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World Jewish News
International Project of Children's Creativity Launched in Dnipropetrovsk Jewish School
07.06.2009
In the Jewish school of Dnipropetrovsk "Or Avner Chabad-Lyubavich," named after Levi-Yitzhak Shneerson, the International Youth project was launched, involving children from Germany and students of Dnepropetrovsk Jewish school.
The project was initiated by the Institute of Applied Cultural Education from Munich, which is known for its programs in the field of uniting youth of different ethnic groups, who participate in theatrical, dancing and other creative projects.
The delegation that arrived in Dnepropetrovsk represented the diverse cultures of contemporary German youth. Among these boys and girls there are both Jews and Christians, Muslims and Hindus, atheists and Orthodox. They came to spend a few days in the creative camp with the Jewish school students, to get acquainted with the original culture of Jews in Ukraine.
"In order to understand your own identity, to understand yourself, you need to understand the others," considers the project manager Tom Biburger. We are very pleased to be able to show ourselves to your children and learn a lot from you. Joint creative work is the key to understanding, and hence to the solution of such problems as xenophobia, violence, drugs, first love, and other crises, so relevant to every young person."
Together with the children and the administration of Jewish school, the children from Germany have developed a program of a camp, with an emphasis on joint theatrical creativity. All the children from Germany are active participants of the theatrical project, and they find it very interesting to learn from the experience of "TABOO" theater and the creative potential of students of the Jewish school.
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