Training Course OEDYPUS | 7 – 15 October 2023 | Palermo, Italy

O.E.D.Y.P.U.S. is a 7-day Training Course (TC), under the Erasmus+ programme that will be organised and hosted by CIAS LA Guilla in Palermo, Italy. 7 & 15 of October are considered to be travel days.

A diverse group of 29 youth workers (from different ages) coming from 9 countries (Italy, Greece, Lithuania, Romania, Portugal, Slovakia, Turkey, Bulgaria, and Netherlands) and 9 group leaders will participate. Participants will experience a full immersion of performing arts and non-formal sessions,seven days of activities as follows:

  • Energisers, dance and theatre techniques to foster participants’ sense of identity as individuals and self-consciousness;
  • link the tragedy of Oedipus to contemporaneity: the plague that suddenly broke out in Thebes and the Covid like pandemic of our times prompt us to question the impotence of the human being, condemned in the perennial search for the meaning of life, its relationship with nature and destiny;
  • visits to local centres working with migrant youth or young people with fewer opportunities to developparticipants’ knowledge of good practices to contrast radicalisation and xenophobia;
  • theatre, music and dance as means of intercultural dialogue to develop participants’ awareness on radically change our production patterns and lifestyles, through non-formal learning methods namely theatre andcreativity;
  • understanding personal identity workshop: Covid like pandemic of our times prompt us to question the impotence of the human being, condemned in the perennial search for the meaning of life, its relationship with nature and destiny.
  • Oedypus’ myth to think, through non-formal learning methods, about the human being as the cause of everything and thus, consequently, as the architect of change. Whatever the event that triggered the Covid19 virus, it is certainly human behavior that facilitated the beginning, and still continues to cause the virus to evolve;
  • Oedipus’ myth: final performance set up to celebrate young people’s creativity through the staging of this ancient Greek drama, and disseminate the results to other young people with final performance to other youngsters and the local community.

O.E.D.Y.P.U.S. project will use non-formal methods namely theatre, music and body movements to carry out all the foreseen activities. Trainers will conduct sessions using collaborative art-making and creative thinking.


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