Identity roots tradition Is  an international youth exchange program.

Partner countries in the project are Slovakia, Ukraine, Israel, Poland.

Six young people from each of the partnering countries, and their leaders thus 31 participants in total,will participate in the all project. The project have online preparate activities, youth exchange in Slovakia, and follow- up activities in partnering countries.

 

This youth exchange program's main objective is to implement new knowledge, skills, and methods in work with youth in theater.

The partners countreis who are connected by theatrical activities in their country and want to express themselves through theatrical techniques and through informal learning to reveal their identity together, understand other cultures, look for context and their roots of being.

The activities unifying our topics:

The roots of the family, historical stories from childhood

What is tradition for me

My personal rituals

This is a part of my nation's history that I don't know what to think

theme.

How my history shaped my reality today. The project aim is to get to know other people's views and knowledge of their traditions, family rituals, personalities and how my family history affects me, how this affects my formation, and the history of the region where I live. We will research ourselves, where we come from, seek our identity in the family. Where we live, in the region where we come from, to answer the question of whether it makes sense to seek its uniqueness in times of globalization and mix of cultural, our history and traditions of our families and the region where we live and how does this knowledge affect us?

We want to create a space for self-realization of participants and activities for safe communication of young people from 4 countries about identity, history of our families and region, customs and rituals.

We want to  learn critical thinking in the context of a controversial historical event, to be able to discuss, to conduct a dialogue,  try to capture  attitudes in artistic reflection (installation of an object, movement etude, song, poem, performance).

We want to confront specific facts, opinions, attitudes to the topic with a focus on the emotional level, create a common artistic reflection (movement, sound, visual with elements of a performative theater).

And this we would like presentation to the public.