Ffindir, Latfia, Cymru - Llawenydd yn Croesi Ffiniau
FinlandLatviaWales (FLW) - Follow
Transnational and interdisciplinary project between Finland, Latvia and Wales that aims to explore and exchange practices on using creative body-based approaches for social inclusion and community building.
FinlandLatviaWales (FLW) - Follow Project Overview
Cinematographer and Editor : Matthew Gough
The project “FinlandLatviaWales (FLW) - Follow” is financed with the support of European Commission’s “Erasmus+: Youth in Action” administered in Latvia by the Agency for International Programs for Youth. This publication reflects only the author’s views, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained there in.
Cinematographer and Editor : Matthew Gough
A montage of people attending the first day of “Follow”, an Erasmus + project. The participants meeting inside a shed with white wood cladding and play introductory games. They then gather in a a snack room with green, patterned wallpaper for refreshments.
Partners:
Latvia – LAUKKU (the coordinator) and Luznavas Muiza
Wales - Kokoro Arts Ltd and Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs of Wales
Finland - Refugee Support Finland and Disakamula oy
Objectives:
1) To share and exchange approaches and methods to reach out to young women and empower them – both the approaches from the non-formal learning and youth work as well as dance/movement/improvisation techniques and approach of working with individuals and communities
2) To provide a safe space for marginalised young women to explore their relationship with body, empathy, connection between body-mind-emotions and with others, authenticity, creativity within and thus promote their self-awareness, self-expression, self-support capacities (also in the context of COVID-19) though dance and movement
3) To promote solidarity and peer-support within single-gender groups and discuss the meaning of being a women (sharing stories from life, challenges, etc.) and explore deeper some theme that each community wishes to focus on with creative means
4) To prepare a performance as a creative process AND the result and as a form of expressing oneself, being socially active and promoting inclusion
5) To establish a learning support system – both for the team/resource persons as well as for the young women (to observe the personal and social (and professional) development throughout the project) and use group as a learning and support community
6) To document and share project results with youth work and dance/creative communities (videos, stories of team and target group, insight into tools used)
