Kulturanova has started working on new European project - Anti-Bullying Movement Series (ABMS).
The phenomena of school aggression (harassment, victimization, exclusion from the community) - in the opinion of many - are part of the conflicts in the community that are a natural part of life. Their frequency primarily depends on the institutional community, especially those responsible for its organization and management, timely acquaintance with the problem (which is a basic condition for prevention), spotting the problem (if they have already occurred)... Readiness and informing teachers, staff and professionals are therefore perhaps the most important key elements in preventing, detecting and treating school violence.
The main goal of ABMS:
Project partners came together to use art and culture to prevent harassment of at-risk youth. We will achieve this by increasing the skills and competencies of artists, educators, youth workers, educational leaders and support staff working with young people at risk.
Our main priority is social inclusion - the intention of ABMS is to use dance to prevent violence in vulnerable populations as a method to increase social inclusion. Nevertheless, ABMS is not intended to directly disrupt routines of violence, beliefs, and behaviors directly among at-risk youth. Instead, the direct beneficiaries of ABMS are adults who serve and work with vulnerable groups of young people. ABMS supports artists, educators, youth workers, educational leaders and support staff. We will achieve this by providing activities that use movement, as well as through additional skills and competencies from the experiences of our partners in theater, literature, visual arts, cultural heritage, and even gastronomy.
Each of our partners will host a five-day residency - workshops and adult training in their home communities - in addition to our lead partner, the Município de Vila do Porto, which will host both the opening and closing. Their final event will culminate with a dance festival all over the island that will share the results live on the locations of our partners. This is our strategy to encourage new methods of cultural cooperation and consumption in the light of the coronavirus pandemic - to promote greener cultural practices.
ABMS activities:
- practice and task development among participants - targeted discussions on burning community issues,
- presentation of good practices by our partners and training participants,
- field trips in the community to learn from additional local experts,
- practices with local youth from vulnerable groups to ensure the skills and competence of training participants before they return home.
What is left behind in this project?
ABMS will create a document on public policy, and we will use it to encourage growth and development in the educational and cultural sector on this topic and to closely link art education with the fight against violence. By more directly linking the problem of violence to education, we will give teachers a curricular incentive to address behaviors that turn into bullying, ensuring that we produce significant, long-lasting changes in the education system and in the lives of victims of violence.
Project partners: Município de Vila do Porto (Portugal), FUNDACIÓN UXÍO NOVONEYRA (Spain), Netzwerk Kultur & Heimat Hildesheimer Land e.V. (Germany), PRO PROGRESSIONE (Hungary), Xenia. Verein zur Förderung der Vielfalt (Austria). The project is supported through the Erasmus + program.
