Finding a Common Language 2024
Call for applications!
Are you between 12 and 20 years old, come from Ukraine, Russia, Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh or Georgia and enjoy making music and dancing? Then you’ve come to the right place! Apply and become one of 30 young people who will create a dance and music performance together and try to ‘Find a common language’. Apply now!
Մասնակցության հնարավորություն. միացե՛ք և ընդհանուր լեզու գտե՛ք
ღია კონკურსი შემოგვიერთდი და შექმენი საერთო ენა!
Date and place:
- Workshop 17-22 October in Tbilisi, Georgia;
- Performance 23-27 October 2024 in Eriwan, Armenia
What is the project about?
Our “Finding A Common Language” project is now entering the next round. After the pilot phase in 2023, this year we are focusing on the actual language of movement, the body, and gestures including music and space, which stand as a symbol for our environment.
Our aim is to encourage children and their families to build an equal and open community regardless of cultural, linguistic or country-specific differences. Given the current global challenges and especially the ongoing conflicts, this approach seems to be more important than ever.
We invite young people between the ages of 12 and 20 from different countries, including Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Russia and Belarus, to participate in our project. Through music and dance workshops in mid-October in Tbilisi (Georgia), they will be encouraged to find and develop their own language through creative forms of expression.
The project will culminate in a public performance at the end of October in Yerevan (Armenia), where the participants will present their results and convey a message of inclusion and cohesion.
The developments will be documented in their entirety in order to share the knowledge gained and serve as a basis for future activities.
High Art Bureau is taking over the entire project management from conception to evaluation and documentation.
About our partners:
Unison NGO for Support of People with Special Needs is a leading organization with the largest network in Armenia. It advocates for the rights of people with disabilities in Armenia. With the aim of achieving full inclusion of people with disabilities, Unison develops and implements regularly funded projects and other activities aimed at improving physical accessibility and access to information, promoting inclusion of people with disabilities in working life, supporting inclusive education, improving coordination and cooperation between disability organizations and implementing other initiatives aimed at improving the overall well-being and social, cultural and economic integration of people with disabilities.
Zirkus Upsala e.V. is a non-profit organization that, since 2000, has been using circus education methods to reintegrate children and young people from social risk groups into society in St. Petersburg. Due to the political situation in Russia, the members of the organization had to flee to Germany, where they now combine professional circus and theater arts directly with social and refugee work.
Antares Media Holding is a publishing house, printing house, advertising and marketing agency that uses modern technologies to ensure high quality products. The company was founded in 1992 and has published more than 2000 books to date.
InForm – Platform for Inclusive Minds supports the development of inclusive arts in Georgia.
Georgian Down Syndrome Association was founded by parents and an adult with Down syndrome. Their mission is to create a dignified and equal environment for people with Down syndrome. The association advocates for the full inclusion and participation of people with Down syndrome in public life, empowers their families, lobbies for services to meet their needs, supports independent living and spreads public awareness on the matter.
Arvestaran Creative Development Center creates a safe and supportive environment where disadvantaged groups and the community at large can build an inclusive and conscious society. The center supports individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities of all ages in expanding and enhancing their life, social and self-help skills. Arvestaran also works with young adults in particularly difficult situations. They offer counseling and creative therapy services such as art, music, dance and crafts, educational services such as preschool and vocational training, capacity building for professionals, and advocacy hubs.
Ukrainian Forum NGO Dopomoga.am is a humanitarian project that helps refugees from Ukraine and Artsakh. They want to make the world a better place for those who find themselves in difficult situations.
Kovcheg – Ковчег – Helping emigrants who left Russia because of the war supports Russian emigrants who disapprove of the military aggression against Ukraine and see no chance for themselves to live in Putin’s Russia.
Cover photo: Noy Stepanyan