iyouwe SHARE THE WORLD  - a project to encourage intercultural dialogue.

Project leader: IYMF

Co-organisors of the project:

• MUS-E Italia
• MUS-E Portugal Associação Menuhin Portugal
• MUS-E Hungary
• MUS-E Scotland
• MUS-E Belgium
• MUS-E France
• Yehudi Menuhin Stiftung Deutschland
• La Maison du Conte de Bruxelles (Belgium)
• The Roma Education Fund (Hungary)
• IRFAM - Institut de Recherche, Formation et Action sur les Migrations (Belgium)

The main aim of this project is to make the children of primary schools of Europe discover the common archetypes to all cultures through an artistic approach based on the tales of the world and by so doing participate to intercultural dialogue. Through a creative process to allow the accumulation of shared knowledge in the countries where the MUS-E network is active: creating ones' own stories and exchanging these and the existing stories of various cultures with children in different parts of the world.

The Common theme is "How is the world born?"

The project is divided in progressive stages.

First each national MUS-E association chooses an artist participating in the local MUS-E programme, but originating from another country/culture. These artists will work on this theme with their class.

Each class will create a story. The artists will communicate continuously among themselves in relation to the development of the stories and the artistic methods and steps used.  Once the stories are created, the artists will relate to the children the legends/stories/tales/myths from their culture/country/region and the children will do likewise. Each class will transmit its story to the class from another country, which, in turn, will give it an artistic interpretation (film, sound, theatre, dance, etc).

A second stage foresees the sharing of good artistic practices and further training, with the organisation of residential seminars.

Then in a third phase the production of the pedagogic tools and dissemination.  The final phase being a performance in Brussels showing on screen the artistic creations conceived in the schools and gathering artists of international fame supporting the cultures presented in the schools by the MUS-E artists.