The project “Reconnect - Dance and theatre training in dialogue with the global south” is a pilot project that will create a new approach in practices of learning and unlearning arts to intervene in hegemonic knowledge in artistic production. The project activities are planned through a European partnership, involving three organisations: Protagon – Freunde und Foerderer Freier Theateraktion from Germany, Ondadurto Teatro from Italy and DOREA Educational Institute WTF. Therefore, this project will promote an experience of social integration for non-European participants and will open up the notion of the artistic work from a monopolized point of view to a constellation of methodologies and perspectives that entangles culture diversity in the artistic work. The participants of the project will go through a capacity building programme created by the project to train new ways of self-expression (learners) and methods to stimulate active citizenship (trainers), working with theatre, role-playing and situational games, discussion events with (local) politicians, world café, decolonial cultural dance, creative writing, and more. The activities take place within the context of cultural events, festivals, or meetings. The artists have the responsibility of proposing new ways of being in the world, based on diversity of opinion, culture and civic education. The project aims are to create artistic dialogues based on the ecology of knowledges and to analyses the colonial relations of artistic practices and knowledge. The project will create two transnational meetings and two intellectual Outputs based on artistic work and the coexistence of different forms of knowledge construction; three training activities with the themes of the project, as well Multiplier Events with the participation as research, discussions, and documentation with statements of scholars, curators and artists, to contribute internationally in the process of inclusion of migrants from the global in European societies and modes of artistic creation. Keywords: cultural dialogues; global South; social inclusion; non-hegemonic knowledges.

As social and historical subjects, women also have the right to propose new ways of being in the world, based on diversity of opinion, culture and civic education. We are at a time when it is crucial to encourage women to position themselves in the face of social conflicts, extremist nationalism, pandemics, discrimination, racism, etc.In the frame of their Strategic Partnership, there will be organized four transnational meetings in the project, as well as carry out job shadowing and professional development activities for women with social disadvantage. At the same time, a research compilation in the field will be conducted, and discussed during the transnational meetings is for the production of common results. Which will be the following: one Tool kit online for Women’s Leadership in cultural work; one YouTube Chanel with 7 web-series with statements of invited artists from the Magdalena Project Network; one online handbook with reflections on the project activities. It is worth to highlight that the production of the project results will be guided by the intersectional feminist perspective, in which aims not to categorize women within a bourgeois and white logic, but to invest in it, how aspects of one's social and political identities (gender, race, class, sexuality, ability, etc.) might combine to create specific modes of discrimination. In this sense, most of the methods are practised in common at each person involved in the activities, to train new ways of self-expression (learners) and methods to stimulate active citizenship (trainers). Our partnership involves four organizations, one from Germany, Italy, Poland and Denmark, with diverse expertise in adults civic education, committed to empowering disadvantaged. The participants of the project will go through a capacity building program created by the project, they are older and young learners with some migrant background or social vulnerability.We wish to bridge the mentioned gap through creative approaches based on their experiences and concerns. They work with methods they will experiment– theatre, role-playing and situational games, discussion events with (local) politicians, world café, decolonial cultural dance, creative writing, among others. These activities also take place within the context of a cultural event, festival or meeting. The objectives of the project are to improve the quality of education in and to increase the take-up of these subjects in the work conditional. Therefore, to ensure sustainability and dissemination of project results, the Strategic Partnership foresees conferences at local, national and European level, as well as designs jointly a follow-up strategy.

"The present project, called ""Rural Inclusive Outdoor Theatre Education 3"" (RIOTE 3) was born out of a previous ""innovative large scale"" project (RIOTE 2). www.riote.org The RIOTE 3 project aim is to develop three innovative intellectual outputs based on knowledge and skills exchange between performing arts organizations, dealing with adult education through outdoor theatre, physical theatre or other adult educational practices in rural settlements. The project is at the same time, based on the research question: 'As performing arts organizations, how can we develop our adult educational activity, so we can reach more of our target groups?'The three intellectual outputs:1.A life quality measurement toolkit for those adult educators who want to implement technology based feedback in their work with groups and individuals. This is a toolkit what will answer for the need: how can we measure the impact of a theatre activity, performance or training? This impact measurement toolkit will be useful for adult educators but also for complex systems, like the Rural Touring Scheme, which does regular impact measurement with questionnaires.2.A handbook guide to create rural touring center as we call in the project the Eco-polys model, what will function as a rural touring center serving a local network existing as an adult education reference point in European networking systems. 3.A practical guide for participatory theatre in remote villages, specially with elderly people, about the theme of a local myth re-discovering the collective narratives and memories transforming into a performance outdoor, so that the natural environment will take part of the scenery, increasing environmental consciousness.Outdoor performing adult education can revitalize culture in socially marginalized environments with proposing: dialog approach, critical thinking by revealing social problems, trigger the visualization of social change, interactive cultural exchange, empowerment of the community, collective education, development of multiple intelligence, strong pedagogical aspect and collaborative process.The national networks are supposed to meet on a long-term prospective, creating the European Rural Touring Network that sustains the impact and the outputs of the project.Planned work with the target group:The eight partners will work parallel in their own villages: Bingenheim (Germany), Méra (Romania), Kázsmárk (Hungary), South Peterton (UK), Pontelagoscuro (Italy), Ravne na Koroškem (Slovenia), Máriagyűd (Hungary). One theatre group will be formed in each village with approximately 10-20 participants, through (at least a weekly) regular training process, what will be leaded by one or two mentors of the partner organization in the relevant country. The 30% of the amateur theatre group should be older than 60 years old, since one of our main aims is to foster inter-generational dialogue.The climax of the working process will be the international Joint Staff Training of the host country, when the relevant partner will show its work with the target community to the project partners. (This can be different in those cases who are hosting JST in an early period of the project they will hold their performances in the end, during their Multiplier Events).The theme: should be a local myth of the village, a story, an intangible local heritage what can be re-discovered and transformed into a narrative what is connected to the memory or to the collective consciousness of the community. The length of this work can vary, the partner has to plan it according to its conditions, but it should not be shorter than two months (or 14 appointments with the community) ending with a performance.The mentors will participate alternately during the eight international joint staff training, where they will learn new methods to implement it in their village-groups. One of these methods is the application of Polar test, measuring life quality through analyzing Heart Rate Variability (HRV), what will be applied consequently also for the target community to measure group-members life quality at the beginning of the project and later at the end of their creative working process, for three-three days, before during and after the theatre sessions/rehearsals.At end of the project the coordinator will create a final performance using every eight mythological narratives for a final European Anthropological Street Theatre performance."