peacecamp 2012: Talks4peace in Reibers
Youth of the 21st century tackle issues of peace
July 3rd – 13th, 2012, in Reibers, Waldviertel and in Vienna
Israeli and Arab-Israeli teenagers from Israel, youth from Hungary and from Austria will come together for peacecamp 2012, a 11 days’ workshop in Reibers/ Waldviertel and in Vienna, the tenth of this kind.
They will bring with them visual and other documents portraying them within their families, as pupils of their schools, as members of the respective national and cultural group and society to which they belong.
They will bring music instruments, poems or songs, music, or any other pieces of art from their own home and culture, their thoughts and personal items symbolizing their own and their culture’s search for peace. They will bring their creativity and resources and their age-adequate enthusiasm and zeal and engage in an intensive encounter away from home and from any preconceived ideas they may have about the world and of the different groups and people with whom they share it.
A multicultural and multidisciplinary team of adults - artists, teachers,
professionals in the area of mental health and the social sciences, a senior diplomat – will actively accompany the process and become personally engaged in it.
A number of different workshops will allow to tackle the relevant issues as they evolve from what the young people will put on the table as their own contribution to the process.
A show4peace at the end of the stay, one in Reibers and one in Vienna’s Dschungle Theater in the Museums Quartier, will present the results to a larger audience. A video-film, produced by the participants as part of the encounter, will be shown on this occasion and will be taken home by each participant as a document of an unusual, peaceful and creative encounter.
