Septembar 2017

CREATIVE WORKSHOP "ACTIVISM AND YOUTH" HELD IN PRIMARY SCHOOL "SREDNJE" IN SREDNJE


As part of the project "Initiative for Creative Dialogue and Education - ICDE", on September 29 2017, TPO Foundation organized a creative educational workshop for young people called "Activism and Youth" at the elementary school "Srednje" in Srednje. Workshop participants were ninth grade students who had an opportunity to learn and question about civic activism, human rights as well as peer and gender-based violence through discussion with the workshop leader. The aim of the workshop is to encourage young people to think about responsibilities and obligations towards themselves and the society they live in, and to learn about the importance of civic activism too. Thirty students of the final grade of this school had the opportunity to watch the stage performances of young actors on various forms of violence and to talk about the prevention and reduction of all forms of violence within and outside the school.
Through participatory exercises, young people have been thinking about features that best describe them and their friends in the classroom, and the goal of the exercise was to learn about personal characteristics and to talk about skills and competencies as the primary task for personal and professional development of each person. Young people also had an opportunity to meet their friends through a different prism but also to consider personal advantages and disadvantages on the road to building their personality and identity.

Through participatory exercises, young people have been thinking about features that best describe them and their friends in the classroom, and the goal of the exercise was to learn about personal characteristics and to talk about skills and competencies as the primary task for personal and professional development of each person. Young people also had an opportunity to meet their friends through a different prism but also to consider personal advantages and disadvantages on the road to building their personality and identity.
The participants were introduced with a term engaged art and they through editions of comic books "Nira" they discussed about the importance of advocating and responding adequately to the injustice and violence that is happening every day around us. Following the play of young actors Ivana Vojinović and Adis Omerović, the students exchanged their views and attitudes towards certain types of violence, and unanimously agreed that we should not be silent on violence and that violence should not be countered by violence.
The TPO team continues the realization of creative educational workshops "Activism and Youth" through visits to primary and secondary schools throughout BiH with an aim to raise awareness of civic activism, human rights, violence and peace activities.