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Logroño hosted a European Seminar to train in the work of Including people with disabilities through art “Art for Inclusion”

From the 02/04/2018 until the 09/04/2018, Asociación Juvenil Teatral ON&OFF, hosted a European seminar, financed by the Erasmus+ programme, to train youth volunteers towards the inclusion of people with disabilities through art “Art for Inclusion.”

“Art for Inclusion” is a project financed by the Key action 1 programme of Erasmus+ of the European Commission that brought together 7 organisations dedicated to the inclusion of people with disabilities using theatre tools. It involved the participation of 22 professionals from 6 different countries, coordinated by Asociación Juvenil Teatral ON&OFF (Spain), with the cooperation of ARSIDO (The Riojana Association for Down Syndrome) and Dinámica Teatral and organisations from Bulgaria, Cyprus, Italy, Ireland and Portugal.
This seminar allowed for representatives from each entity to share their work in Artistic involvement programmes. They took part in a calendar of activities designed to share new skills and to develop the competences of planning and facilitating inclusive artistic programmes, especially through theatre and dance; to promote the use of these abilities on a transnational level and to develop the local community. Additionally, the programme had the objective to broaden the possibilities of financing and transnational cooperation of these organisations thanks to the activities related to give visibility and to get to know programmes of Erasmus+ and other places to facilitate the work of networking between them.
Therefore, this allowed for them to not only create synergies between the organisations and their personnel to create educative projects that involve young people from different countries, but also to increase the technical capacity to coordinate and management between each other.
On Friday the 6th of April, they went to the Institution IRJ in Logroño to meet with representatives of the Riojana Government. In this same day, they visited the local organisations: Dinámica Teatral and La Casa de Tomasa.
To reinforce the work of networking on an international level and to improve as well at a local level, during the seminar, the professional participants went to the Teatro Ideal in Calahorra at 8pm on Saturday the 7th of April, to watch the gestural theatre performance “Gesticulate” created by one of the inclusive theatre groups of ARSIDO.

If you want to know more about “Art for Inclusion”, you can visit the blog page of the project which has daily updates of photos, materials, posts and videos (https://artforinclusion.blogspot.com.es/) or you can get in contact with Silvia Sáenz who is responsible for the communication of this project
En caso de querer conocer más sobre “ART FOR INCLUSION”, puedes visitar la página el blog -silvia@dinamicateatral.com or 620932044.


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Day 1

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Off to a good start, we started the project with a presentation of what to expect, and afterwards we evaluated our personal fears and expectations for the week. Afterwards, we got to know each other with some fun name games. On a more professional aspect, we also partnered up to discuss our experiences with inclusion through art. Later on, in the day, ON&OFF presented past projects of theirs that involved inclusion and, in order to get everyone involved with their ideas, we took part in some of the activities that they used in their past projects. Through this, the importance of each activity and the objectives to be achieved in doing these activities. One of these activities involved problem solving while another focused-on spontaneity and unity.
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Day 5

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Today we dedicated the morning to project creating. In order to do so we shared our background on Erasmus+ programme, going deep into the three different key actions and the different projects that can be applied for funding.   Later on we created two different mock projects, one key action 1 that combined a job shadowing experience and a training course and a transnational youth initiative (key action 2) that were later on presented. On the afternoon we had a theatre workshops with different activities as well and improvisations, which we could bring back to our country. To finish the day we went to Calahorra to see Arsido's "Gesticulate", an inclusive theatre show with actors with and without Down Syndrome, which was the good practice presented by the Spanish good practice shared on Day 2 of this project.
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Day 2

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We started the day by a presentation from the organisation ARSIDO. During this presentation, we began to share our good practices. Not only that, we started to share our countries personal relationship with disabled people. For example, one topic that was discussed was about the laws surrounding the employment of people with disabilities. We discovered that all the countries involved in this training course all have similar laws including benefits and funding. Additionally, we found differences in the laws surrounding education. In some countries the law is that all children go to the same school, except for in severe cases, meaning that the disabled people are integrated into mainstream schools. However, in other countries, there is both mainstream schools and special schools to cater for the specific needs of disabled people. However we found that in these countries the goal of the organisations here is to further integrate them into the schools but with a support system. Diferenca
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