Art against rassism: a youth approach
Project period: 8.01 – 8.07.2022
The Youth meeting gathered 24 young people, aged between 14 and 19 years old and speaking various languages as mother tongue: Estonian (8 young people), Russian (8 young people), English, Kurdish and other languages (8 young people), all living in Estonia and studying at TKG, Tallinn European School, International School of Tallinn, Habersti Vene Gümnaasium, etc. This was an opportunity for young people to meet, to practice languages, to discover new cultures by communicating with each other, spending time together and being involved in different art activities and workshops.
The project was conceived, written and implemented by 3 students from 11th grade of TKG. For the project purpose a partnership with French Institute from Estonia was established.
The project was with the financial support of the Youth and Education Department – Harno.
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The main aim of the project is to raise young people’s awareness of racism through something as interesting as art. Young people had a great opportunity to interact with their peers in different languages. As topic of discussion in this project were racism and discrimination based on language and other aspects, and art as a mean to help young people to reflect on the situation related to racism and discrimination, to communicate their ideas to the wide public and to draw the public attention to these issues in the society through art exhibitions, video and theatre performances, photography.
The 24 participants have spent together 5 days, lived together; they cooked together, communicated and participated in various workshops run by themselves and by facilitator, experts in such topics as painting and visual thinking from TKG.
The activities were run using non-formal learning methods, such as ice breakers, energizers, getting to know each other games, brain storming, team building and teamwork activities.
The project has contributed to the development of the 8 key competences https://education.ec.europa.eu/focus-topics/improving-quality-equity/keycompetences-lifelong-learning.
The project was organized by high school students at Tallinna Kunstigümnaasium, in partnership with the French Institute from Tallinn. All costs were covered from the project budget, such as accommodation, food and other project related costs. The project was funded by HARNO through Noortekohtumised program https://harno.ee/noortekohtumised.
