Art For Change Announcement - INVITE ONLY

Art For Change Announcement

eduSOIL is delighted to be announcing, during Good Relations Week, which youth projects have been selected to represent NI at the global Be The Change celebration taking place in Dubai, Nov 21st - 24th. It is an invite only event. Attendees will receive a promo code to book one of the limited 30 spots.

Booking procedure

• Youth finalists need to attend under adult supervision by either their parent, youth worker or artist involved in their project. Bookings should be made by the accompanying adult who should book tickets for themselves and for the youth.
• Tickets for supporters and guests are limited to 1 each.
• All attendees will be sent promo codes that they should apply for the tickets to be revealed.

Art For Change Summer Programme

The (AFC) summer programme at Queen’s welcomed 40 youth (12 - 18 years) from immigrant, asylum seeking, refugee and vulnerable backgrounds to explore arts-based wellbeing strategies and lead group social action projects addressing mental health issues.

Youth joined us from:

• eduSOIL
• Diverse Youth NI
• Northern Ireland Indian Community
• ACSONI (African and Caribbean Society NI)
• ANAKA Collective

Our youth addressed racism, stereotyping, culture shock, negative impact of social media on youth self-image, teenage challenges and racist bullying through music, spoken word, paintings, drama , video and multidisciplinary pieces.

The programme was led by Juanita Rea, Visiting Scholar at the School of Arts, English and Languages, founder of eduSOIL and Director of Design For Change NI, South Africa and Sudan. Since 2011 eduSOIL has supported 16,000 people in 12 countries and is delivering AFC in partnership with Global and with support from Arts Council Northern Ireland and Queen's University Belfast (AEL), research group and the .

Youth were supported by Juanita Rea with artivists Nandi Jola, Rwanda Shaw; Mayte Segura; Pradnya Joshi, Takura Donald Makoni, Chip Bailey and Phil d'Alton along with AEL Professor Franziska Schroeder (founder of Performance without Barriers) Broadcast Student, Katie Grew and volunteers Alexis Ekweume (Diverse Youth NI) and Salwa Asharabi (Anaka Collective).

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