Cultural Mosaic

Date: 30 july – 8 august | 2022

Country: Armenia

City: Abovyan

About the Project


The world has undergone globalization, turning it into a 
more connected and interdependent place.What does it mean? First and foremost, we should be aware of and learn about different cultures if we want to achieve a sense of well-being and build a peaceful world. If we lack understanding among people, we face a huge amount of difficulties such as inefficient communication, inability to collaborate and solve fundamental problems; feelings of loneliness, turmoil, and disappointment; all sorts of discrimination, inequality, racism, and so on. On the contrary, good morale, a feeling of satisfaction, effective cooperation, the successful overcoming of global challenges, etc ensue if we are tolerant of each other, Mutual understanding is a way to make life on Earth better, as well as save, enhance and pass on to next generations the treasures of human culture. When we were thinking over this Youth Exchange, we remembered the iceberg model of culture. Its main idea is that every culture has two layers — surface and deep ones. Visible elements are facial expression, gestures, language, food, dress, ceremonies, literature, dance, and so on. Under them, out of consciousness awareness, are assumptions, values, stereotypes, norms, morals, rules, beliefs, perceptions, attitudes, etc. They are hidden from our view — and we should find them in tangible components. For this project, we chose two cultural elements to investigate — rituals and fairytales. To make it happen, we are going to turn our place into a theater stage. are you joining?

Participants

41 participants from 8 countries: Armenia · Croatia · Georgia · Greece Italy ·Moldova · Romania · Ukraine
We’re looking exactly for you, if you: 
are interested in the project topic; like theater activities and are ready to play on stage; are motivated and open to the new experience; are open-minded and flexible, being able to learn, accept and adjust to the new knowledge, viewpoints and perspectives; are being able to communicate and express yourself in English; have a desire to share new information and skills within your community after the project.

Venue and Accommodation


ABOVYAN 
is a town and urban municipal community in Armenia within the Kotayk Province. It is located 16 kilometers northeast of Yerevan and is considered to be a satellite city of the Armenian capital. Therefore, Abovyan is generally known as the “northern gate of Yerevan”. During the project you will live inHOTEL The rooms will be shared between 3-4 participants. The rooms have either twin or double beds, individual bathrooms, also bed linen and towels (one towel per person) are provided.

Travelling

30/07– the arrival dayIn case you arrive to the Yerevan airport, we can arrange a taxi pick up from the airport to our venue in Abovyan. The cost of the taxi is around 10 EUR/5000 AMD In case you arrive toTbilisi, we can arrange transportation to our venue in Abovyan, depending on the number of participants arriving to Tbilisi/travelling from Tbilisi. The price will depend on the number of participants.
8/08 –the departure day

Project costs


All the following costs are covered in the frames 
of the Erasmus+ project: travel costs (up to the max travel budget).
Application deadline is July 10.