The youth exchange Animate Your Prejudice, which was held in Črnomelj, Slovenia in the period 15-23 March 2019, included 36 participants aged 18-30 from Slovenia, Portugal, Romania, Bulgaria, Germany and Lithuania.The main aim of the project was to produce a short animated film about the refugee crisis. The film presents the way of ending all the hate speech, bigotry and intolerance, which have been on the upswing since the beginning of the refugee crisis. The project tackled the issues of stereotypes in general and then searched for the cause of hatred towards foreigners and refugees. The participants also tried to come up with some new possibilities of how, when and where is the right opportunity to reach the point of solidarity and tolerance. To spread their ideas and findings creatively, they presented them in a form of an animated film. This project is a chance of a creative approach to this specific problem in our environment, which is getting more and more polluted with the animosity towards strangers.
Lead partner: Kulturno umetnisko drustvo Plac (Slovenia)
The project was funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ programme.