Youth exchange - Express you Soul

This exchange will allow the participants to dive in a reflective and creative process around the theme of « Living together », intercultural discussion, and citizen commitment. The red string of Express Your Soul is Music as a: - Way of cultural expression (key-element of people’s identity or of a cultural group) - Universal language (Vector of intercultural dialogue); - Tool/media to communicate messages influence and have an impact on the world. The general idea is to come back to the original basic value of the way of promoting peace and people rapprochement. To bring people together around these ideas, to share, express and bear together a peace message as an input against very modern challenges. (Communitarianism, hate speech, minorities’ discrimination …) The youth exchange must allow participants to have a better knowledge of countries and and cultures from one another, especially through musical tradition. The universal specificity of music and all of its potential pushes us to believe that the possibilities are numerous and diverse. Goals and outcomes - To involve participants from different nationality, origins and backgrounds in a common creative process. - To raise awareness on how rich and diverse mankind can be and bear a message in the benefit of the « Living together » concept and to promote intercultural exchange. - To empower the participants to grow as active and responsible citizens and give them tools to fight back communitarianism and hate speeches. - To allow them to develop and assert their artistic and musical skills. - Give them a chance to discover and express on diverse musical genres, but also to create their own compositions (vocal, slam, rhythmic, or instruments) which will be interpreted during a final concert and will be recorded. Theme comprehension We will then get to the heart of the matter. Through workshops using communicative exchanges and ideas-sharing, we’ll approach the theme « Living Together » and the intercultural exchange. Alongside, first’s workshops will give the opportunity to participants to share musical tastes, knowledge and skills. Workshops examples we’ll use leading to creative collectivity : - Various meetings and visits: Pataphonia Museum of Dinant, Music Fund workshop, International instrument making school of Marche, “Music” group of the local youth organization… - National presentation of music as a vector of tolerance in the different countries implied or other world regions. - Discovery of the culture of partners’ countries through music. - Artistic workshops focused on writing and composing (singing, texts, jam, compositions, rehearsals…) - Practical and artistic workshops aiming at getting everyone ready for the final show, communication, and broadcasting afterward All this work should lead to a final show on the main square of Marche-en-Famenne on July 14th. Compositions will also be recorded and will be given to participants for personal use or broadcasting. By signing in for this project, we ask you to: - Know what is Erasmus + and a Youth Exchange; - Be aware about the topic (…); - Be prepared to empower your imagination and to express messages in the benefit of the «Living together» concept and to promote intercultural exchange; - be ready for an artistic project linked to rhythms and music skills or writing workshops (lyrics); - Be ready to share a rich international group life, to share your culture (particularly through traditional or contemporary music), your personality and to learn from the other participants’ culture and personality; - Prepare a national presentation (a general one but also linked with the youth exchange topic: claims to the values, defense of rights, music as tool to communicate messages… ); - Be prepared to live an experience where they will be responsible of the different aspects of the project: food, tidiness of the place, shopping… - Work in a way that the project belongs to all the participants.