Description: 

Culture and Creative Sector work is a profession which promotes social change, problem solving in human relationships and the empowerment and liberation of people to enhance wellbeing. CCS utilizing theories of human behavior and social and work environment systems, cultural and creative sector intervenes at the points where people interact with their environments and with others and promotes social changes through their stories, cooperation, and co-creation. As years gone by, and as commonalty have already been affected by the arts, it is highlighted its importance and the changes that can bring into different aspects and sectors of life, promoting inclusivity, bring to the forefront and solving problems. Discrimination, nowadays still exist and it is of major importance to be faced for and from some community categories to be integrated in the core community of people in each of the countries.

The project ‘OUR STAGE’ aims to equip and integrate youth Romani artists and travelers from 7 EU countries (Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Spain, Netherlands, Austria, Greece, and Portugal) with competencies and skills helping their communication and interaction between them and with non-Roma artists, aiming also to increase their employability through that sector. The target groups of the project are mostly and directly youth Roma artists and travelers, and non-Roma artists. Moreover, the project aims to involve different kinds of target groups to expand its impact and reputation to affect more people and a bigger audience, fighting stereotypes and promoting the positive narration and behavior of Roma people.