Promoting intercultural dialogue through juggling
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Program Description
Promoting intercultural dialogue through juggling
Description
The project host is a local association for art and development. This group of visual artists, writers, photographers, movie makers, dramatists and musicians, was motivated by what is called the sense of the artist's social responsibility to abandon the traditional spaces of exhibiting and performance and go out on the street to make contact with the daily live reality. They aim to support a positive social transformation through an artistic practice that develops the mechanisms of contemporary arts to go out of the state of stagnancy surrounding them and to involve more members of the society in the artistic process. The group sees art as that neutral area which allows the existence of dialogue on different levels. So it tried hard to create a climate of dialogue that allows acceptance of the other, as a first stage to enable spreading the culture of social peace, through artistic group work.
The idea of this international volunteer project is gathering volunteers who have good skills in juggling, coming from different cultural backgrounds and from different countries, to work along with Egyptian youth. Together they will use juggling as an introduction for intercultural dialogue and to overcome cultural, ethnic, religious, and political differences. This will be through their interaction together and with the street, as they will use the public spaces as a place for their artistic practices and performances.
The afternoon program will be full of cultural and artistic activities.
The project takes place in Alexandria, Egypt.
There is an extra fee of 150 Euro for participation in this project, intended to support the hosting organization.



