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BOOKS
WITH
LIFE
Inclusion of refugee youth through an approach to lifeline maps and art.
Meet The Team
Fractals Eduación Artística
Spain
Team Leader.
Art and Education.
Interculturality, Feminism and Participation.
Sovint Cultura y Desarrollo
Spain
Culture and Developement.
Intercultural Awareness
Fondazione Emmanuel
Italy
Intercultural inclusion with migrant and refugee people.
Educational
Innovation
Greece
Intercultural inclusion with migrant and refugee people.
Drosa Texni
Greece
Intercultural inclusion with migrant and refugee people though art.
THE
Project
Books with life is a project in which entities from Spain, Greece and Italy will share good practices in matter of inclusion through art for migrant and refugee young people.
From those experiences, we will create a guide with our common vision, analytics and activities so each country in europe can include in their communities those youngs, with innovative methodologies.
SPEAKERS
Library of Lifes
Radio Programme Leaded by Migrant People
photographies of the meeting
LIBRARY OF LIVES
Library of Lives is a radio programme directed by Ousmane Diaby, Volunteer in Fractals Educación Artística. A safe space from migrant people to share their stories,self empower and aware their community.
IDEALS BEYOND BORDERS
20th of June is the World Refugee Day and we want to honor it by reflecting on the actual situation on forzed migrations. In contrast with people, postcards don't find problems to arrive to their destination, crossing borders by land, air or sea.
What if we make that our ideas of encouragement for migrant people, refugees and asylum seekers cross those borders?
We want to create a global action, sending artistic postcards, that is going to be included in the Erasmus + Project Books with life about young migrant and refugee inclusion through the art.
Artivism & Education
Complementary activities for community inclusion through art methodologies.
I D'INTERCULTURALITAT
Collaborative zine created by valencian youth community. 40 youngsters including migrants and asylum seeker.
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young people as a force of transfoRmation
Orografías
This first meeting is based on the spanish entities Orografías: A project that involves community, art and life maps.
Orografías is a project in which people migrant and refugee and their neighbours from Valencia meet and share a time together by telling each other the great stories behind them.
For this first meeting, the spanish entities with other local entities and personalities will introduce the partners to the Spanish reality and the different methodologies that they've been working with.
"We felt free, we felt good because we felt that we were listening"
"To have advice you have to join a lot of people, without people you can not live"
"I've been through more than five countries to get here, so I feel growth"
"I see people, not where they are from or what they do>"
"We can make a difference if we work together"
Methodology
For this meeting, we will share, evaluate and improve the methodology of this project so we can replicate it in every european country
Debate
We also discuss the potential of the young people as a force of transformation in times when hate and neoliberalism are trying to demolish every form of life.
Which are the main
ideals for young people?
Which world do we want to create?
Greece
2019
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All the information about
the second meeting
ART AS AN INCLUSION TOOL
Books with Life
This second meeting is based on Art as an Inclusion Tool and the innovative activities of Drosa Texni and Educational Innovation in social inclusion of young migrants and refugees.
Sovint Cultura y Desarrpollo, Fractals Educación Artística and Fondazione Emmanuel travel from Spain and Italy to Giannitsa, Greece.
Verena Fink
Perception, awareness and self-confidence: Perception as a fundament for art and art as a tool for awareness that we need for an inclusive society. correlations and some examples from the praxis.
Angeliki Papadopoulos
Clay for inclusion and community awareness
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Gabriela Sampsonidou Angeliki
Sociologist of Minorities and Vulnerable Social Groups, Youth Trainer, Human Rights Trainer for Young People with Compass Method
Laura Maria Calderón
Music Soul Action 2016 other ways to understand use music as an agent of social development in post-conflict areas
Mohammed
Young musician,representing Un Message project from Proyecto Nagual (Raúl Sola)
Situation of refugees in Greece
Kostas Simitopoulos, coordinator for refugee fields in Greece
Shared with us the situation of the refugee and asylum seekers youngsters in Greece.
photographies of the meeting
Italy
2020
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All the information about
the second meeting
the law of the state the law of the heart
SPEAKERS
photographies of the meeting
The shadow of Antigone
This third meeting is based on the Institutional violence that migrant and refugee youth have to face in the countries where they arrive.
Sovint Cultura y Desarrollo, Fractals Educación Artística and Educational Innovation travel from Spain and Greece to Lecce, Italy.
Fondazione Emmanuel organized, together with their 40th anniversary, a big event. Politicians, journalists, and activists from the country worked together sharing and analyzing inciatives where organized people had to be active and answer for the human right's even if the policies were against it.
The repport from that workshop is available in their webpage.
SPEAKERS
Michelle Carducci
professor of Comparative Constitutional Law and Climate Law at the
University of Salento.Former coordinator of the International PHD in Comparative Legal,
Political and Social Systems at the University of Lecce, he was the European referent of the Euro-American Constituent Circle and First President of the Italian Section of the American Institute of Constitutional Law.
Antonio Ciniero
Postdoctoral Researcher at
ISTAT and was a professor of Sociology of migration processes at the University of Salento. He
collaborates with the International Center of Interdisciplinary Studies on Migrations (I.C.I.S.MI.)
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Nancy Porsia
Freelance journalist and expert of the Middle East and North Africa.She was the only Italian journalist based in Libya since the end of the Revolution and covered the civil war in the country. Specialized in migration but also traffickers’.
Elly Schlein
Regional councilor in the 2020 Emilia-Romagna’s In 2016 she was appointed rapporteur for the Socialist and Democratic group on the reform of the
Dublin Regulation and after a long and delicate negotiation, in November 2017, a large majority of
the European Parliament approved the cancellation of the criterion of the “first country of entry”
to replace it with an automatic and permanent relocation mechanism for asylum seekers, which,
on the one hand, enhances the significant ties of asylum seekers and, on the other hand, obliges
all European States to do their part on reception.
Fulvio Vassallo Paleologo
Ya lawyer, member of the College of the PHD in Human rights:
evolution, protection, limits at the Department of “Legal Sciences” of the University of Palermo. He
is a member of the Legal Clinic for Human Rights (CLEDU) of the University of Palermo. He actively
works in the defense of migrants and asylum seekers, in collaboration with several NGOs.
He is part of the European assistance, research and information network “Migreurop” and is part
of the “LasciateCientrare”campaign.ola)
Sharing Methodologies
For this meeting, Fondazione Emmanuel shared their projects with youth migrant people, such as Sartoria Casa Francesco.
A project where migrant people sew together their stories into wonderful recyclated clothes and bags.
We also visited their home, the wood workshop and restoration workshop from the Foundation.
Situation of refugees in Italy
Migrant youth from Casa Francesco, intercultural mediators and users made us clear that the most important tool of inclusion for them was the communication.
In the meeting with them we all arrived to the conclusion that Inclusion in european countries is always focused on migrant people to be adapted and not on the society to be prepared, leaving most of the work to people in vulnerable situation.
photographies of the meeting
Migrant youth from Casa Francesco, intercultural mediators and users made us clear that the most important tool of inclusion for them was the communication.
In the meeting with them we all arrived to the conclusion that Inclusion in european countries is always focused on migrant people to be adapted and not on the society to be prepared, leaving most of the work to people in vulnerable situation.
Spain
2021
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Last Virtual Meeting
INTERCULTURAL AWARENESS
European Library of
Lives
Last meeting of the project was hosted online due to the unstable sanitary situation, but as an opportunity to all the beneficiaries in the project to be together beyond the mobility limitations.
The meeting topic was Intercultural Awareness, an opportunity to reflect on the evolution of the project, the context reality and virtual exchange of youth and exchange new methodoligues developed during these 2 years of work.
During the previous meeting in Italy the fundamental conclusion was that for a cohestionated community, intercultural inclusion must be done in 2 directions, from the hosting community to the migrant people and from the newcomers to their new culture home. Is necessary for the societies to undersand that we cannot let the difficult issue of adaptation of newcomers individuality, but give common solution and welcome the diversity richness.
In this meeting we explored how this can be done and welcomed new projects to come: Narratives of Resistance and My europe is your europe.
INTERCULTURAL AWARENESS PROJECTS
Body percussion
EDV and Drosa Texni
After the second meeting of Books with Life in Giannitsa took place, the Greek organizations EDV and Drosa Texni continued dynamazing their locality and the social relation of youth migrants with their new community using body percussion and theatre as a tool of inclusion
Sankofa and the Wandering Museum
Sankofa is a intercultural communitary space in Valencia managed by Sovint Cultura y Desarrollo where different associations meet and collaborate to create a space free of hate speech.
The wandering museum of cultures is a collection of hundres of pieces from different cultures: masks, puppets, musical instruments, books.. they interact to show our unity in diversity
Casa Comune and in Tutte Lingue
Fondazione Emmanuel continues developing intercultural awareness programmes such as in Tutte Lingue combating hate speech with intercultural languages in all mother tonges. Also, during COVID19 crisis, they have created a "Common House" for people in risk due to the situation managed by 50 volunteers with holisitic attention
Artivism Against Rumors
Fractals continued their intercultural awareness programs including Artivism as a tool, in this programe they collaborated with Castellon municipality developing a course for youth and teenagers coordinating the local intervention with other territories such as Tenerife, Pamplona, Getxo and cartagena to create a common path of actions.
Narratives of Resistance and
My europe is your europe
During the development of the project and the succes of the partnership, two new projects were born with Erasmus + co-funding: KA205 Narratives of Resistance and KA227 My Europe is your Europe.
This success enhances the sustainability of the project.
EVALUATION OF BOOKS WITH LIFE
Intercultural
awareness
debate
For this meeting, the workshop topic was Intercultural awareness and the reality of all 3 countries during these 3 years of project evolution to analyze the current situation. As the event was online we shared the debate on streaming. Some vibrant conclusions were that transformation must be made to make the system welcoming. We have a culture focused on the individual. It is a social construct raised so that in the end we are consumers. "The path is the collective, the common." From a liberal economy to an economy for the common good. And build that community from below.
Library of Lives
Migrant youth mobility is always a challenge for those inclusive organizations that want their youth to live these experiences in equality of rights as european youth.
This sanitary situation and its consequences in terms of mobility, has been taken as an advantage to increase migrant youth participation in this las meeting with the European Library of Lives activity.
The beneficiaries of the project had the chance to meet and speak about their challenges, goals, reality in each country and interculturality itself.
