ZM) and Artscape (ZA), 3 cultural organizations leaning on creative innovation of young people.

Following the analytic diagnosis of experiential skills of youth accessing to art and culture as an experience of personal growth, led

before the application by the consortium, the partners want to enrich and renew their pedagogical approaches and analyse various works

regarding public politics in Europe and Africa, focusing on questions about trends of youth culture and obstacles limiting culture access.

The stakes analysed in the preliminary works led the consortium to build a program targeting the needs observed in each of the

organizations, to give space to creativity, to adapt to the needs of participants, to incorporate the experiential knowledge trough

innovating numerical certifications, and to empower the spirit of enterprise and initiative.

This program plans 40 days of strengthening skills activities and 30 days of mobility for youth and social workers, and benefit to 126

persons, including 90 youth stake-holders. Among them, 72 youth workers with less opportunities will be particularly supported.

Thanks to the Erasmus + program, they will live an never dreamed experience.

The strategy of monitoring, evaluating, and releasing the results of the various activities tends to impulse a dynamic spreading the

project visibility beyond its limits, towards the external stake-holders and the targets. It encourages all partners to commit in a process

adding value to the productions of the project, allowing them to measure the quality of their works facilitating the socio-professional

inclusion and to measure the value created at all levels thanks to a longitudinal, appreciative and participative evaluation.

By the translational characteristic of the partnership and the cooperation, by the complementarity and the synergy with the projects led

in national and European frames, and by the search of harmonisation in methods of certification allowing a sustainability of the

cooperation, this project fits perfectly the 2020 strategy of the European Union and contributes to the realisation of general goals of the

renewed frame for the European cooperation for youth.

Partners: Artscape Theatre Centre (South Africa) Artscape is a cultural institution, located in the heart of Cape Town. Originally

established 40 years ago, Artscape has today developed into a vibrant, multifunctional creative arts centre, offering exceptional venue

facilities and specialist theatrical services. The structure is committed to be a vector of growth and transformation for the performing

arts, using tools which contribute to build the country, and establishes partnerships including all stakeholders.

Artscape promotes the access to arts, and is today one of the biggest spaces in Africa dedicated to performing arts. Since a few years,

Artscape uses an innovative program of education and training, offering opportunities of career for young artists and art technicians and

in all the communities of South Africa.

Artscape organizes programs of artistic education and development, which lead to positive changes in the creation of a rich cultural and

artistic community. Its programs concern urban, pre urban and rural communities. The programs “Education”, “Skills” and

“Development” are composed of artistic activities, and events like the Carnival of Cape Town and many festivals to enhance the

communities.

http://www.artscape.co.za/

Barefeet Theater is a non-governmental organization (NGO) that uses play, creativity, and empowerment to give

vulnerable children in Zambia a chance at a better life. Barefeet was founded by former street children as a response

to the plight of young people living on Zambia streets. Through the power of performance, educational workshops,

and more, we develop vulnerable youth into physically healthy, cognitively, and socially competent young people.

Barefeet has 'toes'—our programme areas—which help inspire the most vulnerable youth to make positive life

choices and move to a safe and healthy environment. To achieve this we use a multi-dimensional approach. Through theatre,

performance, psychosocial support, creativity, and self-expression Barefeet works to address the needs of the children we work with.

We deliver life-saving information and inspiration to the kids who need it most through our outreach programs with children living on

the streets, our interactive theater workshops with 2,000 children in 40 communities in Zambia, and on the national stage at our annual

Barefeet Youth Arts Festival. Additionally, our children advocate for change for their fellow youth in the Barefeet Children Council,

comprised of elected representatives from our partner children centers. Our final is the Barefeet performance company, which generates

income to support our outreach programs and workshops.

“Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip toe if you must, just take the step.”

http://barefeettheatre.org/

Samba Résille (France) Since its creation in 1992 in Toulouse, Samba Résille, a non-governmental arts organisation, is deeply attached

to the values of the Universal Declaration of the UNESCO on cultural diversity. They are the base of its work,

and the foundation of the “ Centre d’Initiatives Culturelles et Citoyennes ” (CICC - Center for Cultural and

Citizen Initiatives), open in 2004 street Roquelaine in Toulouse.

This space is a polymorphic and interactive center, a place of proximity, accessibility, conviviality, energy,

humanity; an open place where people can meet, one of the rare places where alternative cultures can develop, a

popular and non-institutional place where everyone can be comfortable. It’s an organization nourishing from meetings, revitalizing

permanently, a place shining on its territory, a living and vibrating place, a place spreading to the popular neighborhoods, which allows

a appropriation of the center of the city, a project that works and allows a real participative and acting democracy.

Since more than 5 years, Samba Résille is focused to revitalize more and more this place, putting in synergy its territory with abroad,

multiplying meetings and European and international exchanges.

With the Erasmus + program (European commission), Samba Résille builds exchanges to share with European and international

partners, to develop artistic, technic and managerial skills in the cultural field.

Thanks to mobilities (travels), volunteers, administrators and employees of the organization acquire new skills they can share with its

territory and its publics.

http://samba-resille.org/site/

Press contact : Contact Artscape (South Africa): Jeremy Voster

jeremyv@artscape.co.za

+27 21 410 9800

Contact Samba Résille (France): Laurent Vildary

laurent@samba-resille.org

T. + 33 5 34 416 216

M. + 33 6 63 01 18 21

Contact Barefeet Theatre (Zambia): Grace Tambozi Banda

grace@barefeettheatre.org

M. +260 977321639

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ArtscapeTheatre/

https://www.facebook.com/BarefeetTheatre/

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