Art of Silence

<< Background >> With this project we would like to go international after experience making inclusive theatre locally in Latvia. Raise the capacity of our NGO and cooperate with deaf communities working with arts, developing work with hearing impaired or deaf youngsters, make a useful product/toolkit for use for everyone who ever works with groups without common language or deaf/hearing impaired youth.<< Objectives >>Develop and aware everyone about integrated theatre ideas in every project country Share the knowledge and experience among partners, new techniques, and methods working together with deaf youth and youth. Create a safe space and inclusive environment among youth. (deaf and hearing community integration) Non-formal education integration in the formal institutes Aware people about the deaf community locally and promote inclusion and solidarity among youth. Boost the idea of integrated theatre locally, aware people of the opportunity to be integrated to the deaf community. Developing non-formal methods working with youth will raise the quality of youth work with deaf communities using art as a tool<< Implementation >>We had project management and quality of final product activities such as: Kickoff meeting; Project result design; International group meeting; Final result final preparations; Result adaptation; Final Evaluation We had international meetings: Experience exchange; Mini youth exchange; Training for target group (project result testing); Final Evaluation Our main activity to develop methods and tools working with inclusive theatre group: Art of silence And dissemination of project results << Results >>Main result 2 month program manual for using it in different countries in various institutions. Toolkit with inclusive theatre methods working with the deaf community. The manual can use every youth worker to create an inclusive and integrated environment for youth with disabilities. Results: - Local community development, solidarity and integration promoting - Capacity building of involved organizations, transnational experience - Deaf community youth in cooperation with hearing involved in the project activities implementation - strengthen communication between two different communities - increasing a quality of youth work Visual results:10 video clips for manual 3 art video clips about project Project website 3 performances that we had shown in our countriesPartnership results:3 new projects together with Sign Dance Co (creative europe, small scale parterhip in croatia and perform europe) Romanian school visibility in a local level, achieving new results from the government being partners in our project and showing our manual to a wider audience.