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SUMMARY:Art Connects: Mental Health - A Time to Breathe
DESCRIPTION:Carmichael Centre for Voluntary Groups\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSold Out \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nArt Connects Mental Health: A Time to Breathe is a two-year European wide transnational partnership project that provides education\, training and awareness-raising at national and European levels using creative processes to promote positive mental health and emotional wellbeing with youth. \n\n\n\nSix partner organisations come together to create a Europe-wide Creative Arts for Health and WellBeing hub\, a new online\, interactive\, learning resource centre that supports the role of the arts to promote physical and emotional positive mental health and well-being for all. \n\n\n\nA challenging event like the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic can affect everyone’s mental health. Each of us is doing our best to look after ourselves however young people may need extra attention and support. Building synergies between the arts\, youth education\, and health and well-being\, this project supports the role of the arts to promote positive mental health and emotional well-being\, to overcome stress and anxiety and to build resilience across Europe\, strengthening links across Europe in relation to the arts\, education and positive mental health and well-being with and by young people. \n\n\n\nA Time to Breathe is supported by Erasmus+. The partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Dublin\, Ireland (lead partner); Ente acli istruzione professionale piemonte\, (ENTE) Torino\, Italy; Euroreso\, Naples\, Italy; European Centre in Training for Employment\, Rethymno\, Greece; Fundacion Intras\, Valladolid\, Spain and Youth Peace Group Danube\, Vukovar\, Croatia. \n\n\n\nRepresentatives from each other partner organisations will be in attendance\, with Veronica Leaney attending on behalf of Smashing Times. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/art-connects-mental-health-a-time-to-breathe/
LOCATION:Carmichael Centre for Voluntary Groups\, North Brunswick St\, Dublin 7\, D07 CR98\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Partner Exchange
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SUMMARY:Our Civic Heritage International Partner Exchange
DESCRIPTION:Carmichael Centre for Voluntary Groups\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSold Out \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThis event is an international exchange between partners from the Our Civic Heritage project. The project seeks to promote European common values and civic education and engagement in Europe. It addresses three types of target groups: members of the public that are interested in civic participation activities\, educators that teach civic participation and cultural heritage\, and policy makers and those working in the cultural heritage and civic sector whether in a public or private capacity. \n\n\n\nTraditionally the term ‘heritage’ is used to describe a people’s language\, culture or architecture in a historic way. More current definitions of heritage focus rather on contemporary society in terms of what people have in common\, promoting the values of diversity\, civic participation and intercultural understanding. A city’s heritage is no longer a set of buildings\, archaeological sites or statues of people showcasing historic facts but also a set of values that promote civic engagement and participation\, openness to society and critical thinking. \n\n\n\nThe development of civic competences – knowledge\, skills\, attitudes and values that enable an individual to actively participate in the society – is a prerequisite for the active\, democratic and civic engagement of people in their societies. Education in ‘values’ helps to build our civic heritage -inclusive societies on the shared values of democracy\, tolerance and freedom by strengthening solidarity and local communities. \n\n\n\nThe Covid-19 pandemic is already changing the way people are engaging with each other and how they are supporting their local communities and national initiatives. Activities related to civic engagement have become stronger than ever during this pandemic\, getting people closer together during a time of extreme physical isolation. From informal local and small initiatives such as helping vulnerable neighbours during the pandemic\, to large scale national programmes of volunteering to support health service or food production\, all citizens have a role to play. We have also noted during this period\, unprecedented support for a European action and involvement of citizens to support at European level. As we are still in the early days of this pandemic and these new ways of working\, we will monitor how people’s civic engagement will progress. There will be a lot of mourning and reflection at the end of this crisis\, but also quite a lot to celebrate on. Civic engagement is bound to be a success story. \n\n\n\nThe project Our Civic Heritage seeks to promote European common values and civic education and engagement in Europe. It addresses three types of target groups: members of the public that are interested in civic participation activities\, educators that teach civic participation and cultural heritage\, and policy makers and those working in the cultural heritage and civic sector whether in a public or private capacity.  \n\n\n\nThis project is supported by Erasmus+\, and the partners are Pressure Line\, NL (Lead Partner); Smashing Times\, IRL; IntheCity\, NL; Dona Daria\, NL; Jfdek Ltf\, UK; UNIVERSITA PER STRANIERI DI SIENA\, IT; KuTu\, BG; IFESCOOP\, ES; Fundatia Centrul Educational Spektrum\, RO; Landsbyggðin lifi\, ISL. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/our-civic-heritage-international-partner-exchange/
LOCATION:Carmichael Centre for Voluntary Groups\, North Brunswick St\, Dublin 7\, D07 CR98\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:ACTitude International Partner Exchange
DESCRIPTION:Carmichael Centre for Voluntary Groups\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSold Out \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThis event is an international partner exchange for partners in the ACTitude project. The ACTitude project develops an innovative methodology based on improvisation techniques (Improv) to facilitate individuals suffering from mental health disorders to confront demonstrations of social rejection in the form of verbal abuse and mockery to which they are being exposed so often in their day-to-day lives. \n\n\n\nIn contrast to traditional theatre\, Improv is a method based on natural actions that surge during the performance. In Improv\, there are no scripts- the latter are being created on the go\, through the interaction between the persons involved in the performance. \n\n\n\nThe ACTitude Improv based training program provides professionals working with the target group with a tailor-made intervention process to empower the persons with mental illness to recognize when they are being subject to verbal abuse\, to stand up for themselves\, and respond to the offenders in real time in order to cut short the abuse. \n\n\n\nThe training program\, using elements of the 3rd generation psychological therapies and techniques applied in improvisational theatre is created jointly by the team of psychologists and researchers from the Dept. of Psychology of the University of Maribor (UM) and a transnational team of expert performers and trainers specialized in improvisation. \n\n\n\nFunded by Erasmus+. The partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Dublin\, Ireland; Intras\, Spain; EDRA\, (Mental health service provider) Greece; KNUA (theater studies department of the Kapodisian University) Greece; University of Maribor\, Slovenia; IMPROVA (improv theatre company)\, Spain. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/actitude-international-partner-exchange/
LOCATION:Carmichael Centre for Voluntary Groups\, North Brunswick St\, Dublin 7\, D07 CR98\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:EVIA International Partner Exchange
DESCRIPTION:Carmichael Centre for Voluntary Groups\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSold Out \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThis event is an international partner exchange for the EVIA project. This three-year project develops a new education programme called EVA – Education for Values and Attitudes – and an EVA educational platform vaeie.eu.  The EVA educational programme will contain a toolkit and media content\, that primary and secondary school teachers can access in order to work with students to raise awareness of the European Union goals and history and to cultivate European values of democracy\, human rights\, gender equality\, and the rule of law. \n\n\n\nThe project uses Education for Values and Attitudes (EVA) to encourage progressive attitudes toward society\, active citizenship\, and human solidarity. The project supports an inclusive education and society and promotes the peaceful co-existence and integration of diverse groups in Europe\, including religious and ethnic minority communities\, migrant workers\, and refugees fleeing from war\, overcoming issues that can promote far right extremism and anti-European attitudes. \n\n\n\nThe project outputs are (1) an EVIA online Platform – eva.eu hosted in Belgium (2) a Training kit made up of module one (European Values)\, module two (Media Tech Guide) and Module Three (Methodology Guide) (3) a Toolkit made up of six EVIA lesson plans with media integrated lessons and (4) a Teacher’s Community with guides. A range of communication and dissemination activities will be carried out across Europe to foster social inclusion and integration through enhanced values and attitudes education at a European level and to strengthen the teaching profession through the provision of open resources\, training and cooperation activities\, fostering European integration and raising awareness about European Values and Attitudes Education. \n\n\n\nThe project is supported by Erasmus+ and the seven partners are UCLL\, Limburg\, Belgium (lead partner); Smashing Times\, Dublin\, Ireland; Music Department of Giessen University\, Giessen\, Germany; EURINNET NGO\, Rome\, Italy; History County Museum\, Botoșani\, Romania; AIGB (Associatia Institutul Geogebra Botosani)\, Botosani\, Romania and PEKSA\, Zonguldak\, Turkey. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/evia-international-partner-exchange/
LOCATION:Carmichael Centre for Voluntary Groups\, North Brunswick St\, Dublin 7\, D07 CR98\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Partner Exchange,Sold Out
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SUMMARY:The Story Project International Partner Exchange
DESCRIPTION:Carmichael Centre for Voluntary Groups\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSold Out \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nLearning from Community Stories – Young people’s crisis-response behaviours and actions – The Story Project \n\n\n\nOver the course of the past few months\, the Covid-19 pandemic and its economic and social impacts have disrupted nearly all aspects of life for all groups in society. While older adults suffer disproportionately from Covid-19’s health and economic slowdown impacts\, young people\, who are already starting to be termed the “lockdown generation”\, are likely to bear the brunt of the global economic and social crises unleashed by the coronavirus. The Global Survey ‘Youth and COVID-19: Impacts on Jobs\, Education\, Rights and Mental Well-Being’ (2020) focused on four areas of impacts on young people: namely\, employment\, education and training\, mental well-being\, and rights and voices. \n\n\n\nWhile there is a clear emergence of the digital youth work and increasing use of digital tools in working with young people within both formal and non-formal education across Europe\, there is also an understanding that there are needs of young people that have not been responded to\, leaving many to face on their own issues related to social exclusion\, discrimination and a redefinition of social and safety nets\, changing relationships and behaviour\, changing perspectives on connection to friends and community\, impact on well-being and mental health\, participation. \n\n\n\nResearch on resilience and survival after disasters increasingly validates the importance of social cohesion in a community’s response and recovery process. For all young people\, and especially those facing discrimination and disadvantage\, human rights that include labour rights and the right to education provide the basis on which they can make their voices heard\, organize\, assert their interests\, create systemic change. Culture and creativity are powerful tools for communities to create a positive narrative about who they are and what they want their futures to look like. Sharing personal or community stories can form bonds\, supportive networks\, or opportunities\, which encourages the development of community and personal resilience. \n\n\n\nThe Learning from Community Stories – Story Project-  steps up to put young people’s voices at the heart of decision making and enable them to be part of the solution to reuniting communities in the aftermath of the crisis. The project develops a model for culture based on storytelling linked to community resilience in response to Covid-19 and uses creative approaches and participatory processes to provide an opportunity for young people to tell the stories of the intersections of the pandemic in economically deprived and isolated/colour/immigrant/refugee/LGBT/Roma communities. It seeks to collect data and develop communications materials in order to share these stories with broader audiences and to inform policy makers. \n\n\n\nThe project aims to stimulate and support: \n\n\n\nbuilding an inclusive\, safe path for community conversations and story sharing which provides a solid foundation for meaningful crisis-response behaviours and actions;illustrating positive community resilience in communities as well as work to illuminate where inequities still exist within structures to inform new policies and systems that work todismantle racism and oppression that leads to inequities;contributing to social inclusion of marginalised youth;enhancing intercultural competences and creative potential of youths;linking young people with organisations in the cultural and creative sector and open up paths for exploring opportunities for youth’s employment in the sector\, as well as for innovationof the sector itself.\n\n\n\nThe project creates easily adaptable and transferable outputs – ‘Storytellers league’ model – methodology and series of creative based workshops held with local youth communities \n\n\n\nacross Europe; “Youth Communities’ Voices” – impactful digital stories of young people form disadvantaged communities\, and digital portfolios to inform policy makers on issues \n\n\n\naround youth communities. \n\n\n\nA total of 60 targeted young people and youth workers will benefit of the training and pilot activities; 12 target group actors will share their impact stories; 6 young people/groups of young people will be involved in films. Project results will directly reach at least 500 persons (young people\, youth workers\, actors in the cultural and creative sector\, stakeholders\, policy makers) via project activities\, multiplier events\, creating a strong base for long term exploitation. \n\n\n\nThe project brings together 6 social\, educational/youth\, cultural and audio-visual organisations\, exploring digital storytelling and series of cultural events\, to reach out to local marginalised communities across Europe and will produce and disseminate at EU level intellectual outputs that will significantly contribute to the creativity in the youth education sector and will create opportunities for the cultural and creative sector in the partner countries and beyond. \n\n\n\nThe lead partner is St. Dona Daria\, Rotterdam\, the Netherlands and the partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Dublin\, Ireland; In the City Development Project\, the Netherlands; Pressureline\, the Netherlands; Università per Stranieri di Siena – University for Foreigners of Siena\, Italy; FIFEDE (Fundación Canaria Insular para la Formación\, el Empleo y el Desarrollo Empresarial)\, Santa Cruz\, Tenerife\, Spain. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-story-project-international-partner-exchange/
LOCATION:Carmichael Centre for Voluntary Groups\, North Brunswick St\, Dublin 7\, D07 CR98\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Partner Exchange,Sold Out
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211015T143000
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SUMMARY:Forgotten Voices International Partner Exchange
DESCRIPTION:Carmichael Centre for Voluntary Groups\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSold Out \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThis event is an international partner exchange for the Forgotten Voices: Stories of Hope\, Courage\, Resilience from the Holocaust and WWII project. The project uses a diverse collection of forgotten or hidden stories exploring voices of resistance from ordinary people who stood up against fascism and a hatred of the other. Time and time again\, acts of kindness\, courage and resilience were carried out by ordinary people\, both within the camps and in wider society struggling under totalitarian regimes\,  as people stood up against fascism to protect the rights of others. The project highlights how people from all backgrounds  risked\,  and  in some cases\, sacrificed their lives for complete strangers\, demonstrating a belief in humanity and a determination to fight for a future where all people would be treated equal.  \n\n\n\nFour European partners from Ireland\, Spain\, Poland and Germany come together and select 20 stories of ‘hope\, courage and resilience’ in a time of war\, 5 from each partner country. The stories inform the creation of a digital book\, ‘live’ theatre monologues and a twenty-minute film which are  then shown to the public and used to bring people together to promote a remembrance of European history. The stories explore what happens when democracy is denied and how this impacts on ordinary people from the genocide of the Jewish and Roma communities to the imprisonment and deaths of  political activists\, people with disabilities\, Spanish Refugees\, Polish civilians\, German anti-Fascist resisters and many more. By shining a light on dark events of the past\, the  project uses stories of ‘hope\, courage and resilience’ to highlight the role of the EU today  to promote democracy\, equality and peace for all. By telling the stories of ordinary people who stood up against fascism and supported democracy and freedom\, the project promotes a remembrance of a shared European history and raises awareness of the shared values that Europe stands for in relation to promoting peace\, democracy and the wellbeing of all its people equally. \n\n\n\nThe project culminates in an international creative arts event held for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival where participants take part in interactive theatre performances\, film screenings\, panel discussions and debates\, highlighting stories of a diverse range of groups who stood up against fascism and hatred of the other.  Participants then engage in debate on how to recognise the growth of fascism in society and debate on contemporary democratic achievements in Europe and how European solidarity plays a key role in promoting democracy\, equality and peace for all people today. A key aim is to encourage participants to recognise the importance of European solidarity and the way in which the EU promotes right and values for all people equally and to engage citizens in actions to prevent the growth of intolerance and to promote diversity and inclusion. \n\n\n\nThe project is supported by Europe for Citizens and the partners are Smashing Times\, Dublin\, Ireland (lead partner); IFESCOOP\, Valencia\, Spain; University of Hannover\, Germany; and Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Lodzi\, Poland. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/forgotten-voices-international-partner-exchange/
LOCATION:Carmichael Centre for Voluntary Groups\, North Brunswick St\, Dublin 7\, D07 CR98\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Partner Exchange,Sold Out
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