Body Colors project stems from the need to break the isolation caused by the pandemic, to find again moments of aggregation and sociability, to enter in a world the pandemic forcibly castrated: arts. We want to find the same arts that used to connect us, to give us the chance to discover the beauty of friendship, of inclusion, of building a strong group in order to face life’s difficulties such as the one we are living right now.
Body colors has such a name because we chose colors as a graphic and visual representation of our emotions, which are the connecting subjects of the project giving
color to our lives. Emotions are colors, colors are emotions! Up this wave we built our project and its activities, touching various artistic disciplines, which can meet the artistic need of all, going from acting to music, to photography, to painting and to dancing.
We will work to develop a working method which includes reflection, through the continuous feedback about the activities and about the emotional course of the entire group. In parallel to the activities of the project, we will work on autonomy and on collective responsibilities which are fundamental inside an international dimension.
We want to create a democratic and universal community which is capable of dialoguing and understanding people with fewer opportunities discovering and taking back a world which is usually seen as belonging to someone else!
This project is intended to free ourselves from the pain of solitude, from the greyness of isolation, in order to be filled with arts, friendship and solid cooperation and our main objective is to create a group capable of adopting values of inclusion, destroying geographic/economic barriers, prejudices and stereotypes.
The project foresees the participation of 30 youngsters aged 20-25 coming from: Italy, Bulgaria, Norway, Greece and Spain. Body Colors is imagined aiming at students or unemployed interested to cooperation and team-work and with a strong propensity to arts and to artistic subjects and a strong desire to get involved!
Lead partner: Hoppìpolla APS (Italy)
Advance preparatory meeting for team leaders is scheduled for 21 – 24 April 2022
The youth exchange is scheduled for 18 – 27 May 2022.
Location: Capranica, Viterbo, Italy
The application is open until 10 March. Register here.
Infopack is available here.
The project was funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ Programme.