Within the 2014/2015 Unpacking programme, Belgrade Centre for Human Rights and ApsArt Centre for Thetre Research in cooperation with 12 Serbian youth offices organise two-day workshops for youth, “Explore and show your community”. This project is among some twenty EUR2 million EU-funded projects, within the “EU support to civil society” programme.
During the workshops, young people will discuss their own communities’ issues and characteristics, to be used afterwards throughout the process of cultural package design, that will present the identity of their communities to others.
Workshops are aimed to encourage young people to reflect on traditions, habits, places or day-to-day events in their communities and, once the workshops are done, to take actions for collective culture package designing together with other young people from their community.
Youth offices from Obrenovac, Savski venac, Trgovište, Bosilegrad, Bački Petrovac, Vranje, Požega, Priboj, Prijepolje, Raška, Temerin and Bujanovac have engaged in the programme.
The workshops are intended for young people aged between 15-30 years. Those who turn out to be most active in their local communities will visit one of the 12 municipalities included in the project and meet the local community, its traditions and cultural characteristics. Instruction for applying have been published on youth offices’ Facebook pages.
First workshops were held in May in Obrenovac, Prijepolje, Bujanovac and Priboj, whereas the rest of the workshops would take place in June.
Following the workshops, as of September, the process of “unpacking” will start virtually via social networks, but also via in-person meetings and cultural packages exchange among the youth.
2014/2015 Unpacking project aims to present the youth coming from different parts of Serbia to each other and establish stronger connections among them through cultural package design and exchange. The initiative comes from Belgrade Centre for Human Rights in cooperation with Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights, ApsArt Centre for Thetre Research, and Beta Media Centre.
The project is organised with expertise from the Ministry of Youth and Sports, and funded by the EU within the “EU support to civil society” programme.
