The Dream Factory - Youth Exchange

Sunday 7th May 2006

Where: “Lispunt” Youth Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

When: 8-22 July 2006

Who: 70 young people (18-25) from France, the Netherlands, Morocco, Turkey and the UK(12 persons per country)

Fee: …only £10! The rest is supported by European Union.

Deadline: 30 May 2006

Description:

The participants will use different forms of art - music, painting, theatre, film, photography, etc. - to express their dreams and plans for the future. The participants will be a mixed group of people from many different cultures and backgrounds. We will stimulate that they meet each other with an open mind, so

that they learn about other cultures and discrimination and stereotyped thinking will decrease.

During the first days of the project participants can follow all kinds of workshops as an introduction.

Starting from the fifth day, they choose which type of art / workshop form they like most and they go more into depth in that fi eld for the rest of the project

List of the workshops includes:

• Photography
• Film
• Painting / Drawing
• Theatre
• Rap
• Dance
• Music / Band
• ICT
• Arabic calligraphy

The result at the end of the project will be an exhibition of paintings, pictures, short films made by the participants and a concert prepared by the band.