TELL LIFE WITH
THEATRE
ABOUT PROJECT
TELL LIFE WITH THEATRE
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A week-long training will be given on theatre, participants will perform skits and these plays will be recorded on video and published on social media.
Erasmus+ KA154 Youth Participation Projects
Project Duration: 5 Months
Project Coordination: Kepenk Youth Association
Project Partners:
ESNAF-Craftsmen, Traders and Businessmen Association,
Yunus Emre Institute Sarajevo Representation,
Yunus Emre Institute Hungary Branch,
Union of Businessmen and Industrialists of Türkiye and Azerbaijan
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4 countries - 5 institutions - 40 participants
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The objectives of the project are;
To contribute to the artistic development of the world by providing theatre education to young people from different countries,
To record the problems and solution suggestions of young people through theatre and convey them to a wide audience,
To ensure that young people from different countries get to know Turkish culture,
To explain the values ​​of the European Union and the Erasmus program,
To be an example for EU projects in Türkiye,
To enable young people to express themselves in their own language,
To bring young people together with art,
To enable young people to discover their talents,
To show that art and education and work can be carried out together,
To show that the cultures of the countries of the world are not very different,
To reach real information by learning the deficiencies and excesses in the promotions of countries from their own citizens,
To show that theatre can be done more simply, more among the people and amateurishly as it was in the past,
To show that beautiful works can be done with theatre against the corruption in today's theatres,
To pioneer in making appropriate criticisms without hurting with theatre,
To prove that theatre is not only artistic but also entertaining and that everyone can do it,
To show the difficulty of understanding between generations to the elderly by having young people express themselves visually and audibly to reach,
Because young people understand the language of their peers better
WHATS IS ERASMUS+ ?
Erasmus+ is the grant program of the European Union covering the fields of education, youth and sports, implemented between 2021-2027. The Erasmus+ Program aims to provide people with new skills, strengthen their personal development and increase employment opportunities, regardless of their age and educational background. The budget of the Erasmus+ Program throughout Europe for the years 2021-2027 is 28.4 Billion Euros.
ABOUT COORDINATOR
KEPENK YOUTH ASSOCIATION
INTRODUCTORY ARTICLE
It was established to work for the benefit of young tradesmen, new masters, children and young employees of tradesmen and craftsmen, and all children and young people in our country, who are studying in vocational training centers and vocational high schools, who work as apprentices or journeymen in the shops of our tradesmen and craftsmen, who choose entrepreneurship and establish new businesses. In 2016, it started its activities as a separate association to carry out youth and sports activities by Mamut Çelikus, the chairman of the Tradesmen and Craftsmen Association, and the members of the headquarters board of directors. Our association, headquartered in Ankara, carries out projects and activities for our youth in various fields such as national and international education, sports and arts.
With the work carried out, we aim to instill sports habits in the growing generation, to create an atmosphere of brotherhood through sports, to stay away from addictions, to become good tradesmen in the future with Ahi values, to be respectful to the elderly, to care about the experiences of their masters, to protect the little ones, to be beneficial to their family, religion and country, and not to harm lice and animals. We work to raise quality people. We carry out projects and activities to protect the physical and mental health of young people from the inadequacies in the industrial environment where young people, especially our apprentices and journeymen, work, increasing addictions today, and the bad effects of digital devices, social media, movies and TV series. We share our activities on Kepenk Derigisi and social media accounts.
In the field of sports; It organizes football tournaments, summer camps, traditional sports theoretical and practical training, interviews with athletes, documentaries about sports and athletes, and brochures about the benefits of sports. Transportation to these activities and meals and accommodation are covered free of charge from the project budget, and sports clothes, equipment and promotions are given as gifts to our young people.
In the field of culture and art; He conducts traditional handicraft training, creation of a virtual handicraft marketplace, cinema workshops, virtual e-commerce and cinema courses, short film and photography competitions, museums, cinemas, picnics, visits to the Ministry of Sports and Youth public offices, interviews with artists, short films and documentaries. .
In the field of education; It provides virtual or face-to-face training on addiction, Ahiism, career, handicrafts, e-commerce, entrepreneurship, social media, product photography, camera usage, cinema and theater. The training is free and certificates are given to young people who complete it.
In the field of books; It prepares photo catalogues, e-commerce books, youth-related reports and policy documents and distributes them free of charge.
Social activities; It organizes programs on career and government incentives, exemplary tradesmen, representatives and managers of public institutions, representatives of non-governmental organizations, academicians, interviews, workshops and symposiums. It carries out various activities such as Ahilik celebrations, Åžed siege theater, graduation programs, trainee training, coaching training, picnics, trips, book reading activities, nature walks, survey studies, experience transfer meetings with senior citizens, commemoration programs for exemplary personalities, rallies and protests.