Тренінг з теми візуального сторітеллінгу в Болгарії

Назва тренінгу: Visual storytelling from A to Z – training course

Дата: 6-15th April 2020

Місце: Lozen, Bulgaria

Дедлайн: 13.02.2020

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About the project “Visual Storytelling from A to Z” project

The project “Visual storytelling from A to Z” aims at bringing self-awareness at the participants, on their own identity and perception as human beings, not as objects of stereotypes based on their gender. This issue is very common in young people, raised in environments filled with thoughts like masculinity is for boys and emotions are for girls.

The youth needs to raise their gender literacy to achieve better self-understanding and confidence. Now in the era of technology, young people spend more time online, where many issues are projected in the web showing the need of raising the media literacy in young people. The world of media and social networks is becoming more and more visual, so the need to distinguish between the good and bad examples of media provocations is pretty urgent too.

By this project we are willing to promote gender diversity and by transferring understanding on common fundamental values of our society to reach young people and to contribute to the prevention of violent radicalization based on gender.

The program of the training activity is organized in building up thematic modules to provide new information, enhance knowledge and develop the skills of participants, and enable participants to share in a safe and creative environment. The program also includes meetings with experts on visual arts as well as visiting several associations who will share their own practises and who are experts in the field of gender equality and will further contribute to the learning and development process.

The specific objectives of the Visual storytelling from A to Z training course are as follows:
– Introducing the visual storytelling as a method for raising awareness campaigns and create an emotional bonding with any topic;
– Raising awareness on main concepts about gender equality and deconstruct stereotypes on gender roles and appearances created by society back in the years and repeated by the modern society;
– Introducing knowledge for gender equality education, based on meeting with experts, peer learning and self-assessment techniques and connecting them with visual storytelling methodologies;
– Developing a sensibility and critical thinking on the topic of gender based inequalities, to be able to recognize the vulnerability of gender (in)equalities and showcase real stories through visual arts;
– Developing tools to work on prevention or to react in cases of gender inequalities, hate speech, exclusions or violence (online and offline)

Profile of the participants

The training is for:

● Young people, activists and youth workers who want to learn more about visual arts, how to use creative techniques on raising awareness on gender related topics and how to adapt them for an everyday work within their local realities
● Age 18+
● Willing to share experiences and stories from their local environment, family, friends and school (university) circles
● Willing to bring and deconstruct stereotypes based on sex, gender, sexuality
● Willing or have experience on work with creative visuals (photography, design, arts, etc.)

●Willing to look for examples for (in)equalities, gender based violence (online and offline) or gender related situations from their personal life
● Willing to be open-minded and eager to learn from the workshops in this activity and from their peers, as well as maintain a positive attitude and a critical approach to the problematics and topics that will be reviewed
● Able to understand and express themselves in English
● Are committed to attend for the full duration of the event
● Are committed to assist or take the lead role in planning and implementing local initiatives in order to disseminate the learning outcomes.

Application procedure

If you are interested in participating, apply by 13.02.2020 filling in the online application form: https://forms.gle/fxRPK7dR7kQjBWzp6

The final selection will be done by CVS-Bulgaria, giving priority to candidates proposed by the Partner Organisations as long as their application is submitted within the deadline and the candidates profile fits with the participants profile envisaged in this call.

Selected participants will be informed by 24.02.2020. All applicants will be informed about the final decision.
For any further questions, please contact us at trainings@cvs-bg.org or at + 359 884 766 435.