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TunisiaDancing for Equality: Street theatre performances to support black Tunisian community
October 12, 2016
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Dancers from the Tunisian organisation ‘Danceurs citoyens’ began performing on the streets of Tunisia as part of the project ‘Black is a Value’, implemented under the EU-funded Drama, Diversity and Development programme (DDD), to highlight issues of racism faced by black Tunisian community ‘Black is a Value’ project.
Through the technique of street theater, ‘Black is a Value’ aims to support black Tunisians preserve their cultural heritage, reject racist practices linked to social behavior, enhance the elimination of all practices and forms of discrimination on the basis of color, and promote the principle of mutual respect and coexistence among all groups of the Tunisian society.
The project’s performance tour included performing in Festival International du Film Amateur de Kélibia, Tabarka Beach and Bizerte so far.
Drama, Diversity and Development is the first grant project in culture funded under the regional programme “Media and Culture for Development in the Southern Mediterranean Region Programme”. DDD then sub-grants to smaller projects, towards its aim of promoting diversity and challenging discrimination against minorities through theatre.
Media and culture for development in the Southern Mediterranean has been allocated a total budget of €17 million over a four-year period, of which €9 million is for the award of grants on a co-financing basis, and €8 million for one capacity-development mechanism on media (MedMedia) and one capacity development mechanism on culture (MedCulture). Specifically, the programme seeks to reinforce the role of media and culture as vectors for democratisation, and economic and social development for societies in the Southern Mediterranean. In the cultural field, it supports activities fostering cultural policy reform and reinforcing the capacity of cultural policy makers, as well as promoting investment and the development of cultural operators’ business capabilities. (EU Neighbourhood Info)
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“Drama, Diversity and Development” (DDD) webpage
Med Culture web page
Media and Culture for Development in the Southern Mediterranean Region Programme – project fiche
EU Neighbourhood Info Centre – Culture and media
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