Youth exchange “Show me your culture!” was hosted by Romanian organization “Together Romania” and was held in Campina, Romania from 09 – 16 September 2009.
Project “Show me your culture!” aimed among youngsters to awake the interest for the national traditions as well as for the other traditions, at the same time promoting tolerance, accepting differences, common understanding and living together in the united Europe. The tradition and culture of a nation makes it unique and gives it an identity.
25 youngsters from Italy, Romania, Turkey, Lithuania and Slovenia during 7 days of the project were working in 3 different workshops: music, costume design and dance. The goal of each multicultural workshop was to represent own country’s culture through singing, designing national costume and presenting national dance.
While working in multicultural team participants had opportunity to reveal their differences and similarities, deal with prejudice, acknowledge traditions of other and learn working together. The final result was of a great success: 5 cultures in one show; traditional costumes created by the participants from the 5 countries, live music, traditional dances, multicultural choreography. All this was presented as a unique show reflecting traditions of different European cultures for local community of Campina.