Faculty of Education
International Schools’ and Youth Education Conference and Festival – Friday 7th May 2010
Cornerstone Creative Campus, Capstone Building
‘Come To- GATHER’ – A Cultural and Multi-disciplinary Arts Festival for Youth in Europe
The conference will be a celebration and dissemination of the most recent outcomes from the EU Comenius Project –‘To-Gather’ and will bring together, educators and youth from around Europe. The conference and festival, which will address ‘Active citizenship and Identity’, will take place at the Cornerstone Creative Campus, Capstone Building, Everton on Friday 7th May 2010 and welcomes both staff and students, as well as teachers and their pupils from secondary schools. The conference in the morning will include keynote speaker, Professor Bill Chambers, Pro-vice Chancellor, Liverpool Hope University and guest speaker, Drs. Wim Kratsborn, Hanze University, Groningen, The Netherlands. The day’s programme of events will also showcase performances on the theme of citizenship and identity from around Europe including presentations and workshops from universities in the UK, The Netherlands, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Turkey and the Slovak Republic.
Aims:
Develop young people as socially engaged and active European citizens
Create a positive media representation of young people to increase aspirations and transform cultural prejudices
Widen participation for young people to access and value other cultures
Develop young people’s vocational skills
Program
09.15 – Coffee and registration
09.45 – Conference opening – Audrey Beaumont, UK and Wim Kratsborn, The Netherlands
10:00 - Keynote speaker – Professor Bill Chambers
Pro-vice Chancellor, Liverpool Hope University, UK
10.30 – Guest speaker – Drs. Wim Kratborn, ‘To-Gather’ Project Co-ordinator.
Hanze University, Groeningen, Netherlands
The ‘To-Gather Project’ – Development of European
identity through engaging with multi-disciplinary arts and culture
Seven reasons for European youth to ‘work together’
‘To-Gather’ song
11.00 – Coffee break
11:15 – Performance - Audiofeel, The Netherlands
12:00 – Performance -1) Bolton Lads and Girls Club, UK – Project performance
2) Bolton Lads and Girls Club in collaboration with youth
from Koning Willem 1 College,‘s-Hertogenbosch,
The Netherlands
12.45 – Buffet Lunch at Liverpool Hope, Cornerstone, Capstone Building
(Lunch can be bought in the Cornerstone cafeteria for student delegates.
Alternatively, students may prefer to bring a packed lunch)
Interactive Workshops 13:30 -15:30
Workshop 1: 13.30 -14.30
To-Be-Together? – How can we teach active citizenship?
Iveta Kovalcikova & Ivan Ropovik, University of Presov,
Slovak Republic
2) It’s hard to become who you are
Duygu and Barcu Akkaya, Turkey & Wim Kratsborn. Netherlands
Cultural stereotypes – a performing arts workshop
Liverpool Hope University,UK
4) European Identity – can we live together with stereotypes?
Aniko Urban & Kinga Szabo-Toth, University of Miskolc, Hungary
5) Standing in line – Song of Europe
Hugo Verkest, An Mertens & Jozef Sercu, Belgium
6) Identities, lifestyle choices and contemporary culture - who are you
in the digital world?
Svenja Hintz, University of York, York, UK
Workshop 2: 14:30 – 15:30 ( 1,2,3,4,5,6,)
15.30 - Coffee break
16:00 - Plenary (Capstone Theatre)
Hugo Verkest and colleagues and Audiofeel
Group and partner discussion: A United Europe – the future of ‘To-Gather’.
Chair – Audrey Beaumont
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