TC Tales told and untold in Monteoru

We have some free spots for this TRAINING COURSE in ROMANIA from 20 – 29 may 2024 on topic of sustainability and circular economy for participants from BULGARIA, CZECHIA, CROATIA, GREECE, ITALY, LATVIA, LITHUANIA, NORTH MACEDONIA, POLAND, PORTUGAL, SERBIA, SPAIN. If you are interested write a message to [email protected]. Limited places so first coming, first served

FANTASTIC PARTICIPANTS

ORIGINAL PARTICIPANTS

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https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090551641757
https://youtu.be/eMS5mC5E7fw - REFUGEES
https://youtu.be/9zOQrieZBWc - STUPID TOURIST
https://youtu.be/3QJshY3meu4 - GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN
https://youtu.be/K2qmESdY_SE - TWO FACES, ONE MIRROR
https://www.scribd.com/document/668176989/TALES-TOLD-AND-UNTOLD

DAY 9 -18 march

Final day of our wonderful training started in a nice ballroom of youth center where we showed our plays and videos to guests from local community that helped us to find new solutions to forum theater problems. We had then a nice interaction with the youngsters and the youthpass ceremony
The afternoon was dedicated to final evaluations, filling the questionnaires and discussed in national teams or mixed about what we learned and how we can use the outcomes in our work
The last party found everyone happy but also emotional moments were when we said goodbye.
more tales will follow

DAY 8 - 17 march

Lastvrehearsals and then the show began. The two plays of forum theater were played and with the audience help the cases were solved, so the girl harrassed in the bar found solutions to be safe as the conflict that involved a transgender. Girls just want to have fun and Two faces one mirror enetered in the portfolio of good practices. we also watch the videos and had fun and then Iasmina showed the 90% of the book in a wonderful graphic conditions.
This was all in Sarata Monteoru, we had a final evaluation of main workshop and ebarked to Buzau with a visit at Muddy Volcanoes, wonderful part of Buzau Geopark, a new UNESCO heritage area.
End of the day found us in Buzau relaxing and preparing the next day performance for local community

DAY 7 - 16 march

Day was full of working, creating and rehearse. Everything went vey smooth as at the end of day we considered in evaluatin that we were quite advanced and on time with all tasks.
The teams from forum showed one to eachother the plays to get feeback and advices, the video teams cooperated for filming and editing and the book team was very active with info and interviews
In the end of the day we had a very deserved romanian evening ariund barbeque with a lot of food, music, dances and even Dracula around us.

DAY 6 - 15 MARCH

The second part of the training was very important as gave us opportunity to apply what we've learned and to work for 2 days and a half on separate workshops: FORUM, VIDEO and BOOK.
Our trainers gave us some input about methodology,steps to follow and results expected. They show us some videos from previous projects as good practices then we split in teams based on our interests and started to work together for scenarios and to collect materials for book

DAY 5 - 14 march

It was a new day of storytelling and we had the possibility to express our creativity in teams. Work was interesting and fun and we learnt a lot starting with Bogdan introduction about the phases of a story and then with some good and bad examples
This day was about tales untold so we created them and tried to make people understand how it is to be discriminated.
Then we had the opportunity in a short sketch to present them to audience and to share our opinions on each one.
we had stories about a blind man abused,intolerance of minorities,expats,pregnant women abusedand so on
The midterm evaluation with discussions and visual methods showeda great success of our training.

Day 4 - 13 march

We started as usual with an energizer then we moved to activities room to start storytelling sessions.
First part of the day was about discussions on stories and legends each country has about discrimination of minorities and with moments that are not politically correct. So one by one everyone took the chair and related the stories.
Second part was in mixed groups and we had the task to create a new story based on our legends and to imagine a character that is at the origin of bad aspects of the story.
A lot of discussions went to nice posters and we told our stories in plennary
We also had an improvisation workshop to understand the four personalities: melancholic,coleric,sanguin and flegmatic
the day ended with intercultural evening and disply of nice gastronomic products. After tasting countries presented stereotypes and dances

Day 3

We have started the day with outdoor activities. We had energizers and trust games.
We started in groups with land art. Each group created story with land art using materials from nature. It was nice experience for all of us.

We came back indoor after coffee break. We discussed causes & effects of discrimination with world caffe format. Everyone had chance to visit different tables and talk about different aspects of discrimination.

After lunch we came back with surprise. Everyone had be paired we had couples and audience. Audience was already in the room. Couples entered to room one by one and tried to adapt certain culture in the room. It looked totally different than what was the real reason for the couples actions. It called Albatros Culture. It was really interesting experience for us.

And we were ready to take a night train with the characters displayed on screen. Some of us knew the some of characters some of us not. Everyone tried to decide 3 travel companions and 3 characters they don't want to travel with. It was individual and in groups. Each time answers were different. Everyone tried to discuss about their choices. Characters were from Game of Thrones anime version.

TC Romania “Tales Told and Untold”

Day 2 started with a 15 minutes energizer session to warm up the participants for the upcoming activities. Firstly, participants in order to get to know each other they presented themselves referring their names and countries that they came from. Next, participants brought an object that best represented them explaining why. Afterwards, participants were given a piece of paper writing their names and being asked general questions about themselves in order to know each other. In addition, there was an introduction in the project and its objectives.

Then we talked about what each participant’s expectations, hopes and contribution were about the project. Also, organizational aspects like house rules and logistics were analyzed.

Part II was about culture and its meaning brought as a mind map and brainstorming that opened opportunity for debating about diversity (Xenophobia, Stereotypes, Tolerance, and Political correctness). We finished day 1 by getting to know Erasmus+ programme and Youthpass. Last, participants were given opportunity to reflect about the day.